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  1. 12th (I am not tryna spell "twelth?f?”th, these stories deserve to be 13th, alas) book of 2024: “Magic for Beginners”, by Kelly Link ( https://kellylink.net/books/magic-for-beginners-old, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66657.Magic_for_Beginners). Yep.

    Goth surrealist tangential punny folklore ghost stories? Idk what the hell I just read and if it was a TV show I’d turn it off but I can read stuff like this all day long (and just did).

    the paperback cover of “Magic for Beginners”, Stories by Kelly Link. An illustration of a woman with black hair parted down the middle, a long black doubled-over pearl necklace, and multiple rings and black wristbands in a black t-shirt holds a ferret? looking left (pretty goth imo), over a blue background. A sky blue rectangle with the corners clipped (as if it was a card tucked into cuts in the cover) is covered w/ the title in all caps sans, the authors name below in light blue over the blue background.Per Link’s website: The cover is modeled on Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Lady with an Ermine.”

    originally posted on mastodon over 2 years ago (permalink)

  2. me: time to read a creepy story with bugs in it

    bugs: ugh, hey, hi, so, uh, am i in that one?

    me: 🙄 yes

    originally posted on mastodon over 2 years ago (permalink)

  3. not helped by this 🐝 being 🐝what i was reading at the time https://kellylink.net/books/magic-for-beginners-old/the-hortlak

    originally posted on mastodon over 2 years ago (permalink)

  4. had to move the adirondack i was sunning myself in about fifteen feet into a clearing because the trees above where it was initially are so full of bees that every other thought i had was “buzz”

    photo of a Sequoia grove to me east, the rising sun above, blue skies behind

    originally posted on mastodon over 2 years ago (permalink)

  5. eleventh book of 2024: “Trust”, by Herman Diaz. ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58210933)

    Insulting to anarchists. “Obama liked this!” should have turned me away, but i was a fool.

    Meh. Almost DNF’d about ⅔ of the way through but I’m on vacation and had an hour to slog through.

    On the bright side, when I drop it off at one of those little free libraries maybe someone will have left a classic I can trade up for.

    The paperback cover of "Trust", by Hernan Diaz, as i read it, except my copy as the pulitzer prize winner seal on it.

    originally posted on mastodon over 2 years ago (permalink)

  6. 🚶🏽‍♂️ 🚶🏽‍♂️ 🚶🏽‍♂️

    🏁 what I’m considering Glen Park and Diamond Heights, bound by Portola, Diamond Heights Blvd, San Jose, Bosworth, and O’Shaughnessy Blvd

    🏁 what I’m considering Potrero Hill, bound by Division, 280, Cesar Chavez, and 101

    A San Francisco street map centering the area bound by Market, 3rd street, 280, and Twin Peaks, on which most streets have a meandering purple GPS path I’ve logged on it, generally completing (in order I walked it) Noe Valley, Bernal Heights, the Inner Mission, Mission Dolores, the Castro, Eureka Valley, Glen Park, Diamond Heights, and Potrero Hill.

    originally posted on mastodon over 2 years ago (permalink)

  7. tenth book of 2024: “Pnin", by Vladimir Nabokov. Nice.

    the current Vintage International paperback cover of “Pnin” by Vladimir Nabovkov, as I read it:a black leather frame that is set on and shadows a white field contains a bow tie constructed of two or three pieces of maroon paper covered with the lowercase typewritten letters p, n, i, and n in repetitive 8 letter blocks is affixed to white board with sewing pins.and a strip of cream paper with “Pnin” typewritten below,

    originally posted on mastodon over 2 years ago (permalink)

  8. unexpected tiling window manager bonus: image popovers immediately get tiled to the same size

    I never really got into these things because I guess it never occurred to me that they would have pleasant margin options for single app configs, which for some reason I kinda prefer (tiled round rect windows and drop shadows at 0px margin and padding look weird, to me)

    I’ve used Moom ( https://manytricks.com/moom/) for years, it’s great.

    now I’m playing with Amethyst ( https://manytricks.com/moom/) instead.

    screenshot of a computer desktop with the mastodon application Ivory open and filling nearly the entire screen. floating over Ivory’s main window is an image open in a window about 1/3 the size of the main window by volume, which seems to have been the default way to “show image” since lightbox.js ten or fifteen years ago or whatever.

    the same image loaded on the same computer with nothing changed except that Amethyst is running and instantly yoinked the image to fill the entire screen, which is always what I wanted when I tell the computer to “show image” or whatever, instead of lightbox.js style nonsense

    originally posted on mastodon over 2 years ago (permalink)

  9. took junior to hike the sign

    that’s right

    SOUTH

    SAN FRANCISCO

    THE INDUSTRIAL CITY

    pretty nice, always wanted to do that.

    it’s a little 2 mile loop with a steep stepped shortcut up from the bottom to the top. also, you can walk on the letters. also also, if you bring cardboard you can slide on a few of them even.

    wide angle photograph looking up hill at the huge ‘L’ from “INDUSTRIAL”

    originally posted on mastodon over 2 years ago (permalink)

  10. haven’t cut my hair in over a year except for one straight DIY shear pass mid-year on the back to de-mullet

    everyone who asks and finds out what I’m doing is all “I couldn’t get through the awkward phase" and I’m all “well, tbh? it’s all awkward, with brief OK phases"

    beat

    also everyone who has ever had long hair when I complain about it: “well you could always cut it off, I don’t regret going that at all" and I’m like “you are right.”

    beat

    so I think I’ll keep growing it out another year

    originally posted on mastodon over 2 years ago (permalink)