September 28, 2025

Weekly Distractions for September 28, 2025

Lotsa links this week, but no finished books. I think I will finish Giovanni's Room next week.

🧠 Links

• Modern Life

  • I spent an hour yesterday OTP w Nest support b/c a new thermostat wouldn’t connect to the Nest app.

  Nerdery

  • a cute dev blog entry about obsidian (which was an obsession of mine for a while)

  AI

  • Doctorow says maybe don’t put your whole portfolio in to AI.
  • Free Perplexity Pro for one year.

  Hippie

  • I found 100 rabbits in my AM surfing and it would make my bro-in-law happy.

  Sex

  • Leopard Sharks

  Things I want

  • The Gashlycrumb Tinies

  99 Problems

  • I keep needing reading glasses. This Dr says I could maybe reverse this.

  Games

  • A new plain old card game, Cuttle that looks fun to me.

  Drones

  • 49 of 'em getting knocked out of the sky

📖 Currently Reading

• Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
• How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas