Finally added an /interests page to my website.
I use RSS as a buffet, not a task list
I ran across this (very well done) post on hating RSS feeds yesterday.
It’s really well done and I appreciate the underlying notion: rss feeds can feel like “work” to be done.
But I’ve always viewed them as a buffet from which I can sample. Not as a task list. A place to graze.
I have absolutely no desire to consume everything on the buffet. Yes, I have some things I’ll eat nearly every time. But in general, it’s a broad selection from which I can sample, depending on my mood. I have no obligation to eat it all, and in fact, that might be considered unreasonable.
The stuff I always put on my plate first is in one folder. The stuff I don’t eat that regularly goes into another folder, from which I only occasionally peak. I even have feeds from my friends' blogs that I never read, as they’re not on topics I care about, or are a bit too influencer-y for my tastes. But I’ll occasionally pop in to mark those as read, giving me a second or two to scan for a (rare) life update or something surprisingly interesting.
There’s simply too much to consume in the modern era to ever consider some grouping of content as a task list. If your default is to view that as such, I think you’re going to feel especially overwhelmed in the modern world.
I’m considering signing up for omg.lol almost entirely for the damn statuslog…
Are there any similar solutions I could use to quickly plant a status on my various sites? 🤔
Reposts from my Hey World blog
I reposted several posts from Hey World to my personal website.
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How to make driving across Texas more fun - a quick discussion of how a somewhat ridiculous new travel quest is making the boring parts of travel more fun.
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Friends for the sake of memories - re-examining some online friendships and choosing a path forward.
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I paid $100 for the privilege of travel today - taxing your own privilege.
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The last years of your life suck - a reminder of what your final years might look like.
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The only possible way to drive directly from Missouri to Kentucky - weird geography meets a weird quest.
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How can a digital camera from 1999 change your life? - purchases that change how you live.
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How many countries are there? - it’s more complicated than you might think.
Day 27: Surprise for challenges.micro.blog
This is Surprise Lake in Aniakchak National Monument, a collapsed caldera in remote Alaska that’s the least visited park unit in the country. I spent 5 days waiting for a short window to fly here via bush plane in 2019, so it’s a surprise that you made it!
Day 21 Mountains for challenges.micro.blog: “The Great One”
Day 18: Mood for challenges.micro.blog
Day 17: Transcendence for challenge.micro.blog.
This is the spot where the mutilated body of a young black boy, Emmett Till—whose crime was being black in rural Mississippi during Jim Crow—was dumped, an event that transcended a “simple” race murder and helped to launch the Civil Rights Movement.
I’m considering abandoning my general Mastodon account (I have another one that solely dedicated to travel/outdoor adventures) and moving everything to Micro.blog, where I’d also pull in my other fedi-posts and my blog posts from my primary website.
What drawbacks will I encounter?
Shot this from inside my tent in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in February.
Day 13: Cactus for challenges.micro.blog.
Day 13: Page (Arizona 😜), for challenges.micro.blog
Day 11: Sky for challenges.micro.blog
Day 10: Train for challenges.micro.blog - The most unique train car I’ve seen was this cut-out display at Steamtown NHS in Scranton, PA.
Question, friends: if you happen across a misplaced slice of crispy bacon on a random sidewalk in your town, does the 5 second apply to the moment it was originally dropped, or does the clock start when you first see it? Day 9 Crispy of challenges.micro.blog
Day 8: Prevention for challenges.micro.blog
Day 7: “wellbeing” of challenges.micro.blog
Day 6: “Windy” of challenges.micro.blog
When I think windy, I think of the summit of Mt Washington, where they chain down the roofs of buildings and the site of the highest wind speed ever recorded on Earth: 231 mph.
Day 5: Serene of challenges.micro.blog
