I had a co-worker ask for podcast recommendations that weren’t murdery or crime related. So I offered up two classics.
99% Invisible - 99% Invisible is a sound-rich, narrative podcast hosted by Roman Mars about all the thought that goes into the things we don’t think about — the unnoticed architecture and design that shape our world. Roman Mars has the most lovely, rich voice.
Song Exploder - Song Exploder is a podcast where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made. There’s also a series on Netflix (in the US at least).
I mentioned not offering up anything too deeply nerdy. And after that another co-worker sent me a message asking about those nerdy shows. So I said be careful what you wish for and offered up my favorites.
SelfHosted - All about self-hosting and Home Labs.
The HomeLab Show - The Homelab Show is run by Tom Lawrence of Lawrence Systems and Jay LaCroix of Learn Linux TV They also run great Youtube channels.
2.5 Admins - Three Linux nerds talk open source news.
Late Night Linux - Open Source nerds, but with more British and Scottish accents.
ATP - Accidental Tech Podcast - Three apple nerds talk Apple.
Remember, if our local natural gas company can put up EMERGENCY WORK signs from June 5 to July 5. And on July 10th, put up new EMERGENCY WORK signs from July 10 - Aug 10 that your EMERGENCY at work is likely just as urgent.
Most Emergencies Aren’t.
Visiting the hummingbirds and parents.
I love watching them fly around like tiny fighter jets.
Millennial Burnout
Being so burnt out from the last three years of relentless, ruthless running that you seek how to recover knowing it will be slow.
But so jaded by all of the people offering solutions/coaching/help that you seek nothing and try to take time off work and rest.
Audio people, we had wall to wall carpet but recently replaced it with flooring. My little 8’x10’ room is now echoey and I’m trying to understand the best option to deaden the sound for my podcast I record there.
We own the house. Looking for advice.
Foam panels? Rug for part of the room?
Made these carrots on the side and they were delicious though if I did it again I would brush the carrots with the olive oil and pour/brush on the marinade since it didn’t stick very well.
But they were absolutely delicious. Carrots!
All around a superb meal and both went straight into Plan To Eat which is a superb meal planning web site and app. (If you like it and can wait until Black Friday, they always have a good deal. We’ve renewed it for years this way.)
Star Trek is Space Ted Lasso.
Or is Ted Lasso Football Star Trek?
The sky is lovely today.
Watching Ted Lasso again has been such a salve for the hard days.
The characters grow and change and learn.
There are running gags in only starting to notice (Higgins spilling tea.)
It’s such a sweet show where we are doing our best alongside our band of footballers.
I’ve been using this Logitech H540 headset throughout the pandemic and it’s never failed me. Today, the little red mute light on the cord has stopped working when I mute the mic.
It’s really thrown me off. I use the headset to mute versus the application as it’s a simple tap on my right ear cup.
Well, we spent the last two days packing our house up to prepare it to get new floors.
Only to learn that what Empire Today sold us would not work on our house.
The installer crew showed up, grabbed a level and immediately said this wasn’t going to work.
So I left a voicemail with our salesman.
Getting a whole house of carpet removed tomorrow. Packed and moved things so it’s just furniture left. It’s the work of packing and moving everything off and out of their storage places. Without the fun of being in a different house.
Exhausted and sore but excited for the work to be done.
Are you parrot smoking a pipe or a flamingo with a crown?
Good Morning and Happy June.
Here’s some little birdy babies.
Apple’s clock app isn’t very deep - it mimics late 20th century Apple watches in functionality, it seems. There is certainly no problem with that as it serves most people’s needs completely and many users needs to varying levels.
This response deserves to be framed.
There is some La Croix in our office that, from a glance, across the room, looked like Surge.
And for a brief moment I was transported back to 1999 in Berryville chugging Surge and playing Smash Bros on N64.
Antique Stores are magical places.
Spent the weekend in a cabin near a lake with a hot tub.
Spent some quality hours soaking in the hot tub, writing, reading and barely leaving.
The outside world did not exist and time itself melted away. It was a perfect, peaceful weekend to celebrate 13 years of marriage.
