laze.net
laze.net
Ryan M
laze.net is where I write about things that interest me. Try not to be shocked at the level of innovation! The site's history goes all the way back to December of 1994 when I launched a personal home page on my college's web server. It was only the second student site on the server and would eventually go on to eclipse the college's main page in terms of traffic. It also drew the ire of a politician in Richmond because I linked to "The Butt Page."
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Today I scanned some photos taken by my grandfather, possibly during the late 1920s/early 1930s in California (at a period in his young life where he ran away from home and travelled across the country on the rails as a self-described...
Courageous Chief Warpath 1991 Genre: Hip-Hop The first time I called into Club Krush on WPRB was in 1991 to request a song I’d heard the previous week. It started with a pair of men (Bob Prescott and Cy Harrice) playing Russian Roulette....
Selected randomly for you from 10,000+ of my favorite songs. Refresh for a new batch. (J-card view looks a bit wonky on mobile.) #jcard { position: relative; display: inline-block; width: 700px; /* match your image's natural width */ }...
The conversation continues in favor of physical media over streaming (or at least working some physical media into your listening rotation). I’ve been listening to CDs, vinyl, tapes, even the occasional 8-track, especially in the evening...
As is required by middle-age, I’ve become opinionated about seltzer. So, I shall share my thoughts here. I’ve never really had a bad seltzer. The worst seltzers are really only bad because they’re too bland, not because their flavor is...
In the continuing attempt to keep algorithmic streaming from being my primary method of listening to music, I’ve decided to start detailing some of my favorite online radio stations, shows, podcasts, and other such things. If you care,...
I enjoy reading the written word. Sometimes heady philosophical stuff, sometimes not. Usually print, sometimes ebook, sometimes audiobook. hanif abdurraqib | kōbō abe | marcel aymé | solvej balle | matsuo bashō | billy collins | e. e....
Every so often I’ll search for a rare album and find a link to a Bandcamp page and get momentarily excited about it. But, sadly, it’s clear upon clicking the page that the page is a garbage spam page that has no actual music, no...
This is, quite simply, an ongoing list of words that I’ve come across in reading that I’ve found particularly interesting or useful. I don’t know why so many start with either “a” or “p.” (last updated: June 3, 2026) abstemious not...
Following Robert Birming’s lead, for the month of June I’ll be maintaining a list of posts that I’ve enjoyed. I’m shooting to have a list of 30 by the end of the month, but they may not match one-to-one for the day that I find them. I’m...
Here are the last 50 things I’ve come across that I’ve thought, “Hey, other people should see this!” Not so much a linklog as a list of smart things (and occasionally things about toilets) for you to read. .feed-item { margin-bottom:...
I need to fill this page out, so consider this dinky placeholder “in progress.” jacques tati | buster keaton | jean-luc godard | yasujirō ozu | takashi shimura | zombie films | gentle cinema | time loop | time travel | 60s spaghetti...
I’m at the stage of life that I definitely don’t shoot for “productive” weekends as much as I do “relaxing” ones with lots of downtime. But, every so often, a productive weekend isn’t so bad and helps get the following week off to a good...
Cross your fingers for me this weekend as I attempt a supposedly “easy” fix of the lid switch on our 26-year-old washing machine. I tried one super-simple tip involving zip ties that, sadly, did not fix our problem, but fully replacing...
This week I read Ben Lerner’s new book Transcription, a fictional dive into the early days of the pandemic, technology, and the effect of both on memory and experience. One particular sentence (actually, just a part of a sentence) late...