Collin Donnell

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“What We Lose With the Decline of Cursive” www.edutopia.org/article/w…

→ 12:25 PM, Jan 9

Has anyone I know tried using a Hobonichi planner? How was it?

→ 3:13 PM, Jan 8

I think I might have reached the point today where I could start calling this a beard.

→ 11:27 AM, Jan 8

Just finished reading Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott. That is a heck of a good book if you want to do anything creative.

→ 5:17 PM, Jan 7

Can’t believe how fast my penmanship is improving after just a couple days of practice. All I did was get a workbook and start tracing letters. Looking forward to learning one of the “systems” next.

→ 2:50 PM, Jan 5

Really digging the heck out of the LAMY 2000 I got. Feeling bad for my other pens.

→ 2:41 PM, Jan 5

Just finished reading The Handmaids Tale. Holy shit Margaret Atwood can really paint a picture. Also… 1/50 to my goal for the year. Will probably pick something a bit more uplifting next.

→ 4:44 PM, Jan 3

We’ve been sent good weather today.

→ 1:55 PM, Jan 3

How adorable is this little Japanese notebook? Can’t wait to get through my current Field Notes so I can start using it. Only problem is they’re pretty costly to use these all the time.

→ 4:56 PM, Jan 2

Liking the look of my current desk and chair. Need to replace this pre-Retina iMac with a MacBook Pro when I can save up the cash.

→ 4:54 PM, Jan 2

I find AirPods to be somewhat weird with every Mac (including the most recent TouchBar ones) I’ve tried them with in general.

→ 4:11 PM, Jan 2

The switching between devices on AirPods (iOS to Mac) is better than with other bluetooth headphones, but is still significantly less magical and reliable than marketing would have had you believe.

→ 4:10 PM, Jan 2

Something I just said to a colleague in Slack:

“Xcode 3 was the good one. It’s all been downhill since then.”

I think I’m turning into an old.

→ 1:45 PM, Dec 29

Got a couple of fountain pens and would like to improve my handwriting. If anyone knows of a book that teaches a practical style for adults that haven’t written cursive in 20+ years… let me know.

→ 1:06 PM, Dec 29

It has been a couple of years, so I think I may give a beard a try again. If it comes in with a lot of gray this time I retain the right to nix this idea pre-completion.

→ 12:20 PM, Dec 28

American Democracy Is Doomed

American democracy is doomed - Vox:

To understand the looming crisis in American politics, it's useful to think about Germany, Japan, Italy, and Austria. These are countries that were defeated by American military forces during the Second World War and given constitutions written by local leaders operating in close collaboration with occupation authorities. It's striking that even though the US Constitution is treated as a sacred text in America's political culture, we did not push any of these countries to adopt our basic framework of government. This wasn't an oversight.

I recommend reading this entire article. It was written pre-Trump, and it’s hard to look at now and think that anything in the last two years hasn’t made this seem more right than when it was published.

→ 11:45 AM, Dec 28

This macOS bug where the emoji picker pops up in every new text field I enter is extremely obnoxious.

→ 4:33 PM, Dec 27

One downside of working in the greenest commercial building in the world is it gets pretty chilly when it’s in the 30’s outside.

→ 2:43 PM, Dec 27

2018 Reading Challenge

This year I read a bit less than the year before, at only about twenty books or so. For 2018 I’d like to get on a more consistent reading schedule, and so I’m aiming for fifty. That’s a little less than one a week. I’d also like to work more fiction in and not just read about politics, buddhism, and computers. Don’t know if I’ll do it, but that’s my goal.

→ 12:54 PM, Dec 27

So apparently everyone uses Launchpad except me — including a bunch of technical folks — and I was wrong. Maybe I should give it a shot.

→ 4:59 PM, Dec 23

Not a lot of people in the office today, or, as our President might say:

Millennials HATE work. Don’t show up THREE DAYS before holiday. SAD!

→ 2:59 PM, Dec 22

I wonder how long Launchpad is for macOS. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone use it.

→ 2:35 PM, Dec 22

Ugh. I know it’s a small thing, but there is literally nothing immune to this mans vanity and lack of any class: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/…

→ 2:14 PM, Dec 22

Me, upon hearing about “Booktube” (the part of YouTube where people talk about books): “Can’t you just read a book?”

I’ve turned into someones mom from the 90s.

→ 3:46 PM, Dec 21

What Mac oriented productivity blogs are people reading these days? Is that still a thing, or are they soooo 2011?

→ 3:32 PM, Dec 21