My wife reviews the current Guthrie production of Midsummer Night’s Dream and if you live around the area you should go see it.
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Video Tour: Mike’s Everyday Sketchnotes – by Mike Rohde
I enjoyed this video walkthrough of how my friend Mike Rohde uses sketchnotes in his everyday life.
Finally, we can get ebooks from local bookstores!
Browse and buy on Bookshop.org, and read right in your web browser, or download our iPhone or Android apps for the full reading experience. Every purchase financially supports local, independent bookstores!
One more reason to ditch Amazon for books.
“…because of the Biden administration’s export bans. DeepSeek engineers found and implemented multiple massive efficiency improvements that allowed the company to train its latest models at far lower prices using far-less-capable hardware, and perform inference under heretofore unprecedented memory constraints.
Constraints fuel creativity and innovation. Honestly, everyone should have seen this coming.
Listen to The Current’s first two hours of music from 2005
My favorite local radio station turns 20 years old today. This is a wonderful trip down memory lane. I heard this live when it happened and have been listening near daily ever since.
When you love something made by a terrible person – annie’s blog
A person is not one thing.
A person is a complex collection, light and dark, changing, exploring, experiencing, making decisions, choosing directions, adjusting, happening.
I’m reminded of the following quote…
“Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life and a secret life.” ― Gabriel García Marquez
Never live a secret life you’d be afraid to be made public.
You don’t have to be there – The Homebound Symphony
People: you don’t have to “watch the destruction in Los Angeles through the prism of our fractured social-media ecosystem.” Nobody is making you. And it doesn’t do you any good to watch.
But when Twitter became intolerable people decamped first for Mastodon and then Threads and then Bluesky, or went all-in on Instagram. The Twitter habit, it seems, will long survive Twitter.
An important reminder (with some useful suggestions).
A chair built for your half-dirty clothes
This is awesome. I’ve been thinking about a solution to this same problem and, while I doubt I’d have the gumption to build such a solution it has spurred me to think of coming up with my own solution to this problem.
(also via Jack Cheng)
Opinion | In Defense of Messiness – The New York Times
The parts of my brain that allow me to produce handmade Renaissance costumes are the same parts responsible for a dining room bursting with fabric scraps and sewing supplies. It’s time we admit that what makes us shine can’t be divorced from what makes us scattered.
(via Jack Cheng)
What to worry about – annie’s blog
Love this.