Reading

I’m reading a few too many books right now, but the main ones are Andrew Ross Sorkin’s 1929, about the panic of 1929 and ensuing Great Depression, and ‌The Hejaz Railway and the Ottoman Empire: modernity, industrialisation and Ottoman decline by Murat Özyüksel, about the Hejaz Railway, which I found while working on a presentation for a history of the Middle East course I’m taking.

I abandoned Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks after dropping my Fanon class. It wasn’t helping me progress toward my degree, and it was taking up an outsize amount of time and energy while being more frustrating than fun or interesting.

Also:

• lots of train control patents from the 60s-80s
• the 1000 page new train spec from TTC

Music

• Rebecca Black’s SALVATION remains on repeat, joined by
• underscores’ new singles off her upcoming album. I’m really excited to see her in concert later this year
• SOPHIE’s BIPP and LEMONADE
• Bob Dylan’s whole discography. False Spring is a Dylan-y time of year

Writing

• Continuing to work on a series on how CBTC works — if you know anyone who was at Standard Elektrik Lorenz, Alcatel, Thales, Matra or Siemens in ye olde days, send me an email!
• Rental applications

Shaking my head at

• PowerBI’s handling of dates. WTF do you mean ISO8601 dates don’t just work?!
• Instagram only syndication
• Immich not playing nice with S3-like storage
• The brutality of terminal illness

Eating

• As many burritos as I can while I’m in San Francisco, especially
• Taqueria Can-Cún and its delicious salsa verde