Is it okay to announce! that next week! I will have some exciting new content! up on the web, which is not ready yet because my sourdough starter has been slow at coming out of hibernation? Or is it just my version of “my dog ate my homework”? We’ll never know.
This would have been the worst time for a baking project anyway, since our dishwasher broke, and apparently the $400 drain pump is on backorder and it will be weeks/months/unclear before it becomes available again. So the all-consuming task this week has been the search for a new one. I thought I’d enjoy it more, given how bad the old one was, but after several days of reading blogs and comparing specs across various sites I was almost ready to just buy a new home instead. But maybe that’s a whole post for another week.
Notes and links
The case against slop machines
Let’s get this out of the way.
The fifth season of Slow Horses is on
Always falling for the trap of watching British people on TV. I don’t know what that’s all about.
Turning empty offices into farms
Maybe I’ll try a wall of tomatoes in the bedroom and see if they do better than in the garden in the summer.
I’m still not thrilled about being pirated
The idea of potentially making more money from a settlement than from fifteen years of royalties is bittersweet, but it is good news, and I’ll take it.
What I learned listening to Easy Money: The Charles Ponzi Story
Another rebuttal to my dad’s “People from Romagna are all good people”, which is easily disproven in a single click.
What the heck does Doctorow do to his computers to require constant repairs?
I still remember how I broke the hard drive of my first computer four months in, by running commands I had no business running, and maybe he should start questioning some of his choices.