Amusingly, got my ID checked at the Over40 soccer ⚽️ match tonight, to see if I was old enough to play: I must not look a day over 39.
Category: parentheses
Sometimes when economists mention that something is inefficient or costs a lot, and frown upon something for those reasons, I think they forget that inefficiency and those costs are oftentimes the reason those things are done: someone profits.
“It may take some time for children to learn to play without supervision.” — Ian Barker on pick-up soccer in Howler Magazine, Spring 2019
Because it’s never too early to make this decision, The Orlando Sentinel endorses Not Trump.
Yet again annoyed by computer programs that don’t do what I want. This time, and since it was created, Apple Podcasts.
Summertime, and the living is easy …
Game day smells like honeysuckle.
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