Automated Archives for June, 4th 2023
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Wallabag Additions
These are articles that which I saved today so that I may read them later. Substance and quality will vary drastically.
- The Joshua Generation (newyorker.com)
- A Generation Moves On (nymag.com)
- The revolt of the Christian home-schoolers (washingtonpost.com)
- Biden’s Debt Deal Strategy: Win in the Fine Print (nytimes.com)
Chess For the Day
Record: 3-1-1
Net Elo Change: +8
Games Played
- HasardXOTWOD - DRAW
- briangbx - WIN
- MR-BORGES1985 - WIN
- pescador61 - LOSS
- BairHG - WIN
Blog Posts On This Day
- 2022-06-04 (4 posts)
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995) - 3.5/5 high heels (imdb.com)
What a delightful film from a bygone era.
"I don't think of you as a man. And I don't think of you as a woman. I think of you as an angel."
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (imdb.com)
Season 5: 3/5 laughs
I felt the last season was a bit disjointed as I didn't really enjoy the hopping around in time as it worked to make a cohesive story which answered questions.
Entire Series: 3.5/5 laughs
Overall, I thought it was a fine show, which had some high highs and some low lows in the narrative.
Just Finished Reading
This past week I finished both the book I've been reading and the audiobook I have listened to while in the car.
Blood of Tyrants by Naomi Novik, #8 in the Temeraire series
I've gone through this series entirely as audiobooks from my library. I enjoyed it, as I'm invested in the main characters though this may have been my least favorite of the series. It just felt slow and plodding, and it felt like it was largely there to do set up for the finale in the next book.
Tsalmoth by Steven Brust, #16 in the Vlad series
I've read this series since I was in middle school. I can remember the first book being suggested to me by a clerk at a small bookstore and I've kept up on it ever since. The series is not written sequentially, and this book jumps back a fair bit of time, introduces a new over-the-top story which happens to the main characters - but then undercuts it at the end, to explain why it hasn't been something that comes up in any stories which take place afterwards chronologically.
Both of these books were entertaining, and I'm glad to have enjoyed them, but neither blew my socks off.
Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America by Leila Philip
This is what I've just started and I'm too early into it to say much, but it's interesting so far.
Blurb from Amazon:
The New York Times Editors' Choice
NPR Science Friday Book Club Selection An intimate and revelatory dive into the world of the beaver—the wonderfully weird rodent that has surprisingly shaped American history and may save its ecological future.
From award-winning writer Leila Philip, BEAVERLAND is a masterful work of narrative science writing, a book that highlights, though history and contemporary storytelling, how this weird rodent plays an oversized role in American history and its future. She follows fur trappers who lead her through waist high water, fur traders and fur auctioneers, as well as wildlife managers, PETA activists, Native American environmental vigilantes, scientists, engineers, and the colorful group of activists known as beaver believers.
Beginning with the early trans-Atlantic trade in North America, Leila Philip traces the beaver’s profound influence on our nation’s early economy and feverish western expansion, its first corporations and multi-millionaires. In her pursuit of this weird and wonderful animal, she introduces us to people whose lives are devoted to the beaver, including a Harvard scientist from the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, who uses drones to create 3-dimensional images of beaver dams; and an environmental restoration consultant in the Chesapeake whose nickname is the “beaver whisperer”.
What emerges is a poignant personal narrative, a startling portrait of the secretive world of the contemporary fur trade, and an engrossing ecological and historical investigation of these heroic animals who, once trapped to the point of extinction, have returned to the landscape as one of the greatest conservation stories of the 20th century. Beautifully written and impeccably researched, BEAVERLAND reveals the profound ways in which one odd creature and the trade surrounding it has shaped history, culture, and our environment.
Daily Science and Inspiration
Had this idea the other day. The way there are religious or philosophy books with daily entries or motivations, I would love to see something like that. A book I can make a morning routine about, that delves into a science discovery and what enabled it or how it happened, and what inspiration can be taken from it.
June 3rd, 2023
Automated Archives for June, 3rd 2023
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Wallabag Additions
These are articles that which I saved today so that I may read them later. Substance and quality will vary drastically.
- Biden’s Debt Deal Strategy: Win in the Fine Print (nytimes.com)
- How Tokyo crushed the Nimbys (unherd.com)
Chess For the Day
Record: 2-0-2
Net Elo Change: +9
Games Played
- Shohrux_Begimov - WIN
- Povilas555 - LOSS
- cas4bl4nc4 - LOSS
- Semijad - WIN
Blog Posts On This Day
- 2022-06-03 (4 posts)
"Faith Kipyegon smashes 1500m world record in Diamond League meeting" (theguardian.com)
Washington Post digital subscriptions on sale for Memorial Day Weekend
Just a heads up. I re-subscribed to them as the sale is for it to cost $0.99/month for the next year.
This uniform is amazing (twitter.com)
The new alternate uniforms for the Nippon-Ham Fighters were designed by their manager — Tsuyoshi Shinjo. pic.twitter.com/W1uPHwvH1Q
— Front Office Sports (@FOS) May 26, 2023
"'Aunty Edith' is the first Hawaiian woman on a U.S. quarter" (npr.org)
"Through hula and chanting, Edith Kanaka?ole preserved the history, knowledge and heritage of the Native Hawaiian people," said Kristie McNally, U.S. Mint deputy director, speaking at the celebration of the quarter's release in Hilo, Hawaii on May 6. "Her tireless efforts teaching environmental conservation to future generations ... has made her a role model for all Americans."
Fort Bragg becomes Fort Liberty as Conferderate renamings continue (washingtonpost.com 🗝️)
I heard this during listening to NPR's news yesterday on the drive home. Glad to see another Confederate general erased.
June 2nd, 2023
Automated Archives for June, 2nd 2023
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Chess For the Day
Record: 7-0-3
Net Elo Change: +22
Games Played
- x_dfcs - WIN
- Barni88 - WIN
- nantek1955 - WIN
- velomash - WIN
- SaintPneumonia - LOSS
- Garfieldontherun - WIN
- maarten-stokhorst - LOSS
- metehan1909 - WIN
- notgewd - LOSS
- fuihfuefuiewn - WIN
Blog Posts On This Day
- 2003-06-02 (1 post)
50 killed, many more trapped, after trains derail in India (npr.org)
Two passenger trains derailed Friday in India, killing at least 50 people and trapping hundreds of others inside more than a dozen damaged rail cars, officials said.
About 400 people were taken to hospitals after the accident, which happened in eastern India, about 220 kilometers (137 miles) southwest of Kolkata, officials said. The cause was under investigation.
Ten to 12 coaches of one train derailed, and debris from some of the mangled coaches fell onto a nearby track, said Amitabh Sharma, a railroad ministry spokesperson.
The debris was hit by another passenger train coming from the opposite direction, and up to three coaches of the second train also derailed, Sharma said.
June 1st, 2023
Automated Archives for June, 1st 2023
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Chess For the Day
Record: 4-0-5
Net Elo Change: -5
Games Played
- andrewmurano - WIN
- super3714 - LOSS
- jgbarza - WIN
- perss - WIN
- Dayron_15 - LOSS
- vorlon - LOSS
- octoberk1 - WIN
- ZIAD_88 - LOSS
- Molafk - LOSS
Blog Posts On This Day
- 2022-06-01 (8 posts)