reMarkable 2 is more than half-off today on Amazon! But I think I want the Kobo Elipsa 2E instead because it's also running linux and has a beefier processor for when I feel like doing stupid things to it...
Doing yard work with kiddo yesterday, he hopped into the wheelbarrow. So, obviously, it becomes a joke and not just a ride.
“Welcome to Wheelbarrow Airlines, where we have a better safety record than Boeing.” #DadJoke#joke
He asks, “Where are we going?”
“I’m glad you asked, but Wheelbarrow Airlines employees are strictly prohibited from discussing the location or itineraries of customers with anyone, including customers.” #DadJoke#joke
“Keep your arms and legs inside the vehicle at all times. Wheelbarrow Airlines is not liable for any injuries by passengers who exit the vehicle while in motion. Note that the captain has put the seatbelt light.”
Him: “But there’s no seat belt!”
“Wheelbarrow Airlines is not legally required to supply seat belts.” #DadJoke#joke
Just learned that you can split a document into multiple source files, so now my resume has a Makefile and is easily rearranged. And because I'm a software nerd first, I've got Document Viewer open and ran git ls-files | entr make to auto-rebuild any time a tracked part of the document is saved. Who needs WYSIWYG?
Holy crap, makerspaces are real and they have some that are local?!
I need to check this out. I have a stupid exercise bike that needs a new, lower seat post (thanks manufacturer for both making the minimum seat height too high for some adults and for having some weirdly shaped seat post that can’t just accept a metal rod). Also all of the inevitable weird computer things I could do!
Finally listening to Deb Chachra's How Infrastructure Works and it is just wonderful. I wanted to squee when she described Boston's Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge as a "charismatic megastructure". It's just a great book.
Recommended to me (not personally) by @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/17/care-work/
@c0dec0dec0de@pluralistic Ender's Game kept me from suicide when I was a kid behind the Iron Curtain. It was for the first time it have occurred to little me a gifted, bullied child could be valued. It is easy to pontificate from the armchair of a professor in a free country.
@chx neither I nor the author of this critique say that there is no value or appeal to the book. It captures well the feelings of childhood victimhood and powerlessness. There’s a cathartic element to seeing surrogates for one’s tormentors or oppressors laid low by a victim figure. The issue is that the use of overwhelming and lethal force is presented as somehow literally perfectly moral and blameless based on Ender’s status as a victim of abuse and his intention to prevent abuse. @pluralistic
Happened to be near a Best Buy that had a reMarkable 2 on display, and it seems nice, but do I need this? It seems like it would have been absolutely amazing for university when we ahem obtained pdf textbooks and this would have allowed me to carry all of them and annotate them.
I don’t know what I’d actually do with it. But I love the aesthetics of it and handwriting notes is a big part of how I do things when I function - so maybe it would be really awesome? #reMarkable2
Idle, delayed realization: transitioning to thinking of energy as unlimited/renewable and material as the limiting factor will require a serious change for petroleum refineries. Like, their whole operation uses material (crude oil) as both energy source and raw material for product. From the economic of a refinery owner, buying a whole lot of electricity to heat the fractionating column and cracking and reforming reactors instead of burning crude is just not going to be attractive.