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Today’s plan was to visit Helldorado Festival in Eindhoven. A full day of loud music and good food. Due to the lingering back pain though, it is not wise to be around thousands of head banging, moshpitting and shoulder-slapping rockers. Too bad, I really looked forward to seeing Life of Agony, Peter Pan Speedrock, Prong, Speedmobile and many, many others. I got to sell my tickets, so there’s a silver lining. To get an idea of the festival, check their Instagram page with an after movie of last year’s edition.
Ik vind het fijn om te lezen dat mijn neef zijn blog net zo gebruikt als ik, writing is thinking out loud en werken met de garagedeur open: Arduino ✕ PlatformIO
Unfortunately my lower back pain has worsened. I’m laying flat now since I can barely move. On paracetamol and Diclofenac gel for local relief. I hope things are better tomorrow.
📚 I just finished Ted Chiang’s magnificent Stories of Your Life and Others and I made a new bookshelf “Will re-read” because I have to put this book where it belongs. I want to re-read the stories, especially the ones I read back in April/May. Those stories have faded somewhat from my memory and I want to retrieve them for a proper review on my blog and personal memory. I have not been so impressed with someone’s penmanship in a long time. After reading Exhalation and this book, I am eager to find more comparable stories and authors!
I have acute back pain since yesterday evening. It really throws me off guard since every movement requires thinking and finding the least painful way. Haven’t had this since 2017 or so. I will try walking and some exercises this afternoon as well.
I’m reading 📚 Ted Chiang’s bundle of short stories “Stories of your life and others”. I Just finished Seventy-Two Letters and I love how Chiang approaches world building in this story. Very casual yet so intriguing and thought-provoking. Who are recommended authors that write sci-fi in a similar fashion to Chiang?
This is the obligatory testpost to see if crossposting from Micro.blog to my Mastodon account works.
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Vuurland (“Fireland”) is an online music-only radiostation by Studio Brussel, with calm, warming and easy indie/alternative songs. It is a perfect background companion for my day off on this autumn day.
🎶 I just Shazammed the beautiful cover of Goo Goo Dolls’ Iris, by Phoebe Bridgers and Maggie Rogers. It’s a jewel of a song.
I totally missed this year’s Aaron Swartz Day which was celebrated last Saturday. With talks ranging from Interop to Anarcho-transhumanist Biohacking, Disinformation and Radical Librarianism. I look forward to some uninterrupted time to watch the talks!
I have no idea from where this blogpost got into my 20+ Sunday-afternoon-random-tab-extravaganza but Paolo exactly describes how I do my exploring and spelunking on the web. I just click links. From status posts to blogs to “about”-pages. From there to other networks, blogrolls, categories, tags, lists, “side projects”, work-related blogs and so on… It is the best way to discover new stuff on the web.
Hi @sod, What am I doing wrong? See frankmeeuwsen.com/surprise-…
Here’s a newsflash you don’t need in these times: “Meta is reportedly working on an AI that reads brainwaves” (Source)
The draft blog post, which started as a small “my first 24 hours on micro.blog” thought, expands into a project description of how I might first refactor and then migrate my 20+ year old WordPress blog archive to this platform. Oh my…
Reading through a nice mail thread from Oskar with tips on how I could setup my presence here. In the meantime, the house is getting ready for dinner and St Maarten’s Evening. St Maarten (St Martin) is the patron saint of my hometown Utrecht, traditionally there is a processions of children with lanterns (Laternelaufen) who go through the neighbourhood, singing songs and collecting candy.
Bowie the cat’s first day outside. Freedom awaits!
First of 5 days off. No big plans, taking some rest and see what we want and can do at the end of the year.
Browsing in my RSS feeds and I see this post by @jack why he loves orgmode for archiving todos. I can relate. Not that I use orgmode. I try every now and then but I get into config-rabbitholes really quick. But since I’m reviewing several parts of my online life, why not give it a go again?