posts from 2025 / 01 / 05

1. At a client of mine’s in the early 00s:

   “Wow, hotdog stand. I’ve never seen anyone choose this, do you like it?” I asked.

   "No. I don’t know why it’s like that. I came in one day and there it was.”

   "Do you want me to change it back to normal colors?”

   "No, don’t change it!” they demanded, weirdly urgently.

   “OK.”

   They were later fired for conspiring w/ an IT support worker to embezzle a bunch of money. The IT worker even went to jail.

   That client? Novavax.

   https://digipres.club/@discatte/113777327346806881

2. Starting the year with the slimmest book on the pile, and a memoir to boot, worked well the past two years. I forget why I wishlisted this one — I thought I’d read another Adolph Reed Jr. book but I see shelving this now that it was his son, Touré, whose “Toward Freedom” I’d enjoyed (and just added to Bookwyrm.)

   

3. gravely started reading The Wrestler’s Cruel Study

   

4. Christmas gift