📹 🎣 Fishing in Chengdu 339.

Part 4 of my thinking through the college search alongside my teenagers. This one is on the architectural spaces on campus: sarahendren.com/2024/07/2…

“Got milk?”

Nope. Got beard, tho.

Lunching by a lake, on a summer day, while listening to even softer versions of soft rock. Yeah… Feeling lazy.

Does anybody know how to export my iTunes Music purchases (non-DRM) as .wav or .aac or similar? I want to listen to it outside of the Music App.

Would anyone want an ebook with my sketches collated together? Perhaps my series on mental models with descriptions along side? $5? (Feel free to say if you’d have a slightly different request i.e. different sketchnotes/ how many etc)

Forget gasoline. Dismiss lighter fluid. Let slip the idea of lacquer thinner.

When I clean my type slugs, I only use bourbon.

لماذا أتواجد رقميًا باسمي وهويتي الشخصية عوضًا عن «براند» مستقل؟

لأنني في رحلة استكشاف. أستكشف ذاتي وتفاعلها مع العالم من حولي، وأندهش لما ينتج عن هذا التفاعل الفريد كما يندهش أي إنسان آخر.

أراقب ذاتي، أشادها وأشهدها، وبين حين وآخر أشارك أجزاءً من الرحلة.

Web 2.0 was any site that had the word “folksonomy” on it.

i just plugged my bike helmet into my couch to charge in case you’re wondering what stage of civilization we are currently in

999 days and I'm finally learning the useful stuff!

بعض الناس يمكلون الكثير من الأموال، وبعضهم تحفّهم العلاقات الداعمة والدافئة، غيرهم الصحة، أو المعرفة، أو العقل، أو هدوء البال، وآخرون وُهبوا الجمال. أما أنا فثروتي تجاربي. قصتي هي رأس مالي.

Someone moved his box so he’s holding my favorite shirt hostage.

Robin Rendle — The computer is a feeling:

Everything behind glass here was pushing towards a future they couldn’t see, but they had to feel instead.

Such a beautiful reflection on a visit to the Computer History Museum, a place I have only been to once but sits high on my list of favorite places ever. I felt it when I walked into the Wikipedia room.

A quick update on how my home barista training is going with my 16 year-old son…

I thought about reading some good romance novels, and wondered if anyone has any recommendations? (I’ve never read any).

From Sunday 😎💖

Took several tries to work out this design and I’m still not sure I’m fully happy with it, but it does have a title: “How Shines the Sun,” a line from Goethe’s “Mailied” (May Song). So it may not be perfect, but it has pretensions.

Shark!

💺 On the way over.

Flight #11 for this four year old girl!

أكتب لنفسي أولًا، قبل أن ألتفت للآخرين. أكتبُ لي لا ليراني الناس ويبجلوني، ولا لأحصل على أموال أو هبات، ولا لهثًا وراء الشهرة، ولا أيًا من هذا وذاك.

أكتب لأصنع شيئًا من نفسي، ولنفسي.

Clive James:

Writers don’t read just for the story: they read for the way the story is written, and the way the sentences are put together is the information that sticks. It helps, however, to have been taught in the first place what a sentence is: something that conveys information only by the rules it keeps. Grammar is a mechanism for meaning one thing at a time. Without it, you can’t even manage to be deliberately ambiguous, although to be ambiguous by accident is a result all too easily attained.

in for routine mammo and the tech compliments me on my chest wall.. so I got that going for me, which is nice

more srsly, niche comments from folks with very specific expertise might actually be my fave

… really nice thing happened… as i was walking up the street to my house, a neighbor was driving down the road… he made a point of stopping, rolling down his window, and telling me he thought i was really rocking my outfits lately… hadn’t noticed he’d been noticing… made my day…

Big rains = turtle sightings. This male Eastern Box Turtle was in the gravel road as I drove the recycling bins to the street. He has been through trauma. Amazing that he survived.

The pond is a peaceful place https://aeryn.me/uploads/2024/20240724-pond-reflections-abney.mp4

Morning coffee in the park, soaking in the sun.

🍿 鑑定士と顔のない依頼人 (2013)

完璧な映画！予備知識なしで見た方が楽しめる。自分を信じて疑わない男が、他人を信じるようになるまでの物語。

Sometimes, to get back on the right path, you have to circumnavigate the globe.

Sportfreunde Stiller, live at Freilichtbühne Killesberg, Stuttgart

I love it when you can feel that the band has as much fun playing their music, like everyone else has listening and singing with them. Great atmosphere, great concert, lots of my favorite songs and a good friend. Great evening 👌🎸🎶

It’s been a tough, emotional, overwhelming day.

I was gonna self-soothe with some unhealthy takeout food tonight but I decided to make a better choice for my body.

I feel a little bit better about making this small positive step forwards, even when I feel self-destructive.

I’ll be moving in roughly 3-4 years. I know what city, but not which suburb or neighborhood. What are some things I could be doing right now to establish a social circle in what will become my new home?

Plus que 3 jours de taf et puis vacances du 29 juillet au 16 août !

Ça va faire du bien de débrayer, déménager, aller peut être un peu à la mer si il fait beau, rien faire.., ou essayer de rien faire 😅

想读But Some of Us are Brave

📷 Working from the office today.

What are some of your foundational principles?

For me, integrity is crucial.

My husband’s son is visiting from the Netherlands. We’re having lovely summer weather. There’s lots of swimming and hiking and eating of summer fruits. Overall, a good time is being had by all.

The unexpected benefit of re-employment (and an office in town) is that my use of the library has exponentially increased 📚🐛

This strange song, which follows the end of “Cry Baby Cry” on the Beatles' White Album, isn’t even named on the album. However, it has stayed in my ears for many years, so I tried playing it on my guitar🎸 myself!

hearthis.at/yostos/2c…

I have this ongoing mental list of minor, non-spectacular, somewhat mundane things that I think would change the world. One I added today was “eliminate pop-ups”.

I pretend these are boosters from Mario Kart. Pew pew.

Finished reading: Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway 📚A very fun sci-fi / detective noir read. Interesting world building, fun characters and a good story. Highly recommended.

This place officially socks (OTD in 2008)

Monthly, daily, hourly reminder to self that I want to do so many things yet I am only me

Sky from home (6).

Nu tänker jag inte längre respektera den här molande huvudvärken som har plågat mig i en vecka. Ikväll går jag till gymmet.

Hellooo world

Love and abuse cannot coexist. Abuse and neglect are, by definition, the opposites of nurturance and care. (bell hooks, All About Love)