1236pm and I still haven’t eaten, so I have failed at the day already. Remarkably little of interest on the RSS today. The dollar continues to crash against the pound, and of course I have a payment in transit right now. I fully intended to go out for coffee this morning but it was cold and I had things to do early on – including trying to fix the fact that my newsletter header image is somehow vanishing in Beehiiv after years of working perfectly.
You ever have one of those days where you just know from the get that nothing is going to go well? Happy Monday.
TODAY:
- A list of some of the current smart glasses options. I still wonder if glasses aren’t a dead end. In The Economist today, I read: “HSBC, a bank, estimates there are 15m users of smart glasses worldwide; Apple, which reports its latest quarterly earnings this week, is thought to have sold 250m iPhones last year alone.”
- The film version of PROJECT HAIL MARY is going to be two hours and forty-six minutes long! I actually liked the book, but I’m going to be curious to see if Drew Goddard addressed the underlying autistic note in and the apparent asexuality of the protagonist.
- And an IG carousel of bookshops in London, a few of which I know personally, some of which I’ve never heard off, so I’m off to look at websites:
OPERATIONS: scripts, foreword, prose series development, outline, newsletter template fixing, running out of month very very fast now
STATUS: made a venison goulash from scratch last night that turned out very well. Secret weapon:
READING: SPIES: THE EPIC INTELLIGENCE WAR BETWEEN EAST AND WEST, Calder Walton (UK) (US+)
LISTENING:
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