Microposts
Lot of fireworks going off in Hackney at the moment. It’s probably just random November parties, but I like to think they’re celebrating the great news from the USA.
Congratulations, over there!
These videos of Americans chanting ‘Stop the count!’ What… why… how…?
Trump’s reality distortion field is powerful indeed.
(For example: <twitter.com/SJPeace…>)
In Trump’s fake-news world, ‘counting all the votes’ equals ‘stealing the election.’ Out here in the real world ‘counting all the votes’ equals ‘democracy.’
Why do the polls close so early in the US? Seems to be 6pm. On the other hand, with all the early voting, I suppose they’ve been open for weeks.
It’s extremely disappointing that yesterday’s UK government announcement of the new lockdown made no mention whatsoever of masks or ventilation – and barely any of testing and tracing.
We still need those things, even as we lock down again. The virus doesn’t know the rules.
OK, I’m just watching S3E1 of Star Trek: Discovery, and a character has just said his name is Book.
Are we in the Firefly ‘verse?
Term started today, technically. Coincidentally, 38 years to the day after my first term at Edinburgh started. I don’t have any classes till Wednesday, though.
Off we go, then, into this new adventure.
Ten days between posts? Good lord. What have I been up to?
I hope to tell you soon. Watch this space.
Last night’s pizza: the wee tables in the box were triangular! I’ve never seen the like.
This is the least rustic-looking bread I’ve ever baked.
Robin Rendle’s ‘An Astronomical Clunk’ is a great celebration of what the web is, and can be.
It’s these moments when the web holds up to its original promise; the web standards, the infrastructure, the open web. With eyes wide open I watch as this beige suite of specifications link together until they’re like constellations out of stars in the sky. It all begin to makes sense. But it’s not just the technologies that fit together in these moments, it’s the skills, too. When I’m excited about design, and writing, and coding all at the same time, and when each of them can be seen as the same thing, just from different angles.
I played Dungeons and Dragons for the first time last night, with the family. My grown-up son plays, and he was our DM. It was more fun than I expected, but it takes a lot of work to set up. Mostly by my son, of course.
This street sign in Hackney today represents the times we live in.
Another great quote from that piece about libraries:
[L]ibraries are a sweet little drop of socialism in our late-stage crapitalist coffee.