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Kottke & Futility Closet
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Now my web-rounds have mostly consisted of doom-scrolling reddit and the news, which is no way to achieve mental health. Especially given the news as of late...
You know what I mean.
But - recalling better days here's a couple of links I've probably posted in the past.
The first is Jason Kottke - Link: https://kottke.org/
Who's good, because while he's as well agonizing over the state of the union, he's also got other things going on. And it's important to remember there are other things going on, this news cycle can be paralytic.
The second is Futility Closet - Link: https://www.futilitycloset.com/
Which is updated daily, and a respite from the day to day assault on our attention spans.
Ramalinga Swamigal
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A more recent Tamil saint who locked himself in his room, telling his disciples to wait outside, and turned himself into a rainbow...
I'm not going to think about it too hard.
The Weekend
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Ha! And - finally I have done it; at the restaurant we've hired some new staff and I've wrestled weekends off. Saturday and Sunday, specifically, and if I'm fortunate I'll be able to dovetail my other days into doubles meaning that I'll have 4 1/2 days off per week.
Which would suit me just fine.
The Saturdays off, well, I'll be able to attend the theatre, develop a better (and healthier) social life, get up to all sorts of things...
Starting today. Yayy!
Now - at the library, blogging and having done some maintenance on the database, the back-end, front-end, mentioned my uneventful and rather boring life it's time to read a bit my book of the moment - Richard Hakluyt - "Voyages and Discoveries" - rather abbreviated from it's original million and a half words to a comfortable 150, 000; a sixteenth scholars thorough documenting of all of Britains sea-voyages, often in the first person, descriptions of distant times and lands when the world - to Britain largely - was still a vast and unexplored place.
Anyways, it's great reading...
Hoard of Glass Bracelets found in Ukraine
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A thirteenth century hoard of Glass Bracelets found near Volodymyr, Ukraine. While treasures are abundant this was not found with a metal detector (those are found daily, world wide) - and the fragile nature of them, make this treasure rather unique.
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