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Fran’s Not Here 36 - It Should Be Illegal to be this Inexpensive

FNH36 Show Art

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Not every good cat name is also a good drag name or whatever

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Published on March 10, 2019 21:00

More Things, March 4, 2019

It wouldn’t be a personal blog without a link list of stuff I liked around the web.

Eating breakfast is not a good weight loss strategy, scientists confirm

The Trauma Floor: The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America

What Happened To The Music Visualizer?

This man won’t go into a nursing home. He’ll spend his ‘golden age’ at the Holiday Inn

I don’t wanna do my video game chores

What Happened When I Tried Dipsea, An App Filled With Sexy Audio Stories

Workism Is Making Americans Miserable

Jesus Christ, Superstars: Episode One (April 18, 1992)

The Secrets of the World’s Greatest Art Thief

Upgrading From an iPhone SE to an XR

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Published on March 03, 2019 21:00

The best way to read a newsletter is on a Kobo

I like newsletters, and I like that more people are writing them. Email-based newsletters are just blog posts, with the added benefit that it’s more likely you’ll check your email (and thus read the post) than remember to visit a blog. Not everybody will make their own calendar cycle for the web.

The only thing I don’t like about newsletters is that they live in your email. I like to spend as little time in gmail as possible, but I like newsletters. So, what to do? Easy. Figure out their RSS feed, and send it to my Kobo. Reading on a Kobo is just better than reading in email, in that it is actually relaxing and not an anxiety-fueled horrorscape.

If the newsletter is in Mailchimp, all you have to do is look at a previous issue, and on the top-right menu you’ll see “RSS”. Copy that link, add it to IFTTT as a “If” statement, and have it send every entry to Pocket. Pocket articles sync with Kobo’s, and that’s it. Non-Mailchimp newsletters are often just their blog with added Feedburner functionality. I wasn’t able to figure out all of the newsletters I like, but I will.

Here’s a few newsletters I’ve subscribed to with this method. You might like them too.

Matthew Cassinelli
Jocelyn K. Glei
Swiss Miss
Next Draft
Craig Mod
Jack Cheng
Austin Kleon
The What List

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Published on February 25, 2019 21:00

More Things, February 25, 2019

It wouldn’t be a personal blog without a link list of stuff I liked around the web.

Horse Girl

How Startups Are Selling Anxious Millennials on the Promise of Sleep

Blogging to exhale

I Cut Microsoft Out of My Life—or So I Thought

Separating the art from the artist isn’t so hard

Smash that MF’ing horny button

Exhaustion Can Be Disguised As Laziness.

What Would A Less Gendered World Really Look Like?

Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction

The best thing you can do for your health: sleep well

Chau Down: A Toronto Food Diary

Four-day week: trial finds lower stress and increased productivity

The Soothing Promise of Our Own Artisanal Internet

“Who’s an EGOT?”: How ‘30 Rock’ Made a Fake Award Into a Real-Life Goal

How Reggie Fils-Aime Became A Nintendo Legend

All the sad young literary fakes

Do Not Disturb: How I Ditched My Phone and Unbroke My Brain

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Published on February 24, 2019 21:00

Cura, February 14, 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:

Show Me How By Men I Trust

Fade Into You By Mazzy Star

Gallipoli By Beirut

watch you sleep. By girl in red

Angels from Ontario By Partner

If I Knew You Were Comin’ I’d’ve Baked a Cake By Eileen Barton, The New Yorkers

Harmony Hall By Vampire Weekend

Pants By Lemuria

I Hope I Don’t Fuck This Up By Dollar Signs

Call Me Up By HOMESHAKE

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Published on February 13, 2019 21:00

Letterboxd: When rated

Letterboxd rules, but sometimes it’s hard to see an exact chronological list of when you saw a movie. The “Activity” view shows all your ratings, but it also shows everything else you do on the site (add movies to lists, etc), so it can be daunting. I’ve never fully understood the “Diary” tab, since it seems only movies I review with words (and not just a star rating) show up, but sometimes just the star ratings do?

Anyways, this view seems to do it for me: When rated. You sort it by anything, but sorting my ratings by “when rated” seems to give me the best view of movies I’ve watched in reverse chronological order.

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Published on February 13, 2019 21:00

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Published on February 10, 2019 10:23

2019 Hyperlink Audit

Last year, I stopped visiting websites through RSS and Twitter and chose an entirely old-school route: I made a list of bookmarks with tags in Pinboard.

I find this to be a much calmer way to browse the web. No notifications. No links to break my concentration. There’s nowhere I need to be every day. Recently, I updated it with a clearer sense of what worked (my original also had vastly uneven bookmarks per day).

This isn’t every site I go to. I definitely hit up TTC Alerts more often than I should. These are just sites I like to go to that I don’t have to go to.

Here are the rules I’ve made for myself. They work pretty well at keeping things calm.

Try to keep each day to 5 or fewer sites.
A site is a weekly or monthly visit, not both.
Only visit the sites bookmarked for the day of the week/month.
If you miss a day, don’t go backwards. They’ll come around again.
If you wanted to be a completionist, you’d be using RSS.

Quick note: I really couldn’t have done this without Copy as Markdown, a chrome extension that makes links out of all your open tabs.

Here’s my updated list for 2019.