Pizza Slow, Mastodon posts, page 112

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.

Biography for beginners : being a collection of miscellaneous examples for the use of upper forms : Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveInternet Archive

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!

Chico Freeman: The Outside Wi... Tracks & Reviews | AllMusicThe Outside Within by Chico Freeman released in 1978. Find The Outside Within reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.AllMusic Expansions - Infinite Mixtapes | Listen on NTSJazz and its many mind-expanding variations.NTS Radio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8uwt7L-xVw

01 The Search Featuring Jack DeJohnette Cecil McBee John HicksEnjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.YouTube

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).

Mind Over MachineDefining the limits of computer technology, the authors…Goodreads

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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.

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)

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)