I’m still doing the thing where I’m going through my old unread Pinboard bookmarks, figuring out what to do with them, then updating or deleting them in Raindrop. It’s pointless, but fun, and occasionally interesting.
Today, I stumbled across this link from November 2016. Very weird to look back on that, and how we were all feeling and how it all went. In about a month from now, we’ll all be going through… hopefully not the same thing. But maybe the same thing. Only worse. Well, it’s a nice quiet Sunday morning, so maybe let’s not think about that right now.
Meanwhile, I also found this amazing video from OK Go which I bookmarked almost exactly ten years ago and never watched. (At least I think I never watched it… I have no recollection of it, and it seems like the kind of thing I’d remember. But of course a lot has happened in the last ten years.)
Books
On an unrelated subject, I finished The Gathering Storm yesterday, and Thinking in Systems on Friday. I really enjoyed both of those books.
I’ve got only two more books to read in the Wheel of Time series. And I’m almost caught up to The Wheel Weaves podcast. If I do catch up, I’m not sure what I’ll want to do about that. It would be cool to follow along with the podcast in real time, but, on the other hand, they only read a chapter or two per week, so if I kept current with them, I’d slow myself down a lot. I could take a break and read a few non-WOT books until they’re sufficiently ahead of me. Or I could keep reading at my current pace and let myself get past them. Well, I’m not sure which way I’m going to go yet. Maybe I should take a break and read some comics for the next week or two.
TiVo & YouTube TV
There’s been some talk on Reddit over the last week about Optimum discontinuing CableCARD support. I returned my CableCARD to Optimum in March, and switched to YouTube TV, so this doesn’t affect me. (And I’m not sure if Optimum has really discontinued all CableCARD support, or if this is just support for a specific type of card in a specific service area. You know how these things go on Reddit…)
My yearly TiVo service would normally be renewing this month; I canceled it in August, so I should be good there. But I still haven’t wiped and recycled my TiVo yet. I need to do that… There were a few things on there I wanted to watch, and I did watch some of them, but there’s a point where I’ll need to just give up and admit that I’m not going to go back and watch those last few Svengoolie movies. (Though it’s Halloween this month, so maybe now is a good time to do that…)
Anyway, I guess I’m keeping YouTube TV at least through football season. I’m getting my money’s worth out of it right now, between the NFL and the MLB playoffs.