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By Justin G. on 24SEP04WED

This week I am capturing some running notes throughout. It means there will be more words here.

What I’m reading

On Looking by Horowitz. Finished it. Good, lots of usable notes to be extracted. Many thoughts inspired by it. Expect to see a reading note sometime soon (ish).

What to read next? I have quite the large backlog, a lot of overhang to choose from. Maybe Borges. Maybe Alexie. I read the beginning of Kissa by Kissa, and by beginning I mean the first half. Or something really different for me: The Historian by Kostova.

I’ll finish the Craig Mod book and then read some Borges, I think.

What I’m doing

Continuing to get my regular running back on.

What I’m listening to

Ezra Klein and Jia Tolentino (also transcript^a). I have a few reactions, but probably the strongest was to the idea that we use our personal pocket internet engines (phones) as an escape from some aspect of reality, but the device is a prison/panopticon. And we must escape from its clutches back out into the real world for respite.

Ezra Klein and Harris’s DNC speech. It was politics and stuff.

What I’m cooking

Lots of good vegetarian grub. Swedish meatballs. Chickpea salad sandwich. Pesto beans again, and a Manresa Bread baguette. Rarely, some meat inclusive dishes too.

What I’m watching

Olympics
- Last of the surfing.
- Dinghy racing, aka laser. I did not know this was included. Also seems like the whole sport is almost capsizing. Or coming within centimeters of other boats.
YouTube
- TVR exploring.
- Any Austin, GTA4 Power Grid. Genius.
- Paintings by Dusan.
- Martin Stürtzer.
- Alvin Cooks Cookies. These look amazing.
- Archive64’s TotK play through
- Martijn Doolaard.
- Maigomika
- Imamu, new content alert.
- Latest updates on Iceland volcano eruptions from Shawn Wilsey.

Bringing these back online slowly.

Ripper Street, series on Hulu. In progress.
Severance, Apple+. In progress.
The Bear, on Hulu. Finished season one.
One more episode to go on Reservation Dogs.

What I’m playing

NMS. On the hunt for a good freighter.

Starting to think it’s my turn to play TotK.

NMS. Scratch that, new fishing expedition just dropped. What?!

Background

Things I am doing off and on.

Ongoing reading projects

These are books that I plan to take my time with. Maybe years.

Complete Essays by Montaigne.
The Syntopicon - So dense with ideas.
Basic Economics by Sowell.
Collected Fictions and Selected Non-fictions by Borges.

Email me your slow long form yt channels with minimal talking.

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