A Porcini reaction GIF. 🐈
Month: May 2020
Let’s play What’s It Wednesday again. What do you think this is? #WhatsItWednesday
Douglas Adams is best known for The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, but his Dirk Gently series is also pretty good. A quote from Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency: 📚💬 #mbmay
It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry ‘I could have thought of that’ is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn’t, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.
A moment of cuteness: Poppy and Porcini snuggling in their house. 🐈
Another favorite book is Isaac Asimov’s Foundation. The whole series, really. Here’s a quote: 📚💬 #mbmay
… such folly smacks of genius. A lesser mind would be incapable of it!
On the homestead blog: yesterday we started the potato planters. I added some scoria and dirt to the planter frames, Jenn planted the seed potatoes, and I added new irrigation for them.
Six Colors site 🔗 #MediaMonday
An informative and entertaining Apple-focused news site, written by Macworld alums and podcasters Jason Snell and Dan Moren. A great membership podcast, too.
Here’s an amusing meta-quote from Heinlein’s Time Enough for Love, which was one of my all-time favorite books as a kid: 📚💬 #mbmay
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of — but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
I’ve gotten out of the habit of reading books in recent years — nowadays I just read Twitter, Micro.blog, and blog posts. Not great, perhaps. So I’m going to re-interpret this week’s Micro.blog challenge as more quotes from old favorite books.