Checking out the new Macs (25 years ago)
Checking out the new Macs (25 years ago)
Good morning
Fall’s the best
Long day at work, dog missed me
We’re at the base of Heartbreak Hill as usual for the Boston Marathon. Wheelchair racers on the course first.
Covered the painful hilly part of the Boston Marathon route on my run this afternoon, and realized that this will be the only year when the marathon runners will be taunted by Halloween skeletons and grim reapers.
Sometimes I imagine the missing quotation marks of Sally Rooney’s novels having lonely on-again, off-again relationships with each other
Belle’s enjoying this gorgeous fall morning
I have been informed by my daughter that today is National Transfer Money to Your Daughter Day. Unfortunately for her, tomorrow is Return the Money to Your Parents Day.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia has digitized footage from 1933 of the last known Tasmanian tiger, just before they went extinct. Beautiful, sad.
Local mushroom showing off
I thought this rainbow at the Red Sox game was a sign we would beat the Yankees. I was wrong, but: nice rainbow.
This library ladder is so sinuously elegant
Absolutely gorgeous book of handmade paper
Like you, I’ve listened to Earth, Wind & Fire’s “September” a thousand times and find it a delirious joy on each play, but I still heard for the first time so many bits of musical genius in this breakdown of the song by @kirkhamilton on @strongsongs
Whatever you do, do not challenge my sister’s dog to a staring contest
And lo it was in the year of our lord 2021 that one could finally swipe right to delete and left to archive in Apple Mail
I loved celebrating Eleanor Lurensky’s 95th birthday with her recently, and we are naming a nice reading space in our library after her (@Northeastern grad, 1947). She mentioned her RV travels, so I’m delighted to see her piece about this in the Wash Post.
A new season of my Humane Ingenuity newsletter begins with a deconstruction of the act of seeing, and the effort to find a more colorful world. Also, a data visualization of…metal band logos.
Cap and gown (and mask) are on for convocation @Northeastern — let’s do this
Curbside Boston is on brand this morning
Belle was wondering if it was too late to participate in #InternationalDogDay
At work we have a cabinet for ideas
