I’d love to say that I’ve got used to the famine/feast aspect of self-employed life.
But it would be a lie.
”Before Ramsbury, I was a nowhere man, living, as my parents did before me, in a multitude of places without really putting down roots in any one. Ramsbury made me a somewhere person.” — Peter Marren, The Consolation of Nature
This is true of myself … microblog.onemanandhisblog.com/2020/11/11/bef…
re: our discussion of “friction” in social media #interhacktives nytimes.com/2020/11/05/tec…
As mentioned earlier - #interhacktives nytimes.com/2020/11/10/tec…
@SarahPilchick @BethAshton sigh. They never listen…
Relevant to today’s lecture #interhacktives twitter.com/emilybell/stat…
#cityjtips twitter.com/eleanorhalls1/…
Why I do beach cleans — in just three photos… walkingwithdaddy.com/why-i-do-beach…
@ShirishMM I was thinking the same - in the before times I was using my iPad more and more for travel. And as my wife and I are often fighting over the iMac at home, maybe a second desktop might be the best solution.
The new “Apple Silicon” MacBooks looks very tempting as a replacement for my elderly MacBook Pro — but perhaps I should hang on until next year.
It might not be all Zoom, all the time, by next summer…
@JosephStash Funnily enough, my in-house immunologist made the same comment last night.
After taking my birthday week off, I’m back on the digest train.
And I couldn’t resist a wee (and weak…) pun in the headline: onemanandhisblog.com/2020/11/social…
@corinne_podger I have to look at silver linings. The first lockdown had a serious impact on my mental health, by killing my income while depriving me of my stress relief. I’ve pulled it all back since then, but everything’s much more fragile.
@corinne_podger Some is not all, though, and I think we all was some of the old normal back. I was thinking most specifically of the commuting/office lifestyle, to be honest.
The vaccine news is, at least, promising. It does give us a glimpse of a future where the virus is much, much less of a threat, and that makes me wonder: will we see a struggle between those who want to embrace a new normal, and those who want to … microblog.onemanandhisblog.com/2020/11/09/the…
There’s no doubt lockdowns are hard; that unfamiliar feeling of liberties removed, of freedoms curtailed. But last time, it helped bind communities and families.
Will this one do the same?
Just successfully sourced my coffee filters from a local business rather than going reflexively to Amazon.
Shell. t.co/Ny0ejleml… 
Met this chap on our beach walk today. Seemed nice enough, but not very talkative. t.co/csRVYRG8l… 
Today’s news about the US presidential election gives me a little hope for the first time since 2016’s Brexit vote that being of fundamentally decent character still might matter.
I’m not willing to inflate the balloon of hope too much just yet. But a little hope is nice.
So. @KamalaHarris as US VP. A great reminder that parties and countries that deal with their sexism and racism problems win a huge dividend: a massively increased talent pool.