Weekly Report: December 2nd - December 8th 2024
The Week in Summary:
- Another ordinary work week. Though we did get to check out a Christmas-themed dog show that is being hosted at the science centre and that was pretty cool. Most weekday evenings, we stayed at home, but on Thursday evening, Taylor and I met up with a bunch of friends at Hexagon to chat and play board games with.
- Over the weekend, Taylor and I stayed at home, listened to our audiobook, played video games, and ordered some pizza for delivery. On Sunday, we celebrated James' birthday with Peruvian food at Sumaq on 17th Ave.
- Throughout the week, we had fairly consistently warm temperatures for mid-December with a chinook rolling in to the region earlier in the week. A lot of snow melted and I rarely had to wear a coat all week, though I am hoping the temperatures do get colder again soon to. I want the land to hold the snow cover longer to alleviate potential drought.
- As for books this week, I finished John Ganz' When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s and finished most of The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective by Steven Johnson.
- This week was dominated by a bit of doomscrolling with martial law declared (then promptly ended) in South Korea, Syrian rebels capturing Damascus and toppling the Al-Assad's regime, and the continued Canada Post strike.
- Throughout the week, my friends and I kept returning to play Lethal Company and had a bunch of good times together navigating these dreadful underground facilities. Additionally, I played a sample of a few different games, including Satisfactory, Frostpunk 2, and Age of Empires IV.
The Week in Images:
The Week in Links:
A ‘Radical’ Approach to Reclaiming Your Attention
It’s not just about putting your phone away.
Kaitlyn Tiffany
The New Pornographers — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
It’s a TikTok world, creative and sprawling and strange and anarchic and tedious and gross and you can’t stop scrolling and you can’t stop looking and you just want more. So what’s the problem?
Turns out the zombie apocalypse isn’t as fun as they said it would be – Rebecca Solnit on our dangerously disconnected world
A population numbed, dazed, present-but-not-present – had it happened overnight it would be a sci-fi horror movie. And if you looked up from your phone for long enough, you might notice it’s started already…
Rebecca Solnit