Replying to a tweet from @vlh
Remember when we met for the first time? It was in an airport! Dallas, if I recall.
It’s got to the point where I think I miss Dallas airport.
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Remember when we met for the first time? It was in an airport! Dallas, if I recall.
It’s got to the point where I think I miss Dallas airport.
Checked in at Racehill. Out for a stroll — with Jessica
Spring is in the air.
Checked in at Queen’s Park. with Jessica
Welcome, neighbour!
I’ll think of you while I devour my birthday T-bone.
We’ll always have Chicago!
Yes! …but only if you bring Cider.
(Oh, and my birthday request is for more pictures of Cider please!)
Jon, you tell yourself whatever you need to hear to sleep at night.
When you measure include the measurer.
For six cards, you used enough energy to:
I just placed a beer order with @IndependentBTN and they showed up within 30 minutes!
Suck on that, Amazon Prime.
Any sufficiently advanced 419 scam is indistinguishable from crypto.
I’ve spent a decade successfully lulling you into a false sense of victory.
steeples fingers
Soon.
Sooooooon.
Watched @GavRov’s film Archive and thoroughly enjoyed it!
Now I want @DaveAddey to dissect the typography for https://typesetinthefuture.com and @ChrisNoessel to examine the interfaces for https://scifiinterfaces.com
The story “Button, Button” by Richard Matheson describes a stranger delivering a box with a button to a struggling couple. If you press the button, you get money. But someone you don’t know will die.
I think Satoshi Nakamoto read it.
It’s incontraverible. Proof of work deliberately wastes copious amounts of energy …by design.
It’s like someone heard about the trolley problem and thought “yeah, that’s let’s do this!”
Imagine how architects feel about the David Brents going around calling themselves “solutions architects.”
Reading Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor.
Touchdown!
Good luck, @PlanetaryKeri! (and everyone on the @NASAPersevere team) #CountdownToMars
🎶 Swan, swan, herring gull, hurrah! 🎶 🦢
Checked in at Queen’s Park. The pond in the park — with Jessica
It saddens me to see friends investigating Bitcoin as though it were a legitimate investment instead of a faith-based Ponzi scheme that consumes energy for no reason run by incels who can only string the same four words together.
Yup! It’s like flypaper, but for building a blocklist.
Reading Sustainable Web Design by Tom Greenwood.
Trans women are women.
This quote by Ira glass: https://quiteaquote.in/2017/09/29/ira-glass-taste-is-killer/
This film by Charles and Ray Eames: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0
This chili recipe: https://principiagastronomica.com/post/5
Adam Curtis is QAnon for Guardian readers.
I prefer @TomScott’s version: https://www.tomscott.com/infinite-adam-curtis/
Ugly bags of mostly water.
It’s all about the puns, baby!
Is Wikipedia a website up until the point that I start editing an article?
Responsive Web Typography by @JPamental: https://rwt.io/
Adentures in Typography by @RobinRendle: https://buttondown.email/robinrendle/
Coffee Table Typography by @Magalhini: https://coffeetabletypography.com/
When you realise that there is no longer a studio audience for University Challenge, the added soundtrack of applause just sounds creepy.
It is a happy coincidence that these two blog posts were published exactly six years apart:
https://adactio.com/journal/tags/blood
February 7th, 2015: https://adactio.com/journal/8352
February 7th, 2021: https://adactio.com/journal/17798
It is a coincidence! But I like it!
Yes! Robert Cailliau is very interested in the history of the Mundaneum—a precursor to the memex, in a way.
There are still tickets available for tomorrow’s online Web Stories conference—just €5!
I’m really looking forward to talks by @LeonieWatson, @JohnAllsopp, and more…
Reading The Moment of Eclipse by Brian Aldiss.
This annoying bug in the latest version of @Firefox is making me realise how much I use bookmarklets every day—linking, huffduffing…
Hearing about TYC 7037-89-1 in Eridanus, a system with six stars (three pairs of binaries), and trying to imagine what it would be like from the surface of a planet to see the sun eclipsed by another sun.