What will the pandemic do to real estate and the way we live in cities? Here’s a little bit of (informed) speculation: difficult times ahead - but something better could emerge.

Your waves for today.

Blogging in the cramped internet

BLDGBLOG, mourning WIRED ending Bruce Sterling’s blog:

[…] the pull of regular blogging—the urgency of it, the personal routine and daily discipline of writing online, the sense of audience, the faith that other people out there share these interests—has changed dramatically with the new internet, today’s cramped and disappointing version of online life that is now nothing but reaction GIFs and Donald Trump.

My wife is making two cups of tea - for herself.

This is going to be an interesting day…

Two cups filled with a milky beverage are placed on a granite countertop, one with a red handle and the other with a white handle.

Beach school this morning.

A young child wearing a sunhat and red vest is walking on a pebble beach while holding a large rock near the ocean.

I miss cinemas. The longer this goes on, the more I realise what I miss and what I don’t from The Before Times.

And I miss going to the cinema with my oldest daughter. They’re gone for now, and for a while to come. I hope they come back before she’s too old to want to join me.

The time finally arrived. The lockdown haircut had to happen.

A middle-aged man with gray hair is standing outdoors near a window, wearing a green and brown jacket.A man with gray hair is having his hair cut by a woman while looking at the camera with hair clippings visible on his shoulders.A middle-aged man with gray hair is smiling slightly while standing outside in front of a brick wall and an open door.

A little beach calm for you.

Actually made it to the beach for the first time this week.

A rocky beach with scattered green plants and white flowers overlooks a calm blue sea under a clear sky.

So. Our printer just broke.

It’s probably the shock of being used more in the last six weeks than in the previous six years.