“Dedicate yourself to getting the disk into the heart of the MCP. This interface is located at its base. We will not be able to communicate again unless you succeed. Go!”
“I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships? Motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways?”
Lunch Monday last week. Blended frozen açai and a banana, peanut butter granola, strawberries, pineapple, blueberries, coconut, local honey on top in that order.
#acaibowl #granola #strawberries #pineapple #blueberries #coconutflakes #honey #healthy #vegetarian (and #vegan if you're ok with honey) #fruit #lunch #food #heycreatedaily #heycookdaily #nofilter
🐟🍕 My first salmon pizza creation, dinner Sunday last week. ... Home cooked lemon pepper dill salmon, reheated and flaked onto a slice of freshly toasted Escape From New York plain cheese.
And now it’s time to get up for #NPSF Fort Mason!
No race, but #carboloading anyway for #novemberproject. #eattonp #nptoeat
LEGOLAND heather gray sweatshirt, ATARI red felt on black with red half sleeves & collar #tshirt — both men's large (mislabeled medium). Free to a good home (UPDATE: Atari shirt claimed)
New deck PR: 17:43 with @mviski@sakluger@Nov_Project_SF Cut 1:02s from two weeks ago! Usual 2-10,J-A=11-14: ♥ pushup ♣ crunch ♦ leglift ♠ squat + Joker= 1 min plank
Strangely, I felt like I was pushing, but not pushing as hard as last time. Had no idea I was ahead on time until I could see only a few cards remaining and the timer was still at 16 minutes plus change.
This morning’s predawn weather was pretty ideal, and working out with @Nov_Project friends is always a positive motivator.
I changed my silo (social media) profiles to private today to:
Direct new people to my indieweb site (instead of silos) where people can read my posts directly, or get automatic updates using new IndieWeb readers like:
Treat Instagram in particular as primarily a means to the ends of processing/posting photos and videos on my own site.
Though I continue to admire (and document) their “reading” user experience: how much more focused, primarily positive (perhaps choice of followings), and just overall pleasant it is to follow posts from people on Instagram.
To be an indieweb canary. Many of the tools and services we have built in the IndieWebCamp.com community are designed for public posts and interactions, including with silos. I changed my silo profiles to private, or to make private posts by default, e.g. Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Flickr and documented how to do so here:
To learn firsthand what the challenges are, both user experience and technical, e.g.
How do people interact with private POSSE (syndicated) copies of public indieweb original posts?
What are the personal challenges of understanding the different publics of mixed private silo vs public indieweb posts?
To start better understanding existing private account and privacy user experiences & expectations, and documenting them to accelerate indieweb “best of the best” privacy & private publishing design.
In that last respect, this is just one of many private vs. public experiments I will be conducting, including with my own website and posts, to gain real world experience of the privacy design challenges and opportunities for individual or small group independent web sites, inspired but not burdened by existing silo designs.
By 2015, POSSE had grown far beyond the indieweb community and became an accepted open independent web practice, with many others reconceptulaizing or redeveloping it, e.g. POSSE to Medium by “Creating Medium stories via RSS”.
It’s now 2016, and just as 2010 felt like the right time to develop and show POSSE (and outdo silos at & with it), now feels like the right time for those of us with our own indieweb sites to take steps with those sites to pioneer, develop, document, and show how the independent web can do better at private accounts & posts, improving upon silos both technically, and more importantly, with better user experiences.
It turns out it’s (ironically) really hard to search for news about “negative news” — try it.
I saw the blurb about a “Study: Negative news can ruin your day” in a Captivate elevator news display, and had to go back and take a photo of it to remember the exact phrasing.
Searching for “negative news can ruin your day” I found *one* result in Google:
From the results of the study it is not hard to deduce that popular/mainstream media’s focus on negative news is actively harming anyone that consumes it, including their optimism, and what they can do to make things better.
The reason this is THE problem to solve is that it may be the biggest meta-problem to solve. That is, this problem is actively harming humanity’s collective problem solving capacity. Even incrementally solving this would increase our collective problem solving capacity, which would presumably cause us to solve more and harder problems faster.
To solve this, we need to fix the media, provide positive alternatives, and figure out how to encourage publishing and consuming of positive alternatives.
Made my own açai bowl this morning. Looks like just a bowl of fruit. Better açai bowl architecture for top-down presentation of all the goodness next time. #heycreatedaily #breakfast #nofilter
Ingredients: * Sambazon organic frozen açai packet * Nature Valley protein peanut butter granola * 1 banana, chopped into discs * 3 strawberries, similarly chopped * large handful of blueberries * drizzle of Haight Street Market local honey
I happened upon the #AdamsStreetBridge from #TheMatrix (time index 22:37) this past Tuesday morning when I decided to follow my instincts rather than Google Maps for the ~25 minute walk from Surry Hill to the CSS Working Group Meeting.
The workout temple where I set a 18:45 deck PR with @zcorpan_ yesterday (Wednesday) morning. #latergram #nofilter #Sydney #Australia #ReservoirStreet #SurryHills
The Matrix is alive and well in Sydney. #Memocorp #green #grid #latergram #nofilter #TheMatrix #Matrix #Memo #corp #logo #building #Sydney #Australia #nogreenfilterneeded
I think I had extra frustration and impatience (tantek.com/t4fU1) to work out this morning.
Perhaps it also had to do with seeing Star Wars: The Force Awakens last night at the Sydney Darling Harbour IMAX (imax.com.au) - The “World’s Biggest IMAX”. In 2D, how it was meant to be seen.
After the deck this morning, @zcorpan wanted to do a minute of burpees, so we did that too. 15.
Mothership Bowl paired with a soy flat white (not pictured). Late (AKA second) breakfast. Taking a morning break after a middle of the night teleconference.
Thanks to @foursquare for the venue recommendation.
Having trouble with acceptance. Stuck on frustration and anger.
It’s been over 2 months since I went for a proper run.
I can’t say I've reached anything remotely close to a peaceful state of acceptance.
At this point only sheer force of rational will is keeping me fairly disciplined about letting my knee heal fully (then wait 2 more weeks) before I run again. Not acceptance.
Every day I take all the frustration driven impatience and force myself to think it through:
The quickest way to running at my peak again is to let my knee fully heal, until it feels *the same* as my other (healthy) knee, no difference in swelling or pain, and then wait two more weeks just to be sure.
Despite icing, every night I go to bed knowing I still can’t run, and every morning I wake up (sometimes hours too early) to the same.
I cope through a mental exercise of gratefulness.
Breathing deeply I am grateful for overcoming asthma as I did the past year (by running, ironically). I am grateful that I can walk smoothly, even quickly, without pain or asymmetry.
That works for a while, and eventually the frustration returns.
Fortunately I have found exercises that are fairly easy on my knee, yet strenuous enough to push myself physically.
I am grateful for stationery body-weight exercises. I am grateful for being able to do yoga, by myself or in a class. I am grateful I know my body well enough to adjust poses as needed. I am grateful my knee has recovered enough to boulder.
I try to relax, reflect on all the feelings of anger and frustration, and use them to build motivation, drive, and intensity into workouts like a deck (tantek.com/t4fL2), or Sebastians (tantek.com/t4fT1). I confess the anger helps me push through, to keep pushing despite feeling short of breath, or muscles burning with fatigue.
Setting a PR (personal record) this way is bittersweet.
Whether by a few seconds or burpees, every such PR feels great. And yet, it’s hard to fight the feeling that it was achieved partially as a response to something negative.
I’m not sure what else to do. I’m too stubborn to just give up, which is what “acceptance” feels like.
Maybe it’s this emotional cycle that I should accept, rather than my injury.
Nearly every day now I feel improvements in my knee. A little less pain or soreness in the morning. A little more flexibility and range of motion in yoga poses. Or walking a flight of steps, not realizing til afterwards that there was no pain.
I am grateful for healing. I am grateful for the knowledge that I will run again some day, and when I do I will be stronger than ever before.
I try to appreciate these improvements and yet it’s still too easy to feel impatient and wonder.
When will I be able to run a mile around my neighborhood again? Run to and in @Nov_Project_SF? Run up & down hills? Train for my next race? Will I recover in time to train for my next race? (Bay to Breakers in May).
I can already tell those last two weeks will be the hardest.
My #bitcoin brings all the spambots to the Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tantek.celik/posts/10102083451927433 And they’re like It’s more global than yours, Damn right it’s more magic than yours, I can promise you perfect combination, 100% per month, But I have to crowdfund.
Finally #bouldered the last #V2, a tough reachy blue #underhang that starts just below center, goes to the left, and ends in a tiny blue hold in the top left.
Angle to ground shown for reference. #boulder #heysweatdaily #bouldering #nofear #nofilter
We will keep documenting, analyzing, deconstructing, reconstructing, designing, redesigning, building, rebuilding, iterating until as a community we’ve added the best silo features and UX to our own sites, and have gone beyond, with better features, that are more user-centric, more user-empowering, and more user-respectful.
The @W3C published Webmention https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/ a key #indieweb & #federation building block. Congratulations to @aaronpk and the @indiewebcamp community for all the diligent work, writing, implementing, testing, iterating to get it to this stage and working with the W3C Social Web Working Group to get it published.
🌊🛬🏝 Aloha! From shoreline bluegreens to chunky black landscapes, it felt like we were touching down on a different planet. #Kona #Hawaii #latergram #nofilter
2016-01-08: Welcome to the world of #BladeRunner Today is Replicant Roy Batty’s #inceptdate. ---- Reposted from instagram.com/bladerunnerreality: "All he'd wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where do I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got?" 🎊🎉🎈
One deliberate #change I am making in #2016 is to always wear 1+ solidly non-black item of #clothing every day.
Inspired by the clothing styles in the world of #Tomorrowland (from the movie, which embodied & expressed #creativity, #individuality, and #colorful #optimism), I started experimenting with this late last year. It's fairly easy to combine a single color with all-black, even two colors.
Originally I simplified to nearly always wearing all or nearly all black to both reduce outfit deciding cognitive load, and frankly, contribute as little aesthetic noise to my urban environment as possible.
One of the themes I picked up from Tomorrowland is that while it's good to be an #optimist about the #future especially in the face of popular cynicism and dystopia fetishism, it's even better to express that outlook openly, by actions, and yes, even presentation.
So I decided to do so with a sharply contrasting bright color (or white) against, or breaking out of, the darkness.
* Dark grey tshirt with purple #sciencehackday logo * Aqua #Threadless #myothercarisalightcycle hoodie * #Betabrand Audio Engineer's Hoodie (cut more like a jacket) * H&M slightly stretchy twill pants
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