Jack Baty Daily

Daily notes from Jack about everything

Tuesday, August 8, 2023

🌫 Mist +61°F
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There are many things I should be doing right now. There are even things I want to be doing, but I don't feel like doing any of them. I can't seem to shake this lethargy.


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Tangible day

Today strikes me as a Tangible Things kind of day. I may need to shut down the computer for a while.


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I'm late to Nick Offerman, but the more I learn about him, the more I like him.

We have been tricked into thinking that purchasing things is a creative act.

Nick Offerman, The Creative Independent

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I have a darkroom because I like to make things with my hands and I'm shit at woodworking.


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If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

Lin Yutang, "The Importance of Living"

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Jess and Taylor Swift concerts

My daughter just sent me this text out of the blue and it made me tear up just a little.


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I've never loved the way Org-mode handles archiving subtrees to *_archive files. I should've known there was a simple way to improve it. For me, that's (setq org-archive-location "~/org/archive.org::datetree/"). Now they all go into a tidy datetree in one file.