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Great Mullein (Verbascum thapsus). Prolific self-seeder in sunny spots at the music school.
Rachel is playing in an old time music jam in Paoli tonight. Having no musical talent, I’m one of four or five spectators. Two upright basses, two mandolins, a banjo, a fiddle, a dulcimer, several guitars, and fifteen voices. If you...
On Monday, I met my camera dealer at my studio, and we made arrangements to remove all the photography gear. It took him five hours to pack it all up, but it’s gone now. I kept the gear that I’m using at home: a Z8 system, and much of my...
Warning: This article has spoilers. Read only if you don't plan on playing the game. First things first: I'm not taking into consideration any of the debacle regarding ZA/UM (the company) with ZA/UM (the former collective). Regardless of...
Today at Crucial Tracks: Across the Wire, by Calexico Share a song that sounds like your favorite weather. What a provocative prompt. I think one of my favorite weathers is a clear sky in pre-dawn light, a cool morning before a warming day.
Home Assistant Transplant I have been running Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 4 for about five years now. A short while ago, homeassistant was suddenly no longer responding. Neither web ui nor a SSH login worked. So I cut the RPi's...
Since Wicked was last in Minneapolis in 2022, the much anticipated movie adaptation has been released, not one but two films starring Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, and a bunch of stars. I saw both movies on the big screen (a rarity for...
In May 1984, Digital Research Inc (DRI) announced a product called StarLink1. It was described as a “hardware/software combination to expand the IBM PC into a multiuser system”2 . The hardware portion was a board containing an Intel 8088...
Alternative photo apps haven’t really stuck for me, but I am really appreciating a lot of what No Fusion does, so far. The interface feels pretty good, allowing for fairly natural feeling adjustments, and it has a nice set of film-like...
Life The Black Dog came for me. Or continued to come for me in gradually more obvious increments. It coincides (perhaps unsurprisingly) with my acceptance that my foot is properly fucked and in spite of what the podiatrist told me I...
Schön wieder so eine schöne Farbe, so langsam werde ich doch noch zum Rosafan! Frische Himbeeren waren im Einkaufswagen gelandet und obwohl wir sie gern direkt so vernaschen, haben sie den Weg in ein fruchtig-frisches Dressing...
Me: heh heh more like "France" Frantz Fanon: fermez vos gueles >:-[
Connecting with the Pan-Asian diaspora in the Netherlands. In June, I spent one week in the Netherlands—mostly in The Hague—visiting my cousin and some friends. I wrote about that trip extensively on my personal blog, but wanted to...
Fun morning at Gruga. 👉 View 4 more images
David Thomson has a new book out, A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies, in which he convinces himself that the artform to which he has dedicated his entire life is actually corrupting civilisation and profoundly...