2020-07-20 // cobbled together thoughts, pt. 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ There's a WORD for being glued to the deluge of social media awfulness, which I've found thanks to Hacker News [0]: "doomscrolling!" The discussion about it is pretty lively, too; folks are largely reaching the same sort of conclusions you'll find all over the Small Internet. Life is pretty chill right now. My manager, who was pretty much the last person to touch their nose [1] when they needed a manager, got to go back to being a grunt with the rest of us. Work is busy, the firehose of things to be done never lets up, but I'm of the "501 developer" [2] sort so I'm not too bothered by it. The firehose will be there to drink from tomorrow. :) My friend J. and I are planning on going for another walk tomorrow! Looking forward to exercise and chatting. I started playing Baldur's Gate on the Nintendo Switch a few days ago. I'm REALLY enjoying it. I've played through a good chunk of the game before, but I think they did a bang-up job with the controls and it just feels really good to play it handheld. I've just started reading Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Dispossessed" [3]. Enjoying it so far. I'm really digging Le Guin's style of science fiction. She's REALLY good at world-building and it's a real breath of fresh air to be reading science fiction that isn't straight up dystopian. With all the COVID-19 stuff going on in the world and our Cheeto-in-Chief being, well, *waves generally*, I am not feeling up for reading anything of the sort. We ordered pizza tonight and it just got here, so off I go! Until next time! Be safe and be well. :) kvothe@SDF.ORG [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23893690 [1]: gopher://gopherpedia.com/0/Nose_goes [2]: https://501manifesto.dev/ [3]: gopher://gopherpedia.com:70/0/The_Dispossessed