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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.