What a Planes, Trains, and Automobiles! I just barely recognized Troy Evans as the anti-social truck driver in a 3 second appearance. 🎞️
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Looking for some interesting material to put in your feed reader? Try out Phil Gifford‘s ooh.directory or Ray‘s Blogroll directories. Lots of topics and personal websites to follow. #FeedReaderFriday
It took a moment, but I just recognized the inimitable Dylan Baker as “Owen”, the backwoods pickup driver that took Neal and Del to the train station in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. 🎞️
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093748/fullcredits
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093748/fullcredits
Picked up some new books from Lost Books, one of the few remaining used book shops around. Almost concerning that I can often find exceptional copies of first editions for so little. 📚
#FeedReaderFriday People I love following and learning from on the web:
Kimberly Hirsh – https://kimberlyhirsh.com/ a fascinating reader, writer, educator, and fandom expert
Tom Critchlow – https://tomcritchlow.com/ – consultant, digital experimenter and bricoleur, networked writing and education
Aaron Davis – https://collect.readwriterespond.com/ – educator, edtech innovation and implementation
I could see myself buying into Plotter’s system (https://plotterusa.com/) if they had a 4×6" note(book) size that I could ultimately file into my analog zettelkasten. 🖋️🗃️
As of this morning, nearly 15% of the 5,000 accounts I follow on Twitter have a Mastodon handle in their name or bio.
To help get people started, for my first #FeedReaderFriday note, I’m highlighting @genmon‘s (@genmon@mastodon.social) excellent introduction of feeds and readers.
For some arcane and historical reasons WordPress was filtering out the emoji in my my feeds which was preventing me from participating in some of the discovery portions of micro.blog using tagmoji.
Installing the Disable Emoji plugin seems to have remedied the issue. Hopefully without causing any other issues.
Reinked the TWSBI Diamond 580ALR with Diamine green/black. 🖋️
Are you a math person looking for an interesting space on Mastodon? Try https://mathstodon.xyz/about
“Breaking bread” as a tool for thought, particularly in communal settings or how nourishing your body can simultaneously improve the nourishing of your mind.
https://blog.mahabali.me/pedagogy/pedagogical-snacking-transforming-classroom-dynamics/
https://blog.mahabali.me/pedagogy/pedagogical-snacking-transforming-classroom-dynamics/
I can follow Mastodon users individually via RSS, but is there a mass RSS output for either all of the people I’m following or for individual lists I’ve made?
Dr. Miller mentioned in class tonight that his Winter quarter math class at UCLA will be on ring theory. Prepare yourself to commute (or not).
Dial yn yr cwympo means something different than dail yn yr cwympo.
If they were book titles, I’d rather read the first though.