I kind of love that @BarackObama is also a Ted Chiang fan. Read Exhalation if you haven't already.
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Dec 22, 2019, 4:43 PM -05:00 In my house, you can tell how cold it is outside by how hot the radiators are.
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Dec 21, 2019, 10:29 PM -05:00 What is it about the Farine Five Rose sign blinking crimson in the darkness that I find so sinister?
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Dec 20, 2019, 5:45 PM -05:00 Look, I like Christmas music, okay? Fight me.
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Dec 17, 2019, 9:38 PM -05:00 Van Gogh immersive exhibit #vangogh
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Dec 10, 2019, 2:28 PM -05:00 I feel this is accurate :-)
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Dec 8, 2019, 12:46 PM -05:00 In the Beginning Was the Website
I don't think I've ever felt quite as old as I felt when, last year, I discovered the IndieWeb, an online community of people dedicated to resurrecting the personal website.
This makes me feel old because I've maintained some sort of personal web presence/site/blog since around 1998 or so, when I made my first hand-coded HTML pages available online at U of T. Apparently, enough time has past not only for the concept of a "personal website" to have become quaint and old-fashioned (displaced by a cluster of much more convenient social media sites) but also for it to have been picked up again by an enthusiastic band of hobbyists with a taste for the retro and a fondness for old-school fan pages.
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Dec 6, 2019, 2:21 PM -05:00 Learning about Indo-European migration on @englishhistpod and it sometimes feels like I'm listening to DnD prep or superhero origin stories