Scratch Pad: Houston, Scalzi, Doctorow, Welsh

I do this manually at the end of each week: collating (and sometimes lightly editing) most of the recent little comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. Some end up on Disquiet.com earlier, sometimes in expanded form. These days I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. I take weekends and evenings off social media. 

▰ I’m in the supermarket squeezing produce when Whitney Houston’s “How Will I Know” comes on, and I’m like: Yup.

▰ Me: I’ve bought enough (e)books for 2023.

Me 10 seconds later: there’s an $18 sale for 21 John Scalzi books on Humble Bundle for charity, and the new non-fiction book by Cory Doctorow (The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation) is $2 at Verso.

▰ The TV series Irvine Welsh’s Crime: in which the captioning does a fine job of deciphering the Scottish accents, but then you still need to look up plenty of words