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Having watched the documentary Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (2010) yesterday, it’s interesting to reflect on just how much of the television shows The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Hacks were lifted from...
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Twitter is being rebranded as X. So, if one “tweets” on Twitter, will one then be “eX-iting” posts on X? I think it’s a perfect time to eXit the entire platform. #IndieWeb #eXiting
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I’m in a book club (comprised of academics, historians, inveterate note takers, commonplacers, zettelkasten users, and lifelong learners) that is just starting the 1972 (or later) revised edition of...
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Kardex: for when your analog #Zettelkasten grows too big for just a few filing cabinets and you’re ready to automate just a little bit of your slip finding work!
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🗃️ I just did a quick calculation and I’ve purchased 2 large card index cabinets, and 5 small indexes (which includes some small desktop trays and a 2 drawer wooden index) for a total of $636.52. It...
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My recurring five month subscription shipment of 500 Oxford lined index cards arrived just in time tonight. I had exactly two left. 😓🗃️😌
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I’m in a book club (comprised of academics, historians, educators, inveterate note takers, and lifelong learners) that has chosen its next two books: The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science...
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Dr. Mike Miller announced in class last night that in the coming Winter quarter at UCLA Extension he’ll be offering a course on elliptic curves. The text for the class will be Rational Points on...
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Oktoberfest has decimated my stock of sauerkraut, so I’ve started fermenting a new batch.
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Today is the release day for Roland Allen’s new book The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper (Profile Books, 2023). Those in the note taking, #zettelkasten, #PKM, and intellectual history spaces...
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I came across this Matisyahu song; it has an incredibly resonant message today.
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Testing out this Bluesky thing, but only because there’s enough support to allow some #IndieWeb goodness. #POSSE #FTW
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We did a dry run of most of a Thanksgiving meal for dinner tonight. The turkey was pretty good, the gravy was stellar, and the minimal run of sides was very good. Timing was alright, but could have...
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Almost as if perfect timing, my audiobook hold for David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5,000 years shows up just as my book club is about to delve into the first three chapters this coming weekend. Care...
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KOST 103.5 has apparently switched formats to Christmas holiday music already. My first song: Perry Como’s It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas. 🎶 🎄
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Planning has begun for a potential in-person IndieWebCamp in San Diego, CA in December. Interested in attending? Can you help out? Register your interest now and save some dates. #IndieWeb
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Looking at my website’s traffic logs, I see some spurts of traffic from LMS platforms at University of Mary Washington and Furman. I can’t help but wondering who’s assigning my website for classes, but...
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The script for my Niklas Luhmann movie is coming along nicely. After watching some of Ned Ballamy‘s work, I’m thinking that he’d be the natural lead… #zettelkasten
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I feel validated that I’m not the only one in love with their wooden card catalog: Image courtesy of Industrial Artifacts, who are selling this cabinet for $3,250.00.
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