Apple Music has started making year-in-review playlists and, well, 2022 was the year my kids officially took over the account. Behold the Top 10 in the Miljković household:
Figuring out who in the family was listening to what is left as an exercise for the reader.
Dave Winer writes about textcasting, which sounds amazing. Meanwhile, sites like Serious Eats which used to be full on blogs — and sometimes still call themselves that — don’t have an RSS feed.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood…
Currently reading: Craft Coffee: a Manual by Jessica Easto 📚
Read this a while back, but always good to have a refresher.
☕️ Entered a recently opened shop with Counter Culture Coffee logo on the window. Turns out it was their wholesale department/training center, not a store. They apologized for the confusion and let me take a bag of freshly roasted beans. This is how you get a customer for life.
Let this unsolicited 2014 cartoon of me sipping coffee in Havana sit here for posterity as I replace it with an actual photo for my micro.blog avatar. Slash account photo slash profile pic. I can’t keep up with the nomenclature. Other than the hunched back, the often unkempt sideburns, and the cup of coffee that is always close by, it never truly was a good likeness, even for 2014.
The new photo is a cutout of this particular moment in time, as I browsed through used books in front of an Athens, OH bookstore during one of our first post-pandemic trips. Yes, that feral child doing God knows what on the sidewalk is ours, and obscured by the sign just enough to be included without a privacy blur.
Athens itself And yes, having a photo from an institution unironically named the Athens Lunatic Asylum serve as my Twitter profile backdrop was a joke that up until now only I uderstood, but we are both in on it now, aren’t we, dear reader? was a delightful surprise, from the walkable downtown to its partially-abandoded Lunatic Asylum. The latter was the source of my Twitter cover photo, also saved here for posterity pending the site’s likely demise.
Athens Lunatic Asylum. The Future of Twitter?
Eeast coast beach vacations in December are underrated (Virginia Beach, VA)
Finished reading: Checkpoint Charlie by Iain MacGregor 📚
Stories of the Berlin Wall, told through interviews with (mostly Westen) contemporaries, ranging from suspensful to the mundane, meant not to offend anyone, not even the Soviets. It’s an achievement of sorts, I guess.
Fascinating how people least deserving of sitting at the table are so often the ones making the most noise.
Finished reading: Genius by James Gleick 📚
The temptation for scientists' biographers is delving too deep into their work, and not their life or process. Feynman himself gave a good account of the work, and Gleick does a great job with the life. The process remains a mystery.
Some beautiful charts in this Pew Research overview of their 2022 findings. What they show is not as beautiful, but you can’t win them all.