weekend schmooze 001
For some reason I'm unaware of, I'm a sucker for weekly/monthly/yearly round-ups. Maybe they just give me a sense of conclusion and reflection that my brain appreciates. I also believe it will be fun to look back at what caught my attention in a certain week.
To do this, I took a LOT of inspiration from Jedda's Week Notes. I love the format she uses, as it feels straight to the point and easy enough to follow every week. I also find a lot of great articles/blogs on her postroll, so I'll share some of my own favorite articles and links as well.
With that being said, let's get this week's show on the road!
đź“š Reading
I'm currently reading "HistĂłria do Novo Nome" in Portuguese, the second volume of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels. The first book did a phenomenal work when in comes to building the scenes and characters, and I'm very curious to see this evolving into the late adolescence/early adulthood stage I guess will be covered in this volume.
I've been working through my articles list on Wallabag after importing it from Omnivore (rip). Down to 160 entries from the original ~500! Also, being able to read in my Kobo through KOReader has been a blessing. Here are some of the highlights of the week:
- "Everyone has plans to grow," says Ricketts. Personally, I no longer view mainstream fashion as an art form, just a cynical vehicle for profit." In Where does the UK’s fast fashion end up? I found out on a beach clean in Ghana
- These beautiful new libraries in Ghent, Helsinki and Aarhus. I loved this nugget of information regarding Dokk1's library in Aarhus:
"Hanging above the central staircase is a huge bronze tubular bell that weighs 3 tonnes and is connected to the maternity ward of Aarhus university hospital, where parents can push a button to ring it when their newborn is delivered."
🎧 Listening
Updated here
- The big highlight of the week was. "Seabird" by the Alessi Brothers and the cover by Babeheaven. I don't remember how I found this song, but it's been on repeat ever since. I especially like the opening lines: "There's a road I know I must go, even though I tell myself that road is closed". I've been feeling some anxiety regarding a career change, since AI is already turning my job upside down—more about that here—and I know I have to seriously consider finding another job.
đź“ş Watching
- Finished the first season of Midnight Diner. I like to watch one episode during lunchtime, and this is a very cozy show.
🚲 Wandrering
I spent three days feeling down with the flu, so there was no wandrering this week. Still, I added 91,48 new kilometers this year (56,8 of those came from the Big Pilgrimage of 2024 where I followed the Tagus River from Vila Franca de Xira to Santarém, my hometown. It was my first big bike trip and one of the highlights of my year. For 2025, and the remainder of 2024, I want to keep exploring Lisbon by bike.
Currently, I've explored 16.5% of Lisbon (the darker gray area you can see here.) I'd like to push this number up to at least 40%, hence the creation of this "wandrering" section, which, I think, will motivate me to get outside and explore more.
đź”— Linkipedia
it's the most unbearable time of the year by brumph. The car stereo story made me laugh a lot.
Checking In, How Are You Holding Up? by Lou Plummer.
"The universe is neutral. It doesn't hate you, but it certainly doesn't love you. The Internet can be a frightening morass of noise at times. There are people trying to cut through that. Personal independent bloggers offer little pieces of themselves all over the place. Some of them are quite funny. Others are strident but will give you real food for thought. If you take time to investigate this little slice of the online world, you're almost guaranteed to find someone who resonates with you."
downsides of tech convenience by ava
"Sure, grandma and grandpa need something reliable - but you? You learn and grow by the mistakes, by searching for solutions, applying fixes, trying things out, cracking something, disassembling and reassembling it, modding it, snooping around in files, deleting things on purpose to see what happens.[...] When we uncritically continue down this path, we become very dependent on tech solutions and decisions made for us by big companies to a mass appeal or newest trends."
"Sushi Glory Hole" is way too catchy. God damn it.