The world after loss
is still recognisable.
Streets. Receipts. Birds at dawn.
Only the proportions alter.
More of this,
and less of you.
I now learn to carry absence
the way we once carried cigarettes;
everywhere.
Just Sad
It has frankly, been a shit week. My friend Gordon White died.
A loss of a force and a friendship that has been consistent for a quarter of my life. I have so much to say, but can’t find the words just now. Just sad.
Grief is a process that has only a beginning, so I am trying not to mistake this first darkness for the whole sky.
My heart goes out to James, his family, and friends x
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Photo 365
Dipping the Stacks
Porting Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii | Bryan Keller’s Dev Blog
Before figuring out how to tackle this project, I needed to know whether it would even be possible. According to a 2021 Reddit comment:
There is a zero percent chance of this ever happening.
Feeling encouraged, I started with the basics
Because the spreadsheet really did solidify, among a whole generation of managers and corporate leaders, “an unshakable belief that the way the world works can be embodied in rows and columns of numbers and formulas.” Where the technologies of the “control revolution” had promoted a view of the corporation as something to be managed, the spreadsheet promoted a view of the corporation as something to be optimized: a bundle of assets, liabilities, and agreements—a “nexus of contracts”—that could be understood completely with, well, a spreadsheet.
Development of rechargeable cement-based batteries with hemp fibers
Cement-based batteries, as an innovative energy storage technology, not only provide a new way of storing energy by combining traditional cement materials with electrochemical principles but also give the building material the function of storing energy.
UK households to be urged to use more power this summer as renewables soar
Households will be called on to boost their consumption of Great Britain’s record renewable energy this summer to help balance the power grid and lower energy bills.
Sperm whales’ communication closely parallels human language, study finds
whales’ vocalized communications are remarkably similar to our own, researchers have discovered.
Not only do sperm whale have a form of “alphabet” and form vowels within their vocalizations but the structure of these vowels behaves in the same way as human speech, the new study has found.
Reading
Still reading Super Nintendo: How One Japanese Company Helped the World Have Fun by Keza MacDonald. It’s very engaging drawing on a careers worth of 1-2-1 interviews and archival reporting.
Music
Parlour Greens – Emeralds (LP)
Soul/jazz/funk super group Parlour Greens have a new album out and damn…. the pocket on this album is craze. Funky as hell.
Remember Kids:
Bruce Sterling, in the now famous “Manifesto of January 3, 2000,” said: “The central issue as the new millennium dawns is technocultural.
Cybermapping and the Writing of Myth – Paul
Jahshan