By the power of grayskull that burger looks good.
I’m doing taxes and I’m out of bourbon, so I’m making an espresso and reflecting on the tax preparation industry’s success at making this such a pain in the ass.
It is psychological gravity, not technical inertia, however, that is the greater force against the open web. Human beings are social animals and centralized social media like Twitter and Facebook provide a powerful sense of ambient humanity—the feeling that “others are here”—that is often missing when one writes on one’s own site.
Very, very good thoughts from Dan Cohen on the technical and key social dynamics of siloed versus independent interaction online.
The dog has trained us well. Rather than knocking on her dish or the back door when she needs, she picks up a sock from the laundry pile and looks at us. If we get the message, she gets fresh water or to go outside; and if we don’t, she gets to eat the sock.
These weekly Apple Music favorites mixes are usually very hit and miss, but this one is good from start to finish. Not a skip in the list. https://itunes.apple.com/us/playlist/favorites-mix/pl.pm-20e9f373919da08057ce7d623dac12ce
I do live in a special place. We have clear and a dark nights, and we have the San Francisco Peaks sitting atop nearly every view in town. I like to take a snapshot of the changing seasons from my twelve minute commute.
On the death of the last male white rhino I’m recalling Douglas Adams’ and Mark Carwardine’s Last Chance to See. Carwardine writes that we must care about these creatures not simply because their loss represents irreversible damage to our planet and futures, but also because “the world would be a poorer, darker, lonelier place without them.”
/now: Reading up on h-entry and workin’ on my microformats.
