nississima

[mutant-distraction]

The Botanical Beach on Vancouver Island when the tide is down

📷 instagram.com/tomparkr

[spaceexp]

Over 800 terrestrial exoplanets visualized and arranged according to their equilibrium temperature and size.

chart by u/mVargic

[greenteaforbreakfast]

@thingsorganizedneatly

[nississima]

Daily apps for approaching a semblance of knowing what’s going on.

Here are some of the apps I use on a daily basis:

Bearable: GREAT symptom tracker for those trying to identify trends between different factors, like sleep, diet, exercise, stress, etc.

Calm/Headspace: love both. Calm offers custom breathing exercises, but Headspace has the best sleep story ever: Cat Marina. I will die on this hill. I wish both had hours-long sleep stories as I wake up in the middle of the night. Calm’s newsletter is surprisingly good to read.

Day One: daily journal, this is a great one.

Whereing: I’m trying to track my clothing use so found this promising wardrobe manager and tracker.

Cozi: honeydo list, menu planner, grocery list, kinda planner. The f*cking default title case drives me crazy, but it is a very nice (and free) way to manage menu/groceries that I found.

NYT Cooking: consistently great recipes. I think we’ve had two duds out of dozens.

Google calendar

Google drive (article TK on the document I use to plan/document)

Outlook for iOS. Don’t sniff at this choice. Quite robust and simple to use

Duolingo: registered years ago and recently returned to this. No reason it’s so popular. I’m bouncing around between French, Spanish, Italian, and Arabic, thinking about doing the music one as well.

Noom: I needed a jolt and a friend recommended it. I’ve lost 10% of my body weight. I am not a fan of the UI but the little lessons have changed some perspectives around food and activity, even stress.

Audible: Since Calm and Headspace don’t have sleep stories long enough, I listen to 8-hour+ books instead. The kids also listen to books and we’ve found some real gems

Spotify: my music city was Boulder, CO, which feels very on the nose, I guess? I remember eagerly awaiting Spotify’s arrival in the US - and also being absolutely puzzled at people who paid monthly to not own any files? I guess it’s still stupid now…?

[somediyprojects]

Colours of Winter stitched by Vicky. Pattern designed by Emma Congdon, featured in issue #366/February 2021 of CrossStitcher magazine.

[happyheidi]

When C.S. Lewis wrote “but some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

[weltenwellen]

Days I feel like a human being, while other days I feel more like a sound. I touch the world not as myself but as an echo of who I was.

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

[toomuchart]

[blackthorndryad]

Unknown Artist (Roman), Marble head of an athlete, c. 138-192.

[fordarkmornings]

Details from The Language of Flowers, 1885.

George Dunlop Leslie (British, 1835–1921)

Oil on canvas

[clawmarks]

Penny Williams - Stormy Landscape - before 1885 -  via The British Museum

[the-eternal-moonshine]

[nississima]

Work hard. Sleep well. Read Proust. Everything else is just details.

Wyatt Kirby

[quotesilyke]

People say I love you all the time - when they say, ‘take an umbrella, it’s raining,’ or ‘hurry back,’ or even ‘watch out, you’ll break your neck.’ There are hundreds of ways of wording it - you just have to listen for it, my dear.

The Curious Savage (John Patrick)

[loveyourpoetry]

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.

Allen Ginsberg  (via thatkindofwoman)

[whiteandothercolors]

[nississima]

That mug! The white linens!

[ephe-deactivated20250329]

I fear you close by; I love you far away.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra  (via thatkindofwoman)

[nississima]

This ain't big data, but it is to me.

I'm amazed at the viral popularity of the term "big data." Initially, I was excited since the phenomenon seemed to be a bellwether signalling that businesses leaders had finally recognized the importance of data in decision-making.

But then - I read an article by Christopher Mims on Quartz. "Most data isn’t “big,” and businesses are wasting money pretending it is."  And I realized I had been about to fall into the same trap as so many others.  

You see, the data I analyze these days is big - but only to me.

It’s hugeness on a personal scale - I think that's why the phrase has resonated with so many. It articulates so succinctly (and without abstruseness) the challenge that any amount of data presents to a business.

But what's the key finding out of all of this data? Do I see it?

That's often my biggest fear, and probably the underlying reason for why I am so painstaking in running multiple queries, pivots, scenarios, and reports.

I, like many other data junkies, don't want to miss the key insight that we're sure is lying in wait. It's there, in the numbers, wanting to be teased out just like Fermat's Last Theorem. And we've transformed our fear of missing it by throwing everything we can at the data.

[nississima]

The Ten Rules For Being Human: 1. You will receive a body. 2. You will be presented with lessons. 3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. 4. Lessons are repeated until learned. 5. Learning does not end. 6. "There" is no better than "here." 7. Others are only mirrors of you. 8. What you make of your life is up to you. 9. All the answers lie inside of you. 10. You will forget all of this at birth.

Chérie Carter-Scott