#26. Season's Fleetings, one and all
The term 'GenZies' was shared with me by an actual member of Gen Z, just fyi.
Hi all!
Let me be the first to say — Merry Crisis. It's a little early yes, but I really did want to be first to this one.
Entirely unrelated, Twitter launched a short-form video platform this week. This inspired me to make this table of social media platforms:
Clearly there are BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES in such areas as… long… photos?? Direct-share…. music?? Public….. dating??? I actually think that last one is ripe for the taking.
Storage
Let's say you get your weekly delivery in. All the usual, you know, tea, coffee, fireworks (NYE is coming), one thousand car tyres, five rolls of slow burning detonating cord, and two-thousand-seven-hundred-and-fifty tonnes of explosives.
Now I don't know about you, but if I had to store these items, even as someone without logistics training, I might consider not storing just under three thousand tonnes of high explosives next to fireworks and detonating cord. Unfortunately, the Lebanese Government felt otherwise.
Turner Prize-nominated research group Forensic Architecture recently released a video analysing all of this and more. It's a worthwhile watch both to get more of an insight into how they work, and to get a clearer picture of the shocking negligence that led to over 200 deaths and 300k people homeless.
Walking
E and I use an app called Cocoon. I think it is designed for families who want a special place to share photos and also personal information like, where are they and what is their heart rate right now. We use it because every week it produces a report on which of us has done the most steps. Here's this week's:
(You'll notice that the app's name highlighting logic is somewhat flawed).
E wins almost every week. Sometimes I claim this is because my legs are longer than theirs, but really it is because e goes for walks and I don't. I often avoid any activity that doesn't have a direct and compelling purpose, and so I used to arrange my life so that I could walk everywhere I needed to be and thus be somewhat active. Lockdown means there's not really anywhere to go anymore, which is a problem.
Ways I have tried to solve this problem so far:
Downloading a list of all of the blue plaques in London and seeing if I could convince myself to go visit all of them on foot. (Issue: I do not care about blue plaques).
Downloading Randonautica — the app GenZies use to find corpses — and trying to hype up my magical thinking so that I would believe there was some important destiny at the random coordinates it gave me. (Issue: reading about Randonautica is way more interesting than doing it)
The next way I’m going to try is Trail Router! It's a cool app/website that generates circular walks prioritising green spaces and quiet roads. Maybe it’s nice. This was a really long lead in for that link wasn't it.
K