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Have slowly been changing to San Francisco's time zone whilst in HK. It involves, amongst other things, being consistent with the times at which I consume alcohol.

Therefore, though it's 10am in the airport, I shall have a burger and cocktails because it's 6pm in San Francisco and I have 2 hours before boarding. Slept exactly 3 hours last night after a nice workout in the gym, so should be sufficiently exhausted to actually fall asleep on the plane.

(Allocated extra travel time in case the morning protests affected the airport route. All clear though.)

Turns out one of my colleagues is looking to get a spousal visa for his wife so they can sell both their apartments and move back to Canada in the next 2 years or so. Comforting to know I'm not the only one strongly considering this…

@hybotics Perhaps that could work in the bigger cities in the US.

In HK, where buildable land is so scarce, it wouldn't just be about one company agreeing to build more affordable homes for a smaller profit: even if they were willing, they'd be outbid massively at land auction, amongst other roadblocks further on.

Such a project would probably need a strong majority agreement amongst landowners, building companies, and the government. Or a deviation from the capitalist free economy model that HK has long followed towards a more socialist deal…but then you might as well move to China, which has a whole lot more problems than that.

At least in this most expensive of cities, there's no winning.

/@matigo

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@matigo How would homeless people in Toronto/Montreal make use of an electric blanket?

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Finally got around to looking at Mastodon, many years late. Looks quite quiet.

@matigo More for the player than the audience, in my case.

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@matigo Not listening — playing. Händel's 7th keyboard suite.

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This piece by C. A. Cutter (1883) [en.wikisource.org] imagines what the Buffalo Public Library would be like in 1983.

Some very interesting ideas which have clearly been achieved today, e.g. "Their intention was to make the work easy and quick, and to reduce time and space as nearly as possible to zero."

But the part that really got me was this: "The standard catalogue card now is ten centimeters wide and fifteen high." Fancy that, a reference to the metric system in the US in 1883…

Time completely disappears when I'm with my music. If not for the chime of my grandparents' wall clock, I would not only be over 30 mins late for dinner, I would also have missed a massage appointment.

@matigo The importance of keeping the phone safe is such that I hesitate to switch away from Editorial as my text editor, which is one of the only ones left that syncs to Dropbox without going via Files — the old method allows you to keep a separate passcode on the Dropbox app, whereas this is not supported when the app accesses Dropbox through Files.

// @whoisashygirl @hybotics

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