You should always start the day with gratitude. This morning I’m grateful that the cat vomit on my blanket was quick and easy to clean up.
Cory Doctorow’s “Red Team Blues” is the most exciting technothriller about a 67-year-old accountant you’ll read this year 📚
“Red Team Blues,” the latest novel by the prolific Cory Doctorow, is a gripping technothriller about billion-dollar cryptocurrency crime. I don’t often encounter fiction that pulls me in as hard as “Red Team Blues” anymore—I’m a jaded reader. But “Red Team Blues” kept me up well past my bedtime on more than one night, and I staggered around bleary-eyed at work the next day. I should send Cory a bill.
Cats are always disappointed in you, whereas dogs always think you’re amazing and you’re disappointed in yourself for failing to live up to their high regard.
Just a reminder that ALL the sticks in the forest are free. Go out and get yourself a cool stick. You earned it!
I’ll just switch notetaking apps and/or task managers and then my life will be perfect, right?
The 65 newest series and movies to stream right now - The Washington Post.
Some of these are already on our watchlist, and I’ve bookmarked a bunch of trailers for others.
Tonight I wiki’d and googled about the Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon stories 📚and their author, Spider Robinson. The bar travels through time and space1 but its home base is Route 25A, in Suffolk County on Long Island, which is just a few miles from where I grew up. Robinson went to the same college I did, State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Then I wiki’d my home town, Huntington Township on Long Island, and was surprised to learn about many notable people who came from there, all of which I immediately forgot, because it is late and I am tired.
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Like the TARDIS on Doctor Who, if the TARDIS was a bar. ↩︎
Noncompete clauses and related employment agreements are indentured servitude.
Noncompetes epitomize MLK’s “socialism for the rich and rugged individualism for the poor.” They’re a way for employers to operate in a command economy where the power of the state can be mobilized against uppity workers who dare to seek a better deal…. “
— Cory Doctorow, How workers get trapped by “bondage fees”