• Going on a nice morning walk with Mom and Sammy.
    • Getting home just in time to watch the rain from the porch.
  • Watching and loving Y Tu Mamá También with Sammy.
  • Learning that Facebook recently hired a co-writer of the Patriot Act to be its general counsel.
    • The rating of the bound version of the Patriot Act on Google: 35%.
    • The lone review of the Patriot Act on Google Books: “stupid ass law.”
  • A tentatively heartening stat from a Fast Company story about plant-based meat: “Around 30% of American consumers now say that they’re reducing their meat consumption, and 32% consider themselves flexitarian.”
    • A venture capitalist in the article: “Historically, making the decision to bring on a plant-based burger in McDonald’s would have been a very risky decision to make. […] Why would you put your job at risk and your reputation at risk to take on a veggie burger? [Now] if you’re in that position of influence, and you don’t take that risk, you’ll actually miss out, and you’ll be the one who kind of came in behind competition.”
      • I like how he describes the change in terms of individuals’ concrete actions. I don’t like how it potentially supports anarcho-capitalists’ idea that there is a free market solution for any crisis, including excessive meat consumption.
  • The amazing 1874 specimen book of chromatic wood type from Wm. H. Page & Co., viewable for free on Archive.org (via “Meanwhile” by Daniel Gray).
  • Getting home late enough to see (and be momentarily freaked out by) the newspaper delivery.