pizza slow (high quality)

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

🏁 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.

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

I’m going to write my own mail server.

All right.

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

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.

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”

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/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.

Hardback cover, dark purple circuit-looking lines over purple background, illustration of someone wearing a pink cat earring with orange flames obscuring their face and a butterfly obscuring the flames, holding a wine glass of flames, title in black over a pink blob.