this thing is chock full of software upscaling a la “Let It Be”, and that’s certainly a choice. I know this pisses lots of people off (like normalization, autotune, drum machines, etc) and I’m not gonna tilt at it, it’s just a thing people are doing right now.
I think it’s ok to be mad at the dip in quality between film and digital and not want to present it in 320 lines of blur. I don’t think this is a “let people enjoy things” take.
you may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like https://botsin.space/@wayback_exe/111670277950182240
nice, nice, American Masters: “Max Roach”
kinda fun to have started ( https://mastodon.social/@gravely/109689742882840282) and ended the year w/ Pargin ( https://johndiesattheend.com)—completely unplanned.
23rd book of the year: “Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia" by Jason Pargin. Fun as expected. A pre-order, because that this point I just subscribe to Pargin stuff.
It’s been two months since I finished anything, my head has not been in the right space to read, I’d bounced off three other things, and I’ve been taking lots of long walks instead.
was looking for a set of configuration params for something incredibly tedious to look up from scratch yesterday
I was pretty sure I’d temporarily had it in an unsaved sublime text tab and stumbled into sublime not only supporting “command-shift-T” to restore closed tabs but that I could keep going, back years in fact. Yikes. Wasn’t there though.
Maybe iTerm? Sure enough: Session -> Open paste history, from three weeks ago.
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kindof a typical weekday: walk the kid to Flynn, continue on to try to hit blocks I’ve never logged walking, do about 5 miles, be back by 9-ish. But, today, I finally logged the last few blocks of Noe in the somewhat arbitrary bounds I established for myself to completion.
New bounds: from Caesar Chavez to 101 to 280 to San Jose Ave.
a friend not on fedi turned me on to “A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs" yesterday. I just enjoyed the first four episodes or so and it’s excellent https://500songs.com
like any hobby I guess, doing this is a great way to shut up my stupid brain, but this one helps me sleep. At least that’s the idea, anyway.
Bernal is next, then Glen Park.
Well this got out of hand, as usual with me.
I wanted to make a goal for myself, so I started adjusting where I went so that I can have walked every street b/w 20th, valencia, 30th, and market (but not market).
The last few walks have been weirdo routes to tag dead end streets and main drags.
I had intended to finish tonight but I was too hungry for the last few blocks of Noe.
Jr., last week, overhearing parent-talk, said “Wait, so if you’re in your forties, so I’m in my five-ies?"
late to this but I really enjoyed Dark (2017) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5753856/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
I get that it’s synecdoche or w/e but the “this bike lane is killing small blah blah” slogan is kinda funny
the entire road was redesigned—parking removed, turns prohibited, etc. so it is annoying to center (heh) the bike lane in the argument when so few bike riders even wanted the stupid thing
if the posters said “SFMTA is killing…” we’d all agree with it
“What about that blue one? We’ll take that one.”
junior is watching a lot of the 1960s Spiderman cartoon lately, which has pretty catchy music that it maybe relies on a bit too much: like it’s always playing one of three for our themes
now, I only know those themes from King Megatrip mixes from twenty years ago ( https://megatrip.blogspot.com/2021/02/king-megatrip-mixtapes-2000-2002.html), who fell out of my syndication subs at some point and I’ve now fixed.
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violating my “why would you, a fortuneless person, read a thing for people with fortunes?" self-imposed guidelines to share this hilarious California Forever progress report: https://fortune.com/2023/11/30/california-forever-tech-city-heckle-billionaires-central-valley-flannery-associates/