Was trying to find a song for my playlist in Gujarati but YouTube Music's search feature is, um, kinda random. Returned among other things the wonderful song Ya Sudahlah by Bondan Prakoso & Fade2Black
Professor and presenter, Chris Lintott, talks about his new book Our Accidental Universe; a tour of chance encounters and human error in pursuit of asteroids, pulsars, radio waves, new stars and alien life. Even with incredible technological developments, the major astronomical events of the past century are largely down to plain ol’ good luck.
Whoever at HYBE came up with the video concept of "Put Jimin in a big bed under a fluffy comforter and have him slide around and flirt with the camera" ought to have a raise or promotion or something because I've watched this like 800 times in the last couple of days.
Ich suche seit den letzten Wochen etwas an Motivation und "Sinn" (... und Zeit) um #Serendipity#s9y etwas in die Composer-Gegenwart zu ziehen, aber das ist so viel Arbeit, ich schaffe es mit meinen anderen OSS Interessen kaum. Da boosten solche PRs mich enorm. Mal schauen was ich draus machen kann -- Danke 🧡
Why do I enjoy social media (previously twitter, now Mastodon)?
TL;DR:
I love to learn new things, &
I'm dyslexic.
Micro blogging (remember when this kind of thing was called microblogging?) lets me serendipitously interact with many fragments, of different sorts, in a crazy stream-of-consciousness flow:
word-play, arcane facts, news, philosophy, memoirs, film & book recommendations, recipes, microfiction, art.
It's idea porn.
“Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you?”
(I've seen "ukalele" and "ukelele" in print before, but this is a new one to me. Saves on printers' ink, I suppose. The picture was posted on the Ukulele Underground forum by Jerryc41 earlier today and I'm pinching it).
@BigJackBrass I was just watching the Amazon Prime series Reacher the other night. Someone used the phase, "Couldn't hit a donkey's ass with a banjo" to describe someone's inability to shoot a target and now this. #serendipity
Back in September, I tested Praktica PLC2, a camera that's been sitting on a shelf for who-knows-how-long. Everything looked and sounded just fine, but the film turned out empty like no photos were ever taken.
There were a few explanations, the most plausible being the camera didn't catch and wind the film, and I concluded I'd have to test the camera again.
Hat jemand Lust auf nen gemeinsamen Remote-Code-Sprint in der zweiten Januar-Woche, um #Serendipity#s9y (www.s9y.org) richtig auf Composer, CI/CD (phpcs/phpstan), (optionales) Docker-Image und so umzustellen? Habe eine kleine Agenda gebastelt, und brauche nur noch etwas mehr Motivation/Teamspirit.
Würde es als Live-Coding mit Screensharing und so machen, inklusive spaßigen Sackgassen-Verlaufens und Haare raufen, aber gut schaffbar. Scope hoffe ich so 10-12 Stunden...
“Yoshiyuki Morioka decided in 2015 to open his bookstore that offers just one book per week.
Located in Ginza district, the small bookshop Morioka Shoten offers just one book (but sells multiple copies of it). Customers can either buy it or wait until the next week for a new literary option.”
I'm increasingly thinking that the end of randomization is something that has been robbing us of our humanity. You're unlikely to see this at random, for example, as the algorithm will tailor and target into you. How much are we missing from life when serendipity has been drained?
@DamnInteresting in the tallest building in Dubai residents live and work in the same building, and share the lifts with visitors and other office workers. It seems to do no harm at all. It encourages chance encounters and is far more sociable. #serendipity
Unusual afternoon in Hammersmith, West London. I went to the Irish Cultural Centre, normally a good place to find a quiet moment. How wrong I was, surrounded by a crew making a radio recording.
"Are you part of this?" some guy asked me, while I was writing an email. I shook my head, too busy to speak. The crew ignored me and carried on while I tried, and failed, to ignore them.
I met the 'guy', Se Merry Doyle, later. I discovered he's the producer, a charming, amusing gleaner of human eccentricity.
The high point of the event was a poetry reading of his own work by "the Racker" Donnelly whose name was previously unknown to me. His work is articulate, thoughtful & funny.
It was a wonderful way to spend an otherwise busy afternoon.
The radio show will be available on PortobeloRadio.com, part of a series called "the bright side of the road".
I'm looking forward to listening to it next Sunday at noon, or on podcast from next week. #Serendipity #OxfordComma 😂