February 2021
It's cold and grey and I attempted to make tea today & my British & Indian & tea drinking friends, please enlighten me on how to make a proper cup of tea. Because I put whipped cream in mine. Halp!
imageI did try to use some tips I've heard about making Chai & pre-heating the pot, but how long do I steep for? TIA!
Provocative post by @jhagel about using emotions to influence your strategy. Most leaders slide emotion under the rug in preference of logic & reason. Do you have the confidence & self awareness to use their full power? https://www.johnhagel.com/emotion-as-the-foundation-of-strategy/ #innovation #strategy
@trvisfw OK, but I *want* to make fancy tea!
Asking for help really works. (Especially when you have to plan one of your besties for life memorial.) Today was the day I faced that item on my todo list.
@fatemehx2 Thank you! My attempt yesterday was mediocre. I normally don't drink caffeinated tea, so I'm learning how to make it not bitter.
@n3rd1ty Thanks, it's been a while, but still hurts.
RT @EmLindley: Women In Identity are seeking a part-time administrator to help us through the next growth phase. If anyone in my network kn…
@justin__richer @benwerd IoT of bees: varroa mite monitoring.
@fatemehx2 Two bags mixed: twinnings black currant (used to be my favorite) and pg tips (which is not normally my thing but a friend gave me a bunch). I love oolong and roobios and other herbal mixes, so black tea is a whole new thing for me.
@fatemehx2 I’ve wanted to try pu-er but hard to find a sample pack and I’ve not wanted to splurge for a whole box at current prices in case I don’t like it.
No good deed: super splurged for birthday flowers for my sucky pandemic birthday and local @ups driver just dropped them on my patio right in front of me. Barely apologetic. Guess my bday this year just sucks.
@geminica @UPS Srsly, just wanted one good experience for this year. Impossible.
@geminica @UPS Lemonade. Enough for us all.
Well, at least a lot of the material I need for some work is already in my research archives... because I wrote it. Already reference 3 different things today. Such a feeling satisfaction to use my own research.
Dare I start the day with Basement Jaxxxxxxx & coffee?
Hi, I will time travel to another world, join me 🛸💗🎙️🎛️🎚️🎶: https://youtu.be/sPlCNLVl-PU
Who started using the word "onboard" because I would like to punch them. It's not even a real word!
@mainwaring Something more human. Onboard is transactional, and metaphoric in that it rarely is used to describe getting on a ship/boat/thing floating on water/going to space.
@ronmichael @mainwaring Failure to be vulnerable and human. (I have been listening to Brene Brown's Dare to Lead, which has a similar example from a military manual.)
@adrianabootie Put on some inspiring music. Give yourself a few boxes to pack tonight, then if you're still not feeling it, take the night off. Step at a time, with favorite music + beverage!
What the what?! On page 2 of this scifi book and it describes something I and a team presented at SXSW a few years ago! https://www.instagram.com/p/CK5WnlvhDiP/?igshid=py0gxsori8l
@cillic Same. At least there may be actual protomolecule.
@brianbehlendorf @fatemehx2 The Sugarcubes (with New Order)
@KarunaSessions I don’t want to say it’s plagiarism... but you know futurist futurist....
@n3rd1ty @QuinnyPig Read it and not gonna lie. Wish I had the ???? to work in my best authentic way instead of always have to adapt to practically every situation aka the world.
RT @AriBerman: 165 bills introduced in 33 states already this year to restrict voting access, finds new data from @BrennanCenter That's 4x…
warm socks, dog snugs, pinot noir, chocolates, steely dan.
Smooth coffee, cool morning, Steely Dan mainlining continues. Vinyl + Bose speakers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8POzIgUpVI&list=PL8u_IbLstHs7BmstENH5WK4f1SU_LBFr2&index=2
Looks like some good forward progress... I would be remiss to not mention that we identified several of these potential improvements in our Securing Voter Data report, released in 2019. Exciting to see these changes. http://bit.ly/vdsreport #votersecurity #electionsecurity https://twitter.com/ericgeller/status/1359517748708208642
RT @SwiftOnSecurity: "I am not a cat," said the synthdaemon, its body shattered and clicking as broken cams attempted to simulate what huma…
@michaelsherrill Now that's exactly the kind of ad I expect in 2021!
RIP https://youtu.be/15IHNYq6stw (I did my jazz phase early in life.)
PS. This was a staple of that time: https://youtu.be/mmIaubt4NWY (Along with King Crimson)
Sometimes I think music is the only reason to experience linear time. It's only in unfolding time, music exists.
The latest @desertarchives, which arrived in my inbox an hour ago, shared the sad news of the passing of Dennis Casebier. If you know of the Mojave Road, or have traveled on it, it's due to his work. That road has given me such joy, I am grateful for Dennis' work. RIP
He wrote the Mojave Road Guide, which is a must have if you are exploring the Mojave Road. Here's a recent @latimes piece about the road. Would be great to add a memorial to him along it. https://www.latimes.com/travel/story/2020-12-30/california-weekend-road-trip-ideas-off-roading-mojave-road
@sherrod_im I do a lot of cold emailing of experts to interview for research. I always personally email/message them. The one time I delegated this to a research assistant, replies plummeted. Top level personal touch goes a long way in a cold message.
@SuchiPahi Do you have a hummingbird feeder? That’s a great start! And easy.
Stickers and bookplate arrived!! (Covid save book signing materials.) Share a pic of either book & DM me your mailing address to get one! https://www.instagram.com/p/CLPbAZdB9XT/?igshid=1dbzx37ei7std
@r0b3rta Woot! You want one for each one? (Happy to do that!)
@r0b3rta Also thank you!!
@taykendesign Wait did you take this picture?!
Attention @Blazenhoff ! Weiner sighting! https://twitter.com/taykendesign/status/1360658056946847748
Oh hai 30 mpr wind gusts that just took down my flagpole. (I do love this kind of weather - electric, anything is possible & the strangest things will blow away!) #lifeinthemojave
Appropriately listening to Talking to Strangers, while painting, 35 mph winds and the news from Washington. A great book on deception.
Scored three sets of turkey thighs at the grocery today. Just in time for Dogentine’s day, cause poultry is their love language.
It’s a secret club. https://twitter.com/SugarJones/status/1360682741340119040
@RandallGrahm Plant vines, make wine. (Also I feel ya, this whole past 5 years and the tbd to come.)
Another take: it’s hard to be a successful ex-CIA consultant (or anything consultant) & idle hands, etc., etc. https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1360992025848524800
Gov is minting lots of ex-intelligence & military with limited civilian business/entrepreneurship experience & this is a hard biz & transition to private sector is not necessarily easy or merit based.
RT @cyriakharris: Have scientists ever investigated how everything in the washing machine ends up inside the duvet cover?
Neuhaus and Recchiuti. ❤️❤️❤️ https://www.instagram.com/p/CLSJssjhnyE/?igshid=1orvvyt8m054u
Someone needs to mash up Dua Lipa Hallucinate with Jamiroquoi Cosmic Girl. Cc @bootiemashup
This paintbrush is amazing! Im doing all the edgework freehand! Balance/push the beads of paint onto the edge that collapses into a straight line on the wall. That’s my favorite fluid edge.
OMG these @Recchiuti chocolates for pairing with red wine is 👄🤯🚀💫. 💖 to my galentine @rosiepongracz for decades of friendship, advice, and adventures.
I blame my editor. https://twitter.com/NickyWoolf/status/1361042747197644801
@michaelsherrill Ocean!
🙃 https://twitter.com/iOSforensic/status/1361502605541838850
In the middle of a call discussion construction of a new dome, knock on the door, wild (rescued) bees have arrived. Sticky sweet honeycomb residue in my teeth. I’m that kind of desert dweller.
Been on the nihilism side of the #blissandemptiness equation for a while now.
@ai6yrham Can also try Irish spring, strobe light, yes on peanut butter on the trap. And the delicious combination of flour, sugar, baking soda in equal parts (1 c each) they eat and can’t fart, so they expire. Also remove all nests close to the location. Also, outdoor cat.
@RandallGrahm I was very surprised at how good cashew white sauce was (vegan style).
It's nice to know that everyone I talk to is also sick of it all. My new goal is to understand the chit chat in the Korean spa when it finally opens or I can visit the real deal.
Letters from the author. Sending out personalized and signed bookplates. If you want one & bought any of my books dm me to get yours. #thesecretofspies https://www.instagram.com/p/CLnGj-xhQ1W/?igshid=agiphgryphli
@rosiepongracz You sure you don't want snail mail? 😊
Post a picture of yourself as the final boss without downloading pics. I miss this version of memeself.
image image image@Cannibal No private playa.
Also to get past my big boss level, you must help me light the car-b-que in fancy dress and burn the 8 pallets of wood. It's collaborative boss level. Bonus points if you BYO (non tesla) flame-thrower & flame effect minerals.
My current work consists of revision on revision on revision. All I do is think about the story of how many revisions the song Happy went through and I rewrite everything again, making it better from each previous one.
A year ago I presented some of my best research to date at RSA. Future cybersecurity scenarios that showed multiple trends coalescing into 13 scenarios & 13 new paradigms. I had hoped it would open a new chapter of my career. Then the pandemic hit. https://www.rsaconference.com/industry-topics/presentation/imagining-the-future-of-security
image@rosiepongracz I wish I knew.
Is it a normal situation for people in volunteer (leadership) positions to not take them seriously and allocate the time to do the work well? Or is because it’s volunteer/unpaid a reason to not do your best/prioritize it?
*not allocate
@Reverend_Dak I’m definitely judgy in my experience.
I do not have enough wine nor ammo to quell my anger of today. Translate that into Korean duolingo.
@gfuzzyrocks Look, my x got the ammo in the breakup.
@PJManney Thank you I appreciate that, but can you also send me three dragons. *mwah*
@PJManney 💖💖💖
@PrivacyCDN Unlikely for western individualist designed systems, but ML could shift that automagically.
@PrivacyCDN Are you mansplaing me John?!?!
@PrivacyCDN Oh I don’t speak passive-aggressive. I only speak aggressive.
Mitre saw, chop saw or table saw? Circular saws freak me out.
@anthonydpaul 😲
@bobblakley Various home improvement/animal life stuff.
@PrivacyCDN Yeah that would be cool.
Ok. Came home with new mitre saw, 10 gallons of paint, 48 ft of baseboard and now having a refreshing kombucha while my hot tub heats up. Fine, maybe this is my best life.
I also painted a column gold as a test and got closer on some desert landscape art.
@MackReed I will still take it any any other power tools on California loan!!
@apperceptions I actually have several and have been using them for years.
@TelegramSam That's a great suggestion. I was thinking about a portable, safe way to cut larger pieces of plywood & don't have space for a table saw .... yet.
@fuzztech Lavish appreciation on her! She sounds amazing.
Today in out of my comfort zone, combined my barely surviving hive with a wild caught one by friends. Did not realize second wild hive had a queen until after the combination. But only one queen can live, so she had to die. Let’s see how they acclimated to my calm Italian queen.
If I’m lucky, they wild ones may transfer some varroa resistance to mine. Why yes, I am Bee-ne Gesserit. But there is no male patriarchy here.
Oh great, media gonna start recycling the same stories about GenZ as Millennials and GenX. Maybe it's time to admit, after 3 generations, Boomers were the anomaly & we can stop basing capitalist economic theory on an outlier generation.
@FuselJeremiad Smoothie economics?
Breakfast of fresh strained honey on Greek yogurt with chia, coconut, walnuts and home dried gala apples. https://www.instagram.com/p/CL2HfW8BOKO/?igshid=1fb9vfkn9vld4
Unpopular opinion: Madhyamakavatara is a text to control people/men (because was it considered that women would ever read these kinds of instructions?). I read these classic (translated) buddhist texts and anger and irritation build. But what do I know. I'm just a hermit.
I read it (full disclaimer, I'm not finished yet) and it reads like a gamification of societal control. Which really turns me off of the whole genre, especial in context of the interpretation from male biased perspective.
@acedrew LOL. Never gonna find it. Religion was designed to control society.
@acedrew I'd really like to find classic texts written by enlightened women & their take on controlling society through religion TBH.
Just posted a photo https://www.instagram.com/p/CL2iCMKhhS8/?igshid=6pnsv4uvyev4
@geminica It’s so good.
@WisdomInquiry I'm reading an english translation. I had a similar reaction while I was reading a translated version of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Prior, I only read various commentaries/explanations of/between the various interpretations of the original text.
@WisdomInquiry There are excellent english transactions. See Stephen Mitchell's translation of the Tao Te Ching & (it's been decades since I last read it, but was sufficiently impressed to never forget) Goethe's Faust.
