{"id":362,"date":"2022-02-04T19:38:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T00:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/?p=362"},"modified":"2022-02-04T19:38:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T00:38:19","slug":"at-least-its-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/at-least-its-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"At least it&#8217;s Friday?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today hasn&#8217;t been a great day for writing. Thanks to yesterday&#8217;s snow I had shoveling taking up the morning timeslot, which is great for bolstering my failing attempts to build an exercise habit but less great for building a writing habit. Lunchtime involves&#8230;well, lunch&#8230;and this evening we&#8217;ll be busy with groceries and whatnot, so&#8230;yeah. This may not be the best day for something thoughtful and complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the interest of not having it be a complete wash-out, here are some odds and ends:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.darkpattern.games\/\" target=\"_blank\">This website collects games that include &#8220;dark patterns&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; sneaky tricks that are intended to keep a user playing&#8230;or, even more sinister-ly, <em>paying<\/em>. Helpfully, it also explains what a number of these dark patterns are, and lists games that are more healthy &#8211; so if you find your favorite game on the &#8220;dark&#8221; list, you may be able to find a nicer alternative at the same time. Just mobile games for now, but I kind of hope this takes off; we could use more resources to aid in vetting such things. (via <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2022\/02\/04\/dark-patterns-in-games.html\" target=\"_blank\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/li><li>A favorite local chocolatier is doing a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/chocolatdekat.com\/product\/bundle-of-love\/\" target=\"_blank\">Valentine&#8217;s Day-themed array of goodies<\/a>. If you&#8217;re thinking of something to send a sweetheart, consider giving them a try (they&#8217;re excellent!)<\/li><li>Lots of us (&#8230;me included) have been playing the silly little word game <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlanguage.co.uk\/wordle\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wordle<\/a>. Enough of us, I guess, that there was a little game jam recently to play with the concept, resulting in a bunch of variations on the theme that <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/tabletop-games\/22916218\/wordle-game-jam-interview-tabletop-rpg\" target=\"_blank\">Polygon has done a roundup of<\/a>. Check them out!<\/li><li>I have learned a lot about <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2022\/02\/national-treasure-nicolas-cage-cult\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nicholas Cage<\/a> today.<\/li><li>To pick up on the recent theme of emotions and the naming thereof: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/thebaffler.com\/latest\/show-some-emotion-racklin\" target=\"_blank\">this is an interesting article over at the Baffler on the subject<\/a>. Can naming our feelings &#8211; and changing the names we have for them &#8211; change how we deal with some of the big Things we face in our future?<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today hasn&#8217;t been a great day for writing. Thanks to yesterday&#8217;s snow I had shoveling taking up the morning timeslot, which is great for bolstering my failing attempts to build an exercise habit but less great for building a writing habit. Lunchtime involves&#8230;well, lunch&#8230;and this evening we&#8217;ll be busy with groceries and whatnot, so&#8230;yeah. This &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/at-least-its-friday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;At least it&#8217;s Friday?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awesome-things","tag-delightful-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}