Up late to watch the Perseids. Was out for 30 minutes. Saw two bright ones and I think I saw some very dim ones but it’s hard to tell.
Today I gave my 90th blood donation. I was surprised.
Latest peeve: Seeing staunch used instead of stanch when describing something that needs to be restricted or contained. Makes my teeth hurt.
Ann and I are back to hiking in MN State Parks. Great River Bluffs was the last. We’ll revisit in autumn. The colors should be awesome!
A view of the Mississippi valley from Great River Bluffs State Park just south of Winona MN.
RIP Fran Allen. IBM Fellow Emerita.
I’m beginning to really dislike Markdown for technical doc. All of our system’s special values begin with *. Unix-style pathnames contain /. I wish I could turn off the highlighting for those characters in tools like iAWriter, Bear, and Ulysses.
History shows again and again how Nature points out the folly of men.
Listening to Stephen Fry read Mythos. Very entertaining. 📚
📚 So Far, So Good Ursula K. LeGuin’s final book of poems. Each one a gem. #mbmay
📚If you haven’t read Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac. Read it. Read it now. #mbmay
Violet(s). #mbmay
Indigo. #mbmay
Blue. #mbmay
Green. #mbmay
Yellow. #mbmay
Orange #mbmay
Red #mbmay
Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
The White Queen 💬
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Henry David Thoreau 💬