dispatches from the magnificent edifice
In a recentish dialogue , I made a playful sideswipe at the sort of arcane rituals that certain private trackers force prospective inductees to undergo. The website I was most thinking of + poking fun at is Redacted , a private tracker. They have a standalone website for their study guide here . Allowing unknowns to get inducted if they pass an interview is a genuine public service. By default,…
[definitely not cope] it's very good to go first at lightning talks at an event you are running and do the talk poorly such that everyone going after you is emboldened
Anything in life can be richer and sweeter if you slow down and pay attention, but some things reward attention more than others. The different amount of rewardingness per attention is socially constructed and thus arbitrary to some degree. But it's genuinely nice, to have others who have also paid attention to the thing tell you about the interesting parts that you might have missed, and this can…
whenever claude gives me an actionable piece of advice and i take it: woag... i'm being deployed.... like an ai agent.....
I've been doing a bad job of consistently wearing my tinted SPF face goo and as punishment I've been summoned to the Sephora where I was forced to pay seventy dollars as tribute to get the face goo that is 0.5 shades darker
woke up with a bit of a sore throat, but i'm not much one for western teas. so instead i'm drinking a nice white and dabbing a little honey at the bottom of each cup. it feels very indulgent.
A current ongoing quest in my life is to find a place that sells table grapes that are actually good, rather than just fine. I had a grapes spot in Waterloo, and if I can't find one in Toronto I will die mad forever. I like food, and I spend time and resources on it generously. I splurge on good eggs, and in-season produce, and fancy tea. I scope out restaurants, and specialty grocers, and apple…
I kind of want to diarypost about the little solstice I ran last night but too much diaryposting and turning all my friends into content seems corrosive. I suppose that's why they invented these things called "diaries" 😔 What I will say is that it was a really strange wonderful evening that I think bound everyone there closer together. I've been having these thoughts about what's lost when one…
per this cursed book that i didnt get too far into, when women move into the same household the dominant one's menses remains consistent while the other womens all move to sync up. i will be ardently not thinking about this as i settle in with my new roommates. hate to say it but sometimes there really are things that are better left unknown
deriving much joy today from a tiny tea set i have. it's just the right size to brew the final 3 grams of tea from a 25g sample i quite enjoyed.