Imagine what it would feel like to achieve the position of utmost authority and recognition on your planet and then reward yourself by making sure there wasn't one single person anywhere that didn't know you were a total ass.
He is a golem existing only on the energy of his own self loathing.
I've begun the process of back-filling my reading list here.
Oldest to newest. Going to take a while.
Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress.
I think this is good news for the small web. Tumblr's blogging interface far surpasses WordPress in simplicity/ease of use.
The WordPress admin site has become a nightmare. I'll definitely be tracking this.
Would someone in Texas law-enforcement please invite Ken Paxton to an extended stay away from other humans? He seems to be pleading for it.
The new version of this site has been up for a while now with the Reading page remaining empty.
My initial thought was to do a plain Markdown list of what I'm reading, what I've finished, what I thought, etc. It's inline with a basic approach of simplicity first.
I've already moved my book list around a lot between Goodreads, StoryGraph, and now Hardcover. Micro.blog has a nice book tracking feature as well.
So of course I've decided to not do that and to add my reading history to my own database. It does fit the approach of POSSE, but I don't get the benefit of simple Markdown portability.
Still, I like the idea of having more display flexibility with the information...
Again with the chemtrails? RFK Jr. is supplying more toxic brain destroying pollutants than any number of poison jets ever could.
For this morning's ear bath.
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire and Live at Yale in 1973. Formative for me.
This makes me even more happy about my Kagi subscription. There is a "small web" feature that works sort of like Stumble Upon.
Visit Kagi Small Web and you will land on a random blog post. If you like it you can take your usual "I found something cool" steps, or you can hit the next button to get another random post.
“The Salinas Valley is in Northern California. It is a long narrow swale between two ranges of mountains, and the Salinas River winds and twists up the center until it falls at last into Monterey Bay.”
—John Steinbeck, East of Eden, 1952
This is the last evening before classes begin for the '24-'25 school year at the University of Kansas here in Lawrence. This is only significant for me as a marker. I'm not associated with KU other than that my daughter Marilyn will be starting her senior year there.
As markers go, the start of the Fall semester does have a somewhat melancholy weight to it. I don't experience Summer the same way I did when I was younger, but I still feel a tinge of loss at its passing. Vestiges of youthful freedom that defined that part of the year.
It reached 100º here in Kansas today. It allows one to pretend that there is some Summer left even as our minds and bodies shift to cooler pursuits.