Forgot to take a photo for today and was struggling to find something in the archive but then my friend Joe posted about Jonathan Meades and I remembered in 2016 I found this stencil on a pillar under Spaghetti Junction.
Status:
Chum Daz came over today for a long overdue catch-up. He’s also on medical leave, as it were, but his instructions are to go for walks and bike rides, so we won’t be doing that together.
We talked about many things, some nice and dull, some a bit more agitating, but nothing that couldn’t subsequently be offset by some jigsaw puzzling. It was a lovely hour.
Later on I researched how best to compost a meadow’s worth of hay and reckon I’ve nailed it.
Overnight listening:
- In Our Time: Plato’s Gorgias - Fell asleep to this the night before last, which is sort of the point of listening to IOT, but I’m actually interested in Plato so did a re-listen. The stuff on how rhetoric subverts democracy is fascinating.
Music:
Reading:
- Let’s see what’s going on down at the piss factory
- Erik Davis: Empathy boxed in - “If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have [empathy], I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.”
- Ed Yong’s special Galápagos photo essay - Birding in the Galápagos … offers a glimpse at what a biological utopia might look like, in which humans pose no danger to our fellow creatures, or vice versa.
- Discourse 2000: To Live A Life Of Freedom, Machos Take A Stand: Colony Earth!
Watching:
- The Grouch - screen recording of a 90’s Mac plugin where Oscar from Sesame Street would sing when you emptied the trash. I had this! Via
- Practical Engineering - Hurricane vs. Tiny House