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posts from 2023 / 03

  1. (if you haven’t made risotto m. recently, that’s about a hundred bucks worth of saffron. when I buy it at the grocery store I can get a hundredth of an ounce in a weird little bag for seven bucks)

  2. i’m sitting here watching this old jacques pepin video, he’s making a risotto milanese (with american brown rice), and he gets to the saffron and just whips out a tin that has an ounce of god damned saffron in it, lmao ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5vUuLh3ASQ)

    screenshot of video, ECU an open tin of an ounce of god damned safron, which is the size of two decks of cards stacked, close captioned “I have one ounce of saffron here.”

  3. “centering" “voices” “communities” “most vulnerable” “advocates”, etc, while maybe not originally liberal nonsense, is now definitely liberal nonsense. Stop the nonsense!

  4. I could fix valencia street

  5. https://youtu.be/R5mAuPg1ZZw damn, dude

  6. scribbling “meteorologists" under “doctors” on the list of people I’m cool with but looking forward to hearing from less

  7. oops, broke off the first cork screw, sending a second one in after it

    ecu corked bottle of red wine with a bit of corkscrew protruding from the top left off the corn and a full corkscrew entering it from the top right

  8. orchid a-comin’

    orchid in a pot on a table, large flower bud the size of a small flower bud (about the size of a small grape)

  9. huh, never heard of a “clarihew” ( https://archive.org/details/biography00chesuoft/page/10) poem before: a sort of shitty limerick about a historical figure. Cute. Named after the author of a book of them.

    Terrible. 😂

    a scan of a page the original book from the internet archiveMIGUEL DE CERVANTESThe people of Spain think CervantesEqual to half a dozen Dantes:An opinion resented most bitterly By the people of Italy.

    opposing page, with illustration that looks like a woodcut print or pen drawing of a stack of dantes glaring at a smug cervantes

  10. This Chico Freeman jazz tune, “The Search” ( https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-outside-within-mw0000090953) just came around on NTS Expansions ( https://www.nts.live/infinite-mixtapes/expansions) and made me put my book down and look it up. Cool line!

  11. wind gust max speed in the mission hit 27.7 mph on my little sensor in the alley so far today. neat.

    24 hour line plot of wind gust speed maximums measured in miles per hour on March 14, 2023

  12. I read this one back in 2013 and I’m sure there are more modern treatments (which I’d be happy to hear about) but if you want get a 1987 perspective on the failed promises of computer skill acquisition you would probably do worse than to read Dreyfus & Dreyfus’s "Mind Over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the Computer” ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1039572.Mind_Over_Machine).

    This post was written by a human.

    The paperback cover of “Mind Over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the Computer” (1987) by Hubert L. Dreyfus and Stuart E. DreyfusThe cover features two overlapping pink sillouettes of human facial profiles looking up and two the right over a black background.

  13. peeking into the party around the person I don’t know who opened the door: Hey!

    Slightly later over a beer: uh, so what do you do? (people love this question)

    Oh me? I’m a founder. We make [unintelligible]. Haha, yeah, no, it’s software for cold calling people. No yeah it still “works” ha ha ha. You don’t answer your phone? Wow do you mind if I double-click on that, I [looks into the camera] “do not get it” (I’m trying to make my catchphrase go viral at the party)

  14. Ah, jeeze, these hamsicks and circle-As are really picky about having the crust cut off of their diagonal cut PB&Js and the skins peeled off of their apple slices and etc, and etc. I really [looks into the camera] “do not get it” (I’m trying to make my catchphrase go viral)

  15. inventing a new “federal housing insurance corporation” as a thought experiment and being tackled and beaten unconscious by 90 Stanford grad founder-in-bio posters wearing Fnord brand “punch left" gear I didn’t even know sports basement sold because that part of the store is invisible to me, a normal person

  16. four other braun clocks throughout the house (the only other clocks in the house)

    braun bcn17 wall clock

    braun bcn17 bedside alarm clock (it ticks!)

    braun bcn17 desk alarm clock (it ticks!)

    braun bcn17 wall clock

  17. this guy is picky as hell about clocks

    selfie in the re-election of a black braun bc17 wall clock

  18. Aside: I mostly chose what to read when someone else who I specifically think is cool (even if I don’t know them or w/e) says or posts that they like something and it has almost never let me down.

    This one, for example, I picked up in December: https://twitter.com/ImJuneFacts/status/1606339706811097088

    Tweet screenshot@ImJuneFacts: The best novel I read this year was The Museum of Eterna's Novel (the First Good Novel). It has 50 prologues for the simple reason that the book is reluctant to begin, and is metafiction in the sense that it explores an intermediate reality between our own and that of the fiction

  19. threading is getting fragile so I’m backing this out to the main thread: what I thought would be the fifth, sixth, or maybe seventh book of the year turned out to be my eight. Such is the tragic unpredictability of having a full shelf of in-progress and to-read nonsense.

    Eighth book of the year: The Museum of Eterna’s Novel (The First Good Novel) by Macedonio Fernández ( https://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/2010/12/01/museum-of-eternas-novel-the-first-good-novel/)

    The Rochester “Three Percent” review closes with a lovely summary.

    the current paperback cover, a three color bullseye offset over a white field

    The last paragraph of the rochester review (see link in post)

  20. made a 16" NY-style pizza last night in the Ooni

    it looks a lot better than it was!

    Large, round peperoni pizza home-fired in a gas ooni koda, well leopard spotted mozza, cupped pepperonis, perfectly charred and shaped crust (ok, the bit around 2 o’clock around is actually burned)under baked bottom on account of experimenting w/ both a pizza-ring and a lower (~550F) launch temperature while fucking up and using too much cheese and sauce

  21. warms the cockles of my bureaucratic heart to see a team of competent workers swoop in, protect other workers, and prevent losses for debtors (while realizing losses for risk takers): this must be what it feels like to “send in the troops”

  22. happy friday

    selfie, full length mirror, new black t shirt from melville house, "I WOULD PREFER NOT TO." in white block san in the front, brown levis cords, blacked out vans

  23. silly nonsense update, i’ve completed the seventy or eighty prologues to The Museum of Eterna’s Novel (The First Good Novel) by Macedonio Fernández and would like to congratulate myself for not posting out of context paragraphs of it this entire time like this one, which it is full of. now to start the novel itself

    three paragraphs of mid prologue boasting, thanking readers of bad posts for staying committed to reading posts while waiting for the first good post to come along, of which this is but one of dozens of prologues, and thanking the bad posters for posting all the bad posts, which keep said readers reading, because this is why they will still be readers who read said first good post

  24. one of the guitarists I Patreon, Mr. Tabs, just did post of Weezer’s Buddy Holly and the video they produced for it ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAMDhuL2TUw&t=9s) has a killer opening for 90s kids

    The post on their site: http://www.mrtabs.com/guitar-tab/weezer-buddy-holly/

  25. seventh book: “Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters” by Richard P. Rumelt.

    Read this one for work and had a few people I’m “doing strategy” at work with read it too. They generally like it a lot so far.

    I’m a big hater of most business (generally: airport) books full of hindsight, anecdote cherry picking and etc. This one has all of those things, but reads more like a memoir, which helps a lot. Anyway, I finished it. Parts were good, even.

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11721966-good-strategy-bad-strategy

    The cover of "Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters" by Richard P. Rumelt. Bisected from the bottom left corner to the top right corner, white on the left under Good Strategy in black, and black on the right under Bad Strategy in gold.

  26. changelog.txt

    • replaced the 09-42 string sets on the strat, tele, and reverend with 11-48

  27. Pedagogy of the Homophone

  28. https://vimeo.com/804622030

    Last night I captured a time lapse video of about 8 hours of our red and green prayer plants (9:30PM to 5:30AM) finishing their evening stretches and then relaxing into morning, as they do most days.

    I think it turned out kinda neat.

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