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@alexwolfe Reading this just as I put on my Blundstones. It might be worth asking whether they resole at one of their corporate stores.

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@jeroensangers How does it compare to Time Surfing?

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Student quote of the day:

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Mozart’s dad’s name was Leopold? I thought it was ALPHA Wolf Gang Mozart!

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New headphones day! I needed a lighter pair of earbuds to complement the sizable AirPods Max and Sennheiser Momentum 4s that I use much of the time, especially during the winter. I’m really enjoying these Denon Perl Pro earbuds and the price was right.

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@HG21C Many of my students are very much interested in professions that won’t be replaced by AI. They’re also interested in developing qualities that can’t be replaced by AI.

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@kev A buddy of mine buys broken West German Dual turntables on the secondary market and lovingly restores them to their original condition, reselling them for a hefty markup to collectors. Used records are very easy to obtain now, especially in chain stores such as Value Village in Canada.

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@kev Great question. Some of my students are doing this and they’ve talked to me at length about why they make this choice. Basically they love music, especially from previous decades, and they want the original experience of how people engaged with music back then. One of my students buys vintage portable CD players in order to listen to bands like MCR and the Strokes. Owning the media as a physical thing is also important, as is listening to music interruption-free.

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@aleciabatson The recipe I use calls for orzo but I use ditali. Better texture and everyone loves it.

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@KimberlyHirsh Love the tiny weeknotes idea! Couple of questions: How are you finding the quality of the Puzzmo crosswords? Is Pokopia an interesting game?

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@aleciabatson Same here! The OG recipe I somehow ended up with has three sauces (two are reductions) which are eventually blended together at the end. This is a recipe that above all requires lots of time, which is why I usually make such vast quantities.

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@ruari Fair. My challenge is that regular work days are full of appointments (between 6-10 a day) and it is imperative that I be on the clock at all times. Decimal/regular time conversion would need to be a non-negotiable.

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@ruari I see. The conversion looks straightforward to do with either your script or an AI shortcut but I could see myself using handwritten tables in a Field Notes notebook as a way cooler method of navigating (and eventually memorizing) everyday conversion.

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@ruari That Svalbard is unbelievably awesome! My mind is completely blown but I have questions, starting with how on earth you convert decimal time to traditional time and vice versa while being able to function on a regular schedule.

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Easter morning: cleaning the house, then my youngest daughter comes over from Waterloo around noon. Dinner this evening is the long recipe for Beef Stroganoff with a full cook/prep time of 2-3 hours with three sauces which are eventually combined. But always worth it.

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@writingslowly Always. I find myself most interested in blogging when I have minimal plans and keep an open mind. Subjects emerge, frequently in multiple directions. Unpredictability is part of the fun, while a scheduled content calendar usually has me running for the exit.

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@jaheppler Hey that’s my home planet!

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@alexwolfe Strong list and I agree with your choices for the most part. I would add the 1972 Tarkovsky version of Solaris (not the 2002 remake with George Clooney).

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@writingslowly Love this idea. Exploring a large field of inquiry through the organic growth of small posts is what originally drew me to blogging in 2005 and I still feel the pull all these years later.

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@aa Cheers! Long working day here as well.

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@lzbth Beautiful! I really like how the natural flow of speech emerges through the short lines after a few readings, some end stopped, some moving into the next line.

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Morning coffee at 6:15am. 8 hours of teaching piano today as well as a 7am grocery run for Easter dinner (stores closed yesterday and tomorrow). ☕️

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@jacks Really enjoyed this EP and the classic U2 sound. COEXIST seemed to have some Sleep Token vibes.

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@aleciabatson Congrats! I’m back on Mastodon via micro.blog because of the Facebook algorithm getting too vile these days.

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@Christopher My wife and I caught just the end of the St. Patrick’s Day parade as we sat down to lunch at Earl’s on Bay Street.

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Micro.blog site is updated and ready to go with a new template and errors fixed. TIL Brave sometimes has caching issues with rendering templates.

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Anne-Laure Le Cunff writes in Aeon about the hypercurious mind about how our brains often feel constrained in some environments and excel in others:

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What if we’ve been looking at this backwards? What if the question isn’t what constrains attention, but what captures it? In many people with ADHD, signals linked to curiosity – such as novelty, uncertainty, prediction error, informational reward – carry higher motivational weight. In plain terms, some cues feel disproportionately worth following. From this perspective, what looks like distractibility can be understood as rapid, stimulus-driven...

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@manton Thanks for the heads up! Listening to Easter Lily now. I still miss U2’s raw sound from the 1980s (particularly with the Edge’s sound), but these songs have a lovely reflective quality with good songwriting as well as relevant lyrics.

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@bjhess Resurfacing is exactly what makes the open web superior to all closed systems! The fatal flaw of Facebook and others is that although there is all sorts of new relevant content surfaced via tha algorithm, it’s next to impossible to find older content more than a few days old.

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@pratik I’ve done the same. The worst offender is the web version of Outlook, which uses a microscopic font size.

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@mandaris My first Aeropress lasted 12 years! The rubber started to disintegrate so I decided it was time to buy another a few weeks ago.

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@maique The microbloggers should take precedence!

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Matcha and tonic is my new favorite drink.

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Morning is all about the coffee ☕️

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There is proper authentic Mexican food in Windsor! Tonight’s dinner was chile rellenos at Mi Casita on Wyandotte Street.

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From my lunch break on the Windsor waterfront earlier today.

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Finished reading: Learn Like a Pro by Barbara Oakley PhD 📚

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This was a really practical book that I’ll be putting to use in my own learning and teaching. I first found out about Barbara Oakley’s work on Ben Owden’s Why Lead? podcast. Highly recommended.

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Currently reading: Brain Power by Catherine de Lange 📚

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Currently reading: Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi 📚

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A small cafe in Tokyo has a single time-traveling chair, but there are several rules which must be observed…

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RIP Daniel Kahneman.

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Had a fun morning teaching an adult piano student. The 4th through 7th Goldberg Variations, then Brahms' arrangement of the Bach Chaconne for the left hand. 🎵 🎹

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Some Suno AI tunes shared on Facebook in the last day:

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In der Weihnachtsbäckerei is the most 2024 thing I’ve heard so far: an AI-generated Japanese pop song, in German, about a Christmas bakery. 🎵

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Espresso, a quick breakfast, shower, and then 8 hours of teaching piano students.

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Rebecca Toh on how narrow points of focus can be the secret of this universe:

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Having the discipline to sit down every day for a few hours to write can make all the difference between someone who manages to write a book and someone who doesn’t.

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Let’s hear it for simple and boring systems.

\n","summary":"","url":"https://chrisfoley.micro.blog/2024/03/22/rebecca-toh-on.html","date_published":"2024-03-22T14:13:33+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Foley","url":"https://chrisfoley.micro.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F39%2F1385777.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"chrisfoley"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-03-22 14:13","date_timestamp":1711116813,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"34012324","content_html":"Props go out to @heyloura for her Lillihub client for Micro.blog. Things I like so far include the layout of threaded conversations and mentions as well as the Discover area at the very top of the interface next to Timeline. There’s something really satisfying about using opinionated software that easily p... chrisfoley.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://chrisfoley.micro.blog/2024/03/22/props-go-out.html","date_published":"2024-03-22T14:09:26+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Foley","url":"https://chrisfoley.micro.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F39%2F1385777.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"chrisfoley"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-03-22 14:09","date_timestamp":1711116566,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"33978129","content_html":"Four years ago on March 21, 2020, a recital I did with mezzo soprano Krisztina Szabó at Tapestry Opera was the last concert of the season in Toronto before everything shut down for the pandemic. Tapestry has made the recital public for one week, and you can watch it below:\n.embed-container { position: rela... chrisfoley.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://chrisfoley.micro.blog/2024/03/21/four-years-ago.html","date_published":"2024-03-22T01:24:36+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Foley","url":"https://chrisfoley.micro.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F39%2F1385777.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"chrisfoley"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-03-22 01:24","date_timestamp":1711070676,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"33940203","content_html":"
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We’re not here to crack any mysteries. We’re here to roll around in life and experience its peaks and troughs and make discoveries and pick up things and poke at things and create things that express our ignorance and awe at all this mystery and beauty.

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Rebecca Toh: 04: photography as a result of life

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This morning I’m grateful for the experience of browsing Micro.blog, which largely involves visiting elegantly designed blogs with zero clutter and reading interesting articles, most of which generously invite further thought. Back to my espresso.

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Your ikigai can be found in small daily rituals, side projects, and deep conversations. It can be found in moments of silence and idleness, or in moments of creative flow.

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Anne-Laure Le Cunff: Rediscovering Ikigai: What We Got Wrong and How to Find Meaning in Life

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