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I got some hours in front of a couple of different text editors this weekend.

Two pages about what were maybe the local epicenters of trauma shared between my parents and I. It is not what I expected to come out, but it did. I rushed off the first draft of these spare pages to a good friend. Tears came out too. A couple of guttural cries even.

Yesterday I banged out some useless Swift code to solve notional tutorial problems. But hey, my brain was working on its own and the code compiled as I dusted off some programming fundamentals.

If only I could sink into my weeks building on these things at my own direction.

Anytime there’s news of a child dying, and most especially by the hands of their own parent or caregiver, my heart breaks for days.

While I haven’t used it much, no regrets to my micro.blog renewing. Happy to see Ulysses will let me post directly from the app to here, and wondering if WWDC is going to inspire me and my cough copious cough amounts of spare time.

The Internet is getting better (yes, parts of it, or the people and businesses behind it continue to be rubbish) with all this… enjoying catching-up with what Kottke.org and LaughingSquid.com (some old school aggregation and curation) have corralled over the past week. Digging Brian May’s Instagram posts. There are many little reasons to hope. For now I’m focusing on individual creativity and sharing.

(Without devolving into a power politics analysis, we gotta do more than hope. Gotta keep naming the whole thing and realizing we have barely maybe begun to fight for the thing that could bring everything else that gives reason to hope down. But we gotta give ourselves breaks too. And create. I’m so stuck… I’ve forgotten how.)

Plenty has happened since I last bothered to post here.

I got to travel a bit more, my wife gave birth to our son, I’ve been mucking around on the preview of Planetary, I got promoted.

I’ve gotten overwhelmed, stuck, unstuck, stuck again.

Working on it.

“The handicappers influence the betting … the horserace coverage is more distorted than ever.” My only quibble w/this analysis is it was too extreme long ago in parallel w/media consolidation & declines in media literacy. www.wnycstudios.org/story/on-…

Really digging this Orson Welles radio play about Benito Juarez and the Mexican resistance to French imperialism being aired tonight on an NPR affiliate. I’m sure it’s a flawed telling of the history, but I dig Welles and its a more in depth telling of what Cinco de Mayo is an observation of than most mentions in broadcast media now.