Jer

Venn Diagram: NatSec, tech, innovation, culture. Working on mindfulness / self-awareness. Suddenly Midwest. Bad at bird noise-ing. Mostly on LinkedIn.

[Jer @fieldgrayed]

“Celts were innovators, but the Romans were nation builders.”

- Mark Kurlansky, “Salt: A World History”

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https://t.co/BM9lMqzPoY

[Jer @fieldgrayed]

@em_is_typing @Airbnb Have had similar issue… v sketch.

[Jer @fieldgrayed]

“Words with double c’s are troublemakers; words with double c’s and double m’s are invitations to catastrophe.”

— @BCDreyer, “Dreyer’s English” (p. 131) 📖

[Jer @fieldgrayed]

@JordynFetter @pahlkadot Just nabbed a copy too!

[Jer @fieldgrayed]

📣🐓 Morning reflection:

@BCDreyer’s commentary on dangling participles in #DreyersEnglish is legen…(wait for it)…dary.

📚✍️🤓

[Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot]

Prigozhin went north
Shot down some helicopters
Guess that's all fine now

(It's a... hai-coup)

[Jer @fieldgrayed]

Me: “Are you *sure* we ate this same meal on our honeymoon? Doesn’t seem familiar…”

Also Me: “Five-letter word meaning ‘public hatred’? Yeah, that’ll be ‘o-d-i-u-m,’ I bet.”

[Jer @fieldgrayed]

“I was a poet, but I was away for a while from the loom of thought and formal language; I was playing.

I was whimsical, absorbed, happy.

✨ Let me always be who I am, and then some.” ✨
—
Mary Oliver, “Upstream” (p. 164) 📖

[Jer @fieldgrayed]

“Knowledse has entertained me and it has shaped me and it has failed me. Something in me still starves. In what is probably the most serious inquiry of my life, I have begun to look past reason, past the provable, in other directions.“ (2/2) — Mary Oliver, “Upstream” (p. 153) 📖

[Jer @fieldgrayed]

“When I came to a teachable age, I was, as most youngsters are, directed toward the acquisition of knowledge, meaning not so much ideas but demonstrated facts. Education as I knew it was made up of such a preestablished collection of certainties.” (1/2)

[Jer @fieldgrayed]

@MAGTravF This *measurably* impacted my mental health for the worse. 😂

[Jer @fieldgrayed]

@buildingMadrid @nealstephenson Fair warning - I did “Snowcrash” and “Cryptonomicon” on audio and both were ✨ awesome.✨ Can be very narrator and book structure dependent, though.

[Jer @fieldgrayed]

“Brevity would have made the whole thing ineffectual, for what Whitman is after is felt experience. Experience only, he understands, is the successful persuader.”

— Mary Oliver, “Upstream” (p. 98-99) 📖

[Jer @fieldgrayed]

“The detail, the pace, the elaborations are both necessary and augmentative; this is a long poem and it is not an argument but a thousand examples, a thousand taps and twirls on Whitman’s primary statement.” (1/2) 📖

[Jer @fieldgrayed]

🍋 Lemony Snicket Negroni 🥃
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• 3 Malfy Limon Gin
• 3 Dolin Blanc / white vermouth (not dry)
• 2 Salers Aperitif
• 1 Cointreau / clear orange liqueur
• 1 St. Germaine / Elderflower liqueur
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This is a parts ratio (3:3:2:1:1); in ounces, it is… WAY more than one drink. 😅

[Jer @fieldgrayed]

“In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love, and the ability to ask questions. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us. This is Poe’s real story. As it is ours.”

— Mary Oliver, “Upstream” (p. 91) 📖

[Jer @fieldgrayed]

Aren’t you sometimes a bit curious about what you might be missing right beneath your nose? ✨👃✨ This is a topic of great interest to me.