David B

yeah, closed off in their own heads

halfway through the story and the theme seems to be 'talking without communicating'

“Everybody is different,” Mrs. Hopewell said. “Yes, most people is,” Mrs. Freeman said.

Flannery O'Connor in Good Country People

the keys to the Kingdom got locked inside the Kingdom

dream big prey bigger

just started reading Red Mars

the number one thing about Kim Stanley Robinson is that i say "Swiss Family Robinson" to myself every time i read his many

the inspiration is that curiosity is fun

the cautionary tale is that assuming you have everything figured out and nailed down blows up in your face because you actually don't

being curious or intelligent isn't the problem, it's that having curiosity and intelligence and knowledge doesn't let you skip past the big problems of what to actually do with your life

Thomas Merton was curious and intelligent and well read,
his life is both inspiring and a cautionary tale maybe

finding where a jigsaw puzzle piece goes by searching the big cover feels like succeeding at work which us why I've hidden the box this holiday you're welcome

1. be careful don't don't be stupid
2. actually let me try the stupid thing carefully
3. this is stupider than i thought
4. oops it worked

this is why women live longer than men
on the bright side I didn't need stitches and at least one of us (her) will learn from it

... informed is prerequisite to being enlightened. The point, however, is not to stop at being informed. Montaigne speaks of “an abecedarian ignorance that precedes knowledge, and a doctoral ignorance that comes after it.” The first is the ignorance of those who, not knowing their ABC’s, cannot read at all. The second is the ignorance of those who have misread many books. They are, as Alexander Pope rightly calls them, bookful blockheads, ignorantly read. There have always been literate ignoramuses who have read too widely and not well. The Greeks had a name for such a mixture of learning and folly which might be applied to the bookish but poorly read of all ages. They are all sophomores.

If you feed "How to Read a Book" into a chatbot and ask it to summarize and teach it to you Mortimer J. Alder will come haunt you to ask what it's like to optimize the books out of a bookful blockhead

The journals are Merton's best writing because in them he found the form that best suited his gifts.

In part this is because the journal format is in its essence, like so much about Merton, self-contradictory. A journal is theoretically a private record, but as Jonathan Montaldo, who edited volume 2 of the journals, says, by 1950 Merton had begun "blurring any line that might have previously existed between his journals as spontaneous diaries of remembrance and as conscious, semi-fictional reconstructions of the self, autobiography as work of art."

posting as "conscious, semi-fictional reconstructions of the self, autobiography as work of art"

yeah man i read some words on wikipedia to make up that joke

things to look up for future woodworking projects:
those long low narrow workbench/sawbench things
what does the city mean with "sheds must be anchored"? sounds performative but maybe they want them tethered so the shred into smaller pieces before blowing across the neighborhood

occasionally I get the urge to write a number type for python that uses strings to represent numbers and does all arithmetic in base 10 with arithmetic from pencil and paper algorithms just to see how slow it goes

strawberry is the filler of frozen berry mix

The dryer gremlins have become too bold

My kindle is lost INSIDE MY OWN HOUSE it's been a week and I still can't find it. I definitely had it Friday evening and it was gone Saturday evening, and I didn't bring it anywhere

"...the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else’s imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real!"
Thomas Merton

gonna start a cheap trick cover band add a little country sound to the power pop and call ourselves Cheap Truck

nothing you say will convince me tmbg aren't mystics

They revamped the airport completely
Now it looks just like a nightclub
Everyone's excited and confused

You took the words right out my mouth
When you knew that I would need 'em
What am I supposed to do now?

It's been more than half the day and I'm calling it at 51. Slept terribly last night and it's going worse than it should be. If I stop now I think I should be able to do significantly better on Thursday or Friday

3 hours in and in at only 31, and it's already getting harder. Mostly in sets of 4, varying grips but my hands are hurting

Today I'm gonna see how many pull ups I can do in one day. My gut feeling is 100 should be doable and 120 a difficult stretch goal

rough week
mood up and down all over the place
remember the phrase dark night of the soul
find out the guy who came up with that idea was locked in a dark closet for months
laugh because this is mostly a few nights of bad sleep no biggie