Finished reading: The Longbow, the Schooner, and the Violin by Marq de Villiers is an interesting exploration of wood via those three objects. A bit clunky in sections, though pretty good overall 📚
🇨🇦🥃 Enjoying the Bearface Triple Oak whisky
Finished reading: The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison continues the great Cemeteries of Amalo series. I’m impressed with how casually and simply such a rich and complex world is created in this series 📚
New notebook day!
George is recovering well from recent, minor surgery by sleeping at my feet
🔗 Matt Gurney: How Hollywood screwed with our civic expectations
Why do we assume the same government that is, for instance, struggling to fill potholes in my city, or hire enough nurses in my province, or fix a federal payroll system, is going to be more competent when presented with something totally out of the blue? This flies in the face of all of our lived experiences with government. It’s a generous assumption of state capacity that is, to put it charitably, unearned.
Finished reading: Blindsight by Peter Watts is an interesting mix of sci-fi, horror, and philosophy. I enjoyed it. Vampires in space!📚
🎧 I enjoyed Season 7 of Strong Songs and am happy to be a Patreon supporter
Glad it’s Friday
🎶 Some good, new albums that fit well together: