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1. Grandfather Hot Dog Stand

   https://botsin.space/@oldroadside/113091581104915225

2. Worked my way up to a jogging a full mile over the past few weeks and, I guess my form was wrong, or my body wasn’t ready in spite of all the walking I do. I didn’t notice any one bad move but when I tried to repeat the mile jog a few days later and couldn’t make it a block.

   By the weekend, I had to bail a mile into a simple walk, and I’ve paused walks and strength training for at least a week while whatever is going on calms down.

   as a life-long “why on earth would I do that to myself?" and "what are they running from?” sayer coasting on the metabolism and cholesterol levels of youth, I finally, when I don’t need one, have a real excuse to not like running

3. 21: “Family Furnishings", by Alice Munro

   The later, somewhat darker, more explicitly autobiographical half of Munro’s anthologies of short stories.

   Munro’s characters tend to (I know this reads like a horoscope) move on from situations for the next thing without a plan, or to be a little selfish before getting back to being serious, if they ever do. She’s always putting characters on trains, or in cars, or on buses.

   Previously: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110531577683425679, https://mastodon.social/@gravely/112440630402434626

   gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image thirteenth book of '23, “Wilderness Station" (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25194123-a-wilderness-station) by Alice Munro (previously issued as "Selected Stories” (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14281.Selected_Stories)). Wow! Loved it. The “Selected Stories” title has had time to be rated and critiqued by much more careful readers. Lots of comparisons to Chekov, who I suppose I'll check out next. I'll also definitely be getting the companion collection, Family Furnishings, Selected Stories 1995-2014.Mastodongravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)RIP Alice Munro I'm a few stories into "Family Furnishings, Selected Stories 1995-2014”, the companion to “A Wilderness Station", which I read a year ago, and expect to finish it before summer is out.Mastodon

   

4. texts like this are like the inverse of gell-mann amnesia, and the best ones (which this is? Idk I’m not that well read to say!) do so w/o degrading into the easier and tedious "we’re all failing and need to do better” conference keynote gimmick simulation of it.

   anyway, by which I mean, you read about an area of focus in another field and see the author clearly knows what they are talking about and moreover that the grievances they have align w/ the same grievances you have in your own field

   two “fun facts" (my kid picked up that phrase and has been using it arbitrarily, so now I do)

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedestrian_scramble “Barnes Dances”

   Pedestrian scramble - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

   I forgot David Byrne wrote about biking, so now that is is on the list of shit to read http://davidbyrne.com/explore/bicycle-diaries/about

5. 20th book of 2024: “Killed by a Traffic Engineer”, by Wes Marshall ( https://www.killedbyatrafficengineer.com).

   Killed by a Traffic EngineerKilled by a Traffic Engineer, book, transportation, transport, safety, road crashes, accidents, pedestrians, bicycling, bike, walkKilled by a Traffic Engineer

   Lots of people read this last year when Marshall published it and the title was so catchy, I thought about it after the last few accidents in SF, which made me think I should go back and actually read it.

   80+ three page ideas, lots of overlap with the incident management side of my day job, casually written (if a little too pop, even, but I guess that’s ok).

   Every field is like this, it seems.