So there is a #mastobookclub now... They're looking for recommendations on a book to begin with. Genre: Fantasy. I recommended Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt. I've been wanting to read it for a while now, so it would be great to do that in company of some other Mastonauts.
@tom79
Merci d'avoir fait un app si bon!
And one of the distractions was me going birding and discovering a rough-legged buzzard flying by, which was a new bird for my home patch, so not a bad weekend after all...
Aaahhh just finished grading a thesis and preparing tomorrow's course... That took me longer than expected (had hoped to get it done Friday). As always, I ask myself why I didn't start earlier, why I let myself be distracted by literally anything else... However, still feeling great now that it's done.
I created another entity for book-related toots -> @BookLover
Hey, I just found out that the book I'm reading (a kind of personal anthology of the books that influenced Primo Levi) is essentially also published online: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/jun/02/arts.highereducation You should take a look at it, the selection Levi made is surprising and inspirational!
J'ai retrouvé un livre de la grand-mère, Prisons et Paradis de Colette. Elle a mis un article d'un journal dedans sur Colette et il t'a beaucoup des notes. C'est fascinant que ma grand-mère soit mort depuis longtemps et que je puisse mieux la connaître quand-même, grâce à ce livre qu'elle doit avoir aimé.
Sleep & Fatherhood
I wish I had more time to sleep. I'm a nighttime kind of person, I love to stay up late. I fondly remember studying and sleeping late until 11PM days in a row. But with two kids and another one on the way, it will take me another 10 years at least to get some decent sleep again. #ComplainingDaddy #FirstWorldProblems
Q: How did Mastodon become so popular in Japan?
A: An exceptionally good article in "ASCII" magazine by Satoshi Endo, a long-time computer researcher in Japan, based in part on setting up and running his own Mastodon instance (8-p.net). That's a journalistic standard I'd like to see more in the West.
http://ascii.jp/elem/000/001/465/1465842/
Poem by Cesare Pavese: The Cats Will Know
Everything Cesare Pavese wrote is pure gold. An example: The Cats Will Know ('I gatti lo sapranno')
Excerpt:
"There will be other days,
there will be other voices.
You will smile alone.
The cats will know."
The whole poem is found here:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/51514
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