Forcibly buying my parents dimmable lamps while I’m staying with them. The lights are too bright!
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Short-form thoughts, links, and updates.
Was so lucky to get the chance to visit the natural history museum this morning before it opened. Was gloriously quiet and got some amazing shots.
Happy pancake day to all those who celebrate
Revamping my RSS feed and Newsletters, mastodon friends:
What are your favourite general newsletters? Morning Brew? That one by the guy that runs the week?
I realise this may look a little nuts to folks. But this Boox e ink tablet is a better kindle than a kindle. It lets me do the “play an audiobook while highlighting the words on the ebook thing” you can’t do on a kindle device
Bought a real camera recently to take pictures when I leave my phone, and wow I forgot how much fun, and how much better a dedicated camera is at taking photographs compared to phones.
Feels like Ozone Coffee have lost all their personality in their rebrand. A real shame.
Oven pizzas from scratch came out surprisingly well!
Seeing a musical about gay Cowbois, very excited.
Fascinated by all the Vision Pro news. There’s still a part of me that thinks humans just don’t want things on their face. But excited to see how it goes.
Couldn’t get the new case engraved. Decadent transfers to the rescue. Though I don’t think they’ll last long and will be scratched off by my keys
Finally getting round to reading The Incal and it’s fascinating how many things in here are stylistically wholesale lifted into other media. E.g. this is immediately very Geonosis
Me using headphones to cancel noise just so I can listen to my own specific noise:
😌
In an attempt to blog more, I think I’m gonna try moving my eleventy setup over from markdown to using headless Wordpress.
It is wild Quantim Break on the Series X is still locked at 30fps
Internet friends, me and the boyfriend are heading to Paris at the end of the month, any recommendations for cafe/wine bars/food?
Fantastic long read from The Guardian on the sameness of coffee shops around the world. theguardian.com/news/2024/jan/
Playing Alan Wake 2 and now Cobtrol. Then reading the novel Prophet and the graphic novel The Department of Truth I am fully immersing myself into reality bending government agencies.
Alan Wake 2 is such a fantastic game I just wish it wasn’t scary cause I could recommend it to so many more people.
The absolute pain of trying to find XL size washing up gloves