My desk now contains a MacBook air, two iPads (don’t ask,) a bluetooth speaker and a usb chargeable reading lamp. There is something awesome about an all battery-powered desk. I don’t know why, but it gives me great joy.
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The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
Matt Dinniman
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Merry Christmas.
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Towards the light.
Recently I tried the dark mode on my Kindle for the first time since I have had it. It’s strange that I ever tried it at all, give that in the decade or more I have been using Kindles, it has never before occurred to me that dark mode maybe a viable option.
My verdict after an hour was this: Dark mode is awful. It’s a horrible way to read. The …
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I have decided that now my headaches are ‘under control’ I no longer need to think of dark mode as an accessibility issue. So, I’m going to try ‘light by default’ for a few weeks
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I’m considering replacing GoodLinks with DEVONthink. Since I already use DT, my initial reason for using GoodLinks to save articles was to avoid cluttering my notes. Now that I understand DT better, I realise I can separate the databases and adopt a more holistic approach to managing my PKMS
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I think I have become someone who enjoys classical music. You know, like meatloaf and rush.
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I’ve thought about it and Hot Frosty was the movie I have enjoyed the most this Christmas season.
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Writing a novella – ‘Of Gods and Vampires’ (coming soon)
I wrote a thing. For Christmas. It is not ‘Christmasy.’
When I say that I write it for Christmas, that’s not entirely true, it just happens that it’s basically finished, and it also happens to be mid-December.
‘Of Gods and Vampires’ is a short novel following the adventures of two characters from Denouement (the first one.) It’s a pop-SCIFI …
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I used the word ‘blithesome’ in a sentence today. Felt like a rockstar!
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The current, sad state of my broken toaster has never been more relevant and disappointing than, right now.
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If people were to ask, I would say that I didn’t use social media, despite all the things I post to dandelion-utilitarian.com ending up on micro.blog, bluesky and the wider fedi. I think, that I dont parse it as social media because from my point of view it’s just me pushing things to my website. Maybe I shouldn’t cross post to other places
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I’m editing my ‘current writing project‘. I don’t know if it’s because it’s winter, or because I have country music on, but I can’t get ‘into’ it right now. I have this cozy vibe which makes me want to read a book, not write one.
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Come Visit.
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Animal crossing pocket edition complete is like an amazing dopamine drip and I can’t not play it right now. Totally getting me though December 😊
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I really like DevonTHINK. Just saying.
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In conversations, I repeat myself too much. It comes from a desire to refine ideas. I image people notice, and find it annoying it. Sorry.
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I had good food this evening. Which is mostly mad becausee I assembled it myself.
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Art
I drew the man who served me the excellent coffee the other day.
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Dandelion-Utilitarian has a NET & a COM
I wanted to take a moment to than explain something which I have only recently realised maybe confusing. Both Dandelion-Utilitarian.com and Dandelion-Utilitarian.net exist.
The dot com, is my main public facing WordPress site. It is where you will find my curated articles and my Niceferatu comic posts. And, of course, my more long-form writing …
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i had an amazing coffee this afternoon.
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I need to write a blog post explaining my usage differences between my dot com and dot net urls.
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The Hex has been lifted.
We all move on from things, and it often feels like a good move, it feels liberating and enchiching. I have had a lot of that feeling of liberty recently has I have been doing a very utilitarian decluttering of my home. Moving on from an online persona, however, feels like a death, more than a purge. I have been known socially as ‘Hex’ since …
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Static, in motion – The formation of a man with terrible taste.
The Outer Limits opening contains the now legendary words, “we will control the horizontal, we will control the vertical.” Like many kids, watching the scary black and white episodes through a half broken television, on a raining evening, the words were seared into my mind, along with pregnant tonal whistle which accompanied it.
This struck me as …
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Kindling, Copyright, Catastrophe
I’ve used a Kindle as my main book-window since the Kindle Voyage was launched in 2014 and since that time I’ve read many a controversy about the way Amazon manage the platform. Most of the reports are actually about copyright law, not Amazon, not directly. I thing which most anti-eBook/anti-Kindle crusaders point at is the time that everyone had …
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Time can’t split. Projects eat time.
No matter how productive I can become, and no matter how skilled I become, I still have twenty-four hours in a day. Much like nothing exceeds the speed of light, no productivity pipeline will break the time barrier. This has never been more evident to me than when I started drawing.
I have been in the habit of writing for a few hours every day for …