Day 97: Stormy Days Ahead

2026-05-14

Hello! I'm posting this photograph for two reasons.

First, the obvious reason: I was out on a walk with the cloudy sky threatening to rain down on me, half an hour away from any reasonable shelter. Would have sucked, but it ended up being just fine. I studied at the library and walked home.

Second, I can't predict the future anymore. Cory Doctorow, a science fiction writer and blogger, wrote: "Thank goodness we don’t predict the future! If the future were predictable, then nothing any of us did would matter, because the same future would arrive, just the same. The unpredictability of the future is due to human agency, something the best science fiction writers understand to their bones."

And while it's true that I have the power to forge my own path in life, and while it's true that things would probably work out okay, it would feel comfortable knowing what's coming next. The adventure of life only stays exciting until you realize that an adventure carries with it great risk and burden.

I'm cheering myself up with the stupid frog, at least.

Finally, some tricks for any nerd party near you (or for an escape room): learn morse code and binary! I'm not great at it myself, but I think this is the easiest to learn and might come in surprisingly handy.

Cheers,
David