Ali Jaffe Ramis will keep browser tabs open until the Apocalypse.
I let my tabs build up until they are tiny little squares squished together and their identifying logos are almost too small to make out.
The horror! The horror!
theater, natural history and conservation, the utterly mundane, and Etruscan 8-tracks
Ali Jaffe Ramis will keep browser tabs open until the Apocalypse.
I let my tabs build up until they are tiny little squares squished together and their identifying logos are almost too small to make out.
The horror! The horror!
I didn’t make much time to write commentary on newer books this year. Faves:
Jenny Odell explains why I kept scrolling through the bird site, like a laboratory pigeon hitting the lever to get a food pellet, even when every fifth pellet was an ad and most of the others were repeats.
Entrainment, a term that originated in biology and then spread to the social sciences, refers to the alignment of an organism’s physiology or behavior with a cycle; the most familiar example would be our circadian rhythm. The signal driving entrainment, in this case light and dark, is called a “zeitgeber” (German for “time giver”)….
Something like entrainment seems to be at work in our relationship to Twitter and other forms of social media. The rate of updates and notifications provides a powerful zeitgeber — one that can even override our circadian rhythm, as any nighttime scroller knows.
Some happy news: I was recently honored as one of the 20-odd Outstanding Volunteers (representing Huntley Meadows Park) at the 2022 Elly Doyle Park Service Awards.
(I hand-mirrored this post to my new Mastodon space. Find me @topazCufflinks@ecoevo.social.)
Kevin Roose on the Twitter acquisition:
… Musk seemed to intuitively grasp what Twitter actually was — a high-stakes popularity contest that, if won, could get you almost anything you wanted, from a higher stock price to a Saturday Night Live hosting gig.
I am weighing my options—considering taking a pause. The original reason I joined has long become moot, one of the purposes I put Twitter to is fading, and I can get news directly from the source.
I’ll go ahead and link to my Goodreads list now, even though I’ll probably finish A Thousand Acres before the of the year. Top marks for
Rinker Buck was a pleasant surprise (and a book exchange pickup). Stephen Batchelor appeared on the freebie shelves at work. And I finished two monster-good works: Caro’s The Power Broker and Haskell’s The Forest Unseen.
Henry Beston and David Maraniss were my new faves of 2016.
I have still one book to report on to Goodreads, but I can go ahead and set up the link now.
Or at least all the books that I’ve told Goodreads about.
It’s been ten years since my first Wikipedia edit. I’ve been a lot more active in the last two years than the previous eight.
Leta responds to misdirected customer complaints and requests for service.
Dear Ms. Hall,
Is the meat in tsc’s tsatziki steak flatbread conventionally raised or organic?