October 25, 2024

spencergreenhalgh.com posts digest for Oct 25 2024

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Here are long-form blog posts I published this week:

• I think the conference hotel wi-fi is blocking competitors' websites?

• letting go of what made others proud of me

• Atomic Robo, the Book of Mormon, and Animal Man

Here are microblog posts that I published this week:

• The Mastodon bot that posts random Homestar Runner screenshots is back, and I’m so happy. Refusing to unfollow it despite it not having posted since July was a wise choice.

• The RSS feeds for my local newspaper don’t seem to be compatible with my current feed reader, and I’m torn between building myself a web-scrape-to-RSS workaround for the fun of it or just pivoting to another local news source.

• My favorite detail from Homestar Runner production is how the off-brand voices in the low-quality animation segments are just the best efforts of the non-voice-actor guy to imitate the voices his brother does.

• After the brilliant first season of The Mandalorian, I put some related art up in my office. As the show has gone on, though, I’ve gotten less and less impressed with it, to the point that I wonder why I keep the art up.

Here are news articles and podcasts I commented on this week:

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Baseball Baptisms and the British Mission'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Employees Describe an Environment of Paranoia and Fear Inside Automattic Over WordPress Chaos'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'For Trump, a Lifetime of Scandals Heads Toward a Moment of Judgment'

Here are my reviews of books and other media I consumed this week:

• 📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤 for Animal Man 30th Anniversary Edition (Book One), by Grant Morrison

• 📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤 for Animal Man 30th Anniversary Edition (Book Two), by Grant Morrison

• 📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤 for Mutualism: Building the Next Economy from the Ground Up, by Sara Horowitz

• 📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤 for Interior Chinatown, by Charles Yu

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Spencer