I’m not an academic but that is not stopping me from futzing around with Zotero.
Enjoying a holiday read. A View to Die For by @cheri
Finished reading: The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande 📚 I didn’t want a story justifying the use of checklists; I wanted a book providing a guide to the development of best practice checklists.
Still Loving Logseq
Monday, August 1, 2022
My love affair with Logseq continues unabated. I enjoy using the software - even through the weird and buggy bits. There is an immediacy to it that I like, which Craft has been unable to match. Craft was always too fussy, and I found myself becoming distracted by fonts and styles. The best comparison I can make is that Craft is the modern Microsoft Word, while Logseq would be BBEdit.
In E063 of @hemisphericviews we talk to @ericmwalk to find out how he is so good at Arcadia. Plus we pontificate profusely pertaining to Podcasting 2.0.
I made a caraway seed cake. When I was a schoolboy, my Mom would sometimes make one of these during the day. When I got home we would eat it alongside a cup of tea using our fancy tea cups. This cake today has provided me with both deliciousness and nostalgia.
Scotty Jackson has been working hard and putting up with my bug reports regarding his Shortcut to create a daily note in Agenda with links to calendar events and OmniFocus tasks. The Shortcut is now flawless - and amazing!
Today I had a conversation with a magpie. 🐧
Why’s everybody talking about Obsidian? Loqseq is where it’s at! I’m digging it.
Minions: The Rise of Gru, 2022 - ★★
Thursday, July 14, 2022
A few light-hearted moments scattered amongst a sea of meh.
Top Gun: Maverick, 2022 - ★★★★
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
Massive fan service and I’m here for it.
Logging into Agenda.app with Shortcuts
Tuesday, July 12, 2022
I’ve been getting back into Agenda as a work diary and daily tracker. The app is brought to a new level of usefulness thanks to the ingenuity of Shortcuts developer Scotty Jackson. Scotty Jackson: This is all about my Rapid Log Shortcut, for use with the Agenda app … and my Agenda Daily Log Shortcut. The basic conceit of this Shortcut is that it appends provided input to note in Agenda.
I’ve discovered another Read-it-Later service, Omnivore. Hard to find out much more about it though - has anybody else heard of it?
Big, 1988 - ★★★
Monday, July 11, 2022
Watched on Sunday July 10, 2022.
Console Games are Fun; Mobile Ones Aren't
Sunday, July 10, 2022
Matt Birchler writing on his blog makes a succinct point. Mobile games are a shit industry with shit companies making shit games that don’t exist to entertain, they exist to extract as much money as possible from a few whales who will spend hundreds, if not thousands of dollars. Fun is not the point. Matt nails it. This is why I enjoy playing games on Xbox and Switch, and get nothing from mobile gaming.
I hate knee bursitis or whatever worse thing is going on with my ageing joints. One small jump today led to immediate chronic pain after suffering underlying soreness for months prior.
Me in 1 Chart
Saturday, July 9, 2022
After listening to myself interviewed by Martin Feld on Really Specific Stories I started thinking about the strange mixture of interests I have. For fun, I thought I’d grab the main categories and represent them in graphical form. Basketball is predominantly represented by NBL and NBL1 - not NBA. Podcasting incorporates listening, and producing NBL Pocket Podcast and Hemispheric Views. Productivity and IT & Tech almost bleed into one another to an extent.
I’ve built my own Hello page riffing on Alastair Johnson’s idea.
Finished reading: The Profit Paradox by Jan Eeckhout 📚 It took me a long time to finish because I put it down halfway through and left it for a while. Great insights, but did tend to get a little bogged down in the last third. Very US-centric, of course.
I’m seriously addicted to Halo Infinite on Xbox. I love the open world approach to the game.