“The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.”
—Virginia Woolf, How Should One Read a Book? (1932)
Notes
Short content: a microblog of status updates or short notes
After IndieWebCamp San Diego this weekend, I’m thinking more about making it easier to post to my website using handwritten text. Index cards are particularly useful for short notes and status updates for this.
IndieWebCamp San Diego 2023-12-17
My goal for the day 2 at camp is to get my site set up so that I can type a post and with a quick photo send it to my website as a post there. As a reach goal, I’d also like to get alt-text working as well for accessibility. I’m hoping I can leverage some of my prior work on posting handwritten posts to get this all done. #IndieWeb #FTW
Happy birthday Niklas Luhmann. Today he would have been 96 years old. 🎂🗃️
I feel validated that I’m not the only one in love with their wooden card catalog:
Image courtesy of Industrial Artifacts, who are selling this cabinet for $3,250.00.
The script for my Niklas Luhmann movie is coming along nicely. After watching some of Ned Ballamy‘s work, I’m thinking that he’d be the natural lead… #zettelkasten
Looking at my website’s traffic logs, I see some spurts of traffic from LMS platforms at University of Mary Washington and Furman. I can’t help but wondering who’s assigning my website for classes, but the thought tickles me pink.
Planning has begun for a potential in-person IndieWebCamp in San Diego, CA in December. Interested in attending? Can you help out? Register your interest now and save some dates. #IndieWeb
KOST 103.5 has apparently switched formats to Christmas holiday music already. My first song: Perry Como’s It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas. 🎶 🎄
Almost as if perfect timing, my audiobook hold for David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5,000 years shows up just as my book club is about to delve into the first three chapters this coming weekend. Care to join us for some history and economics via Zoom? 📖🎧
We did a dry run of most of a Thanksgiving meal for dinner tonight. The turkey was pretty good, the gravy was stellar, and the minimal run of sides was very good. Timing was alright, but could have been better, especially when we add more sides and dessert. I’ll sneak in some scratch pumpkin pies later this week because there haven’t been enough pies lately. Now it’s garde manger for the rest of the week.
I came across this Matisyahu song; it has an incredibly resonant message today.
Today is the release day for Roland Allen’s new book The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper (Profile Books, 2023). Those in the note taking, #zettelkasten, #PKM, and intellectual history spaces may appreciate it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkQy-Yb0QLE
Oktoberfest has decimated my stock of sauerkraut, so I’ve started fermenting a new batch.