It’s a little disappointing that tech journalism just started referring to Facebook as Meta which is something they didn’t do when Google reorganized under a holding company. Facebook is still in the midst of a PR crisis and journalists are content to help them rehabilitate.
2021 Recommended Reads
Finished reading: A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, 1) by Becky Chambers 📚
I started reading this the day after I finished my master’s thesis. It is appropriately dedicated to “anyone who needs a break.” Each page is filled with something beautiful, revelatory, or comforting. This might be my favorite piece of fiction I’ve read in 2021.
Notes | Blockchain Chicken Farm
A Retrospective on the October Photo Challenge.
Adobe Digital Editions makes for a rough e-reading experience.
Finished reading: How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism by Cory Doctorow 📚
Notes | How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism
DAY 22: Two years largely indoors and constantly engaged in screens has my eyes in regular need of some forced rest.
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Nathan was kind enough to cite me after sending over some of my early grad school work.
Day 21: This painting from a friend above my work shelf often reminds me of space.
Why Would I Want An Append-Only Ledger?
Day 20 when there is only one sport
Day 19: Some favorite and oft cited books on a mirror
“Heavy is the head that wears the crown” is one of my favorite expressions and I wish I remembered where I first encountered it.
I finally figured out why I was struggling to get objects in slightly different planes to be in focus. The aperture was too wide. Shaking off years of rust still but I’m happy micro blog convinced me to pull out the camera again.
Day 18: I said I’d be finished hanging flyers when I ran out of tape. Flyer created by: twitter.com/banditell…
Day 17: Compass. I like how the author deals with navigating the stars in this book and the dynamics it added to the story.
Rotation Day 16
> I’ve got a feeling the weather is changing
> And my luck is in
Not sure what it is but the X100F feels noisier than other cameras I’ve had in low light. Don’t have the time or energy to do a test, but it feels true after the past 15 days of using it for the photo challenge.
With both stage and photography lighting, I have always trended towards the setting where it is dimmer than I think most people want. I’m trying to calibrate up so it’s a touch brighter, but I can’t seem to nail it.
DAY 15: An ethereal moment in gaming history
Day 14: wheels up
Day 13: love running into alley animals.
Doing some freelance work for a previous job. Let’s see if the most recent version of this dependency maintained compatability with the project that hasn’t been touched since I left.

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