BTW: FYI: ATTN: Readers
Find attached forthwith the commencement of an announcement.
Some minor housekeeping. I’ve created a new “Newsletter”, My Best Guess, for posts on the opinion side of things. One more way you can fine-tune what posts you get:
Logos con Carne: The “main” blog newsletter. I’ll use it for housekeeping posts such as this or for posts that don’t fit in the other silos. If I posts1 something I found on the internet and think is funny, it’ll be under this rubric.
My Best Guess: For any posts that (a) aren’t specific to the other silos but (b) are just my opinion about some random thing. Not that most of what I write here isn’t opinion to one extent or other, but I try to keep the stuff in the next three silos as accurate as I can.
Biblio Victuals: For posts related to art, especially literature, extra especially fiction, double-extra especially science fiction, but including movies (and possibly television shows). Many of the pieces here are opinion pieces. Less so the next two.
Math Musings: I am decidedly not a mathematician, but it fascinates me, and I’ve been interested in it most of my life. Compared to those who really know math, I’m a tyro, but I think I understand some of the basics and underlying theory to write posts about it for people who are where I once was: interested, curious, but without much background. In any event, writing about a topic helps me lock in on it.
Quantum Curious: I am likewise not a theoretical physicist, but it fascinates me even more than math, and I’ve been reading about it since before quarks were a thing (1964). The last few years, I’ve been combining these two interests into an attempt to learn quantum math. While I have a long way to go (and may never get there), I’ve come a long way.
So, you can pick and choose according to your interests. If you’re here at all, something I find interesting must interest you, too, and now you can easily skip anything that isn’t interesting to you. Options!
To manage which newsletters you get, go to //logosconcarne.substack.com/account and see the Notifications section:
Turn newsletters on or off to suit your preferences. I’m not planning on any chat threads, so that button won’t matter.2
Note this works for any blog you follow, add /account to the end of their URL.
FWIW, I’ve noticed some inconsistent behavior with Substack regarding newsletters.
If you go to my Newsletters page, you’ll see all the newsletter channels including Logos con Carne. Clicking any panel takes you to a listing of posts in that silo — a separate page for that newsletter. But if you click the Logos con Carne panel, you’re taken to the blog’s Archive page — which lists all posts. So, there appears no way to get a listing of posts just under Logos con Carne.
That’s going to affect, at least a little, what I post there. I also need to test what happens if I turn off posts from the main channel but leave others on. I’m not clear on how much separation there is between silos in terms of emails sent out.
I will say that, at this point, it seems I’m here to stay, but I’m still trying to figure out how to manage three different blogs, especially when the other two are showing more signs of life than they have before.3
Regardless, I’ve got thirteen years of blog posts I can dip into, write better, and repost here, so, yeah, I’m in. (And I’m learning to not let Notes suck up too much of my time. That’s been a bit of an issue.)
That’s all for now. I like the way Charlie Sykes includes dog pictures in his posts, and for this short post, I’ll leave you with one of my pal Bentley:
There’s something about a dog sleeping in your lap that has great soul-healing power.
Until next time…
I claim this is a Letterkenny reference, not a typo.
I’ve thought about the idea of chat sessions for authors who have science or math questions but not much background. If that sounds useful, let me know in the comments.
My former “main” general-purpose blog, Logos con Carne, established 2011, and my computer programming blog, The Hard-Core Coder, established 2014. The later focuses on the Python programming language but includes general topics (because I can never stick to just one thing).
Bentley is adorable! Hello to Bentley from William, Emily and Julie Rae (the cat)