🌕 019 — Unnecessarily Burdensome

Read on the web → Hi, hello, how are you? The Hunter’s Moon is out, and so it’s time for me to send you another loosely knitted-together set of thoughts under the title Syzygy Business. This issue is reaching you on International Chocolate Milkshake Day—a holiday that I invented eight years ago, to mark my late mother’s birthday after her passing. She loved a chocolate milkshake, and so if you need an excuse to enjoy a chocolate milkshake, I offer you this one. If you’d like to toast a small Welsh lady as you do so, simply lift your cup and think ‘to Sue’. • • • I read this piece in The New Yorker, by Gideon Lewis-Kraus, with increasing astonishment and delight: ‘Computer Chips Are the Most Magnificent Things Humanity Has Ever Made’. Not only is it a fantastic journalistic deep dive on the history of computer component design and manufacture, it’s full of brilliantly evocative writing. As one example, of the machines used in the printing of modern chips, Lewis-Kraus writes: No single…