From one of my mailing lists – they are looking for someone to help with soldering/assembling wifi connected sensors for heatseek.org – totally worthwhile cause, using data to hold unscrupulous landlords accountable, and they pay $25/hour.
If there’s someone around here who wants to lend a hand let me know (or just contact them directly).
The Country of Old Age
A great interview by Terry Gross with author John Leland on his book, Happiness is a Choice You Make
every day, learning of my new flaws, and obvious inability to handle the old known ones.
I wish I actually liked alcohol.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
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