Writing
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Overnight
Five things from an overnight shoot for a short film.
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Blogroll
I added a blogroll to my site, because there are lots of nice blogs out there.
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The 1959 Project
I’m enjoying The 1959 Project, daily posts about the New York jazz scene in that year.
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Media from May 2019
Aldous Harding and Holly Herndon; All That Is by James Salter; High Life; and The Good Place, Follow the Money, Deutschland 86 and Fleabag.
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Foursquare/Swarm iCal feed
I wrote a python script to replace the now-broken Foursquare calendar feed of your check-ins.
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A wonky barter
How am I doing with giving up Facebook, Instagram and Twitter?
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Media from April 2019
Some things I’ve seen, read, heard and been to in April.
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Text editors
Code is a very simple medium, nothing but plain text. But the applications for writing it are so complicated and never quite right.
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My Apple Watch
I bought an Apple Watch Series 4 and here I am with my takes. Or “thoughts” as we used to call them.
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Some media from March 2019
Some things I’ve watched and listened to this month.
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Uses this
I’m currently featured on Uses This, about what I use “to get the job done.”
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Wait, wait, GO!
This week I spent three days acting in a student film, which was fun.
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On telly
I’ll be on TV in a thing I acted in a few months ago.
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Media from February 2019
A few things I watched, read, etc. in February that I didn’t get around to writing about sooner.
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The Story 2019
The tenth annual The Story conference was as good as ever, with Alison S. M. Kobayashi and Sara Wajid giving my favourite talks.
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‘Light Years’ by James Salter
From 1975, I really enjoyed this book.
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Jumping off cliffs
A quote about breaking out of a well-worn rut, by Benny Golson.
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At the gym
Two gym thoughts.
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‘Olive Kitteridge’
We watched the miniseries. Recommended, but a bit hard going.
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‘Snowfall’
Season two.
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The late style or elder game of blogging
Wondering about the “elder game” and “late style” of blogging, and how weeknotes, as a phase of blogging, might fit in.
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m/e 31 January 2019
The Favourite, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The First, The Americans season six, Paul Heaton, Mildred Pierce, Luther season five, and Smoke by Simon Ings.
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The Beat Generation
Generation X missing from a list of generations, and settling on the Silent Generation’s name in 1958.
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Flickr favourites and photos-of-you downloader in python
From 5th February 2019 Flickr are going to be deleting an unknown quantity of older photos. So I…
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My 2018
Some things I watched and read and heard and did in 2018.