S2:E3 Not Even Helen of Troy Had That Much Attention
Billy Mitchell always has a plan
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Let’s do a newsletter.
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Yamauchi No. 10 Family Office has the best website I’ve seen in eons. The music! Every other aspect of it!
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This thrilling tale of competitive Tetris has shades of classic, demented documentary the King of Kong, but with less malevolence and more passing of the torch energy. While we’re talking about the King of Kong, here’s a supercut of Billy Mitchell quotes.
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I’m Adam and this is Parentheses, a regular missive covering positive, inspiring, slightly nerdy stuff for you positive, inspiring, slightly nerdy people. You hopefully signed up on purpose; you can always unsubscribe using the button below.
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This website is powered by the sun! A network of servers are spread around the world and the site comes to you from wherever there’s the most sun. When I checked it earlier it was coming from Queens, NY, which is fun.
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Forget googling your way through using the command line. Instead, just describe what you want to achieve and have OpenAI’s API figure out the code. Note, you can’t do this yet because you don’t have API access (or do you? Let me know if you do!)
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CRAIG MOD CORNER
Have you watched the pizza toast video? Watch the pizza toast video.
The music! The cinematography! The toast! The video has kindled a deep desire to spend an afternoon in a Japanese cafe during a tropical rain storm, munching on toast and being quiet. In this fantasy I have nothing else to do, maybe a book that I’m only peripherally interested in, no phone or internet.
A few things have to break the right way to achieve this, but that is why it is a great fantasy.
Chase the video with Mod’s ode to the healing power of coding. I imagine it’s not a case that needs to be made for many readers, but it is very well-made nonetheless.
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Were I asked to name the book I think about the most at the moment, I would unreservedly recommend The Ministry for the Future by Stanley Robinson. The book begins in the very near future and spans decades and a vast cast of characters, all dealing with the inevitable effects of climate change. I had it described to me as a book perfect for those analytical people concerned with climate change. It is not an easy ride, the opening section describing an unprecedented heat wave in particular was not fun, but it provides a model of a world which takes climate change seriously, and does something — many things — about it.
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Finally, if you thought a video about the story of the song A Thousand Miles wasn’t going to feature Terry Crews, you were dead wrong.
~The more you know~
That’ll do it for me, no today’s song because how can I top Vanessa?
Until next time 👋