Finished: The Ministry of Time, by Kaliane Bradley 📚. I’m a sucker for a good time travel book, and this one is pretty good. Focused on the interpersonal relationships and intrigue rather than silly technical nuts and bolts, which is also good.
“The Trail Endures”
Olympus E-M10 IV with 14-42 kit lens @ 15mm, f/11, 1/160s, ISO 320. One of the few portions of the Jones Trail still visible after the fires.
Finished: The Last Kingdom, by Bernard Cornwell 📚. First book in Cornwell’s series about the making of Britain in the time of King Alfred. I enjoyed it, though I didn’t think it was as good as the Sharpe books. But then, what is?
Didn’t finish: The Insect Crisis, by Oliver Milman 📚. I think this could have made a really good long-form article somewhere like The Atlantic. As a book I just found it interminable.
Trying out Firefox with vertical tabs. I think I like it, but I wish I could put the bookmark window to the left of the tab window. My muscle memory wants to go to the far left for bookmarks.
But also I’m glad to have developers make decisions and move on. “Everything should be configurable” is a huge trap that leads to lousy products.
“Fire is Not the End”
Olympus E-M10 IV with 14-42 kit lens @ 42mm, f/5.6, 1/30s, ISO 1250. Close to the Clark Butte trail.
T. rex researchers eviscerate ‘misleading’ dinosaur leather announcement
I’m shocked, shocked that there is lying going on in the advertising industry.
Today I hiked 13.5 miles of basically obliterated trails. Perhaps not my best decision ever.
I just realized that Trump does have a plan to end illegal immigration: simply turn the USA into a worse shithole than anywhere else on the planet.
Finished: Eye of the Storm, by Jack Higgins 📚. The fictionalized story of the 1991 mortar attack on #10 Downing Street. Higgins brings in many of his favorite characters, right back to Liam Devlin. Airport reading, but good airport reading.