David
@yonderdavid.bsky.social
Tomorrow ere fresh morning streak the east
With first approach of light, we must be risen,
And at our pleasant labour, to reform
Yon flowery arbours, yonder alleys green
With first approach of light, we must be risen,
And at our pleasant labour, to reform
Yon flowery arbours, yonder alleys green
Plus it has one of my beloved couplets:
And Katterfelto with his hair on end
At his own wonders, wond'ring for his bread.
And Katterfelto with his hair on end
At his own wonders, wond'ring for his bread.
November 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Plus it has one of my beloved couplets:
And Katterfelto with his hair on end
At his own wonders, wond'ring for his bread.
And Katterfelto with his hair on end
At his own wonders, wond'ring for his bread.
Cowper's "The Task" is about...well whatever he felt like writing about, but it starts out about a couch (because that was his crush's challenge) and has a theme of praising the mundane.
www.gutenberg.org/files/3698/3...
www.gutenberg.org/files/3698/3...
The Task, by William Cowper
www.gutenberg.org
November 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Cowper's "The Task" is about...well whatever he felt like writing about, but it starts out about a couch (because that was his crush's challenge) and has a theme of praising the mundane.
www.gutenberg.org/files/3698/3...
www.gutenberg.org/files/3698/3...
We should all ask Google for a gen AI podcast summary.
November 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
We should all ask Google for a gen AI podcast summary.
Sounds like a strange new instance of "you're not the customer, you're the product."
November 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Sounds like a strange new instance of "you're not the customer, you're the product."
I am reminded of an excerpt from an essay I quite enjoy, adapted by Camus from a speech he was invited to give at a monastery after the war.
November 12, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I am reminded of an excerpt from an essay I quite enjoy, adapted by Camus from a speech he was invited to give at a monastery after the war.
One gentleman had the good sense not only to have his truck lifted, but to have an additional few hundred LED bulbs attached to it. Had he not thought to tailgate me, I may have been unable to see the road with my eyes closed.
November 12, 2025 at 2:01 AM
One gentleman had the good sense not only to have his truck lifted, but to have an additional few hundred LED bulbs attached to it. Had he not thought to tailgate me, I may have been unable to see the road with my eyes closed.
The gentlefolk with whom I share the road usually ensure this happens to me in any vehicle by switching on their high beams, or at least getting their truck lifted.
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM
The gentlefolk with whom I share the road usually ensure this happens to me in any vehicle by switching on their high beams, or at least getting their truck lifted.
One wonders whether Tesla has met all of its previous production goals.
November 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
One wonders whether Tesla has met all of its previous production goals.
I've always been repelled by this sort of genealogical obsession, where the way to judge something good or bad is to judge its origins. Words must be forbidden for their etymology, drugs for their first gen antecedents, etc.
November 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I've always been repelled by this sort of genealogical obsession, where the way to judge something good or bad is to judge its origins. Words must be forbidden for their etymology, drugs for their first gen antecedents, etc.
It's awful how they were trapped after crashing into that snowbank.
November 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
It's awful how they were trapped after crashing into that snowbank.
I had assumed it was.
November 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I had assumed it was.
@moultano.bsky.social had thoughts about it. I know it only as a book on the Recommended By Mutuals list.
November 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
@moultano.bsky.social had thoughts about it. I know it only as a book on the Recommended By Mutuals list.
Excellent. I've decided this is the winter I bring back the slow cooker, and it occurred to me that miso might be a good addition to chili this time around.
November 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Excellent. I've decided this is the winter I bring back the slow cooker, and it occurred to me that miso might be a good addition to chili this time around.
What was on the menu, anything unusual?
November 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
What was on the menu, anything unusual?
Horace wrote a satire about people enamored of silly "paradoxes." In his telling, some reasoned that as the famously greatest musician sang no more, I who do not sing am equally the greatest. Anyway, I can't even see a piano from where I'm sitting.
November 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Horace wrote a satire about people enamored of silly "paradoxes." In his telling, some reasoned that as the famously greatest musician sang no more, I who do not sing am equally the greatest. Anyway, I can't even see a piano from where I'm sitting.
Maybe even friends' or relatives' accomplishments.
November 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Maybe even friends' or relatives' accomplishments.
Don't put that evil on me!
November 9, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Don't put that evil on me!
I was really hoping it was just Fetterman doing eight different voices.
November 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I was really hoping it was just Fetterman doing eight different voices.
No wonder the guy won the election with slogans like that.
November 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
No wonder the guy won the election with slogans like that.
I feel like I could have gotten Carl to make the anime teeth gritting face by writing the word "frenemy" and walking away.
November 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I feel like I could have gotten Carl to make the anime teeth gritting face by writing the word "frenemy" and walking away.
I don't think there's an epidemic but I do think that a consumer product which talks to people but is not prevented from encouraging suicide is mismade. And I do mean "product" here, not technology.
November 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I don't think there's an epidemic but I do think that a consumer product which talks to people but is not prevented from encouraging suicide is mismade. And I do mean "product" here, not technology.
The notion of some infinitely corvine
Infinitely claimative thing.
Infinitely claimative thing.
November 9, 2025 at 4:25 AM
The notion of some infinitely corvine
Infinitely claimative thing.
Infinitely claimative thing.
I only invest in small cap (less than $3 trillion) stocks.
November 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I only invest in small cap (less than $3 trillion) stocks.
One must be the rough sleeper one expected to see in the world.
November 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
One must be the rough sleeper one expected to see in the world.