Week commencing Monday, 11 November 2024
Quantified Self
- This week: Stand 7/7; Exercise 7/7 and Move 77. (100%). Morning walks: 0/4. Office days 1/5. Total steps: 60,568
Life
- Hedge trimmers turned up on Monday morning about two hours early. I was in the shower, but PY let them in. They were completed within forty minutes, and there is way more light to the back decking. Wish I’d done it earlier in the year.
- Related, we met the neighbour whose hedge was technically being cut. He was delighted we were doing it.
- Quiz night: we got a few more correct puzzles this time, so we’re improving. We are still in the middle of the ranking; we cannot compete with our score the first time we went.
- I re-read How I ship projects at big tech companies several times this week. It’s a useful reminder to focus on getting the project out and telling people about it.
- Down memory lane, I found a blogpost written in 2004 after I’d been running a training course. It made me hunt my diaries for who I was training and what was the dinner. And I found the answer.
- Related, later in the week I wanted to write a blog post about diary writing, so I did.
- Relatedly, related, the article I mention in the blog post is compelling, touching, and fascinating. I urge you to read it.
- Train delays to Shrewsbury on Thursday night and back on Sunday afternoon were not great. But the weekend was very enjoyable.
- Sad news about Howard Hughes. He was The News Voice of Capital in the 90s.
Media
- A bit of news kept popping up in various places all week with the headline, “Pub in central London hit with restrictions after faint giggles from customers annoy man”. I want to say, “you bought a flat near a pub …” But, maybe, I shouldn’t.
- YouTube: it’s a depressing, and well-argued, view of why self-driving cars will make cities worse. It’s worth your time: How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it)
- We finished watching Ludwig on the BBC iPlayer. Although I enjoyed the whole series, I think it fizzled out in the final two episodes.
- I am a new convert to the Dish Podcast. I listened to the Sandi Toksvig edition on the train. Given the time of year, this was a lovely line, “There’s no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing”.