Quote of the day:

“One may cower within, but one cannot avoid,— le Bec de la Mort, the . . . ‘Beak of Death.’ ”

(Excerpt From “Mason & Dixon” by Thomas Pynchon)

I need a Hat of Power

After a couple of weeks of too-busy time, I’ve finally taken a few moments to link this domain to micro.blog

That’s all it took – I was making the process far too complicated. (If you’re wondering, I went with the A Record option.)

I’m having All The Fun trying to transfer my domain to the micro.blog universe. I’ve read the docs, did my best to change the name server settings (at namecheap.com), and now I guess I wait for changes to precipitate out … if I did them correctly, that is. /rolls eyes/

I’m re-reading “Marley” in anticipation of the Christmas season. BUT I haven’t made time to put it into “Literal”. So sad ….

Ooo, I’m not making good use of my “Literal” account. I hope @JohnPhilpin doesn’t regret giving me a signup slot. Opens nearby book, begins reading.

Flu shots today for everyone in the household … except for the cats, of course. Extra Strength for us because, well, we’re really old.

I’m busy dumbing down my iPhone, deleting apps left and right. (Comma splices, too.) Soon it will be no ‘smarter’ than a flip phone — email & text, nothing more. The question is, though: How much invisible stuff remains, even though apps are deleted?

My placebos only work about half the time. Maybe they’re past their expiration date.

This seems wrong: www.newscientist.com/article/2…

How have I lived this long without having learned about the “comma pump”? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntonic_comma#Comma_pump

From Ulysses to micro.blog … will it work?

Time to lurch ahead! News at 2 AM.

Currently reading “The Reactionary Mind”, second edition, bu Corey Robin.

Now’s as good a time as any to give “social media” a skip.

My new life goal is to record a reggae version of “Clair de lune”.

It’s a good thing I don’t have a day job.

As of 5 PM Pacific time, you can still sign up for a parler.com account and buy shirts at parlerstore.com

I don’t dare track the time I’ve wasted with document sync between platforms. And about a quarter of that time was wasted on a single app: Notes.

I’ve been reduced to reading about the Khazzoom–Brookes postulate.

So, are we doomed? www.fireeye.com/blog/thre…

Today’s fun reading: “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C

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Name of my new band

Fritters

Edgar Guessed.

Today’s best phrase: “Ghost-of-Hugo brainwashing”