Best tree on the street 🍁
Microposts
Rival Consoles' new album Now Is is out and well worth listening to 🎧
Finished reading: Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive by Carl Zimmer. A really interesting book that explores the surprisingly difficult problem of defining what it means to be alive📚
Transitions
I’ve been trying out more of the radio features on Apple Music. At least two features would help out: some way to mark episodes for later listening (I’m sharing to an Apple Note for now) and saving progress, so that the episode doesn’t always start over from the beginning 🎧
Lucy has settled into the couch
Are rising profits fueling inflation? - The Hub
There are of course important issues to explore and debate when it comes to the level of competition in certain areas of corporate Canada, and there are also many overlapping causes of rising consumer prices. But when it comes to claims that “greedflation” is a key driver of recently rising inflation rates, the data is very clear: it’s not.
As we move into Fall weather, time to switch to indoor riding. The setup is a bit cramped, but I have coach Lucy to keep me company from the couch 🚴
A Day in the Life Photo Challenge: Walking to the dentist with unsettled weather in Toronto, Ontario 🇨🇦 at 15:57
I’ve registered for the Ironman 70.3 in Muskoka 🏊♂️🚴♂️🏃♂️
Long runs are great in Fall weather 🏃♂️
After putting up with this nonsense of cables for too long
I put in an hour of work and tidied everything up. A good example of how something that bothers you for months can just be fixed with a little bit of effort.
Finished reading: Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, 1) by Brandon Sanderson. I really enjoyed this one. An interesting origins mystery, well conceived magical powers, and good world building 📚
Saturday, September 24, 2022 →
A three hour and seven minute album from Nils Frahm! Definitely on the ambient end of the spectrum and good for staying in the zone 🎶
Saturday, September 24, 2022 →
Morning rides are getting chilly 🥶
Finished reading: Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke. A classic sci-fi story. Hard to believe it was written in 1953 📚
I’ve enjoyed a couple of Time to Run sessions. The coaches are relatively restrained, while offering useful tips, and the music fits in well. They’ll be good for days when I don’t have anything specific planned and have about 40 minutes to spare 🏃♂️
Our worries that the morning glories wouldn’t recover from the replacing of the fence were unfounded. They’re as exuberant as ever.
Saturday, September 17, 2022 →
Finished reading: Shift by Hugh Howey. I’m not sure that Wool needed this prequel. Part of the enjoyment of the first book was the mystery of how people ended up living underground after an apocalypse. That said, I’ll read the last book in the series 📚
Wednesday, September 14, 2022 →
The hanger for my rear derailleur broke on my commute this morning. So, a shortened ride, along with a minor crash when the freed derailleur ended up in the spokes of the rear tire and I tumbled over the handlebars 🚴♂️
Saturday, September 10, 2022 →
Fun ride to Unionville today 🚴♂️
Finished reading: Exit Strategy: The Murderbot Diaries (The Murderbot Diaries, 4) by Martha Wells. I’ve enjoyed each of these novellas, though the first one is a standout 📚
Ten questions about the hard limits of human intelligence | Aeon Essays
Despite his many intellectual achievements, I suspect there are some concepts my dog cannot conceive of, or even contemplate.
A fun (in a nerdy sort of way) essay on the limits of our understanding
I’m enjoying the Really Specific Stories podcast series from @martinfeld. I’ve been listening to podcasts for a long time now and hearing people talk about the medium and associated technology has been fascinating
Finished reading: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers is a charming story about a human and a robot on a quest to find purpose 📚
Finished reading: Plague Birds by Jason Sizemore is quite the story: advanced AIs living in people’s blood, genetic manipulation run amok, the collapse of civilization, and a mysterious alien. A fun read 📚
An early start for today’s ride to avoid the heat and catch the sunrise 🚴♂️
Finished reading: Among Others by Jo Walton is very good. A celebration of SF, despite being about magic and fairies📚