Mike Lynch @mikelynch@icosahedron.website

One of the most surprising things about the twenty-first century is that there are adults who read Isaac Asimov's Foundation series for enjoyment.

hmmm new @neuralgae setting

A map of Sydney showing the strata of Chinese restaurants varying by Anglo-Australianisation or otherwise plus other regional variants (HK, Malay etc) would be a bewildering fractal. Tonight's meal was from a relatively Anglicised place in Winston Hills.

This post is coming to you from a barely sentient, sessile bag of mostly Chinese banquet

What Happened To "What Happened To The Simpsons" Videos -- We Watched All Thirty-Four YouTube Videos about the Decline of this Beloved Post Format

RIP Harlan Ellison https://www.metafilter.com/175010/Possibly-the-most-contentious-person-on-Earth

Feeling down and stressed about my daughter moving out so I went to my local al-anon meeting -- I had been going to another one regularly since April last year but got out of the habit when they changed venues. Already feel a bit better for it.

I'm halfway through Bruce Pascoe's DARK EMU -- on the erasure of indigenous Australian agriculture, aquaculture and architecture, based largely on primary sources from explorers and first settlers -- and it's heartbreaking and encouraging at the same time.

Anyhow let this stand as a reminder to write that blog post about giving oneself functional programming vertigo by shifting from Haskell to node.js