At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished reading. Knowing I’ll revisit my social media posts, I’ve found, serves as a positive and mellowing influence on my online activity. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. And I generally take weekends off social media.
▰ Just for context, it’s still January
▰ That special feeling when your RSS reader suddenly fills up because someone has redone their website and articles going back weeks, if not longer, have been redistributed.
Someone noted in response that they had recently successfully avoided this issue.
Someone else replied that even worse is when the RSS feed is repopulated with spam when the URL is taken over by a slop-squatter.
▰ Among the worst earworms must be the melody of your phone’s ringtone — to think continuously that your phone is ringing, not to mention to perhaps not know when it actually is ringing.
As someone noted in response, “Setting music you like as your ringtone (or worse, morning alarm) backfires after a couple of months.”
▰ 5 jobs I’ve had
- dish washer
- laundry facilities attendant
- laboratory1 slide projector operator
- music magazine senior editor
- Japanese publishing company2 vice president
1James Watson’s3
2Shonen Jump4
3yes, that James Watson
4no, I don’t speak or read Japanese
▰ Finished reading no books this week, but making progress.