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  1. good morning

    photograph from the corner of 25th Street at San Bruno Street looking northwest at San Bruno, a rainbow rises from the far right in an arc that, if complete, would end on Sutro Tower on the far left, but is only brightly visible for a few degrees of arcI’ve been jacking the saturation on my city shots lately to max it out because it feels more accurate at a glance to what it’s like to look at this stuff irl and also to pop the rainbow. I’m sure this is just a phase I’ll regret like when I used to add vigent to every photo I retouched. Whatever!

    originally posted on mastodon over 2 years ago (permalink)

  2. fourth book of 2024: “Mismatch” ( https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262539487/mismatch/ ) subtitled “How Inclusion Shapes Design” by Kat Holmes ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39644200-mismatch).

    I grabbed this one after landing on a Don Norman piece ( https://www.fastcompany.com/90338379/i-wrote-the-book-on-user-friendly-design-what-i-see-today-horrifies-me). I enjoyed “The Design of Everyday Things" so I followed Norman’s suggestion to read Mismatch.

    Pretty quick read, and full of things so obviously correct that I got impatient with the author’s patience? Good stuff.

    The paperback cover of Mismatch as I read it. Black helvitca on white title, subtitle, author, foreward author, left-aligned-on-center, top third. a design that reads like the 70s/80s trend of “generic” stuff, The bottom half is a black swirl stroke broken into 8 textures: blot, spikes, dots, bands, checkerboard, circles, stripes, and brush.

    originally posted on mastodon over 2 years ago (permalink)

  3. complimented on this “clean ass jacket” within five minutes of wearing it out for the first time, while waiting for a train to berkeley

    selfie in an elevator mirror wearing a new rock band jacket, black with white sleeves, green striped cuffs, collar, waist, and pockets, with a green two headed snake running up the sleeveI was on the way to see a doctor about a thing that cleared up the day before and two hours after I confirmed the $75-cancellation-fee appointment that I'd made three weeks prior

    selfie in an elevator mirror wearing a new rock band jacket, black with white sleeves, green striped cuffs, collar, waist, and pockets, with a green two headed snake running up the sleeve, "Queens" stitched along the rear shoulder

    originally posted on mastodon over 2 years ago (permalink)

  4. jiggled!

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  5. Speaking of the continually amazing 500songs, episode 76: “Stagger Lee” by Lloyd Price ( https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-76-stagger-lee-by-lloyd-price/) is absolutely fascinating and one of the best.

    “Ah you mean the Nick Cave song? Isn’t that a ‘traditional’ tune?" There’s so, so much more to it.

    Supplemental music should you choose to read the transcript rather than listen, or just want to hear even more: https://www.mixcloud.com/AndrewHickey/500-songs-supplemental-stagger-lee/

    originally posted on mastodon over 2 years ago (permalink)

  6. third book of 2024: “Particle Theory", a collection of stories by Edward Bryant ( https://reanimus.com/store/index.cgi?author=Edward%20Bryant).

    I started this a while ago after reading an interview with Ted Chiang (maybe this one? https://www.sfsite.com/09b/tc136.htm).

    I really, really like Ted Chiang’s stories. Ted really, really likes Bryant’s stories. Some of these were quite good, some just OK. I stalled on it a few times.

    ”giANTS”, the one about ants, is one of the good ones ( https://nebulas.sfwa.org/nominees/edward-bryant/).

    (🐜 🐜 🐜 https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110209784638054304)

    the paperback cover of the currently available I-assume-reissue from reAnimus press, with a font that might as well be called “space ship” in gray over black top and bottom and a washed out early 90s 3D rendering of some chemical over a washed out face. It’s so great that 50 year old collections can get picked back up and run by groups like reAnimus, and I look forward to the software getting more sophisticated, because the printing was pretty simple (top of page author on the left, top of page book name on the right, rather than story name, for instance), if better looking overall than lots of presses like this.

    originally posted on mastodon over 2 years ago (permalink)

  7. Second book of 2024: Glyn Johns, "Sound Man” ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20949444-sound-man)

    Two memoirs to start the year. Weird, I never read memoirs.

    This one was quoted in some video I watched chasing Chris Scruggs stuff ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeR2yZ2pWCw what a great band! that steel player?!) that I probably landed on looking up a https://500songs.com (which I’m 90 episodes into) citation, so I found myself reading it.

    The paperback cover of Glyn Johns “Sound Man” as I read it, subtitled: A Life Recording Hits With The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Eagles, Eric Clapton, The Faces…” (whispering: of that entire list of bands, I only really enjoy Led Zeppelin’s entire catalog, and barely a few individual songs from the rest. I don’t get the stones or the who, and I agree with The Dude re: the Eagles?)Anyway, it's fast, and fun if you ever went through a late 60s / early 70s rock phase before the 00s when it absolutely saturated american culture (let's not kid, it still does).

    originally posted on mastodon over 2 years ago (permalink)

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

    originally posted on mastodon over 2 years ago (permalink)

  9. 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

    originally posted on mastodon over 2 years ago (permalink)

  10. 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

    originally posted on mastodon over 2 years ago (permalink)