COVID played a big part. The disengagement from traditional learning processes that resulted from being solely on-line caused problems. It isn’t just AI. Technology has reduced the need to put things in your own words. Verbatim note taking and being able to just copy/paste is eliminating thinking.

Peatzeria was unexpectedly good when we went in June. Enjoy your lunch

Happy birthday. Based on the last six weeks, 61 is survivable.

That has not worked for Nmbr14 today which has remained defective all day.

I stopped because it was not making sense and went back to it later and by that time it had been corrected.

I listened to the audiobook and that really worked for me. Perhaps the repetitions tied to the length of my commute, but the flow seemed quite natural. Of course it may also be that it worked better for me because some portion/much of my attention was devoted to driving and not listening.

That is brilliant.

Even when the music is not for me (I did listen a few times before deciding that in this instance I was a prisoner of my taste), I still enjoy these. The Tony Molina, however, has been on repeat.

I have to thank you for two excellent recent watches that I believe you were at least partly responsible for. In A Lonely Place and The Earrings of Madame de ….

Once, while stuck in a traffic jam in Boston, I watched the driver of the van beside us bang his head on the steering wheel.

It is an interesting listen. I can’t really find a category for it.

Wonderful news, congratulations to both of you.

These always amaze me. You manage to cover your connection to the song, a history of the band, brief social context for Brighton and the band and a technical analysis of the structure of the song in a piece that is entirely readable by someone with no background in any of it. So glad these are back.

The divisiveness is quite remarkable. I am debating listening to Outline, but there is much in what I have heard that suggests I should just stick with my existing TBR list.