Still playing Wordle almost every day. Happy Wordle #800 day! 3/6
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The music video for Used To Be Young by Miley Cyrus really struck me. Simple. Powerful. 🎵
Restaurants usually wrap a fork, spoon, and knife in a napkin. I got three knives instead! Someone in the kitchen is laughing. Keep it weird, Kerbey Lane.
And to follow up on this, there’s a little known policy for Micro.blog hosting: when you have a paid subscription, we continue to host your blog forever even after you cancel and stop paying. Good URLs don’t change and don’t go away, unless you want them to.
I love this idea: WordPress.com’s 100-year plan. But at $38k, it’s too expensive for most people. I’ve been planning something similar as a complement to Micro.blog, but from a completely different angle.
https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/08/25/introducing-the-100-year-plan/
Looked through my old Clipstart source code for the first time in years, to answer a rare support question. Probably should’ve open-sourced the app. Everything broke when Apple abandoned QuickTime.
Heck of a mugshot, Trump. It feels like an angry, fitting reflection of that line from his inauguration speech: “This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.” 🇺🇸
Funny how different I drive depending on the car. In the Subaru Outback, adaptive cruise control on and let the car steer itself. In my son’s manual transmission Honda Civic, kind of recklessly like I’m street racing. And in the Honda Element, in the slow lane as if I have all the time in the world.
Sunset as we drive over the Trinity River in Fort Worth.
Made a sort of impulsive purchase of a used car: 2008 Honda Element SC, for a mini camper. Full details, photos, build, and more to follow in a longer blog post when I have it in my hands and set up. “It doesn’t make any sense. That’s why I trust it."
Jean just announced our next Micro.blog photo challenge! Starts September 1st.
https://micro.welltempered.net/2023/08/21/announcing-the-september.html
NBA in-season tournament dates announced. It’s a little odd to me how it’s spread out over so many weeks, but I’m still excited about it. Should make all of those games much more interesting. 🏀
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/38192234/what-nba-season-tournament-format-schedule-groups
Stayed up late watching the Georgia indictment details get revealed. Incredible to see the conspiracy outlined so thoroughly even though it was expected. There was also an excellent interview with Hillary Clinton on MSNBC. Trump will not be president again. No way. 🇺🇸
I recorded a video walk-through of Epilogue today and posted it here. Shows off the basics of tracking books you’re reading, and also a few not-so-obvious features.
Summer movies 🍿 https://www.manton.org/2023/08/14/summer-movies.html
Oppenheimer was great. We drove down to San Antonio to see it in 70mm IMAX. 🍿
Packing up some old books. I’m trying not to look at everything, but every once in a while there is something priceless tucked away in a book that I had forgotten about, sometimes decades old. An old letter, postcard, or sketch.
Octopus tagging along with us during IKEA shopping this weekend.
I added a tags window in the latest Mac app for Micro.blog. Makes it easy to filter your bookmarks to a tag from the keyboard. Hit command-shift-T, type part of the tag, then the return key to focus the list, and return again to navigate to the tag. (Tags are for Micro.blog Premium.)
Favorite text editors update https://www.manton.org/2023/08/12/favorite-text-editors.html