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Logbook, July 31, 2019

I woke up around 6:31 am.

YouTube videos where people are like “can I go a whole week with this $1000 computer instead of a $2000 computer.” Like, yeah. You can. You can get by on a $2 notebook fellas. Your privilege is super showing. The “iPad Challenge” makes me upset.

I went to Therapy.

I took the TTC. Played a round of Ping Pong King.

I recommend Back to Work 436: Better Than a Lipstick. It’s, as they say, one of the good ones. Choice advice: “You’re not making errors. You’re adding information.”

I went to bed around 10:28 pm.

I read Dark mode isn’t as good for your eyes as you believe. Read it on my Kobo, not a computer. I use Pocket because it shoots articles on the web to my Kobo because eink is better on the eyes than even really good true tone dark mode. Besides, the real dark mode is the friends we made along the way.

Cura, July 31, 2019

Note: The playlist embedded above will always be the most recent playlist and might not match the list below.

Cura is my Spotify mixtape. You can listen to it and subscribe here. I keep it as one playlist so it’s easy to subscribe to. I update it fairly frequently, but I also keep an archive playlist so you don’t have to miss a thing.

I hope you like it. I made it for you.

Here’s the track listing for this week:

Come On Let’s Go By Broadcast

Get Lost By The Babies

Sick By Vivian Girls

Bright Lit Blue Skies By Ariel Pink

Sleepy Head By Beat Happening

Bicycle By Memory Tapes

Daniel By Mr Twin Sister

Beauty By The Shivers

Warm Animal By Sure Sure

I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend By Ezra Furman

Logbook, July 30, 2019

I woke up around 6:53 am.

I’m Ping Pong King is my favorite “I’ve got one minute” iPhone game lately. https://t.co/VVSC2TNrVS

Only took 15 years but I finally lost a Nintendo DS stylus.

I took the TTC.

I watched Why do People Mix Lofi and Vaporwave?.

I watched What’s the Best Position to Sleep in? Do we even need a Pillow?.

I read Fire Emblem Is Slowly Improving Its Same-Sex Romance Options.

I read When hell isn’t other people.

Beat the second last dungeon in Link to the Past. Caught up on Demon Slayer.

I didn’t write. Tuesday’s usually my writing night.

I went to bed around 11:00 pm.

Logbook, July 29, 2019

I woke up at 5:42 am. I slept really well. Finally. It’s been weeks.

I read This Week in Sex: Pegging, the Orgasm Gap & Awkward Sex.

XKCD of the week: When I’m Back at a Keyboard.

Just in case you’re down today, remember that we live in a time when we can just watch the Steiners vs Muta/Sting whenever we want. https://t.co/T2w2ktiEev

I read The Pirates Strike Back.

I recommend you read How We Helped Our Reporters Learn to Love Spreadsheets.

I took the TTC.

I recommend this podcast

I love this. https://t.co/RDKEyRMNeO

Beat the ice palace in Link to the Past. Watched some Seinfeld.

I went to bed around 11:34 pm.

Logbook, July 28, 2019

I woke up at 9:07 am.

I read Ambivalent to be an American. I read Referenced Works 2019: Books, Habits, Publishing Tools. I read w/e 2019-07-28. I read Young Women Are Reclaiming The Slur ‘Egirl’.

I recommend you read A woman’s greatest enemy? A lack of time to herself.

I went to bed around 10:01 pm.

Logbook,

I woke up at 6:20 am.

I read Motion Smoothing Is Ruining Cinema.

I think with the iPhone XR, I’ve become not just a pop socket user, but a pop socket + wrist loop user. (thanks @moment). I guess I really don’t want to drop this one.

Hey men read this one. https://t.co/Qp5zsCnbjA I recommend this podcast

Dr’s appointment.

Met Éisee to rend some movies.

I went to bed around 11:18 pm.

Logbook, July 27, 2019

I woke up at 7:35 am.

I took the TTC. Hangout with grandparents.

Recovery day. Still feeling a bit sick. Talked with Kevin. Watched a few videos about the new Fire Emblem.

Romantic dinner time https://t.co/GPvTqrOkAl

Watched The Stunt Man and sorta fell asleep to It Started with a Kiss around 11.

Logbook, July 25, 2019

I woke up at 8:08 am. I took the TTC.

I watched Replacing My iPhone With An Apple Watch. This is something I’ve thought about a lot, but I’m waiting for a version of the watch that’s actually built to replace my phone, as opposed to a proof of concept with lots of caveats. I recommend you read 20 Years of Blogging: What I’ve Learned. I read Fire Emblem: Three Houses: The Kotaku Review.

Grabbed coffee with Romy. She just moved close to where I work, so it’s easier to hang out.

Forgot my headphone dingus at work. Lame. Figured out some ftp stuff. Watched some more of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.

I went to bed around 10:21 pm.

Logbook, July 24, 2019

I woke up at 5:47 am. Fiddled with the Apple podcasts app for video rss.

I recommend you read Use a Reverse To-Do List to Record Everything You’ve Done. This logbook is my attempt to do exactly this, largely by automating things I do on my phone and computers.

I read Breaking Down the Familiar Faces and New Reveals of the Powerful Star Trek: Picard Trailer. Lots of nerdiness here.

I recommend you read Fast Software, the Best Software.

I took the TTC.

Tried watching some recommended anime. Blue Exorcist (bad), and Fairy Tail (worse).

Felt crappy all night. Fell asleep early but had a terrible night’s sleep.

Logbook, July 23, 2019

I woke up at 6:55 am.

I took the TTC.

There aren’t enough Mitchell and Webb gifs. Might need to fix that for the world.

I recommend you read Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds and Humans aren’t designed to be happy — so stop trying.

I built a “TV I’m currently watching” section in Airtable. You can find it in my About section.

So @annfriedman not only kills it with newsletters, her Spotify playlists slap.

Holy crap: The Shining LEGO - Trailer.

I went to Writing Night. I finished a short story.

I went to bed around 9:54 pm.

I recommend you read Everyone Is Miserable: Here’s What We Can Do About It. I read The Video Game Industry Can’t Go On Like This.