Guten Tag from Mannheim 🇩🇪 Germany! 👋
I’ve been in country for a couple of days visiting friends and exploring before heading up to Berlin for Causal Islands. If you check my Flickr I have been posting a lot of selfies in front of old and elaborate things. (As an old and simple thing, the contrast is stark! 😜)
Usually I send these missives out on the last day of the month, but I am sending this one a little early since back in Canada tomorrow is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a day of reflection that I will participate in on this side of the Atlantic. 🟧 🪶
This is a double-issue of the newsletter since I was too busy to send one in August. Visitors came to the coast and we spent nearly two weeks in the Okanagan with friends and family. There was the Powell Street Festival and the Armstrong Fair and a visit to Vancouver Aquarium. We had school supplies and a car to buy! Then, as we got into September, and the kids started at their new schools (and Japanese school!), things started to settle down. The move to Canada is almost complete — the 18 boxes we sent on the ship are to arrive next week!
I return from Germany on October 10th. Then there is nothing on the calendar for the foreseeable future. Then it will be time to focus on a couple of projects that have been in the works, which I hope to announce soon.
Until then, Auf Wiedersehen! 👋 🇩🇪
Chad
🖋 From the Blog
Taiwan Trip Report pt 3: Taipei
Treasures and treats.
Comparing ambiguous apples and polysemous pigs
Some amateur comparative religion.
#craigsgymclass begins! plank 🪵 squats 🏋️♀️ pushups 🙇
Annual exercise challenge!
📸 Photos by me
🦈 Vancouver Aquarium and Stanley Park Photos →
🌽 Armstrong Fair 2024 Photos →
🎆 Powell Street Festival 2024 Photos →
🧭 Elsewhere
A wrap-up for the event I co-organized in July Link →
Social network 🦋 Bluesky hit 10 million users. I was pretty early 😅 Link →
Killing Margaret Thatcher in Doom Video →
“In the US only 40% aged 18 to 29 view capitalism positively.” Excellent history of Mondragon Link →
Short documentary on Zamrock Link →
Amazing piece on blog monetization Link →
Spell out your name in Landsat images Link →
📖 What I’m Reading
Babel by RF Kuang
(100% Complete. Finished just before my trip)
I actually read this one on paper. Being about books and writing, it felt only proper to read it in physical form. I could not put it down. The original title was: Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution. Some say that the book is too on the nose, but I think it did its job admirably. The authour has a powerful message, and she is not going to let you ignore it for subtlety’s sake.
Connect with me on GoodReads → or on Bookwyrm →