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posts from 2025 / 03

  1. edit: oh, this one that caught my eye but it isn’t the only one, see: https://pixelfed.social/p/DocPop/806269366762456744

    original:

    have a great weekend! (pardon the ascii noise to follow)

    @ <

    ⎺UU⎺

    graffiti on the side of a wood-sided garage in Orange Alley, in San Francisco. The garage is tagged up with mostly black nonsense and some red nonsense which has been tagged over with a large, frame filling yellow figure outlined in black, filled in bright yellow. The figure has two buck teeth but mouth closed, a - for an nose, a spiral for one eye and a < for the other eye. Next to the figure is another black lined shape of the same size filled in yellow that could be a ✌️or something else, idk, that’s what I see at a glance.

  2. totally thought I’d licked the entire time change thing until the everloving wife pointed out that I had made dinner an hour late every day this week. I went back to cross reference the last post I made in chat at work and even that was an hour later than I normally work.

    what the hell? I’ve been getting up around 5AM like I normally do and then just disappearing an hour somewhere to fall back?

  3. just got around to ordering prints to go in the the mat we had everyone sign at our wedding 18 years ago, from the dvd the photographer burned us, which I’d eventually lost, but only after uploading them to flickr which I eventually deleted but had exported first, 9 years ago, which I only just imported to apple photos from my file server.

    ✅ can you order me a print of this picture? [a data warehouse of crossed out due dates]

  4. the sonophone ios app has a delightfully responsive volume slider but the navigation confuses me so I can’t get into the habit of using it exclusively.

    this home assistant hack can’t do search, which is a bummer.

    honestly plexamp continues to be the most delightful but they’ve chosen to deprioritize and kill http streams too, and its speaker targets are limited to airplay and bluetooth, and both stink.

  5. this is all so stupid. I assume accessing http streams and favoriting them is not a revenue opportunity and thus prioritized somewhere below first party enlightenment sound daemon support, so the “new” mobile app hard-rake-staircase-ollie 🙄 (the designers did a great job, the engineering decisions worry me) still can’t do what I’ve been doing for nearly fifteen years.

    home assistant can, clumsily, so I faked up the old UI with four sonos cards each locked into single mode.

    The sonos mac app on my machine this morning. Sonos has used this hokey three column layout for a very long time. Left: speaker selection and grouping. center: now playing artwork over playlist. right: source services, media library, or favorites, currently displaying favorites.

    home assistant using the synthwave theme (purple with pink headers and white text), with a music dashboard selected.left column: speaker selection. center: now playing artwork over playlist for the selected speakers. right: media selection showing “browse media” (useless) and Favorites

    the same dashboard on my phone, which collapses all of the columns into one, is incredibly silly, but works just fine for me, assuming I can trick myself into remembering to use it instead of opening the bad app first, which I tend to do.

  6. Everloving wife and I used to call the corner grocery, Duc Loi (r i p), "the dl”, now a few years into having moved and Casa Guadalupe being our default, I’ve finally managed to stop saying “the dl” by saying “the gl.”

  7. recology sanitation engineers have an off-the-books, for-charity, annual, competitions (regional and national), and one of the events is a timed wheel-can storage race (faster is better) judged by how interlocked the lids can be.

    when any one lid can’t be opened on account of the engineer’s clever interleaving of a neighboring can’s lid’s lip, they call it “captured lid locking” (the technical term) and, they are scored on how many lids they can lock.

    as in all sport, doping is a problem.

  8. wtb a home assistant automation that will play theater bell chimes over every (sonos) speaker in the house five minutes before dinner is ready, again one minute before plating, and again as the ushers (me) close and lock the (imaginary) doors to the the dining room as I sit to dine with whoever has joined me for dinner.

  9. entering my Townes Van Zandt era even though lyrics normally pass over my smooth brain like the colored smoke over an efficient wing in wind tunnel tests reminds me of getting into Elvis Costello years ago and telling a hipper friend of mine “wow, did you know his first few albums are like, incredible?” and getting in response a very deadpan “yes, that is generally the consensus.”

    late-mid-century texas and bakersfield sounds are my jam lately, catching me by surprise.

  10. [incredulously] Who did this!?

    photograph from the north west corner of vienna and excelsior streets in san francisco, a residential neighborhood full of blocks of four-way stops and a few blocks from any commercial street corner, this block inexplicably has a round brick-layrd mound in the center, turning it into a roundabout.

  11. top of rack sourdough preferment and folds, bottom of rack primary fermentation overnight, easily more than doubled, let’s go.

    🥹🥹🥹

  12. Here’s how I plot out a potential walk before I go, sometimes: I use CityStride’s map pathing.

    Other times, of course, I just wing it. But I’ve been bit by missing a block mid-neighborhood in places before and my sense of completionism drives me to go back, so this helps.

    I’m also not completing every citystride “segment” so I ignore that mechanic - it includes a few alleys which aren’t actually open to the public and paths that don’t exist anymore.

    a map of san francisco, ca centering McLaren Park. Holly Park in Bernal Heights is the norther most landmark, and the 280 freeway crosses the map a quarter of the way from the top while the 101 freeway peeks across the top right corner . Every street north of 280 and west of 101 has a purple path over it of a walk I’ve done w/ GPS recording. The paths continue across 101 from Sunnyside and have completed most of the streets between 280 and Alemany. A blue dotted line marks a potential walk I might do this morning through the Excelsior neighborhood after taking a Muni bus south from the Mission where to a stop I’ve used a few times to get to this neighborhood for prior walks. The planned walk is just under 6 miles but I can bail at any time back for a bus home on Mission st.