Greetings
Books
Why: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110011601484725615
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Aside: I mostly chose what to read when someone else who I specifically think is cool (even if I don't know them or w/e) says or posts that they like something and it has almost never let me down.
This one, for example, I picked up in December: https://twitter.com/ImJuneFacts/status/1606339706811097088Mastodon (opens in a new tab)Figure 1. Link preview of https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110011601484725615, "gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)".
2023: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/109661276920611083#.
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first book of the year down, (I think via @leigh@ottawa.place somewhere?): "Axiomatic," a collection of Greg Egan's short stories that appeared in various science fiction magazines (mostly Interzone and Asimov's) between 1989 and 1992.
Great late 80s hard SF shorts
I don't do star reviews, but, folks, they're good stories
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156783.Axiomatic
aside: a characters is mentioned to have received their advanced degree in 2023, which I'm sure felt reasonably far out at the time.Mastodon (opens in a new tab)Figure 2. Link preview of https://mastodon.social/@gravely/109661276920611083#, "gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)".
2024: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/111681527425154217
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First book of 2024: Ellen Ullman, "Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents” (https://www.goodreads.com/book/486625/questions).
I don't know how this made it onto my pile but it was a quick read (I started it yesterday). It's so weird to read 90s tech memoirs. People were still sorta building stuff back then, weren't sure where things would end up, and so on.
2023's thread: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/109661276920611083
Why I post these: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110011601484725615Mastodon (opens in a new tab)Figure 3. Link preview of https://mastodon.social/@gravely/111681527425154217, "gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)".
2025: TBD
Walks
https://mastodon.social/@gravely/111433245331859281
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so I walk a few miles every morning looked for an app help me be more intentional about taking streets I've never taken before and was susprised when https://citystrides.com/ pulled in... every walk I've ever recorded in strava.
it's neat seeing the stark difference between tight squiggles of political lit drops up and down steps from years ago (usually hanging door cards on every house doorknob on a turf of a few blocks) next to meanderings of normal walks on sidewalksMastodon (opens in a new tab)Figure 4. Link preview of https://mastodon.social/@gravely/111433245331859281, "gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)".