pizza slow (high quality)

orchid a-comin’

orchid in a pot on a table, large flower bud the size of a small flower bud (about the size of a small grape)

huh, never heard of a “clarihew” ( https://archive.org/details/biography00chesuoft/page/10) poem before: a sort of shitty limerick about a historical figure. Cute. Named after the author of a book of them.

Terrible. 😂

a scan of a page the original book from the internet archiveMIGUEL DE CERVANTESThe people of Spain think CervantesEqual to half a dozen Dantes:An opinion resented most bitterly By the people of Italy.

opposing page, with illustration that looks like a woodcut print or pen drawing of a stack of dantes glaring at a smug cervantes

This Chico Freeman jazz tune, “The Search” ( https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-outside-within-mw0000090953) just came around on NTS Expansions ( https://www.nts.live/infinite-mixtapes/expansions) and made me put my book down and look it up. Cool line!

wind gust max speed in the mission hit 27.7 mph on my little sensor in the alley so far today. neat.

24 hour line plot of wind gust speed maximums measured in miles per hour on March 14, 2023

I read this one back in 2013 and I’m sure there are more modern treatments (which I’d be happy to hear about) but if you want get a 1987 perspective on the failed promises of computer skill acquisition you would probably do worse than to read Dreyfus & Dreyfus’s "Mind Over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the Computer” ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1039572.Mind_Over_Machine).

This post was written by a human.

The paperback cover of “Mind Over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the Computer” (1987) by Hubert L. Dreyfus and Stuart E. DreyfusThe cover features two overlapping pink sillouettes of human facial profiles looking up and two the right over a black background.

peeking into the party around the person I don’t know who opened the door: Hey!

Slightly later over a beer: uh, so what do you do? (people love this question)

Oh me? I’m a founder. We make [unintelligible]. Haha, yeah, no, it’s software for cold calling people. No yeah it still “works” ha ha ha. You don’t answer your phone? Wow do you mind if I double-click on that, I [looks into the camera] “do not get it” (I’m trying to make my catchphrase go viral at the party)

Ah, jeeze, these hamsicks and circle-As are really picky about having the crust cut off of their diagonal cut PB&Js and the skins peeled off of their apple slices and etc, and etc. I really [looks into the camera] “do not get it” (I’m trying to make my catchphrase go viral)

inventing a new “federal housing insurance corporation” as a thought experiment and being tackled and beaten unconscious by 90 Stanford grad founder-in-bio posters wearing Fnord brand “punch left" gear I didn’t even know sports basement sold because that part of the store is invisible to me, a normal person

four other braun clocks throughout the house (the only other clocks in the house)

braun bcn17 wall clock

braun bcn17 bedside alarm clock (it ticks!)

braun bcn17 desk alarm clock (it ticks!)

braun bcn17 wall clock

this guy is picky as hell about clocks

selfie in the re-election of a black braun bc17 wall clock