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I spent the entire weekend wondering when the Yacht Rock channel on Sirius/XM was going to flip over. Sadly I was planning on the wrong 3-day weekend…
I’ve just noticed that if one translates the year 2020 into words using the phonetic mnemonic system one gets any of the following:
- incense
- heinousness
- insaneness
- noisiness
- nuisance
- uneasiness
- unwiseness
All seem so apt, which one to choose?
Is open access preprint really just code for academic samizdat?
Eaton Canyon was crazy yesterday, but it’s positively insane today. Parking extends beyond Harding now.
I’ve been collecting huge amounts of content on the back end of my website. I really should get into the habit of posting more of it contemporaneously.
Get ready for a new influx of mnemonists. Bill Gates just highlighted Josh Foer’s book in his blogpost “5 summer books and other things to do at home”. His recommendations typically drive a lot of book sales.
Looking at Iceberg and thinking how cool it would be if there were an app version that I could log into that had Micropub support so I could use it to publish to any of a handful of CMSes and not just WordPress.
When Toni Morrison died I remember seeing headlines that read something like “Beloved Author Dies, Age 88”. I suspect he saw them, and so Gordon Korman smartly wrote a book entitled “Notorious.”
It’s been a while, but I’ve just noticed that @manton has set up the ADN archive he made, so if you’re looking to download your old data from before it went under, there’s a way to do that now. Details: https://www.manton.org/2020/05/11/appnet-archive-now.html
Wish I had been able to attend the WithKnown Collective meeting this morning. Somehow between the conversation in the chat room last week, the meeting time chooser, and the posting in events.indieweb.org, nothing sent me a notification to know when the actual meeting was finally set. Total user interface fail on so many levels. Hopefully there are some good notes for catching up.
I set up my website to backfeed from Reddit today using Brid.gy! Found a bunch of mentions of my website that I was completely unaware of. Thanks Ryan Barrett and Will Stedden!
No doubt many have already seen that Springer has released about 500 books for free during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Springer, these textbooks will be available free of charge until at least the end of July.
A bit of Googling will reveal people who’ve already written some code to quickly download them all in bulk as well. I’m happy with doing things manually as there’s only a handful of the 8GB of textbooks I’m interested in.
Browsing through, I’ll note a few that look interesting and which foodies like my friend Jeremy Cherfas may enjoy. (Though I suspect he’s likely read them already, but just in case…)
- Food Analysis, ed. S. Suzanne Nielsen
- Food Analysis Laboratory Manual by S. Suzanne Nielsen
- Brewing Science: A Multidisciplinary Approach by Michael Mosher and Kenneth Trantham
- Food Fraud Prevention: Introduction, Implementation, and Management by John W. Spink
Gardens and Streams: Wikis, blogs, and UI — a pop up IndieWebCamp session will be starting at 10AM for those who’d like to join us.