snow day, the sequel

+/- a foot of fluffy-ish over a few inches of ice and Kirby is, as ever, thrilled: not only because of the snow but because he likes to steal the shovel during The Great Dig-Out (which will function as a replacement for running because the roads are impassible at present and getting smashed by a snowplow sort of defeats the purpose of running to stay alive and I do love the rhythm of shoveling snow ) – but it's still legions better than last Thursday's/Friday's heatless and hot waterless snow day – so that we can partake in the second and third Great Dig-Outs (operating under the assumption that we can get there) to liberate multiple Oldze: they shall be released / coordinated, perhaps; the day awaits.

ALPHAVILLE (1965)

Watched this one the other night and loved it - especially how it felt completely alien through only dialogue and image juxtaposition; my Godard binge continues.

(Written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Starring Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff, and Howard Vernon. Released 05 May 1965.)

snowday

waitforit

we have heat and veg bibimbap

My veg/T1D-friendly bibimbap (tofu + cauliflower rice + green pepper) continues to delight; next up on the tofu experiment, soyrizo.

Winter Storm Landon has arrived bearing ice and, slowly but surely, snow: current guesstimate on the part of meteorologists is 8-11" with a glaze of ice which makes my present concern keeping Teh Oldze vertical and not sprawled out with broken joints in driveways. School was called off for K before end of schoolday yesterday; won't be surprised if she has another long weekend but at least this weekend, this snow day, we've got heat.

First change to the morning routine in awhile: read 25 pages (currently my first re-read of CRIME AND PUNISHMENT in at least 15 years so it’s like reading it for the first time; still adore Dostoyevsky, perhaps more so now) with coffee while office warms up, then get to work until breakfast. Write this thing up and then head back until +/- 0930 or so and call it a day. It'll take some getting used to but I like it so far. Next Modularity shaping up into something or not – but I'm at least having fun with its various modulations.

The day – and abundant slipsliding – awaits.

links/20220202

• Floating hologram registers coming to Japanese convenience stores (via SoraNews24).

• Unearthly Plant Photos by Tom Leighton Highlight Nighttime Chemical Processes (via Colossal).

• To Open Every Kind of Lock (via BLDGBLOG).

• William James on the Stream of Consciousness (1890) (via Public Domain Review).

• The gas station of the future will be designed for electric vehicles (via Co.Design).

• New Substack comics from Morrison, Vaughan, Randolph and Matsumoto (via ComicsBeat).

• Ember, known for keeping coffee hot, builds a box to keep vaccines cold (via Fast Company).

• Sotheby's Is Selling an Immense Black Diamond It Claims Came From Outer Space (via Artnet news).

why yes this is perhaps the greatest shelf of all time

thank you for agreeing with me.

IMPACT(!) groundhog IMPACT(!)

The groundhog rises, wearybleary, the winter storm inbound: forecasting 7-10" or maybe feet who knows; it's changing every hour – IMPACT IMPACT IMPACT, the meterologists say, IMPACT IMPACT IMPACT – the groundhog shrugs, etc etc, the last ten years being a loop (in some ways good, in some ways not) anyhow – and wants only to go back to sleep, jesus fucking christ, he says, jesus fucking christ – here's my shadow, 🖕, you top-hatted freak.

RIP Monica Vitti; the day awaits.