{"id":43876,"date":"2025-03-26T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=43876"},"modified":"2025-03-24T14:08:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T21:08:26","slug":"whats-in-my-now-mary-lucia-darst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/whats-in-my-now-mary-lucia-darst\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in my NOW? \u2014 Mary Lucia Darst"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maryluciadarst.com\/\">Mary Lucia Darst<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;founded ClefRights, a music publishing and technology startup. She holds a DPhil (PhD) in Music from the University of Oxford and is a member of St Hilda\u2019s College. She is an avid polyglot and speaks twelve languages to varying degrees of fluency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2025\/03\/wimb-mary.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2025\/03\/wimb-mary-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43877\" width=\"708\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2025\/03\/wimb-mary-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2025\/03\/wimb-mary-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2025\/03\/wimb-mary-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2025\/03\/wimb-mary.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 708px) 100vw, 708px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>PHYSICAL<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>A broken PenBBS 489<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; The 489 is a vacuum-filler fountain pen that&#8217;s one of my personal favourites to use, but the finial has come off. All my attempts to reattach it have failed, but I leave it on my desk and fiddle with it between calls.<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.travelerscompanyusa.com\/collections\/brass-products\/products\/trc-brass-pen-case-solid-brass\">Traveler&#8217;s Company brass pencil case<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; my desk doesn&#8217;t have any drawers, so I use the pencil case to keep track of small objects, such as USB drives, ink cartridges, erasers, etc.<\/li><li><strong>Assorted books<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; currently on my desk are Lord Chesterfield&#8217;s Letters to His Son, Chocolate Wars: From Cadbury to Kraft: 200 Years of Sweet Success and Bitter Rivalry by Deborah Cadbury, Barbarossa: And the Bloodiest War in History by Stewart Binns, and The Right It: Why So Many Ideas Fail and How to Make Sure Yours Succeed by Alberto Savoia<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>DIGITAL<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/librarything.com\/\">LibraryThing<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; I prefer LibraryThing to GoodReads for tracking and cataloguing my books.<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxforddawn.com\/\">My own digital humanities project Oxford Dawn<\/a><\/strong>. I publish it every other week or so and the topics are based on what I&#8217;m reading or researching at the moment.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>INVISIBLE<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>My health.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>When I was in my doctoral programme, I realised that my health was crucial. I&#8217;m counting it as invisible because when everything is working, one never notices it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>issue #206<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2303],"tags":[2389],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43878,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43876\/revisions\/43878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}