Tag Archives: Substack

August 29, 2025

Friday Notes (Aug 29, 2025)

I’m beginning to think this Friday Notes series is a Sisyphean Mission. While I’ve managed to reduce the main pile of notes to almost nothing (or at least nothing I feel like writing about), there remain other piles.

Not to mention the way new notes constantly spring up like mushrooms in the shady damp part of the forest.

Fortunately, I enjoy writing these (in all honestly, because they’re easy to write). For a while, largely because of Substack, I thought they might end up being mostly what I posted here.

6 Comments | tags: Dell Computers, disenvoweling, HP Computers, Kidde smoke alarms, Lenovo Computers, Leverage (TV series), Substack, weather | posted in Friday Notes

December 20, 2024

Friday Notes (Dec 20, 2024)

By Wyrd Smythe

Until now, I haven’t posted here all month, and I’m not sure I’ll post anything before the end of the year. My attention definitely is more towards Substack these days, and I increasingly ask myself why to bother with WordPress anymore?

For one, their technology continues to depress me. This week it’s because the notifications bell icon can’t clear the little dot that means messages pending. It’s on all the time, but there are no messages pending. Basically, at this point, I’m pretty disgusted and done with WP.

But first let’s have at least one more edition of Friday Notes.

9 Comments | tags: Apple Corporation, art, Bentley, stats, Substack, The Jazz Avengers, WordPress | posted in Friday Notes, Movies

October 25, 2024

Friday Notes (Oct 25, 2024)

By Wyrd Smythe

It’s been a slow month here, this is only my second post, and it could be the last. (This month, I mean, not forever.) One thing that has become clear to me is that Substack Notes is too much of a time sink. I’ve been learning to tear myself away from it.

I’m sure I’ll keep posting there, though. I’ve been updating some of my older posts and republishing them for a new audience. I wrapped things up here on computationalism some time ago, but now I have an excuse to revisit and distill those thoughts.

As for this blog, at least for now, there’s always Friday Notes.

6 Comments | tags: astronomy, baseball season, Bentley, blog, blogger, blogging, Election 2024, Gourdian, Substack, World Series | posted in Friday Notes

July 30, 2024

Change Winds Blowing

By Wyrd Smythe

I’ve been sitting on a fence for several months now, and it’s starting to get a bit uncomfortable. Back in March I opened branch office over in Substack land. Ever since I’ve been trying to figure out whether to shift operations there or remain here. (Or try to do both more or less equally.)

A complicating factor is that, despite both Substack and WordPress being blogging platforms, there is something of an apples and pumpkins comparison. They have, for me, contrasting pros and cons, mead and poison.

Change is hard, but it can also be invigorating, and it might just be time.

6 Comments | tags: blog, blogger, blogging, human consciousness, Roger Penrose, Substack, WordPress | posted in Computers, Life, TV Tuesday, Writing

June 7, 2024

Friday Notes (Jun 7, 2024)

By Wyrd Smythe

I’ll be dog-sitting my little pal Bentley for a couple of weeks starting Tuesday, so I thought I should get this month’s edition of Friday Notes done early. By the time Bentley leaves, I’ll have only one Friday left in June.

Of course, big news at the end of last month. Guilty on all 34 felony counts. A whole new level of strangeness in politics. Even bigger news comes next month with sentencing. Will a President serve while serving time?

That it’s even a question we need to ask is astonishing.

16 Comments | tags: deism, infinite temperature, John Baez, moon, morals and ethics, prayer, project management, realism, Substack, theism | posted in Friday Notes