“There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.”
— Aldous Huxley – Time Must Have a Stop (1944)
Statuses
Thought I can’t get out of my head delivered by my wife this morning…
If a society has insisted on tying healthcare to employment, what happens when millions of people become unemployed and thus lose their healthcare due to a worldwide health crisis?
My friend Harry Marks is finally self-publishing a book after years of pitching agents and publishers. He’s a good writer and it’s only three bucks. Seriously, get this.
Days 20 & 21 — Crisis is an Audit • An Abundance of Potions by Jack Cheng
Crisis is an audit. It opens society’s books—and not just the financial. It takes stock of imbalances of care and access, the accrued debts of injustice.
“Nature has taught me that if humans don’t figure out what revolution really means, nature will make the revolution despite us.”
— Tawana Petty
What my wife’s plans are when we get through this.
Doing some cleanup reminded me that…
- I still have my ZEOS Pocket PC (Cutting edge PC tech from 1991)
- It still boots (and runs for days on 2 AA batteries).
- Runs a DOS version of MS Works and can save to plaintext files which means…
- If one can get them off via the serial port and find something to connect it a “modern” machine can open and read said file which leads to…
- Me wondering what it might be like to try to write a book on here.
Yesterday’s quarantine cleaning was the library. So satisfying to have things back in shape again.
Battlestar Galactica – Show | SYFY
All four seasons available now online for free. Perhaps one of the best television series of all time.
Even if you’ve watched it before, it’s worth a run through a second time with series creator Ron Moore’s commentary podcast. So good.
Soul legend Bill Withers, singer of “Lean on Me” and “Lovely Day,” RIP / Boing Boing
This is another hard hit.
Beatrix and I were just at the piano together on Tuesday singing Lean On Me (I was showing her how to play it).
Ain’t no sunshine when he’s gone.