I am BARRY's Microblog

📚 Where the Deer and the Antelope Play (2021)

I like how Nick Offerman writes. It inspires me to be more playful with my scribbles. Maybe I can be a little janky, leave some words out, and use a fancy phrase or five for fun. There’s definitely a schtick to it and he can spread it too thick at times. One of the themes in the book is “nuance,” which makes it striking when Offerman paints 40% of the American population with a pretty obese brush. The dual focus of describing our beautiful land right next to lamenting our ugly politics doesn’t really do a lot of favors to either discussion.

Hello, Rails, old friend.

🔗 An app can be a home-cooked meal

I am the programming equivalent of a home cook.

What an informative story about using programming to solve a problem for one’s family. Also, I do kind of want the app!

📚 Dune (1965)

I never read Dune as a kid. I tried to read Dune just out of college, but it didn’t catch. Yes, I’m one who read Dune (1984 movie tie-in edition) after seeing the movie (2021), and for me this worked. The movie, along with a conversation with a friend after the movie, gave me enough background to enjoy the ride.

🥘 Dilly Bean Stew with Cabbage and Frizzled Onions

So much flavor, so few ingredients! Also, homemade bread.

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.

– Jonas Salk

📚 Homie (2020)

Did not hit me as hard as Don’t Call Us Dead. As with all Danez Smith, watching them read the poems is the best way to take them in.

🍿 Raya and the Last Dragon (2021)

🍿 The Bird and the Whale (2018)

Quite a pretty short movie, animated from thousands of paintings.

I know that Micro.blog is designed not to have any private “things,” but it strikes me that the Team plan with the ability to have a private blog would be a killer app for families trying to get off the Facebook/Insta/Snapchat train. Any alternatives out there for this? My wife’s family used to use My Family, but it got shuttered by Ancestry years ago.

God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.

– Kurt Vonnegut

🍿 Men in Black 3 (2012)

Watching all of these with the kids only to discover that I hadn’t actually ever seen MIB3.

Micro.blogging

I have decided to give Micro.blog an honest try in 2022. This means I am moving my blogging presence off my own platform to this one. You can dig back to my post archives at my site.

Inspired by @pimoore’s The Macro of Micro.blog, I am trying to get over my archivist desires to:

Import all of my history to Micro.blog. It’s a distraction from writing and the true archiving of thoughts and experiences.
Concern myself with some future where Micro.blog gets bought, I want to move on, and all of my stuff needs exported/imported/moved. Hopefully it won’t happen, and if it does I’ll do something then.
Resist my incessant need to “style” and customize my things. I can save that for other projects.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Postcolonial Love Poem – I didn’t particularly understand anything I was reading. However, there was one bit I highlighted from “Snake-Light”:

When a snake swallows its prey, a row of inner teeth help walk the jaw over the prey’s body—walking like reading.

Walking over a word with the teeth of our mind.

To write is to be eaten. To read, to be full.

That’s vivid!

📚 2022

Has anyone out there given clay.earth a try? Thoughts?

I tend to just keep an ongoing log of notes in a notes app, and I’m currently not in a “building relationships” phase of my journey, but also kind of feel like there’s no time like the present.

I’m back and I’m backfilling some things here on micro.blog. I tried bringing in my main blog feed, but didn’t love how that worked for me, so I’m probably just manually going to post links to blog posts. This means the prior few posts were probably redundant. But now I’m all caught up!

🍿 Encanto (2021)

That moment when you realize these two are the same people. Love it! 🍿