got a new Kindle in the sale the other day (my old one is nearly ten years old and the battery is gone) and it’s reinvigorated my ereader reading—it’s just lighter, nicer to hold, the backlights make it so much easier to read on.
calibre, which I’ve started using again after nearly as long not using, is (as near as I can tell) literally exactly the same as it was before, and the design seemed hilariously antiquated back then. a very solid bit of software with an aesthetic unchanged in over a decade; I feel more apps could aspire to this.
UPDATE: I just had a look at the ‘news feeds’ feature and one of the outlets they’ve got listed is Pando Daily, so maybe more like 15 years ago. it kind of owns that they apparently never delete anything. the actual literal website does not even exist any more, it’s an entirely different company!
Walking to the shops the other day, Eve asked me what my favourite video game soundtrack was and without hesitation I said “Wimbledon Championship tennis on the Mega drive”.
I queued the video up to a bit that goes unnecessarily hard.
some richard cheese was playing in the restaurant we were in earlier, and I looked him up to confirm I was remembering his name right. what’s up with the weird richard cheese/zack snyder connect
listening to some old (~10ish years) episodes of ‘the art of manliness’ podcast as part of some research that I’m doing and there’s some hilarious stuff in there:
the tin-can-on-a-string audio quality that was definitely just ripped from the skype call
one guest (a professor at a prominent university) commenting on the attractiveness of his female students on mic
another guest who, when asked how he’d come to start his blog about “living more unconventionally” or whatever began “I guess it started with 9/11”
another guest who has the most right-wing-crank vibes imaginable and self-publishes books about guns and how to 'deal with cops’ and who I would be willing to bet money is now a freeman-on-the-land
if you’ve been podcasting for 10+ years, particularly on that track, you’re bound to have some odd stuff on there, and also when you’re smaller it’s more difficult to get guests, but still.
it is interesting to me that looking at the blog, which was formerly the key focus, it seems to have become vestigal and the podcast has become the main thing—there’s just more juice in interviewing lads about their latest book than there is about writing about teddy roosevelt or whatever again ig
been watching only connect with dinner and something that comes through is that victoria seems to be really convinced she can sing, or just really likes the cringe of singing badly and making everyone else sing badly too, it’s very strange. reminds me of doug walker, but at least he had the excuse of his mum being an opera singer who tried to train him or whatever. (likely the only time those two have ever been compared.)
tell you what, this superconductor thing is actually pretty fun! I know it’s probably just cold fusion again or whatever but a week or so of getting to imagine about room-temp superconductors? I’ll take it
was looking for this a while back and I finally found it again. this is probably the most popular of those blogs that talk about mental models or whatever, and this is what they think of their audience. it is boggling to me, where does one get this level of front.
