Note archive: December, 2020

Myself and @wordridden have been watching all the Marvel movies (in timeline order) over the holidays and we’re almost done.

Tonight we will start watching Avengers: Infinity war at 9:48:54pm so that Thanos’s snap happens at midnight.

Books I read in 2020: https://adactio.com/journal/17724

Fiction by @DeuceOfGears, @GreatDismal, @QwertyKate, @UrsulaKLeGuin, @BrianAldiss, et al.

Non-fiction by @DellSystem, @AnnaWiener, @DavidDeutschOxf, @AdamRutherford, et al.

Yay! Glad you liked it, Erik!

You and Bob Dylan both!

My wife just said the same thing—“he was probably a conscript himself!”

Playing Arthur McBride (song) on bouzouki …for it being on Christmas morning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz1FS6hlM

Reading This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone.

Playing Christmas Eve (reel) on mandolin with @WordRidden on fiddle:

https://thesession.org/tunes/440

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnMLTs8UFk0

Sounds good. My email address is jeremy at adactio dot com.

Yup. @EdenT has already resigned. I will be “advising” that the AMP project be killed with fire …and then resigning.

🎶 One of these blurbs is not like the others, one of these blurbs doesn’t belong…🎶

https://blog.amp.dev/2020/12/14/amp-advisory-committee-2020-election-results/

Well, when the link text is “vanilla JavaScript”, who else am I going to link to?  😉

I wrote about three different ways of programming with CSS:

https://adactio.com/journal/17692

But why would that change if the advertising were contextual instead of behavioural? The brokers wouldn’t change, just the algorithm that decides which ad to show.

I draw the exact opposite conclusion.

It would drive traffic to the sites with the best content—the more niche the content, the more suitable the advertising. Perfect for smaller publishers.

Best of all, the the tar tar pits are in Los Angeles, home to the baseball team the the angels angels.

Wait till you hear about the sale they’re having at Pen Island!

Loading up on Arecibo swag from https://shop.areciboobservatory.org/

https://twitter.com/shannonmstirone/status/1334201442656108553

A part of me is waiting for Hadden to reveal a second dish. 😢

If you buy a copy of Going Offline from @ABookApart today, 10% will go to https://archive.org/donate/ and 10% will go to https://firstnations.org/covid-19-emergency-response-fund/

https://abookapart.com/blogs/press/stock-up-give-back

And when I say “quarter past six”, I mean “five past six.”

Doh!

…and when I say “the skies are clear”, I mean “partly cloudy”.

People of Brighton, the skies are clear and the International Space Station will pass overhead at quarter past six. Let’s wrap up warm, step outside, and look up at the crew of seven people currently in space.