What Have I Done?
I have made a mess of things while trying to simplify. I let a domain name expire that also had a custom email address attached to it and according to my domain registrar, lost both to a third party who…
THE WRITTEN RECORD
Author: Chris
Issue #2
2024-02-25 Hello and welcome to the second edition of this newsletter. Every Sunday morning, I intend to send an update or insight to things that I find interesting from the previous week, just like your Sunday morning newspaper. It is…
To Err…
Remind me to never write anything when I am tired. Mistakes are made, even when I rely on my writing software to analyze grammatical and spelling errors. That last Newsletter was littered with errors. Apologies.
F1 2024
Subscription renewed and I am ready for a new season with 24 races around the world. Up first, Bahrain.
The Anti-soda Water Club
Sign me up for a variety of reasons such as health and unjustified cost increase. Back to sparkling water and teas for me please. 🥤🖕🏻
You'd think I could easily find a .pdf of this hardcover book about... the Portable Document Format to download and read. Nope. Portable Document FormatThis book explores contemporary publishing in its broadest, most exploded sense. The first part of this…
Geocaching Update
Not only can you discover hidden canisters full of trinkets around the globe, half of the appeal in Geocaching is hiding caches yourself and watch others enjoy your discovery. It's fun to see people sign the logs, grab a trinket,…
Shelfie
I have a lot to read lately and have given up on the idea that I will ever be able to finish every title I want to in my lifetime.
Regarding Reading
1. I will make lists of books I want to read for the upcoming year as a guide and promptly ignore it in favor of following wherever my heart and brain take me instead. 2. The books on the nightstand…
Quick Test
I am trying to sort out how to not only post these quick notes in a different format but to also have them show up all on one page. Think Twitter/X but as an experiment. Check out more on the…
Novel Progress
I have been an avid reader since I can remember, and that memory goes back quite the distance. And in that whole time I’ve always felt that there is a story for me to tell, something that hasn’t been written…
Stereo Denbow
For the past few months I have been slowly acquiring digital music files cheaply either through small purchases at record stores or through local libraries. The idea being is to minimize subscriptions and future costs. The feeling of taking old…
Connecting Ideas
There have been some questions/discussions about my research-thinking-writing process and I thought I would address them here. First step is to gain input. I read voraciously- not just books but articles from other critical thinkers on a wide variety of…
Human Feeders
I think it was Kleon who used the phrase "human bird feeders" to describe those places that attract and feed us. A Little Free Library certainly counts as a feeding place. We ventured out for some geocaching after lunch today…
The Art Of Un-Noticing
One of my favorite writers, Rob Walker, has a brilliant book on my shelves (thanks, Mom) titled "The Art Of Noticing: 131 ways to spark creativity, find inspiration and discover joy in the everyday." He also has an excellent weekly…