The Monday Read
Extremely Busy Edition Really busy this month for some reason. It’s like the stars aligned in order to line up tasks I need to complete. Not complaining, mind you, most of it is interesting or necessary, and much of it is self-inflicted! Email newsletter I subscribe to a lot of email newsletters, but James Clear’s […]
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Tsunami Warning Edition Well, that was exciting. Late Saturday night/early Sunday morning we got the tsunami alerts on our phones, and the sirens outside started up. The 3-11 tsunami actually reached our manshon building, but it was only a few centimeters high at that point (we are several kilometers from the coast). Fortunately there doesn’t […]
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Carefully Optimistic Edition Well, omicron is exploding in Japan, but I am cautiously optimistic this time. My guess is that we will see huge numbers of cases (and many times that number of undetected cases) but fewer hospitalizations and deaths. I am not expecting it to affect my wife’s business this time round. Fingers crossed […]
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Year of the Tiger Edition Happy New Year! Can’t believe it’s 2021 already… 😉 What will year 3 of the pandemic have in store for us? Hopefully more tapering and fewer seismic shocks. I’ll be doing a planning post soon, but just quickly my primary goal for 2022 is better time management, and my secondary […]
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Happy Holidays Edition Merry Christmas and all that 🙂 I cooked Christmas dinner again this year, and for the first time everything went so smoothly I had the chance to live-tweet it. If you’re really bored you may care to check it out (lots of photos). About as interesting as my hospital food post… Speaking […]
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Back to Mac Edition I’m leaving my job at the end of March (is that how you say getting fired without saying getting fired?) and all my computers are from work so I have to give them back. Looking at options the new Mac machines seemed like a good fit/value so I picked up a […]
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No Snow Edition This is the first time I have written the Monday Read on Monday for at least a couple of years 🙂 We were supposed to go to Appi this weekend and stay a couple of nights. My wife had booked us a ski pack and a couple of nights at the big […]
The Monday Read
Winter Edition I got the oil heater out today so winter has officially started. How are things where you live? The Forum The Forum is doing well (17,832 posts to date). Here are the latest active threads: This week’s books I’m really enjoying The Ministry for the Future, by Kim Stanley Robinson. It’s near-future SF/ecological […]
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Not Bad Edition Well, we had the conference last week. Did you go? Apparently it was pretty good! It was a long day for me, but when I got home this was waiting so all was good with the world ^-^ If you completely missed the conference you can see the content here, and there […]
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It’s the First Conference Edition The conference is on Tuesday and if you haven’t signed up yet (why would you not have signed up yet?) you have until Monday afternoon or until we hit 500 people (we’re on 425 now) to do so. Organising this conference has been a great experience so far (fingers crossed […]