Weeknotes ποΈ
A weekly missive from the virtual desktop of Jay Springett.
Each issue covers what I’ve been: reading, doing, thinking about, and include links recommendations, a good meme and more.
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It was the 100th anniversary of my great grandads death
Late Again
To whom it may concern: It is springtime. – Kurt Vonnegut Narrative Yup. Late again because I was travelling/working. I really think I should probably double down on the schedule and stick to it regardless of what I’m doing. I didn’t even do the podcast last week. as I was on a plane and traveling…
Unspool
I’m frantically preparing for my next round of being away from home due in Rotterdam on Thursday.
The Dithering
So today we found out ABBA are back together. This is awful news.
Who Else Wants To Enjoy The Sunshine?
I’m typing this out quickly as possible as I want to get out in the garden before the sun moves round the trees and makes it to hot to shift all the ivy/crap I cut down out there that was coming though from next door.
Technical Support
“Lack of proper planning does not constitute an emergency” – Ancient Project Manager Saying
Contradictions
I’m back on the chalk for Easter. Its nice to be home – which my teenage self would find extremely an annoying thing to hear myself saying
Permanently Moved – Episode 1
Warren Ellis posted The Short ThingsΒ over on Morning.Computer. I thought about it over breakfast and decided “challenge excepted”.
He escapes into absurdity
The battle for freedom is not fought alone on the great fronts. It is fought in every home, in every community, in every state in the world. it is fought in the mind and heart of every man. Jack Whiteside Parsons – Freedom is a Two-edged Sword Narrative Returned from Berlin invigorated and renewed with…
“New Nerds”
I am/I’ve been in Berlin for a while. Right now I am typing this from TrustΒ one of the many Blockchain Co-Working spaces that are in Berlin.
Stella Maris
The Shrine of Our Ladye Star of the Sea was an old chapel on the cliffs at Broadstairs. Dating back at least to the 1350s
A strange sort of collapse
Let nothing disturb you,Let nothing frighten you,All things are passing away:God never changes.Patience obtains all thingsWhoever has God lacks nothing;God alone suffices. — St. Teresa of Avila Narrative I walk from Bank down Bishopsgate. A man shouts ‘Standard’ over and over. I wonder if he’s an NPC: street dressing in the simulation. Though the new…
Eternity can be found in the minuscule…
….in the place where earthworms, along with billions of unseen soil-dwelling microorganisms, engage in a complex and little-understood dance with the tangle of plant roots that make up their gardens, their cities.ββ Amy Stewart, The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms Narrative Despite all the stuff I’ve been up to so far this…
Every mile is two in winter
βGood words are worth much, and cost little.β β George Herbert Narrative I think I’m going to move my post day to Saturday. Fridays is getting busier as the day I have to go in to London. It’s also the reason I’ve spent most of today hung over. I’ve spent the week grazing on the…
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