Notes

Never mind Cloudflare; the electricity has gone out in our street.

It’s actually kinda nice, playing mandolin by candlelight.

Reading The Country Girls by Edna O’Brien.

Technology isn’t destiny, no matter how inexorable its evolution may seem; the way its capabilities are used is as much a matter of cultural choice and historical accident as politics is, or fashion.

— M. Mitchell Waldrop

All I’ve ever wanted from life is a genuinely great SVG vector illustration of a pelican riding a bicycle.

— Simon Willison, What happens if AI labs train for pelicans riding bicycles?

“Fáilte go Knocka, fáilte go Knocka, gaelteacht nua i dtuisceart na cathrach!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH772P6YbMQ

(Tá Kneecap ceart go leor, ach is fearr liom Kabin Crew!)

When you think about it, the phrase “earning a living” is really quite vile.

Reading I Am Legend by Richard Matheson.

56 years ago today:

Talked to SRI Host to Host

— IMP log, 1969-10-29 22:30, Charles S. Kline, Boelter Hall, UCLA

The message:

LO

The ARPANET was born.