It’s all downhill from here.
Shot on January 13, 2018 at 02:04PM
New distance record. Important.
Tim Carmody writing at Kottke.org with some interesting thoughts on the future of the book as object and idea. For reasons I won’t yet disclose, this subject has been very much on my mind of late.
TwIM is the DM-only Twitter client I’ve been waiting for. Perhaps you have too. The less we feed that bird the better.
“Keep a notebook. Travel with it, eat with it, sleep with it. Slap into it every stray thought that flutters up into your brain. Cheap paper is less perishable than gray matter, and lead pencil markings endure longer than memory.”
―Jack London
Brief Review — Zojirushi Stainless Steel Travel Mug
There’s a snowstorm currently blowing through Minnesota. It’s been going since early today. The temperature when I woke up was 27 degrees but steadily dropped into single digits by the end of the day.
This morning, I stopped at my favorite local coffee shop and had my favorite barista fill up my Zojirushi Stainless Steel Travel Mug with the dark brew of the day. I jumped into my car, took a sip, closed the lid, and put it into my cup holder before heading off to a client. I left the mug in the car as the wind howled and blew the snow around outside. After the client, I drove back home but, once again, forgot the mug full of coffee in the cup holder where it remained the rest of the day as the snowstorm raged. I only remembered it upon hopping back in my snow drenched car to pick Beatrix up from school.
Once arriving home from school, I explained to Beatrix that I had left my coffee mug in the car all day and forgot about it. Given past experience I said, “I bet it’s still warm.”
All day. In the car. Single digit temps. Raging snowstorm. The outside steel of the mug was almost too cold to hold. Yet, the coffee was almost as hot as when it came out of the kettle. I’m decadently enjoying it as I type this.
If you like coffee (or tea, or cocoa or…), you need The Zojirushi Stainless Steel Travel Mug. Hot to the last drop.
“If you look at what this country has accomplished, only using half of its talent, just look at the potential for the future. I’m enormously bullish on America over the future in part because we, by some rather stupid decisions, essentially put half our talent on the sidelines.”
— Warren Buffett, Feminist.
This time of year in Minnesota, all conversations include talk of the weather… Back to single digit highs today. Otherwise known as back to normal.
My friend Levi reminds us that the best way to make something is to start making it. Start now.