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posts from 2024 / 01

  1. It took me about two years and a half years, but I’m caught up with This Old House.

  2. got this lovely new-to-me @paulrickards http://shop.paulrickards.com/large-plots/ large plot “20191020055321” back from the frame shop.

    while i was at it, I used off-the-rack frames on the rest of the stuff.

    photograph, 24" x 36" watercolor pen plot, impressionistic swirls in pink, yellow, green, purple, in a bright green frame, hung with-in a wall of vitsoe bookshelves full of books

    plot detail in purple, pink, green, yellow

    for additional framed plots laying on a counter

  3. coming up with a plausible but even more frustrating syntax for plain text markup

    bold: ddoouubbllee eevveerryy lleetttteerr, because that’s how you made letters bolder on a typewriter.

    _underline_is_easy_but_lets_not_be_sloppy:_no_spaces

    italics are not supported, that’s what underline was for

    hyperlinks? _underlines_with_a_octothorpe #, # footnote the link at the bottom of the file

    https://just.kidding, hyperlinks are not supported

  4. our cane plant has flowered this month after I moved it away from the sliding glass door into a distant corner and it is very, very fragrant — neato, had no idea it flowered!

    photograph of a cane plant with two primary branch tops, flowers peaking out to the rear, in a 2’ round pot in a corner beside a leather sofa and behind a marble end table, in front of a wall of books on the left and a pale pink wall on the right

    macro photo of the flower strand growing out the rear of the lower top can plant with 20 or so white 1” bursts of flowers on short green branches on a 3’ long green stalk

  5. 🏁 what I’m considering bernal but which is a bit more I suppose? Bound by Ceasar Chavez, 101, Alemany, and 280, and which I’d already had a head start on.

    A San Francisco street map centering the area bound by Ceasar Chavez, 101, Alemany, and 280, on which every street has a meandering purple GPS path I’ve logged on it.

  6. https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/

    I’m going to write my own mail server.

    All right.

  7. I like this thai basil recipe ( https://shesimmers.com/2012/05/pad-ka-prao-%E0%B8%9C%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%94%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%B0%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%9E%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B2.html) better than the one i used to use because it calls for fish, light soy, sweet soy, and oyster, instead of just fish sauce.

    still a wimp with the birds tho

    photo of cutting board with shallot, garlic, thai peppers, green pepper, and basil, bottles of sauce lined up to the rear

  8. First book of 2024: Ellen Ullman, "Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents” ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/486625/questions).

    I don’t know how this made it onto my pile but it was a quick read (I started it yesterday). It’s so weird to read 90s tech memoirs. People were still sorta building stuff back then, weren’t sure where things would end up, and so on.

    2023’s thread: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/109661276920611083

    Why I post these: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110011601484725615

    The paperback cover of “Close to the Machine” by Ellen Ullman, author’s over title over subtitle in black sans caps on a flat yellow background with a red USB-A cable serpents up from the bottom right corner to the top center. a black snake’s tongue flicks out from the USB cable connector.