Great short read. Saint-Exupery just has a unique sensitivity for describing life in a way that pulls out the child you buried under layers of adult responsibilities. And the story is a cool glimpse into the operation of the aƩropostale and what it meant to fly then.
they both need to have their stereographic projector.
Software is steadily becoming more dictatorial. It gives us fake choices like one does to a child to trick them into behaving, with a so called dark pattern to make the “right” decision obvious. I’m pretty sure I’ll be going back to Linux soon.
I don’t mean to particularly pick on Apple, that’s just the template I used.
We’ll harass you until you click the button, It’s our gift to you!
“For now”, you’ll comply eventually.
We’ve had bad luck with peach trees dying in the past, mainly due to us not removing all the buds as they are establishing themselves. One of the dead trees went again, bellow the graft or so we thought. So I removed all the buds this time, but there were so many I missed a few. And well, they turned into small peaches :). They’re delicious, just small. We didn’t think we’d be picking peaches in October.
I had to make one: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2094215. Projection is shorter range than I was hoping for but it’s still fun and gets the kids thinking.
Second deployment of Laser Portraits at a public event. It was a lot busier this time around, and totally fun as previously. Also very stressful until a few portraits are behind me. It doesn’t matter how much I test and check, something always goes wrong but I got it all figured out just in time. I’m also refining the formula for how to present and interact with people. The PewtyBots performed all evening without missing a beat.
This is why people hate books. It’s not meant to tell an interesting story, it’s an exercise in the absurd by the author. I only finished it because it was short and I thought something must happen eventually. The dude doesn’t even get his head chopped off at the end. I picked it because it’s a classic and I heard a journalist I like talk about it as a life altering book. I don’t see it in the least. Nicole told me Camus is responsible for the stereotype of “ennui” as seen in Inside Out 2, makes sense. This book has zero purpose, it’s written to be boring and it’s quite effective in that regard.
Do I feel any shame being the uninstructed critique of renowned authors? Not at all, this book sucks.