s12e03: The Ridiculously Complex, Subtle and Glorious Dynamic Context of Human Relationships
0.0 Context Setting It's morning in the Pacific Northwest, where it's a grey, cold start to Thursday, 12 May 2022. I know it's cold because the five year old...
s12e02: Technology and Being a Person
0.0 Context Setting It’s Wednesday, 11 May 2022 and I am slowly getting back to work now that our kids are significantly less ill. In exciting news, I...
s12e01: We Should Increase Science Funding For More Advances; Properties and Affordances of the Natural World
0.0 Context Setting It’s Tuesday, 10 May 2022, an overcast morning in Portland, Oregon and this is episode 1, season 12 of Things That Caught My Attention....
s11e50: Community Content
0.0 Context Setting It’s a sunny Monday, 9 May 2022 in Portland, Oregon. Today the little kid succumbed to fever, but it’s okay because our wagon made it all...
s11e49: I Learned It From You
0.0 Context Setting It’s Friday, 6 May 2022, a grey day that’s an improvement over the full-on rain that we had during most of yesterday. It’s also episode...
s11e48: Eukaryotes
0.0 Context Setting It is Thursday, 5 May 2022 in Portland, Oregon, which for those of you in or near my timezone means it is nearly Friday, which again...
s11e47: The Social Safety Net and... Financial Services?
0.0 Context Setting It's a sunny Wednesday, 4 May 2022 in Portland, Oregon and this morning's chocolate malt-o-meal was made to the approval of the smaller...
s11e46: Independent Verification and Validation
0.0 Context Setting It’s Tuesday, 3 May 2022 and instead of about 9am it’s about 5pm. My wrists hurt, which is a reminder that I should put my braces back...
s11e45: Another Place
0.0 Context Setting It’s Monday, 2 May 2022 in Portland, Oregon and it is not a sunny day. It is not a cold day, either, and it is not a calm day. It is a...
s11e44: Connect the dots
0.0 Context Setting It's Friday, 29 April 2022 in Portland, Oregon and today's light is diffuse because of more cloud than sky in today's skybox. Our cat,...
s11e43: Didn't Organize, Only Moved; Context Collapse
0.0 Context setting I've started writing this bit after finishing the rest of the newsletter so today (you'll find out why) it feels especially... funny....
s11e42: Storage is cheap, thinking is expensive, consequences ensue
0.0 Context Setting It's Wednesday, 27 April 2022 in Portland, Oregon and the ratio of blue to grey in the skybox above is around 35% blue to 65% grey, but...
s11e41: Form Factors, Link Better
0.0 Context setting It's Tuesday, April 26, 2022 here in Portland, Oregon. There's the buzz of someone doing yard work outside, the sky above is grey (tuned...
s11e40: Oxo Grips for Software and Vexatious Litigation
0.0 Context Setting It’s Monday, April 25 and a grey but not yet rainy day in Portland, Oregon. On Saturday we had a family emergency that involved looking...
s11e39: Wirecutter Reviews: The Best Person To Determine Health Insurance Coverage For Most People Is You
0.0 Context Setting It's Friday April 22, 2022. Last night, the bluetooth cat printer I ordered arrived and I was a Good Person who waited until this morning...
s11e38: Metalabels, or: Geocities Brands, and Old Mode
0.0 Context Setting Oh my stars and garters it's Thursday 21 April, 2022 and it's sunny and bright outside, I can hear the birds signing and if I opened the...
s11e37: Brand. Intimacy.
0.0 Context Setting It’s a grey typical morning on April 20, 2022 in Portland, Oregon. People sometimes joke about how terrible the weather is here. I...
s11e36: Five Things
0.0 Context Setting It is Tuesday, April 19, 2022 in Portland, Oregon. Today I bagged up EIGHT bin bags/trash bags full of old DVDs (mainly region 2 ones...
s11e35: A Method for Efficient Exploration of Search Space
0.0 Context setting It’s Monday, April 18, 2022 in Portland Oregon and there is absolutely nothing interesting going on with the weather out my window....
s11e34: News you can use; the Finocene
0.0 Context setting It's Friday, April 15, 2022 in Portland, Oregon and while it's sunny in my immediate vicinity I can look out the window and see a rain...
