Game day smells like honeysuckle.
Category: parentheses
It might be amusing how many sites stop working when cookies are denied if they didn’t stop working. (Also, noticed some sites are polite enough to offer the option to decline cookies, while others, like the WordPress default GDPR banner, simply announce cookies exist.)
Hard to say if I’m more annoyed that some drivers seem to be unaware that they cause gridlock when they enter an intersection they can’t leave, or that GMail intentionally ignores dots in e-mail addresses.
I just noticed I’m building of pile of books I’ve read but not re-shelved because I want to write about them. This could develop into a problem: some of these are library books.
Walking barefoot has gone out of fashion, but sensible people are reviving the habit.
Nan Shepherd (1945)
Hypothesis. Question? Test. Science! First ever black hole image released – BBC News
Lamb of God
Agnus Dei,
Qui tollis peccata mundi,
Miserere nobis.Agnus Dei,
Qui tollis peccata mundi,
Miserere nobis.Agnus Dei,
Qui tollis peccata mundi,
Dona nobis pacem.
What Would You Do?
If money were no object, what would you do? If your income were divorced from your work, what would you do? If you earned the same regardless of occupation, what would you do? If dad were rich and you wanted for nothing, what would you do?
A comment on attention and time, from the introduction of Eric Sloane’s Seasons of America Past (New York:Funk & Wagnalls, 1958)
It’s still the Associated Press building to me.
Is anyone surprised at this? The Hottest Chat App for Teens Is Google Docs – The Atlantic
Shards
If you must
sit inside on a bright and lovely day,
focused--for definitions that mean unfocused--
on the screen of a computer,
not the world around,
then the shards of life caught in its web
offer beautiful solace.
Yesterday, while cleaning the screen, I found brief mention of Neja Tomšič’s Tea for five: Opium Clippers. It’s a transitory artwork, a happening, so I can’t experience it, but I’m struck by what tiny glimpse the Internet has given me of her work.
I have one of my browsers set to fu no cookies none zip zilch ever mode, and it’s pretty amazing how many sites simply do not work now.
A couple of pages later in Chronogram, what appears to be a lovely little cocktail made with a pine shrub and bitters: The Evergreen.
Since there is no citrus in the area, we thought it would be a great idea to harvest young spruce tips, when they are highest in Vitamin C.
Emily Woerthman
Puppies
We are watching some puppies for the Guiding Eyes this week. They are cute and sleeping on my foot right now, but make a persuasive argument for having a tile floor.
Lovely talk with Darina Allen of the Ballymaloe Cookery School.
Cheap food is a myth.
The Consumer Wins?
BBC Business Daily discusses 21st Century Monopolies with the Jonathan Tepper, author of The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition, and some others. Tepper talks about the need to deal with regulatory capture and the perks of revolving doors. Sounds familiar.
Alex Moazed, one of the other guests, says that the Internet monopolies are different, non-traditional monopolies, because the consumer wins–because pricing power is not exerted over the consumer, but the producer.
Which makes me wonder, when did we start thinking of the consumer and the producer as two separate and distinct people, and not aspects of a person? Or, how can I buy if I don’t sell?
The Empty Illusions of Advertising
I love the serendipity of an unexpected find when looking for something else. Today I found “Women Whose Lives are Food, Men Whose Lives are Money” (1978) by Joyce Carol Oates.
Where are the promised revelations?
Why have they been shown so many times?
It’s not quite despair, this picture of a week in Pleasant Valley. It is bracketed with the mundane, peaceful–terrible–cares of life.
Even accountants and lawyers need patrons.
The Idler writes:
It just seems so unfair. I feel like saying to my children: “Study accountancy, become a lawyer, go into the city.”
Sarah Kendzior, 2015