Notes

“While he was still a long way off,” from the parable of the Prodigal Son, is one of my favorite minor phrases in the Bible. What’s yours?

Anyone have an at-home cold plunge setup they enjoy?

Has anyone integrated audio/dictation into their notes, writing, personal knowledge management workflows in a way they’re happy with? I haven’t done anything like this yet, but I’m interested!

What are the most versatile shoes you own?

You mean not a single Trojan horse-dragger was, idk, lazy enough to ask “Why is this thing so damn heavy, anyways?!”?

Finally saw The Odyssey in theaters! Way more jump-scares than I was expecting, but, wow! What a film! Has me thinking a lot about xenia/hospitality, “Zeus’s law,” and how far short we fall of even that standard, when it comes to immigrants and the poor.

As a child, what was your relationship to the terms “strong-willed” or “obedient” re: yourself and/or your siblings?

Finally getting around to reading “The Age of Reading is Over” in The Atlantic (the hard copy, one of my last since my subscription has lapsed, arrived). It’s some of the saddest stuff I’ve ever read, and I’m not even to the AI section yet!

Sigh, no, we don’t need PERMANENT Daylight Saving Time, we need to get RID of Daylight Saving Time! Standard Time all the time!

Crossbody/sling bag on a guy. Yea or nay?

I’m of two minds (at least) on the Balogun mess. You? #WorldCup

Testing a small POSSE improvement: this Note should carry a link back to its canonical copy on joshuapsteele.com when it reaches Micro.blog and Bluesky.

Resurrected my Bluesky account, using my domain name as my handle. Testing my Drafts > Website > MicroBlog > Bluesky flow here!

Cabo Verde pronunciation in Portuguese. Is it “KAH-boo VEHR-duh” or “KAH-boo VEHR-jee”? I think Brazilian Portuguese would be the latter “-jee” version (at least in the NE where I visited some 20 years ago).

Unless we get our fear and greed under control, I don’t think we’ve got another 250 years in us. 🇺🇸