My wife continues to recover from her concussion. She can't watch TV
or read, so she's settled on audio books as a way to pass the
time. Our local library doesn't participate in Overdrive, but I was
able to get a card at the provincial library in Montreal, which
does. We found the android app Libby which is quite usable as a
wrapper around Overdrive. It has its own reader built-in, so my wife
has been able to listen to audio books with her phone.
A note on yesterday's phost [0]. After her accident my wife made the
comment that she was lucky to be alive, which I think is what
prompted me to start thinking about our EMS days again. Hence the
prior phost, which in retrospect seems a little dark. It did feel
good to write it, however.
ZeLibertineGamer talks about social niches [1] and asks about the
future of gopher. I don't see it as ever being mainstream again, and
that is fine with me. It has clearly had a resurgence of sorts, but
I don't think we need to worry about a few, select people dictating
its direction. Most of the problems around mainstream social
networks come out of the power and influence of big money, I just
don't see how that could ever be a thing with gopher.
I see lots of good talk about preparedness [2],[3],[4]. I'm putting
together my thougts on that as well as a tale of how we put that
into practice and what we learned from an 11-day power outage.
[0]
gopher://sdf.org/0/users/slugmax/phlog/tales-of-a-former-paramedic
[1]
gopher://zelibertinegamer.me/0/phlog/2017-09-26_1904.txt
[2]
gopher://sdf.org/0/users/tomasino/phlog/20170924-go-bag.txt
[3]
gopher://sdf.org/0/users/yargo/glog/./t17553.txt
[4]
gopher://sdf.org/0/users/hobbsc/phlog/20170927.org
