Caught up on the One a Day pictures this week. I had neglected them for more than a week, which meant there were several missing pictures. With less than a month left in this project, I’ll try to finish strong and take a picture every day.

After a long pause, I started listening to the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast again. I caught up on the last few month’s episodes. Dave says I’m now a reformed “I used to listen to your show” person. I stopped listening to Evil Genius Chronicles when my podcast consumption went to zero. I’m not sure what the trigger was. I think my commute shortened to the point where I stopped listening to anything, and I tend to listen to music if I’m at home or working.

Anyway, I’m glad to have added Evil Genius Chronicles to my very short list of podcasts which includes OK Jazz, Tokyo Jazz Joints and The War On Cars. The last one might be on the cusp of “I used to listen to your show”. Their last live show was pretty good, so I’ll see how the next couple episodes are.

Back to Evil Genius Chronicles. He mentioned a couple things in the batch of episodes I caught up on this week that I could really relate to:

  • The procrastination spiral: Basically, when someone is avoiding one task but rather than doing another, they don’t do anything remotely productive. I’ve got that and he describes the feelings around this so well in his November 3, 2024 episode.
  • Note taking/journaling, paper vs. electronic: He is absolutely right that nothing is faster than jotting down a note on paper. Over the years, I’ve switched between paper and electronic a couple times. Currently, I’m in electronic mode. I prefer the searchability, and my handwriting is atrocious. My pen and paper days have also left me with a collection of never-referenced moleskines that currently occupy valuable New York City real estate and I’m not sure what to do with them.

Links

Men standing along a New York street strewn with trash in 1913.
Trash has been a problem for a while in NYC. (photo from NY Times)

Another weaknote, it’s mostly about the links this week.

I did start running again this week, well, my style of running anyway–and not as often as I would like. For me, the hardest part at this point is just motivating to get out the door. Once I’m out there, it’s great. Plus, a 60º+ day in March is a good motivator for outdoor activities.


Links

I reneged on a promise to move my display project forward for a second week. I did do something slightly technical though: The blogroll is back! Otherwise, there’s not much else I want to write about here.

So, here are a few links…

Links

Dave Winer is doing some work involving blogrolls. His recent posts inspired me to resurrect the blogroll on this site. It’s back in the sidebar and driven from my reading list via a simple OPML to HTML script and a bit of copy and paste action.

There hasn’t been a blogroll here since 2006–when the site changed from Movable Type to WordPress. At the time, I said “I’m not sure if I think blogrolls are all that useful anymore.” That statement came from the brief time when the blogroll served as the primary navigation to the sites I followed. This was a tedious way to keep up with more than a handful of sites. Fortunately, it didn’t take long to discover RSS and start using a news reader (I think NetNewswire was my first one). Newsreaders are wonderful and I, for one, am happy RSS isn’t dead.