Motivate yourself to read more books: Enter the 2021 Reading Challenge!
Challenging myself to read 25 books this year.
Directed by Timothy Van Patten. With Sean Bean, Mark Addy, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Michelle Fairley. Eddard Stark is torn between his family and an old friend when asked to serve at the side of King Robert Baratheon; Viserys plans to wed his sister to a nomadic warlord in exchange for an army.
I think I stopped watching this a few years back when I got rid of HBO, but thought I’d revisit it to see where the series ultimately went.
The biggest story in tech no one’s talking about is Uber discovering they’d been defrauded out of $100M - or 2/3 of their ad spend. And all bc Sleeping Giants kept bugging them to...…
I’m pained to discover that @HBOMax only has English dubs of the Studio Ghibli collection. I was really hoping for the originals in Japanese.
Jack Ma, the Chinese billionaire currently under scrutiny by the government of China, has reportedly not been seen in public for several weeks. Ma was scheduled
Search over numerous datasets and reconstruct the lives of people involved in the historical slave trade. Browse interconnected data, generate visualizations, and explore short biographies of enslaved and freed peoples.
Is there a class of scripts/apps that serialize action in siloed apps and create text-based versions of it? a few good reasons for this:
— Boris Smus (@borismus) January 4, 2021
1. convenient to synthesize in a text-based tool for thought (eg. roam & co)
2. https://t.co/io2dTYu1Fc
3. backup
To finish - cwpla
To buy - prynu
To come - dod
To sleep - cysgu
To take - cymryd
To see - gweld
I'm going to speak - Dw i'n mynd i siarad
I'm not going to speak - Dw i ddim yn mynd i siarad
You're going to speak - Ti'n mynd i siarad
You're not going to speak - Ti ddim yn mynd i siarad
I spoke - Wnes i siarad
I didn't speak - Wnes i ddim siarad
Installed Yarns microsub server and coupled with Indigenous as a reader/microsub client I can now respond to blog posts in a more social/IndieWeb kinda way.
The second orange from the orange tree we planted in the back yard in Spring 2019.
Paul Robert Lloyd (paulrobertlloyd.com)While working on Indiekit over Christmas, I’ve been thinking that a good anaology for building on the IndieWeb is climbing Mount Everest; it’s largely inaccessible without enough time, knowledge and expertise, and few people ever reach the summit. If you do attempt an ascent, the climb can be bl...
I take this analogy with a grain of salt as there are definitely easier gradients up the slopes now compared to prior years. If you’re doing everything from scratch, then yes, straight up the mountain. Fortunately for those who need them, there are a variety of sherpas for getting their more quickly and easily.
Directed by Jon Favreau. With Will Ferrell, James Caan, Bob Newhart, Zooey Deschanel. Buddy, a human, is raised amongst elves at the North Pole. When he discovers that he is not an elf, he travels to New York to search for his biological father.
Rating: ★★★★
Watching in the background as I do some quarterly cleaning after the holidays.