Bubbles
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Replying to my own post? Does that make this a meta meta post? Just wanted to say thank you to those that reached out to say, "I'm reading your posts." I have or will reply individually to those that did. But also to say it wasn't my...
Winged Form by Will Henry Stevens (1939, tempera and oil on paper, mounted on canvas, 26 x 35 in, Indianapolis Museum of Art)
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana...
Bit of a burnout day today. Everything’s just a little bit hard, a little bit frustrating. I want to do all the things but I know that if I try I’ll crash, so I’m trying to stay still without going stir crazy. All my usual strategies are...
If you enjoy some piece of media (a story, a song, an image), and then find out it was created with AI, is it reasonable to have your enjoyment impacted in retrospect? It sure is. John Gruber wrote on his blog (that has a pretentious...
In this week's Fallthrough podcast episode, I joined Kris Brandow and Matthew Sanabria to talk about a few things, but mainly the new Go proposal proposal. I don't think this was a particularly good appearance from me - I'd been at...
Dresden presentation in the can. Accounting taken care of. Laundry done. Inbox 0, RSS 0. I can now spend the next couple of days tending to house things before boarding my flight with little worry. From Ahmed Naji's latest: “There is a...
Jill Pelto: Field painting of new large bedrock exposures in the big icefall on Easton Glacier, Mt. Baker. The 2026 field season of the NCGCP brought dramatic changes. While we expected most of these, it doesn’t make them any easier to...
Some things I saw on my exercise walk in #SanFrancisco this morning: Another Outside Lands leftover mural by Indelible Funk, this one advocating Music for the People. When your home looks boring so you try to spice it up with a couple of...
Crivelli’s Room I (1967) by Gillian Ayers. • “This is the first film ever made about HP Lovecraft—and almost no one has seen it. Shot in 1989–90, it features unique interviews with Lovecraft’s friends and colleagues. It has sat...
The other week I watched the worst film in the world, for the seventy-eighth time. A terrible thing. I was looking forward to it, but yet again it ended unhappily and made me cry. There's this scene though. Maybe not even a scene. Maybe...
this is the second night in a row that i havent been able to relax and fall asleep i forgot to take part of my meds last night and i thought that was the cause of it, but everything is normal tonight. except that i'm still awake. i was...
TL;DR: I added 4x Intel I226-V 2.5GbE network cards to my NucBox G9. You can do it too. Download the files and print them yourself.↗ Backstory A few months ago, I blogged about using an Intel n150 based mini PC as my home router running...
About a month ago, I undertook the “10 Fountain Pens” prompt challenge, in which I pulled 10 fountain pens from my collection that I would keep “if I could only keep 10.” Rather than just photograph them, I decided to ink or re-ink all...