Scratch Pad: 4th, Bear, Unwilling

I do this manually at the end of each week: collating most of the recent little comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. And I take weekends off social media.

▰ It’s that time of year when one finds oneself explaining, “Being interested in fireworks isn’t the same as enjoying them.”

▰ There’s even more silence in season 3 of The Bear than in previous seasons. It’s become a moody soap opera, concerned with the characters’ lives rather than with any plot beyond basic goals (a star) and hurdles (money). A highlight is in episode 5, when Marcus turns on his recently deceased mother’s medical devices for the comfort of the beeping.

▰ Browser tabs are the pile of dirt left over when you go down a rabbit hole

▰ Listening to noise drone music while writing makes my life feel way more dramatic than it is

▰ Title of a panel discussion for music educators in 1970

▰ The foghorns this morning certainly seem to be glad to have yesterday’s fireworks behind them — which I now realize is also a joke, ’cause the fireworks were literally behind the fog yesterday, as is pretty much always the case here on the 4th of July

▰ My daily life is evidence that this sound cue can be factually accurate yet say nothing meaningful about what is actually occurring

▰ Heck yeah I preordered that China Miéville + Keanu Reeves novel

▰ My MacBook Pro and my iPhone are up to date software-wise, and yet regularly my Voice Memos and Notes won’t sync between them. What is up with that?

▰ How many minutes before a late meeting finally starts before Fugazi’s “Waiting Room” starts playing in your head?