First time making split pea soup!

Remember when outside wasn't dangerous? Good times.

I am really not sure what my street is going to look like in 6 months.

Saw Trevor Noah doing the Daily Show from his apartment and holy shit why is it that this is what makes me more anxious than literally anything else?

I cannot imagine what it would be like to self-quarantine without the Internet. Or maybe I just don't want to.

Not crowded at Canadian Tire today. Lacking subtext, I have to say I don't hate it.

I think I'm more afraid of societal breakdown then I am of actually getting infected with the Corona virus.

Leche Desserts makes me happy

One of the themes that crops up again and again in the IndieWeb community is that your personal domain, with its attendant website, should form the nexus of your online existence. Of course, people can and do maintain separate profiles on a variety of social media platforms, but these should be subordinate to the identity represented by your personal website, which remains everyone's one-stop-shop for all things you and the central hub out of which your other identities radiate.

Part of what this means in practice is that your domain should function as a kind of universal online passport, allowing you to sign in to various services and applications simply by entering your personal URL.

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Watching Paradise Lost! #CentaurTheatre

The modern manifestation of a Turing Machine is an algorithm, not a computer.  The modern manifestation of a computer is a Universal Turing Machine, i.e. a Turing machine that can simulate and run any other Turing Machine.  #Turing

It's 2020 so I decided to join the 2010's and replace my desktop hard drive with an SSD. Pretty easy, mostly due to Clonezilla. It's...nice. I should probably shake things up more often.

In a previous blog post, I gave a very brief introduction to the IndieWeb, hopefully giving a sense of what it is and why it matters. In this post I'll try and zoom in a tiny bit and explain something of the mechanics of how the IndieWeb actually works and what it means to "like" a post or "share" a status update.

I'm deliberately trying to avoid too much detail in this post because, frankly, there's a lot to write, and it's easy to get lost. So I'm going to try and give a rough idea of what an IndieWeb enabled website looks like at a very high level, without going into the weeds. Further posts will go into more detail.

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I kind of love that @BarackObama is also a Ted Chiang fan. Read Exhalation if you haven't already.

In my house, you can tell how cold it is outside by how hot the radiators are.

What is it about the Farine Five Rose sign blinking crimson in the darkness that I find so sinister?

Look, I like Christmas music, okay? Fight me.

Van Gogh immersive exhibit #vangogh

I feel this is accurate :-)

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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Learning about Indo-European migration on  @englishhistpod and it sometimes feels like I'm listening to DnD prep or superhero origin stories

#MarcellaHazan 's famous (infamous?) tomato, butter and onion sauce is actually a surprisingly good, rich sauce, considering what went into it - four ingredients, including the salt. No garlic, no basil, no olive oil.

This is Marcella Hazan's "Famous tomato sauce" , in progress.  Only four ingredients: tomatoes, butter, sky, onion. You don't even chop the onion. I will give a full report.

I really don't care.  Not a fan. https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/don-cherry-podcast-launch-1.5364771

Seeing Mythic! #mythic @segalcentre