Shallow paddling pool for Davy to splash around in this week.

Lots of quotes from my first reading of The Medium is the Message…

More The Internet research. Lots of it is about what we could do differently. This week I added two quotes about when we get it right:

There are plenty of times that this YouTube channel feels like a really nice town that I live in. And I appreciate you for living here too. Thank you so much.

Adam Savage, The Search for Adam’s Favorite Mechanical Pencil

Which reminded me of…

As we say in our hometown… don’t forget to be awesome.”

John & Hank Green, Crash Course

The new patio is a giant water painting canvas.

Anil Dash on On Being was such a great listen for my research on The Internet.

I completely agree with this.

The communities of affinity that form on the internet are the greatest thing about it. …and it’s just the entry point through which they connect. But all the richness of their human lives follows behind because they’ve made that connection. (50:50)

And also find this funny.

I mean, it’s hard to explain to the young people I mentor in the tech industry now that we had computers that didn’t have the internet. And they’re like, “What would you do with it?”

Our Disney game glitched in the coolest way – right at sunset.

Naturally, I had to take selfies.

I was today years old when I learned you cannot copy / paste notes from books you purchase from Google. 😳

I understand they don’t want you to copy the whole book, but if you can’t take notes what’s the point?

Bought a book on Google and returned it.

This week I finished Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett. It was a great light read to balance out everything going on in the real world and spending so much time at the hospital. This particular book makes me wonder if Pratchett wrote it after dealing with offers to turn his books into films or TV.

Delightful finds of the week…

Found Flatland on Internet Archive and downloaded to read:

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, though written in 1884, is still considered useful in thinking about multiple dimensions. It is also seen as a satirical depiction of Victorian society and its hierarchies. A square, who is a resident of the two-dimensional Flatland, dreams of the one-dimensional Lineland. He attempts to convince the monarch of Lineland of the possibility of another dimension, but the monarch cannot see outside the line. The square is then visited himself by a Sphere from three-dimensional Spaceland, who must show the square Spaceland before he can conceive it. As more dimensions enter the scene, the story’s discussion of fixed thought and the kind of inhuman action which accompanies it intensifies.