Jeremy Cherfas

[S]o many people in the world today lack the opportunity, knowledge and skill to provide even the most basic perquisites of daily life, and I believe this is a silent pathology that eats at contemporary society.Yup.

I find this very interesting. As a podcast producer, I do not, generally, use a lot of music behind speech. That might be because I am a stick-in-the-mud old fart who learned that craft, such as it is, at a well-known broadcaster. Also, it is really difficult, especially when there is no-one I can ask to do it for me. Listening to track after track after track to find the right one is so time-consuming. But maybe that’s a waste of time? You seem to be suggesting that I just bung some smooth jazz under everything.

I’m pretty sure nothing much has changed in the intervening 28 years.

Thomas PM Barnett seems to be building a combination personal search engine and Zettelkasten called InfoSquirrel and plans to sell it as a service. I doubt I will ever be able to afford it, but it does look interesting and I certainly wish him well.

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I love this idea:

Oct 30 (the number 30 in the octal number base) is the same as Dec 24 (the number 24 in the decimal number base)

Thank you Björn Wärmedal

Yes: Wish I could be at IWC Dusseldorf in person, but remote will have to do.

@ChrisWiegman Strange you should say that. The protocols I use are alive and well, and they give me part of what I need from a community. I do feel good too, and that is part of the story, but to dismiss something you personally don’t care for or use seems uncalled for.

Intrigued by a new role-playing board game called Rulal Commerce, based on China’s demand for tea and what it is doing to Laos. Can’t find any explanation of the significance of the name, though. Does it, I wonder, mean anything?

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