Surprised/not-surprised to learn that RBG cited her teacher Nabokov as an influence on her use of language. Maybe his pale fire burns in her opinions :-) Clarity of language=clarity of thought for sure. Nabokov on the bench » MobyLives h/t @daringfireball
Outstanding reporting from The Atlantic, identifying the multiple threats/risks in November’s election: # The Election That Could Break America
If you are a voter, think about voting in person after all. More than half a million postal votes were rejected in this year’s primaries, even without Trump trying to suppress them. If you are at relatively low risk for COVID-19, volunteer to work at the polls. If you know people who are open to reason, spread word that it is normal for the results to keep changing after Election Night. If you manage news coverage, anticipate extraconstitutional measures, and position reporters and crews to respond to them. If you are an election administrator, plan for contingencies you never had to imagine before. If you are a mayor, consider how to deploy your police to ward off interlopers with bad intent. If you are a law-enforcement officer, protect the freedom to vote. If you are a legislator, choose not to participate in chicanery. If you are a judge on the bench in a battleground state, refresh your acquaintance with election case law. If you have a place in the military chain of command, remember your duty to turn aside unlawful orders. If you are a civil servant, know that your country needs you more than ever to do the right thing when you’re asked to do otherwise.
The iOS shortcuts I use to glue Instapaper and micro.blog always feel a bit kludgy. This new upgrade from @manton could take Instapaper out of the equation. Excited to kick the tires! Manton Reece - Micro.blog 2.0 will launch next week
Interesting trivia fact, the RT.Live website that does such a great job presenting COVID RT rates for each state was created by the two original founders of instagram. I had no idea. I’ve been using this site for a while now, highly recommend: rt.live/us/NJ
Hey! My buddy Dan Gardoqui was on New Hampshire public radio yesterday. Bird and nature lovers, tune in! Using the language of birds to connect people with nature.
Whoa, what? Colleges are paying influencers now? Frightening reading: welcome the covid influencer - Culture Study
Work From Home is Having a Moment, but it Will Fade (at least some)
Agree with so much of @mattbirchler’s piece here but especially re: virtual presentations. Zoom will never replicate the feedback generated by a room full of colleagues, a white board and some dry erase markers.
Three servings of fish per week! If only my usual lunch of sardines wasn’t so incompatible with wearing a face mask!
Participants were also instructed to increase consumption of whole grains to a recommended three servings per day, as well as three servings per day of protein from lean meats, poultry, eggs, tofu and beans. In addition, they were told to get three servings of fish per week.
As for dairy, the recommendation was three servings per day, unsweetened. Participants were also instructed to consume three tablespoons of nuts and seeds per day, as well as two tablespoons of olive oil per day, and were advised to add in spices, including turmeric and cinnamon.
Wise, short post from David here. I think about 80% of my Things inbox could be prefixed with consider.
Consider “consider”. Tasks that start with the word “consider” give you the ability to track optional tasks. My database is full of tasks like, “Consider cleaning studio,” and, “Consider setting client check-in calls”. Tip of the hat to Kourosh Dini for this one.
CRAIG MOD SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
Become as obsessed with ventilation as I am, and you’ll develop what can be described only as “ventilation radar.” You sense the torpor of a hotel room in which the windows don’t open. You feel suffocated in a café without a breeze. You can walk into a restaurant and instinctively estimate risk, eyeballing potential dead-air hot spots and considering whether aerosols might be a problem. How many windows are open? Is the restaurant using both AC and fans? You start to bail on weakly ventilated joints. Ventilation becomes a proxy for everything. If the ventilation is bad, what about the food? If management can’t get something as obvious as the airflow in check, who knows what horrors might be going on in that kitchen.
Light-therapy box as this winter’s WFH desk accessory: www.jimwillis.org/prepping-…
Huber Woods
Can’t fight it any longer, the time has come:
I chained together some loosely-coupled technologies on my iPhone to shed a few pounds. Here’s how to use @dueapp, a calory tracker and url schemes to stay on your diet: www.jimwillis.org/diet-succ…
Anyone else notice that @amazon quietly removed the ability to download your purchase history?
Background/Research for creating my Day One template for guitar practice. Tips and Strategies on Keeping a Music Practice Journal
Informative COVID-19 Tracker tool. Has NJ county-level data. United States COVID-19 Tracking Dashboard
Huber, again. Part of my Day One journal #photoaday for September.
Huber Woods afternoon hike
some perspective on house clutter in the time of COVID
Of course, everything has gone wrong. A few weeks into coronavirus quarantine, a reader who had cleaned out his home according to the decluttering guru Marie Kondo’s ultra-popular KonMari method emailed me to ask if I had heard from anyone else who was regretting that move. He’d been happy with the results until the country’s circumstances had abruptly changed, and his family ended up reordering some of the same board games and casual diversions they had parted with back when their lives were busier and the boxes were taking up space in a closet.
Where willpower fails, technology prevails! Just setup my OpenDNS server to block news.google.com. Commence anxiety reduction!
Speechless. Almost makes me wish I spent more time on TikTok!. #food #kungfu #cooking The moon hit out of the cake,referred to as moon cake.
If you want to make sure you’re registered to vote, this tool worked for me.
What if Facebook Is the Real ‘Silent Majority’? - The New York Times
** Inside the right-wing Facebook bubble, President Trump’s response to Covid-19 has been strong and effective, Joe Biden is barely capable of forming sentences, and Black Lives Matter is a dangerous group of violent looters.
Super happy with this mint condition eBay find. 🎵 🎸
