I’ve just transitioned to a mac mini. My 2016 MacBook pro was bulging horribly. Battery knackered. The keyboard was duff from the start. I don’t need a pro machine nor a portable one now so a mini seemed a good choice. Basic model but with 1TB disk & 16 mb ram.
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Alan’s post LinkedUn – CogDogBlog, reminded me of this email.
Too Slow. New Year’s Day, I was driving home & stopped by the police. I was going too slow. Asked why, I say, I was listening to a poem on the radio. Failing and Flying by Jack Gilbert, it was worth slowing down for.
Read: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka ★★★★★ 📚
Great read. I know almost nothing about Sri Lanka. Surprisingly touching given the setting, the after life, a world of ghosts & demons many the result of political killings.
Read: Swimming to Ithaca by Simon Mawer ★★★★☆ 📚
Historian discovers his mother’s past in Cyprus during the 50s, intrigue, secrets and spies. I rather disliked the main character but it didn’t stop me enjoying book.
2022 in titles, made with wordcloud cli.
Winter Trees, the Kilpatrick Braes
2022 Books
According to my Books page, I’ve read 46 books this year. I started adding star ratings as tags so can give a list of 5 star books (weight by my enjoyment ) using the lovely display posts plugin.
- Read seven steeples 21/11/2022
- Read: Rose Nicolson by Andrew Greig 09/10/2022
- Read: The Glass Hotel 11/09/2022
- Read: Small Things Like These 09/09/2022
- Read: The family Chao 07/08/2022
- Read: Islands of Abandonment 04/07/2022
- Read: Blank Pages 22/04/2022
- Read: Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead 06/02/2022
- Read: O Caledonia 07/01/2022
Read: The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys ★★★★☆ 📚
Hot sweaty, feverish & confusing, unreliable narrators & characters, pickled by heat and rum.
Bookmarked https://pudding.cool/2022/12/yard-sale/.
Both fascinating & depressing