Watched: The Whisper Man 🍿
I had much higher hopes seeing the cast. This leans heavily on one of my most hated tropes — law enforcement incompetence is the driver of suspense.
Stopped-reading: Reamde by Neal Stephenson 📚
I tried, but couldn’t finish this. The more I read, the more I hated it.
From The Atlantic: We Are Living in the Fantasy World of 13-Year-Old Boys
Been saying this for years. All the tech billionaires took the wrong lessons from every piece of fiction they’ve consumed. They’re stuck in the mindset of a 13 year old boy trying to become the kid in school everyone likes.
Watched: I Know What You Did Last Summer 🍿
A millennial nostalgia love letter.
Catching the last bits of sunset while walking Nora a couple evenings ago.
📸: OM System OM-3
Since losing Archie, I haven’t been reading my RSS feeds. Looking at them today and catching up and saw this one from Techdirt:
FBI Lowers Hiring Standards To Approve Applicants Who Admit To Having Sex With Animals
Uh – wut?
World's Oldest Child Has Another Temper Tantrum
So much has already been talked and written about our Bully in Chief’s decision to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America, but I thought this article from the CBC was good.
Besides the wonderful quotes from Canadian officials, there’s this graphic:
And this fact on why it is named “Lake Ontario”:
The lake’s name comes from the Huron Indigenous people’s word “oniatarí:io,” which means “lake of shining waters.”
Carney said on social media that the name is more than 400 years old, and predates both Canada and the U.S. as countries.
How Blackwing Pencils Are Made
From Blackwing themselves. I love videos of watching ordinary objects being made. This one definitely scratches the stationary nerd itch as a bonus.
Watched: In the Earth 🍿
I don’t know what the hell was going on.