Another week, another weeknotes that have bled over into a Monday.
I really don’t want to make a habit of this!
Back for a Speech
In my defence, every single weekend in May I have something on, both days! So busy! But last week was particularly busy.
I had several important deadlines, including closing out a project I’ve been working on for nine months. The final report was delivered on Friday, though I’m expecting to do a few editing rounds this week. But the good news is we can now move on to whats next/ other things.
This week I also had a couple of late nights working on my SLOP MACHINES essay text, which started life before Christmas as a talk. The first third of the current 30k words now feels properly edited and in a somewhat fixed and final form. Interestingly, the process of editing the opening ideas is actually informing things that still need to be written later on/further down the text.
Those late nights were of course unplanned. I thought I’d just do 20 minutes of editing on a short section before bed, but I ended up dropping into ‘the zone’, into some deep work, and doing far more than I’d intended. Going to bed really late quite brain dead. Not that I mind — the only downside is being tired the next day.
The weekend just gone was also busy. And when I got home on Sunday after meeting people on Southbank en route home i was exhausted and went straight to bed basically.
Anyways, I went down to The Chalk on Saturday morning because my dad was stepping down as president of a club he is a member of (after his year position was up) and he had to give a speech. So I was at home for the annual ‘dinner and dance’ up at the golf club. It was me, my Mum, Dad, my Auntie Jackie, and their neighbour Mike.
It was a really enjoyable evening but I might have taken the raffle a bit too seriously. And I still didn’t win shit!
Sunday morning we went on a long walk around the coast and that was super nice too. Though it’s in the low 20’s here in London and mid Teens at home! so I had to borrow a jacket off my dad LOL
Then I went back just after lunch. Thing is, trains were a nightmare all weekend in both directions. ‘m currently in the painful process of trying to get delay repay. Timetable changes and engineering works and safety inspections meant it took one and a half times longer to get from A to B. Finally back in London, as I said I stopped off in Southbank and had a beer and dinner there.
Today (Monday) has been busy too. I’ve had a few appointments this morning, which is unusual for a Monday. But the sun has been shining, so I can’t complain.
It’s going to be another busy week — friends’ weddings, meetings, birthdays, project kickoffs. And hopefully, I’ll find the time to keep working on the text.
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The Ministry Of My Own Labour
- Finalised the first 8k words of my SLOP MACHINES text!!!
- Sent off the RED TEAM report (finally)
- Finished research into print firms i’m going to use for the new bigger zines.
- Loads of meetings booked for next week. Another super busy week
- Call about some work done in 2023/24
- Interview about the last 10 years of Ethereum
Terminal Access
After Sjef’s grand announcement back in January that he was returning to blogging, he’s back with a fantastic guide to watching ‘The Perfect Amount of Star Wars’.
Most of us have watched too much Star Wars. If you have watched zero Star Wars, congratulations! You have watched a perfect amount of Star Wars. Try not to be fucking annoying about it. This is however, the rock-bottom tier in perfect amounts of Star Wars watching. Maybe though, you would actually like to watch some Star Wars? You may have previously been deterred by annoying fans or cartoon bullshit, and that’s fair. But now there’s Andor, and you have a unique opportunity to watch a perfect amount of Star Wars, in perfect order, with zero cartoon bullshit. Ok almost zero cartoon bullshit.
Dipping the Stacks
History is thus a palimpsest (a manuscript rubbed out and rewritten), and the medium is the message (as McLuhan said). Personally I have noticed this as America being evil now (something I only recently noticed) reveals that America was always evil (to my shame). I can feel the palimpsest being scrubbed out and overwritten in my brain, though I still can’t spell the word for the life of me. It’s yet such a delightful and descriptive word that I can’t refrain.
How to write with the Devil’s hand
Since large organizations made me miserable, I decided to spend my career in small little studios, which tend to be a bit more supportive and even gravitate more towards people who don’t spin in the same direction. Possibly because they were all started by people who don’t spin in the same direction. Or at the same speed. Or spin at all.
Writing Is Redirecting Attention
When we write, we redirect our attention. But it doesn’t stop there: precisely because we write, we redirect our attention before the act of writing, and even after it. Before it because I play games more thoughtfully, knowing I will write about them. I am not a professional video or board game reviewer and have no aspirations to ever be one, meaning I can play whatever I want and hate whatever I want. Writing does not feel like an obligation that worsens instead of brightens up the experience.
Swiss student breaks drone world speed record
Samuele Gobbi, a student at the Fribourg School of Engineering and Architecture (HEIA-FR), has smashed the world speed record with a quadricopter drone, reaching 557.64km/h.
The Tradition of Being Human – Glory to God For All Things
Being human is a cultural event. No one is human by themselves and no one becomes human without the help of those around them.
Reading
I’m still reading Building Imaginary Worlds: The Theory and History of Subcreation by Mark J.P. Wolf.
Music
Fire Blossom – Yaarrohs // edIT
edIT has a new single out! A Collab with Yaarrohs (who featured vocals on the The Glitch Mob’s Love Death Immortality album over a decade ago).
Its an edIT track. What is there to say? no notes! mood, tone, everything is pitch perfect. Gonna be on my summer playlist. It’s walking places music.
Remember Kids:
a year before Niacin first switched his gender, Pavel Curtis had already devoted a page or two of a paper on typical MOOish behaviors to the phenomenon of male players masquerading part- or full-time as females. So commonplace had the practice become, he remarked, that “many female players report that they are frequently (and sometimes quite aggressively) challenged to `prove’ that they are, in fact, female. ” (“To the best of my knowledge,” he added, “male-presenting players are rarely if ever so challenged.”
My Tiny Life – Julian Dibbell
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