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"published": "2024-07-15T09:46:55-07:00",
"url": "https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/15614-Im-still-alive",
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"text": "I haven\u2019t posted here in a while so I figured I should do that, just to keep folks informed of my continued existence.\n\nI\u2019m still experiencing substantial post-COVID symptoms. This cough is persisting, and it\u2019s made my vertigo way worse, to the point that I am having trouble driving anywhere. I also have a new fun symptom where every time I cough I get a flash headache on the right side of my head and sometimes that includes dizziness! Fun times. I hope this doesn\u2019t presage an aneurysm or something.\n\nAnyway in a couple days I\u2019ll be flying to Denver for Song Fight! Live, the first time we\u2019ve done it in person since 2019. I\u2019ve missed doing this so much. Unfortunately my vertigo situation means I will not be renting a car and will relying heavily on Lyft and mass transit.\n\nFor folks in the area, my performances (Sockpuppet and Octothorpe) will be Friday the 19th at Buntport Theater, with the show starting at 5 PM. I will also be accompanying some folks on Saturday the 20th on drums, and of course that day is also the \u201clive fight\u201d when we all debut a song written in a hurry for a title that\u2019s given sometime this week.\n\nI mean, assuming I\u2019m not about to die of some major brain hemmorhage or something.\n\nMeanwhile I\u2019m also trying to get more VRChat performance opportunities. Stuff is slowly fermenting in that space and hopefully it leads somewhere good. Unfortunately most scheduled VRChat performance stuff all happens in clumps where I already have other stuff going on too. Maybe I should just start making my own concerts and see what happens.",
"html": "<p>I haven\u2019t posted here in a while so I figured I should do that, just to keep folks informed of my continued existence.</p><p>I\u2019m still experiencing substantial post-COVID symptoms. This cough is persisting, and it\u2019s made my vertigo way worse, to the point that I am having trouble driving anywhere. I also have a new fun symptom where every time I cough I get a flash headache on the right side of my head and sometimes that includes dizziness! Fun times. I hope this doesn\u2019t presage an aneurysm or something.</p><p>Anyway in a couple days I\u2019ll be flying to Denver for Song Fight! Live, the first time we\u2019ve done it in person since 2019. I\u2019ve missed doing this so much. Unfortunately my vertigo situation means I will not be renting a car and will relying heavily on Lyft and mass transit.</p><p>For folks in the area, my performances (Sockpuppet and Octothorpe) will be Friday the 19th at <a href=\"https://buntport.com/\">Buntport Theater</a>, with the show starting at 5 PM. I will also be accompanying some folks on Saturday the 20th on drums, and of course that day is also the \u201clive fight\u201d when we all debut a song written in a hurry for a title that\u2019s given sometime this week.</p><p>I mean, assuming I\u2019m not about to die of some major brain hemmorhage or something.</p><p>Meanwhile I\u2019m also trying to get more VRChat performance opportunities. Stuff is slowly fermenting in that space and hopefully it leads somewhere good. Unfortunately most scheduled VRChat performance stuff all happens in clumps where I already have other stuff going on too. Maybe I should just start making my own concerts and see what happens.</p>"
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"published": "2024-07-14T15:47:07-07:00",
"url": "https://nadreck.me/2024/07/flat-not-flat-and-an-ocean/",
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"text": "This post has some pre-requisite reading to get the most out of it:\n\n\n\nJay Springett\u2019s post about Surface Flatness and how the internet is feeling super flat right now.\n\n\n\nWarren Ellis\u2019s response On Not Being Online.\n\n\n\nPete Ashton\u2019s response to Warren\u2019s thoughts.\n\n\n\nJay\u2019s response to both Pete and Warren.\nFirst off, I think it\u2019s great to see some crosstalk across blogs like this. I love to see it.\n\n\n\nSecond, as you might have guessed, I have some thoughts about the subject. (Usual caveats, this is some off-the-cuff thoughts, maybe I\u2019m missing things, et cetera.)\n\n\n\n Continue reading \u201cFlat, Not Flat, and an Ocean\u201d",
"html": "<p>This post has some pre-requisite reading to get the most out of it:</p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Jay Springett\u2019s post about <a href=\"https://www.thejaymo.net/2024/06/22/2412-surface-flatness/\">Surface Flatness</a> and how the internet is feeling super flat right now.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Warren Ellis\u2019s response <a href=\"https://warrenellis.ltd/jot/on-not-being-online/\">On Not Being Online</a>.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pete Ashton\u2019s <a href=\"https://notes.peteashton.com/2024/07/04/on-not-being.html\">response to Warren\u2019s thoughts</a>.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jay\u2019s response to both <a href=\"https://www.thejaymo.net/2024/07/07/246-somewhere-inside-the-network/\">Pete and Warren</a>.</li>\n</ul><p>First off, I think it\u2019s great to see some crosstalk across blogs like this. I love to see it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Second, as you might have guessed, I have some thoughts about the subject. (Usual caveats, this is some off-the-cuff thoughts, maybe I\u2019m missing things, et cetera.)</p>\n\n\n\n <a href=\"https://nadreck.me/2024/07/flat-not-flat-and-an-ocean/#more-11860\">Continue reading<span> \u201cFlat, Not Flat, and an Ocean\u201d</span></a>"
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"published": "2024-07-12T00:00:00+00:00",
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"html": "<p>Big news in my world: I have been hired as a Senior Engineer at the Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard\u2019s Berkman Klein Center! (<a href=\"https://tinysubversions.com/notes/joining-asml/\">full item here</a>)</p>",
"text": "Big news in my world: I have been hired as a Senior Engineer at the Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard\u2019s Berkman Klein Center! (full item here)"
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If you have a personal website, which I assume you do if you're following me here, you should add yourself to the Internet Phonebook while the call for websites is still open! They even have an "indie web" category! https://internetphonebook.net
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"published": "2024-07-10T16:11:02-07:00",
"url": "https://aaronparecki.com/2024/07/10/17/",
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"text": "If you have a personal website, which I assume you do if you're following me here, you should add yourself to the Internet Phonebook while the call for websites is still open! They even have an \"indie web\" category! https://internetphonebook.net",
"html": "If you have a personal website, which I assume you do if you're following me here, you should add yourself to the Internet Phonebook while the call for websites is still open! They even have an \"indie web\" category! <a href=\"https://internetphonebook.net\"><span>https://</span>internetphonebook.net</a>"
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"author": {
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"name": "Aaron Parecki",
"url": "https://aaronparecki.com/",
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"type": "entry",
"published": "2024-07-03T10:59:16-07:00",
"url": "https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/8655-post-COVID-doldrums",
"name": "post-COVID doldrums",
"content": {
"text": "I\u2019m over COVID, and just have a little lingering bronchitis. Also some of the worst brain fog I\u2019ve ever had. I feel like my brain\u2019s been through a blender. Spatial relationships make very little sense, my reaction times are super slow, I am definitely not safe driving right now, and so on.\n\nMy standard state of affairs is best described as \u201cdazed and confused\u201d right now. I feel like my mental acuity has pretty much gone away. I\u2019m also making a lot of ridiculous spelling mistakes when I write, and I\u2019m having trouble stringing together basic procedures for things.\n\nBasically I feel like I\u2019ve taken massive brain damage and this has me all sorts of fucked up.\n\nAt least I\u2019m not alone in this but that\u2019s cold comfort. If I can\u2019t recover from this, what future do I have? My brain is pretty much the only thing I had going for me and now I don\u2019t even have that.",
"html": "<p>I\u2019m over COVID, and just have a little lingering bronchitis. Also some of the worst brain fog I\u2019ve ever had. I feel like my brain\u2019s been through a blender. Spatial relationships make very little sense, my reaction times are super slow, I am definitely <em>not</em> safe driving right now, and so on.</p><p>My standard state of affairs is best described as \u201cdazed and confused\u201d right now. I feel like my mental acuity has pretty much gone away. I\u2019m also making a lot of ridiculous spelling mistakes when I write, and I\u2019m having trouble stringing together basic procedures for things.</p><p>Basically I feel like I\u2019ve taken massive brain damage and this has me all sorts of fucked up.</p><p>At least <a href=\"https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2400189\">I\u2019m not alone in this</a> but that\u2019s cold comfort. If I can\u2019t recover from this, what future do I have? My brain is pretty much the only thing I had going for me and now I don\u2019t even have that.</p>"
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