ThoughtBuffet 03jan2020
Nothing in particular is standing out and/or warranting a full dissection splayed across the digital operating table of the mindlab of I so a thoughtbuffet shall ensue.
Item one: Finally picked up a Boom 3 Bluetooth speaker and I'm already in love. Have Apple Music streaming through my Watch and, while the WatchOS interface is byzantine and nightmarish, I'm making it work – but seriously, Apple, would it be that difficult to add "Recently Added" to the WatchOS Library (not as an out-of-order Playlist) and have the albums in descending order as you do on the iOS iteration?
Item two: I've returned to Micro.blog. Had hoped to find a suitable way to incorporate smaller bits and bobs here but couldn't make it work. Contrary – and such is the way these every day postings go; I'm not going to hide my waffling about – to my posting of 01jan2020, I do want to be at least somewhat present in the digital world, but on my own terms, and in full ownership of the self-created content – be it novels or dog pictures – I share, crossposted from Micro to Twitter (though I haven't found a way to crosspost to Insta but that's ok); Micro, if nothing else, provides a record of provenance for said content – without the appending / offending link to blog posts here, a look I'm not at all fond of. For now, a useful redundancy which I pay for and, as part of the deal, own my short-burst data.
Item three: halfway, I think, through MAFIA III. General impression: an enjoyable romp with an intriguing story and great music that could have been so much more had the developers spent more of their budget on ironing out the bugs and kinks than on music licensing.
Item four: finished Don Winslow's THE FORCE last night and it's one of the best cop sagas I've read, a frenetic back and forth from character to violence to comedy to tragedy: in other words, profoundly human. A must-read.
Item five: I’m into the second manual of the STRANGER THINGS Lego set and have only just found Winona Ryder’s missing head. Victory.
Listening: BLACK CORNER DEN, by Atrium Carcieri and Cities Last Broadcast; CONVERSIONS, by Jacob Kirkegaard; DEUS SIVE NATURA, by Creation VI.
