Scratch Pad: Shazam, Candy, Onigiri

At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I find knowing I’ll revisit my posts to be a positive and mellowing influence on my social media activity. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. And I generally take weekends off social media.

▰ I love when you Shazam the music in a movie and it tells you the name of the cue in the score

▰ Based on recent personal experience, I would not recommend putting your AirPods case next to your Tic Tacs

▰ Been playing “dual Oblique Strategies” cards each morning. Here’s a sample set:

“Distorting time”

“The inconsistency principle”

▰ When the cover of the ancient paperback you’re reading begins to flake apart, you can make a bookmark of the piece that fell off

▰ A very San Francisco combination of speech-to-text and autocorrect: say “onigiri”; receive “on Geary”

▰ This is the third or fourth year I’ve done the n+1 “bookmatch” reading list questionnaire, and for the first time I received in my “personalized booklist” a book I’ve already read (in fact: two)

▰ I was reading way too many books at the same time, which is how I managed to finish three in one week: Rudy Rucker’s Software (a re-read for something I’m working on), Elmer Kelton’s The Good Old Boys (my second Kelton western this year), and David Greenberg’s biography of John Lewis.