My Ambient Dub retrospective mix was a delight to put together. Immersing myself in Excursions in Ambience for next month’s retrospective mix.
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to A Moon Shaped Pool by Radiohead and White Chalk by PJ Harvey. 🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
The last week I’ve been puttering around in Automator and Shortcuts to automate a task I spend 5 minutes on every weekend. I’ll find out if everything goes off without a hitch this Saturday. If I’m successful, I will shave off nearly 5 hours of work a year.
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to Laughing So Hard It Hurts by Mavi and Stay Close To Music by Mykki Blanco. 🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to James Blake‘ self-titled album and How Will I Know of Heaven Will Find Me? by The Amazons (thanks, @zioibi). 🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
I’ve been using Evernote since the first generation iPhone, and it’s always done what I needed. A few years ago, I was on a thread where people said Evernote was too cumbersome and wanted something lightweight. At the time, I disagreed with them.
I’ve also been using Drafts since it launched, but I’ve really been using it a lot over the last few months, and now I completely agree with those who said Evernote is too unwieldy.
However. I don’t think I could think I can use Drafts' Workspaces in place of folders. I have way too many projects for that to be feasible. Maybe Bear?
I have friends who find algorithmically generated playlists distasteful. They prefer a human deejay because, supposedly, you’re less likely to hear more of what you’re already listening to. I suppose that might be true if your listening habits are narrow. But as I write this, my Spotify Discover Weekly playlist played five songs in the row that floored that I doubt that I would have heard otherwise. Oh, make that six songs in a row.
Yesterday, I played the survival horror role-playing game Xas Irkalla. I’ve wanted to play this game for a very long time. The players were Taylor and Steve and Nathan, a new acquaintance. I haven’t run an RPG in a long time, and I was a little rusty. Everyone had played RPGs before except for Steve, and this was a weird game to introduce him to the role-playing game hobby. I think everybody had fun. Steve seemed to enjoy himself and threw himself into his character.
I’m looking forward to this weekend’s game, but I need to sharpen my game master skills.
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to Pastel Blues by Nina Simone and Spirals by Diana Yukawa. 🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to Stases by Loscil (thanks, @zioibi) and Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam by The Comet Is Coming. 🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to Ali by Vieux Farka Touré and Khruangbin and Seismic Shift by John Escreet Trio. 🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to Let’s Turn It Into Sound by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and The Stone Roses self-titled album. 🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
Finished reading: Valkyrie by Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir 📚 Jóhanna’s book provides invaluable information on Norse history and sagas, so much so that she was one of the historical consultants for The Northman.
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to Down Colorful Hill by Red House Painters and Pagan Rhythms by SpiritWorld. 🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
Hey, @toddgrotenhuis, I’m running a grimdark game next Sunday. One of the players used Midjourney to develop artwork for his character’s appearance.
I found a tag in OmniFocus for my cat, Loki, who died a few years ago. The tag serves no purpose except to remind me of the loss of my little friend.
Once a dead person becomes a nachzehrer, it is believed that it would begin eating its own burial shroud. Once this item is completely consumed, it would then eat its own flesh. 💬 Gnarly.
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to Slowly Arranged: 2016 - 2019 by William Doyle and I Could Live In Hope by Low. 🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
https://williamdoyle.bandcamp.com/album/slowly-arranged-2016-2019
This morning I found an unexpected item in my OmniFocus Inbox. It was a notification for a new Patreon supporter for a podcast I work on. I had forgotten that a week ago, I had set up an email rule to send those Patreon notifications to my OmniFocus account because it’s crucial to update our website with new executive producers. Very handy. I literally set it and forgot it.
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to Untamed Force by Foreseen and AAI by Mouse on Mars. 🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
