While I wasn’t expecting to have cat sitting duties this week, it’s definitely nice that I’ll be checking in on one of my favourite felines a few times a day. I’ll get to enjoy most of the benefits of cat ownership with few of the downsides (i.e. fur on everything, being woken up at 5am, etc.).
Category: Aside
It’s heartbreaking to know that someone has decided to harm, and potentially have killed, so many people who were just minding their business in my city.
On the one hand I feel foolish for not realizing until now that A Perfect Circle is fronted by Maynard James Keenan (Tool’s frontman). On the other hand it explains why I’ve always enjoyed A Perfect Circle’s albums so much.
Related: Eat the Elephant is a really terrific album that I’ve been listening to almost non-stop since it came out on Friday.
The decision to do full copy edits (to the exclusion of all other tasks) on two separate 70,000+ word projects in a single week was a bad one.
It’s an unpopular position, I’m sure, but I’m genuinely enjoying Starbucks’ reserve coffees that are made using their in-house Clover machines. To date, I think that the Nicaraguan, La Laguna, is the tastiest of the reserve coffees that I’d had *and* it’s cheaper to buy coffee at Starbuck than at some of the other coffee shops in my work area. (At home, of course, I buy beans from local roasters, temperature control my water and weigh bean portions, and an Aeropress. But I just can’t have that kind of control over coffee making at work for a reasonable price.)
Clearly 11pm is coffee o’clock ☕️
I always forget what a chore it is to finish proofing large projects (in this case 70K+ word report) and how much I catch when I print them out and do paper-based edits after months of screen-based editorial. These ’last round’ edits are taking way longer than anticipated!
It’s incredibly dispiriting to know that despite my financial responsibility there is almost no chance that I’ll ever own property in the city I live in, and a possibility that at some point rent alone will force me out. I cannot imagine what life is like for those who have less privilege than I enjoy.
This is a really cool deep dive into tracking down the target of a spy satellite photo https://luxexumbra.blogspot.ca/2018/04/the-hunt-for-ghosthunter.html
This is an exceptionally direct and poignant talk about what’s at stake with regards to algorithmic discrimination and how big data can fuel it, as well as what needs to be done to remediate such discrimination and unfairness.
Excited Pixels 