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π· Day 4: foliage #mbapr
Taken at a local disc golf course last summer.
π· Day 3: card #mbapr
Another view of Day 1’s subject.
π· Day 2: flowers #mbapr
A beautiful bouquet my wife put together. We got these flowers from our friend and her mom, they run a flower stand together at our local farmer’s market.
Looking forward to the Micro.blog April Photoblogging Challenge!
π· Day 1: toy #mbapr
These playing cards sit on display in the background of my video calls. I used to mess around with card magic, now they get pulled down for Euchre occasionally. They also make for a nice fidget toy during meetings!
Today I learned that nasa (pronounced naw-saw) in Hebrew means “to lift, bear up, carry, take”. Seems fitting with the mission of NASA! Hebrew Lexicon
It was a beautiful day for disc golf, and then 10 minutes later… it wasn’t π
I love weekend days when I can stroll around town, ducking in and out of local shops with the family.
Just stumbled on https://aboutideasnow.com/ on Mastodon. This seems like a great resource for finding good personal sites to follow and people to connect with!
It’s a tough job being the human garbage disposal that cleans up after family meals, but someone has to do it.
Filling out a local tax refund form this morning, dreaded but necessary π. I only worked in the office 16% of the time last year. I actually spent more time not working at all, since I was able to use parental leave. I’m feeling thankful for NASA’s parental leave policy!
My wife and I finally put pins in our world map! I’m grateful for the travel opportunities we’ve had, but there’s a lot more yet to be explored! ππΊοΈ
vast expanse, stars born,
galaxies like sand, and us
pale blue perfection
Been feeling resistance to posting on here. So this is me doing something small (“literally anything”) to get moving again Do literally anything
Coffee and journals were made for each other. β ποΈ
Spotted this during date night. A good omen?
“What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.”
- Tim Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek
This is a big reason that I’ve been off of social media. The main thing I miss is keeping up with life updates from friends and family. Someone should build an AI that watches my social feeds and sends me a summarized weekly email of my friends' and family’s updates.
I added a new option for subscribing to new posts on my Subscribe page. Now you can choose between subscribing only to long-form Articles or subscribing to all posts.
This one gave me chills at the end. A wonderful piece by Henrik Karlsson. The third chair
I’ve had a Now page for a bit now, but just had my site added to nownownow.com. Pretty neat that Derek curates this all himself. He seems like a kind and down-to-earth guy over email, which tracks with what I picked up from his site.
I’m getting excited for this moon landing! Coverage has started: www.space.com/intuitive…