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The level of denial I continue to see in people with regard to the pandemic is amazing. I’m not really surprised; after ten years of caring for my wife I’ve had my eyes opened to the sheer effort the average person will invest in constantly running from the reality of our fragile humanity.
Having inflicted pointless distractions upon myself over the past few days, I turned the corner by making a dent in the chores — specifically in the Eternal Chore, the kitchen — and now feel much better.
Variety of work really does often get the job done. Need to put effort into better maintenance.
The archive download for my Twitter account failed (“Something went wrong”) and so I was pointed to a form to complete, the page for which is a 404.
What a dumpster fire.
Super jealous of the folks going to the maique-cro meetup. Have fun everyone! ⭐️☀️🕶🎉
Person A: “Here is a link to a post about a topic.”
Person B: “What about X issue regarding topic?”
Me, internally: “Imagine a world in which you open the link and … ✨read✨.”
I’m starting to actively dislike Substack.
I wanted to sign up to your newsletter, and support you and all of that good stuff.
And part of the cost is I am now roped into Substack’s centralised account system with a bunch of notifications for things that are not your newsletter?
That’s terrible.
Want to read: Bullingdon Club Britain: The Ransacking of a Nation by Sam Bright 📚
Catching up on ATP. You know, I’ve been on and off with that and The Talk Show but I think it was less to do with anything happening with the shows and more to do with myself. I made the mistake of assuming that the time listening involved was poorly spent. Now I’m glad to be back on board.
Listening to No Cars Go, by Maxence Cyrin 🎶
Glorious walk with Hogan today. Bumped into some of his best friends for an impromptu play-date accompanied by the Spring sun. It has remained into the evening.
Moving close to the countryside has done wonders for us in so many ways, and that fact is never clearer than during seasonal change.
That is two and a half times as much as Covent Garden and English National Opera put together.
Meanwhile, in London, Arts Council England is sticking to its opera cuts.
— Norman Lebrecht, Paris pays its Opéra’s energy bills
Strong and stable; prosperity for miles. All going well. 👍
If you use an iPhone and care about these things for your music:
- A local library.
- Album playlists (& shuffle).
- Flexible options for syncing.
- Supporting an indie developer.
… then Doppler 3 is for you. I have been so happy with Doppler everywhere that I bought the upgrade sight unseen. 🎵
In a couple of hours we’re taking Hogan on his first evening run of the year. And so our Spring has well and truly begun.
Listening to Dreaming by Mr. Heiwa, via BLNDR. 🎶
The more I think about, the more annoyed I am that the new music app from Apple is not as good as it should be.
“We love music”, “Music is at the heart of Apple”, etc. Great. As a maker of software and services, with plenty of resources to hand, your one job with this app is to make it good.