Author: akurjata
Any recommendations for recipe management apps?
Finally used up the summer squash
Some good used book finds today
“That a thing is unreal does not make it untrue.”
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet, Vol. 1
So something my wife pointed out to me that I’d never realized before, about Groundhog’s Day: where we live, six more weeks of winter and an early spring are the same thing
Just found out Kindle editions of Ta-Nehisi Coate’s Black Panther trade paperbacks (A Nation Under Our Feet Vol. 1-3 and Avengers of the New World 1) are on sale for like $3 a piece (in Canada at least).
Forgot to take a photo but made this for dinner. Just a normal store-bough crust. Delicious, definitely keeping the recipe. Brussell sprouts are the best.
Kinsey Wilson, one-time NPR and NYT digital chief, a new adventure: WordPress
Amidst all the troubles with Facebook/media in general, having a public news guy move to one of the longest-running open web properties is certainly interesting.
Here’s Wilson:
“WordPress powers millions of news websites, many focused on local communities. I think it creates an opening to work with others to address what is frankly an alarming crisis in local journalism.“
Kind of tempted by this vintage electric. It has real strings but plugs into an amp for full sound…
For today’s blogging challenge, I wrote about Leonard Cohen and the inevitable defeat we all face
Fair enough.
“If someone feels that being on Facebook is not good for your business, you shouldn’t be on Facebook. Let’s be clear about that. This is not about us trying to make everybody happy. My job is not to make publishers happy. My job is to ensure that there is quality news on Facebook and that the publishers who want to be on Facebook and want to do quality news on Facebook have a business model that works. That’s very different. So if anyone feels that this isn’t the right platform for them, then they should not be on Facebook. I don’t see us as the answer to the problem.”
In case you can’t read it, someone has written in the snow the words “No we don’t”
Swampy trail
Toronto’s former chief planner Jennifer Keesmaat writes “mid-sized cities hold the key to economic growth and quality of life in Canada, and they’ve taken too long to realize it“:
“Many municipalities talk the talk when it comes to seeking sustainable growth, yet create market distortions through flawed policy that continues to facilitate sprawl. Almost every mid-sized Canadian city has recognized in policy documents the importance of a compact, mixed-use, liveable urban centre to its identity, attractiveness, population growth and economic development. And yet our latest census data reveals car-oriented suburban growth is unfettered in mid-sized Canadian cities. The vast majority of growth—80 per cent—is suburban-auto oriented.”
Hoo boy does that resonate.