Overcast’s File Uploads came back online, all of a sudden. The file I’d been in the middle of listening to reappeared, ready to pick up where it left off. All other uploads are there too. But I’ve already moved to Castro and am liking its Sideload feature. But then I have 20 GB of backlogged podcasts in Overcast (shut up) so I may just work away at that for a while and let Castro manage the ‘real-time’ podcasts.
One advantage of getting a new credit card: getting reminders of all the services I subscribe to when “that time of the subscription month” arrives. Gives me the opportunity to assess if I want to continue subscribing; also reminds me of how many friggin’ subs I have.
"Art is what gets away with you"
Art isn’t what you can get away with … Art is what gets away with you. Every encounter with a work of art is an elopement. The seduction of the self, the abandonment of the self to a different kind of experience, is what art offers. Every renewal of the artistic method and process is an attempt to wrestle art out of the marriage and into the love-affair. By which I mean the Keep Out signs of convention, respectability, familiarity, jargon. The high priest cult of ‘art’ is a lie about what art is. Art is feeling and experience and excitement before it hardens into meaning.
Jeanette Winterson
"Individually tailored care"
The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, Hendrik Groen, Hester Velmans (Translator)
After a while, the phrase old-age home began making people feel uneasy. It was replaced with retirement home and then assisted-living facility. The nursing home became a “care center.” And in the latest version, it seems I am enrolled in a “market-oriented health-services organization providing individually tailored care.” I now understand why health-care costs keep skyrocketing.
From Overcast to Castro
Overcast’s Upload Files function was removed with the most recent update to iOS 13, I think; the option is disabled in its settings and the uploads page is gone from the website. I could not find any info about this change online. What annoyed me was that this capability was removed while I was in the middle of listening to an uploaded audiobook file.
So am reluctantly moving my podcast listening to Castro, which has most of the functionality I use plus lets me add audio files more easily.
I will miss the custom playlists feature of Overcast; I divvy all my Sleep With Me and ambient music podcasts into their own playlists, for example.
I was so comfortable in my technological rut! But am making the best of it. I’ve stopped most all the feeds in Overcast and am starting fresh in Castro. I have a huge backlog of audiofiles in Overcast anyway, so maybe I can whittle them down while keeping up with my current diet of audio snack foods.
A software engineer posted all the Google searches she made during a week of work:
What I’m trying to show with all this is that you can do something 100 times but still not remember how to do it off the top of your head. Never be ashamed of googling, even if it seems like the most basic thing you’re looking up.
Google doesn’t know everything, of course. An engineer I work with spent an hour using Google searches to find a specific mathematical formula. He found a book on his shelf that gave him his answer in 3 minutes.
Still, I hardly ever bookmark pages anymore because…why create another junk drawer to lose stuff in and rummage through? Just search – Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing – whatever your pleasure.
From smallest to largest
The latest in midway fun foods at the NC State Fair.
My stomach hurts just looking at the pictures. The Reese’s Donut (which tempts me, I’ll admit!) chock-a-block with the The Sloppy Pig (Texas Toast covered in Sloppy Joe mix + cheese + topped with bacon crumbles) is enough to make me urp.
Currently reading: Outside the Gates of Eden by Lewis Shiner 📚