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I don’t know why people buy the nonsense on this issue. But the true prevalence of non-citizens voting has been looked into by many states. It just doesn’t happen very often at all. Certainly not to the extent “they’re” trying to sell.
I've chosen List view as my go-to Finder view in recent months. It is a good fit for how I like to navigate folders, being able to keep several within view, but drop in and out of the contents of each, without changing the overall directory level. I was formerly a Column view person, navigating via the arrow keys, but I've found that using multiple Finder windows spatially, a window per List view folder, works even better, and allows me to better keep my bearings.
Someday I'll get around to actually reading Cormac more. But seeing the giant mess of his house is enough for now.
This is a now page. Essentially an answer to the question, “What have you been up to recently?” I update this page as the focuses of my daily life ebb and flow.
Last time I updated this page I wrote about Wordle. Since then I cultivated a 65 game streak, then pared back my committment to "I play on occasion when I feel like it," then finally down to "I quit and I'm tired of this game." I still regularly receive updates from people on their daily scores, which I entirely ignore—but which also might rope me back in to the game this summer when things are more relaxed.
I am feeling accomplished and nervous. I've spent a big chunk of time since December renovating this website and its guts. It is now working almost exactly as I always wanted, including RSS and JSON feeds. Now the hard part is finally beginning: the actual production of words and stuff. What I truly believe about myself is that I like to tinker with ideas and systems, but when it comes to having something to say, I shrink and never take the first step. I'm the nosy neighbor who won't live their own life. That changes today.
I don't have a single thought these days except Let's try to finish these website projects. Get back to first principles and find the simple things you enjoy. Maybe that is actually a thought I have: I am trying not to be seen wearing AirPods around the house or in the company of others. I am listening to fewer podcasts, and two little tweaks are improving my focus on everything I do.
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Just when I was ready to move fully into spring, and set the fan on medium for the night, a cold front moved in and ruined it - and caused me to wake up cold - and add a base layer for standing at the corner all morning.
The pain of choosing the right word - of finding a way to Say the Thing on your Mind - is a mild form of suffering I constantly feel - the need to convey, to be understood as you intend. To get it right, and be accurate.
POV you see a dumb political ad, and you know you would never ever vote for the cludgy, cringey candidate - but you still need to google "comptroller" because you don't have a clue what that role is - and you realize you might be just as cludgy and weird as the candidate - because at least they know what a comptroller is and why they want to become it.
Doing some late night web work - and I am completely exhausted. You become aware that it the interaction with screens that keeps people awake and losing sleep.
Somehow I remain convinced that my own thoughts are unique and special and unlike those of any other person. Like a child. That I see things in a way nobody else does or can. That I think about things forgotten or unnoticed.