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Kottke posted about this yesterday, but Tuesday’s WITI covered a topic near to my heart: the murder mystery novel. You’ll see Agatha Christie pop up from time to time in my reading list; detective stories are high on my list of go-to vacation reads.
Of additional interest are Knox’s 10 Rules of Detective Fiction, especially at the moment as my wife and I are watching Only Murders in the Building—it adheres to a pretty classic murder story structure where you can definitely see some of these rules in action.
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I am starting this Thanksgiving with a bit of a post-Covid vaccine booster hangover, and even though I feel a little under the weather, I could not be more thankful.
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It occurred to me earlier that I've never really sat down and thought about why I spend time messing about with this site. So I did, and typed them up.
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I’m a sucker for a good timelapse, and this one is great: what it’s like at the South Pole during the summer solstice. 🤯
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“Your work will be endless, but your time is finite. You cannot limit the work so you must limit your time. Hours are the only thing you can manage.” –Kevin Kelly
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How all vacation house shower faucets work:
(That's "holiday house" and "shower taps" for those of you who speak the Queen's English.)
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Filed under definitely-not-light-reading-but-sounds-fascinating: Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths. I started reading about sorting algorithms a while back, after seeing a visualization of how different types work (volume down on this one!), but quickly got out of my depth—hardcore computer science is not my strong suit. This looks like it might be an easier introduction to the broader subject.
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This is why your TV was so cheap.
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Ummm, yeah. A lot of good points made in this thread.
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I’ve had a long-running admiration of/obsession with Andy Matuschak’s working notes. This is partly based on the systems he uses (both the technical system he has built for himself and the note-taking methodology he uses), and partly because I think I’m generally impressed by people with deep expertise in a subject area—it doesn’t matter what; in Andy’s case, it happens to be the bases of knowledge work, but it could equally be someone who is a master woodworker, or a horologist, or a cobbler, or a PhD.
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Is it wrong for a 40-something year old to want a LEGO set for Christmas? Because I would totally ask Santa for this 6,785-piece LEGO AT-AT, except I know Santa, and she would look at me like I'm an idiot if I asked her to get me an $800 LEGO set. But a minifigure-scale model like this is the stuff my dreams were made of as a kid. And it looks so awesome (and so do the build photos in the review)!
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John Cleese knew what was what way back in 1976.
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Why is it so hard to find a (relatively) simple method to sync a directory on a Mac with a directory on a Linux server over ssh? There are a bunch of complicated ways to do it, but I really can't be bothered messing about with them right now.
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I came across the IndieWeb community recently and have spent a bit of time poking around the site; I'm already on board with ideas like "own your data", but they also outline a number of other concepts that I think I'd like to explore further and maybe incorporate here, like POSSE.