anderbill
I am not the droid you are looking for. Also an open access advocate and inveterate punster.
Joined Oct 2019
While looking for info on my Mac memory usage I came across a post suggesting i buy an app to keep my Desktop neat. that seems like a really messed-up idea (just sayin' and pun intended)
Things That Are (<https://worldcat.org/en/title/755905560>) by Amy Leach is one of the more remarkable and delightful books I have read. This gem is from The Glossary:
> VASTY (As differentiated from "vast") Has approximately the same meaning as "biggy", "hugey", and "giganticky." Do not let anyone tell you these words are not words; all words are words.
by the Australian “mathematical expressionist” artist Edwin Tanner (cf. https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/26.2019/#about)
from a neighboring social: Hello dear, @[email protected]
i like how "illegal in the EU" means it probably violated a human right and "illegal in florida" means it probably is a human right
friday neighbor socials gem:
chris martens
@[email protected]
if our computers can get away with saying they shut down “because of a problem” i think the rest of us should try this explanation for our behavior as well
today's #cosopoetry offering:
"Let's not shame our eyes for seeing. Instead, thank them for their bravery."
- Joy Harjo, Conflict Resolutions for Holy Beings, p. 39
anderbill
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today's gem from the socials:
Shaula Evans @[email protected]
“Do you know what insanity is? Insanity is “doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results.” That’s writing poetry, but hey, it’s also getting out of bed every morning.”
- Mary Ruefle
This excerpt from "Drive your plow over the bones of the dead" by Olga Tokarczuk has been in my mind the past few days. Especially the last two sentences.
Pages 29 -30:
> Death is at the gates, I thought. But then death is always at our gates, at every hour of the day and Night, I told myself. For the best conversations are with yourself. At least there's no risk of misunderstanding.
(Link: <https://worldcat.org/en/title/1175678507>)
it is one of those does-anything-work-anymore? days. (1) call to doctor office just fails; (2) refreshing OpenAI usage tab returns "server no can do that for your org"; do I dare try something else? 😅
from our neighboring socials:
<https://wandering.shop/@Annalee/110255321393106545>
My current zeitgeist mood: anxiety, ambiguity, precarity. 😰
from one of the neighbor socials:
Dgar @[email protected]
A Möbius strip walks into a bar, sobbing.
Bartender: “What’s wrong buddy?”
Strip: “Where do I even begin?”
haiku from a 2008 SXSW session:
Happiness research.
Everyone wants to be happy.
Or maybe just safe.
anderbill
I am not the droid you are looking for. Also an open access advocate and inveterate punster.
Joined Oct 2019