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Live reading of 1984

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On June 8, 2017

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In January of 2015 the DC Public Library held an event titled Orwellian America. Included a reading of 1984 in its entirety and streamed across YouTube. Those videos are no longer available.

I was reminded of this event today when I saw a similar event today.

The Orwell Foundation and UCL Festival of Culture are delighted to announce a live, start-to-finish reading of Nineteen Eighty-Four in Senate House, University of London. For the first time in the UK, hear Nineteen Eighty-Four read by a host of actors, writers, journalists and members of the public over the course of a single day in the centre of London. This unique event, part of the UCL Festival of Culture 2017, is free and open to the public.

Unlike the DC event, London’s event is available in its 11 hour entirety. (I’ve skipped the first 11 minutes, 15 seconds as they are silent.) I’ve read this book many times and look forward to listening to it again.

Best use of a tiny house

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On June 6, 2017

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I have found the best use of a tiny house.

La Librairie Itinérante: a travelling tiny house and bookshop from France.

Source: The Travelling Tiny House Bookstore

Alex Honnold Climbs Yosemite’s El Capitan Without a Rope

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On June 5, 2017

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Alex Honnold Climbs Yosemite’s El Capitan Without a Rope

On Freerider, one of the most daunting physical and mental challenges Honnold faced was two pitches of steep, undulating expanse of rock about 600 feet up. Polished smooth by glaciers over the millennia, the granite here offers no holds, forcing a climber to basically walk up it with his feet only. Honnold used a delicate technique called “smearing,” which involves pressing his rubber shoes against the rock to create just enough grip to support his weight on the incline. He had to keep his weight perfectly balanced and maintain enough forward momentum to avoid sliding off. “It’s like walking up glass,” Honnold said.

This is impressive madness. It’s interesting to see someone doing something for the first time. The interview with him afterwards was interesting too. He was so nonchalant about and chill about it. First Interview With Alex Honnold, Climber Who Scaled El Capitan Without a Rope

RSS Feed Changes

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On June 1, 2017

In Announcements

In an effort to get setup with micro.blog, the RSS feed is changing. I’ve disconnected feed.press and reverted back to WordPress’ handling of my feed.

The feed link in the menu bar should still work, but if you were using the feed.press link, it will no longer update after this post.

For the kids in the back, use this feed

Pinboard bought Delicious

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On June 1, 2017

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Maciej AKA Pinboard has been talking about buying del.icio.us for a long time. Today, Pinboard bought Delicious. I’m curious what he has in store for it.

As for the ultimate fate of the site, I’ll have more to say about that soon. Delicious has over a billion bookmarks and is a fascinating piece of web history. Even Yahoo, for whom mismanagement is usually effortless, had to work hard to keep Delicious down. I bought it in part so it wouldn’t disappear from the web.

Even if he bought it only to save the history of the web, it’s worth the purchase.

Do not attempt to compete with Pinboard.

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