Jeremy Cherfas

Lots of interesting ideas here from Venkatash Rao, although I still don’t get the attraction of tweetstorms, or whetever they are called nowadays. Certainly, though, the focus on text as the thing has always made sense to me. Presentation matters, of course it does, but so does content. Just as it does in audio.

Far and away the most difficult prompt to date. So I cheated. 

Currently reading: The Oldest Road: The Ridgeway by Fay Godwin and JRL Anderson, ISBN: 9780905483528

                     #Non-fiction

I find it curious that Strava offers handcycle ride but not Nordic walking. The new challenge of a 5 km “March” is my standard Nordic walk, and there isn’t actually an activity called March either.

I had a narrow, but surely temporary, escape yesterday, after my computer greeted me with this on Monday. Apparently the parts are no long made, but it recovered and I shall keep using it till it dies. 

Smart piece, pointing out not only the strengths of Clive James as a cultural critic, but also his vision of what the entails.I find it hard to believe that some university department of media studies, or whatever, isn’t falling over itself to take over James' site and give it the care he obviously wanted to give it.

Tucked in behind the grandiose arch is one of the quainter stations of Rome. Many of the stations on the line are request stops. You have to ask the driver to stop. 

If it weren’t for the fact that I love the actual camera (Nex-6) to bits, Sony’s software for camera and iPhone would make me hurl it against the wall. Seriously, I put up with it because I have to, and I wish I didn’t.

Finished reading: The Secret Pilgrim by John le Carré

The scale doesn’t lie. The most dough I’d ever made. 

Today I learned I have been utterly underusing Rogue Amoeba’s SoundSource app. For that I have to thank Brett Terpstra’s post Enhanced music listening on macOS.I’m sure it is just a coincidence that we have the exact same speakers.