Tab Cleaning
I have a whole lot of tabs open of blog posts I've been reading. I need to clear them out, and I thought I'd take the opportunity to give a sample of my reading. Also, there is something satisfying about posting links, of the feeling of weaving my little site into the network of the internet.
These are mostly from participants in the "Blaugust" blogging festival.
This one at least is fresh and hasn't been sitting open for... time. Now this post is about a proposed "humans.txt" protocol to credit the people who made a site. Though my main thought from the title is about how unfortunate it feels that so much of the internet is bots. I've seen my server logs, it's mostly bots, in an endless stream. I thought I was making this for people...
On Getting Multiple Library Cards
This blog is going in the ol' RSS reader. A friend of libraries is a friend of mine. I only have the one library card, for my city's library system. I should probably get one for the county libraries too.
Some musing on the theology of the "Holy Ghost" / "Holy Spirit" in Christianity vis-a-vis the idea of being haunted.
Aywren shares a variety of the sketchbooks she uses for her art. I'm not so much of an artist, but I am a sucker for stationery and understand well the temptation of a fancy notebook.
A post, as I read it, about coming to terms with mediocrity (a term not used in the post, and with a more negative connotation than the word "average" that is used). You can't master everything. There isn't enough time in the day. So maybe it's better to be a jack of all trades.
It is rather funny that the highest paid jobs are, as the title says, talking and typing. Shuffling numbers around on spreadsheets, rather than "hard" physical labor. This made me think of a factoid I heard somewhere that high level chess players burn an astonishing number of calories in tournaments. However a quick google search[1] casts a lot of doubt on that. Every report that that is the case cites the same unrigorous source.
Keep track of happenings with logging
A quick run down of the logging module in the Python standard library. Something I could certainly stand to use more.
Songs on Albums I Gravitate Toward
Jedda lists some of their favorite albums, tracks on those albums, and favorite artists. Personally, I have always been hopeless at choosing favorites. I couldn't make a top five list to save my life.
There are still plenty more tabs to go, but I'll leave off here. I have to save something for my next post after all. And computer cleaning is not so different from housecleaning. When you have a big mess you don't have to tackle it all in one go. Chipping away at it a piece at a time can be a more sustainable habit.
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