Why do I blog?
searched my image library for “why” and got this old doodle
Kev Quirk asks:
Why do you blog?
I usually answer Why are you like that questions — which I get asked with some frequency, for good or ill — with “I can’t help it. It’s in my nature.” The constant puttering, interspersed with oversharing that ranges from instructive to awkward? That’s just me. I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t do that.
But this came across my RSS feed, and it works too.
“It seems stupid I would put out an album,” says Fiona Apple, of her terrific new record, Fetch the Bolt Cutters. “But this is what I know how to do.”
I love that: “This is what I know how to do.”
– Austin Kleon, Do what you know how to do
That’s true too. There are ways to putter and rant besides blogging. I could have a YouTube channel. But this is what I know how to do.
Thank goodness.
Activity Log
hackers.town: 2020-04-22 Wed 09:53
Up since 6:30am and it’s now almost 10am and I have yet to accomplish anything.
Well, I did manage to walk the dogs. And I ate breakfast. So I’ve had worse days.
hackers.town: 2020-04-22 Wed 10:23
tbh I see a non-zero chance of post-covid job ads being “must be willing to relocate to our exciting stylish open office live/work spaces. In San Francisco.”
Twitter: 2020-04-22 Wed 10:25
i too have seen the ‘Memes’
https://twitter.com/FloraEGill/status/1252889529763147777
hackers.town: 2020-04-22 Wed 13:17
@nomad No I blog because too many people listen when I shout from a box on the street corner.
If I wanted an audience, why would I be going off about indieweb, command line tools that nobody needs, and that drawing from when I couldn’t fall asleep?
hackers.town: 2020-04-22 Wed 17:34
In these trying times of crisis and universal brouhaha, desperate measures are taken
#NowPlaying #fediplay
ABBA - ABBA Gold
https://album.link/i/1440723979
Twitter: 2020-04-22 Wed 17:40
oh hell yes i want in on this
clicks
oh wait you mean like not just a form to submit but actual conversation will be done?
hurriedly closes tab
https://twitter.com/JenMsft/status/1253115856936038405
hackers.town: 2020-04-22 Wed 18:06
Trying out WinCompose — oooh emdash works‽
and and and I can be ironic online. Finally⸮
https://github.com/SamHocevar/wincompose
Twitter: 2020-04-22 Wed 21:03
This is an absolutely terrible idea and I’m mad I didn’t think of it first.
https://twitter.com/coolstuffcheap/status/1114196035142918149
hackers.town: 2020-04-22 Wed 21:06
She made lasagna. It was delicious. I ate it too fast for pics.
Not that I eat quicker than shutter speed — though sometimes — but I forgot about pics until plate was empty and belly was full.