Done Since 2023-03-26

Uhtceare (pronounced- oot-key-are-a) is an Old English word meaning "the anxiety experienced by a person when they wake up too early and can't get back to sleep." I've been doing a lot of that lately. The world is not helping. About the only good thing about waking up too early is more time to snuggle the cats.

Most of the links are depressing. A few that aren't:

• (From Monday) Colorado emerges a refuge for families of transgender children, and a link to Tolkien's 1936 lecture Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics.
• (From Wednesday) An “aperiodic monotile,” or einstein, is a shape that tiles an infinite flat surface in a nonrepeating pattern. -- and one was discovered recently. There's more in this Smithsonian Magazine article (from today).
• (From Friday) King County Council votes unanimously for the Oxford comma | The Seattle Times

Be well. Be safe.

( Notes & links, as usual )