Mastodon posts from 2024

  1. Also born on this day, go figure

    https://mastodon.social/@workingclasshistory/113733763757962621

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon December 29, 2024 - 3:08 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/12/29/113733906839955560/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/12/29/113733906839955560/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  2. Upgraded the pizza oven to the new ‘max’ ooni, which is insanely huge, so that I could do this: make an NY style pizza with slices that are the “correct” size, and feed the family one-and-done.

    throwing out the dough to 20" was easy, launching was easy, etc.

    I set my expectations low but am very impressed w/ the first bake even though I dislike the dough I made, mostly nits with the fermentation, and I launched too hot

    photograph, finished extra large new york style pizza with sauce, cheese, basil, and pepperoni on a wood peel on a counter, a pizza wheel is laying next to the pizza on the left
    Figure 1. photograph, finished extra large new york style pizza with sauce, cheese, basil, and pepperoni on a wood peel on a counter, a pizza wheel is laying next to the pizza on the left.
    photograph of the underside of the pizza tilted up from the peel, displaying bubbles of varying sizes from very small to half an inch burst and leapoarded, larger bubbles merely lifted as cavities, w/ a near black ring around the outer edge of the crust
    Figure 2. photograph of the underside of the pizza tilted up from the peel, displaying bubbles of varying sizes from very small to half an inch burst and leapoarded, larger bubbles merely lifted as cavities, w/ a near black ring around the outer edge of the crust.
    photograph of one slice on a paper plate and two slices on a second paper plate, both on the peel(the paper plates are actually melamine and we re-use them every friday for pizza night because it sets the vibes correctly)
    Figure 3. photograph of one slice on a paper plate and two slices on a second paper plate, both on the peel(the paper plates are actually melamine and we re-use them every friday for pizza night because it sets the vibes correctly).
    macro of one plated slice, finished w/ shaved parm, red pepper flakes, and oreganothe very thin crust is visibly bubbled and a burned bottom layer has pulled away from the rest of the crust in waves
    Figure 4. macro of one plated slice, finished w/ shaved parm, red pepper flakes, and oreganothe very thin crust is visibly bubbled and a burned bottom layer has pulled away from the rest of the crust in waves.
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon December 28, 2024 - 2:26 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/12/28/113728079677094326/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/12/28/113728079677094326/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  3. The november Clarkesworld was particularly fun, and I specifically liked the opener, https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/nelson_11_24/, the second one https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/spires_11_24/, the third one https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/auslender_11_24/, and the last one https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/swanwick_11_24/

    Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & FantasyClarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: LuvHome™ by Resa NelsonClarkesworld MagazineClarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & FantasyClarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: Luminous Glass, Vibrant Seeds by D.A. Xiaolin SpiresClarkesworld MagazineClarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & FantasyClarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: Duty of Care by E.N. AuslenderClarkesworld MagazineClarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & FantasyClarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: Unquiet Graves by Michael SwanwickClarkesworld Magazine
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon December 28, 2024 - 12:58 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/12/28/113727735669080999/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/12/28/113727735669080999/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  4. I was also surprised to find that pest control (I assume) includes cats someone or some group takes care of out there.

    photograph looking up at the street signs on the corner of 20th street and Maryland street on a gray cloudy day
    Figure 1. photograph looking up at the street signs on the corner of 20th street and Maryland street on a gray cloudy day.
    Photograph of an industrial building covered in vertically oriented corrugated steel, behind a chain link fence. Scattered between the fence and the building are half a dozen white cat houses facing various directions in no particular apparent organization
    Figure 2. Photograph of an industrial building covered in vertically oriented corrugated steel, behind a chain link fence. Scattered between the fence and the building are half a dozen white cat houses facing various directions in no particular apparent organization.
    a closer photograph of one of the cat houses situated between a sidewalk curb and a chain link fence with narrow panels slotted through the fencing, confirmed to be a cat house by the open empty can of cat food in front of it next to an empty water bowl
    Figure 3. a closer photograph of one of the cat houses situated between a sidewalk curb and a chain link fence with narrow panels slotted through the fencing, confirmed to be a cat house by the open empty can of cat food in front of it next to an empty water bowl.
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon December 27, 2024 - 11:49 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/12/27/113727463286164099/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/12/27/113727463286164099/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  5. 🚶🏽‍♂️

    🏁 what I’m considering Mission Bay and Dogpatch.

    Being from Maryland, I wondered where Maryland Street, once I found, many years ago, that most of the state-named streets, are along the eastern side of the city here. Maryland St. specifically is right on the waterfront. But you can only get to a few blocks at a time between all the industry.

    A map of San Francisco, 101 on the left, 280 in the center, soma to the top and Islay creek along the bottom. All of the visible sections of the Mission, Bernal Heights, Potrero Hill, Mission Bay, and Dogpatch streets (and most alleys but not all the weird driveways and private sections of old streets which are slowly returning) are marked with a purple trail.
    Figure 1. A map of San Francisco, 101 on the left, 280 in the center, soma to the top and Islay creek along the bottom. All of the visible sections of the Mission, Bernal Heights, Potrero Hill, Mission Bay, and Dogpatch streets (and most alleys but not all the weird driveways and private sections of old streets which are slowly returning) are marked with a purple trail..
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon December 27, 2024 - 11:37 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/12/27/113727415048620788/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/12/27/113727415048620788/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  6. Solidarity with all the parents of little kids who would be hitting their winter break stride right now if they had a moment of peace but won’t until school starts up again, ten of the longest days of the year from now, and oh btw it’s been raining the entire week

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon December 27, 2024 - 11:29 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/12/27/113727385272933513/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/12/27/113727385272933513/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  7. So hot on my wishlist I got it in fully modulated stereo

    Two identical paperbacks of David Byrne’s “How Music Works”, which is bright orange with all caps grotesque title over author’s name, one word per line, with very simple sign for a speaker radiating music up at the title between the two.the books are both laying face up on my kitchen counter.HOWMUSICWORKSDAVIDBYRNE.
    Figure 1. Two identical paperbacks of David Byrne’s “How Music Works”, which is bright orange with all caps grotesque title over author’s name, one word per line, with very simple sign for a speaker radiating music up at the title between the two.the books are both laying face up on my kitchen counter.HOWMUSICWORKSDAVIDBYRNE..
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon December 26, 2024 - 4:07 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/12/26/113717152575697034/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/12/26/113717152575697034/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  8. Https://www.ubu.com/sound/dj_food.html

    UbuWeb Sound - DJ Food ubu.com

    this mix was so fun when it dropped that I went and read the paul morely book ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_and_Music:_A_History_of_Pop_in_the_Shape_of_a_City ) strictly kev later connected it to and expanded it against

    Words and Music: A History of Pop in the Shape of a City - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

    10th anniversary: https://www.djfood.org/raiding-the-20th-century-is-10-years-old/

    ‘Raiding the 20th Century’ is 10 years oldIt’s been bought to my attention that the original version of my ‘Raiding The 20th Century’ mix is now 10 years old. Originally a 40 minute guest mix on Eddy Temple-Morris‘ XFM radio show, The Remix, it was my attempt to construct a rough history of ‘cut up’ music in the midst of the mashup up/bastard pop craze. Taking in Music Concrete, avant garde tape composition, radiophonic tape experiments, megamixes, edit kings, scratching, early sampling and of course mash ups, it was one of the most densely mixed and edited things I’ve ever done. When it debuted it was put up on the Ninja Tune site at the time and quickly went a bit viral, causing the server to melt down and the site to grind to a halt by the next morning. More info here and here. djfood.org

    now 20th anniversary: https://www.djfood.org/raiding-the-20th-century-expanded-version-20th-anniversary-release/

    Raiding The 20th Century Expanded version 20th anniversary release Available for pre-oder now via the Delic Records website in Japan, the ‘Words & Music Expansion’ version of my Raiding The 20th Century mix with additional spoken word by Paul Morley. This turns 20 years old in January 2025 so we’ve put it onto cassette, split perfectly in half over each side and there is a QR code on the inlay that takes you to a multi-page extra booklet of bonus material. Released January 18th, pre-order here djfood.org
    artwork from the 10th anniversary blog post in the style of the Sgt. Peppers album cover but black and white w/ a 20th century fox movie intro over the top.
    Figure 1. artwork from the 10th anniversary blog post in the style of the Sgt. Peppers album cover but black and white w/ a 20th century fox movie intro over the top..
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon December 24, 2024 - 4:25 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/12/24/113705897700324646/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/12/24/113705897700324646/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  9. P funny going through bad twenty year old posts on my silly old website converting them to their fourth or fifth text markup language this holiday break and running into so many broken links and embeds.

    onion-on-belt taboos against both hotlinking and mirroring completely made sense at the time, but, now, guess what silly, it’s all gone, we should have hard mirrored entire things we liked, if we liked them, even if only as time capsules

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon December 24, 2024 - 4:04 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/12/24/113705818245640931/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/12/24/113705818245640931/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  10. A 20-something tailgated me through one of the new door sized bart gates this week, clearly waiting for the right person to follow, and I knew exactly what to do, keep listening to my podcast, acknowledge nothing, even with the stupid new turnstile, which is slow and annoying, beeping behind me.

    hell yeah, we’re doing the moves, fare dodging, and we’re walking down the stairs like nothing happened, gg

    (fwiw the tone is a solid beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee for idk how many seconds)

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon December 21, 2024 - 1:10 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/12/21/113688145492642757/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/12/21/113688145492642757/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  11. Ah, the boys sang Pocket Calculator in Italian for Italian TV

    love the tiny instruments on this

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZiTr4hwHXI

    ♫ Kraftwerk ♪ Pocket Calculator (Discoring 1981) ♫ Video & Audio Remastered HDItalian Version.Tele Dance è il canale di MisterRemaster (flaniman).Tele Dance, Take a Chance!YouTube
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon December 19, 2024 - 11:25 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/12/19/113682071599019018/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/12/19/113682071599019018/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  12. Got a barcode, will be in DC Thursday through Sunday 🤗

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon December 18, 2024 - 2:19 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/12/18/113671428114906697/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/12/18/113671428114906697/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  13. Oops, forgot to try for a shmoocon barcode one last time

    might do lobbycon anyway, it being the last one and all that

    I don’t go to security conferences much anymore but a friend not on here and I were both on sg-dc and lived in DC in 2004, so, when the CFP got posted there ( https://marc.info/?l=sg-dc&m=109509914217942&w=2). It got his attention.

    '[sg-dc] Shmoocon 2005 CFP (and registration announcement)' - MARCmarc.info

    I didn’t end up getting a barcode until November 30th. I walked to and from the con at the Wardman each day from my place in Adam’s Morgan.

    One of the nights, we got dinner w/ @webjedi (his boss) and a few months later I quit my IT job started working for 'em as a security engineer.

    So.

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon December 15, 2024 - 6:19 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/12/15/113658219542348249/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/12/15/113658219542348249/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.
  14. a photograph of the right side of a concrete highway overpassthe top sevenths or so of the photo is crossed by the hand rail and concrete barrier over a smooth concrete wall probably 10 foot tall on the left diminishing along the bottom rising up to 6 feet on the rightthe entire bottom half of the photo is green scrubs, weeds, bushes, and other overgrowth wet from rainthe wall has been tagged in scrappy turquoise block spray-paint letters, the first line has been over-painted again in purple:GRAFFITI REMOVAL1-800-WET-PAINTTo the right is in the base turquoise is a tag of a simple cut gem, resting on one side
    Figure 1. a photograph of the right side of a concrete highway overpassthe top sevenths or so of the photo is crossed by the hand rail and concrete barrier over a smooth concrete wall probably 10 foot tall on the left diminishing along the bottom rising up to 6 feet on the rightthe entire bottom half of the photo is green scrubs, weeds, bushes, and other overgrowth wet from rainthe wall has been tagged in scrappy turquoise block spray-paint letters, the first line has been over-painted again in purple:GRAFFITI REMOVAL1-800-WET-PAINTTo the right is in the base turquoise is a tag of a simple cut gem, resting on one side.
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon December 15, 2024 - 1:42 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/12/15/113654299012194434/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/12/15/113654299012194434/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  15. Junior on working through some math (addition of single digit numbers, kindergarten-appropriate):

    “it’s like there’s a teacher in my head, teaching me, all the time”

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon December 14, 2024 - 9:14 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/12/14/113653241873342488/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/12/14/113653241873342488/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  16. Ordred some tacos and a dos equis at the tacqueria last night, clerk rang me up, I paid, he turned around and handed me my tacos and dos dos equis.

    what a scam, but I’ll be drinking that second one that’s in my fridge now eventually anyway I guess

    math-knowers in chat have pointed out that I should have parlayed this into quarto equis on account of dos times dos producing that quatro, but this is one of my locals and I can’t get quatro equis every time I go to keep in order to service that charade

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon December 13, 2024 - 2:46 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/12/13/113646054352161936/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/12/13/113646054352161936/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  17. This hot tip was solid, Eric Isaacson had a lot to share and I’m pretty glad we went even if we ended up not getting home to relieve our high-school aged babysitter until after 9:30. “It’s OK, tbh I stay up until midnight anyway.”

    The tour winds down in Fort Bragg and then Bolinas: https://www.mississippirecords.net/calendar-2024

    Also: check out the 4 Star, which is also a record shop

    I never make it out the Richmond so I guess this rec is for people like me and not like, some sort of personal insight

    Photograph of the 4 Star theater from kitty-corner on 23rd and Clement, at night. The venue is a 2 or 3 story building with a vertically oriented neon sight of a white star over red letters S, T, A, and R rendered as neon block oblique outlines in front on Clement, and a smaller, lower neon sight on the 23rd that simply says 4STAR in oblique neon linesas a result the top half of the building is washed in red neon glowthe marque is a simple protruding and hanging letterboard with 4 white stars above it, proclaiming tonight: THU: A PEOPLESHISTORY OF NORTHAMERICAN MUSICThe entrance winds past a box office window to a door near the corner brightly lit from above
    Figure 1. Photograph of the 4 Star theater from kitty-corner on 23rd and Clement, at night. The venue is a 2 or 3 story building with a vertically oriented neon sight of a white star over red letters S, T, A, and R rendered as neon block oblique outlines in front on Clement, and a smaller, lower neon sight on the 23rd that simply says 4STAR in oblique neon linesas a result the top half of the building is washed in red neon glowthe marque is a simple protruding and hanging letterboard with 4 white stars above it, proclaiming tonight: THU: A PEOPLESHISTORY OF NORTHAMERICAN MUSICThe entrance winds past a box office window to a door near the corner brightly lit from above.
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon December 13, 2024 - 2:31 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/12/13/113645994674170465/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/12/13/113645994674170465/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  18. Having been futzing with it for a few weeks now, 11ty pathing and globbing as seemingly intended in the current reference setup https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-base-blog is still pretty befuddling, specifically how “Images can be co-located with blog post files" is done.

    GitHub - 11ty/eleventy-base-blog: A starter repository for a blog web site using the Eleventy static site generator.A starter repository for a blog web site using the Eleventy static site generator. - 11ty/eleventy-base-blogGitHub

    the example “home” index doesn’t include any post contents, just titles and dates. if you want to include content, that’s easy, but it won’t be able to find the images

    weird. anyway, https://gravely.pizza lives again

    pizza slow (high quality)pizza slow (high quality)gravely.pizza

    this kinda stuff is better thought of as sets of idioms* in the it “cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements" sense than as whatever adjectives advocates like to throw around like “simple” or “clean” and so on

    it is a skill to be able to onboard and adapt various idioms, I’m just coming at this pile of them a little cold I guess

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon December 11, 2024 - 3:59 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/12/11/113635017278214751/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/12/11/113635017278214751/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  19. ASTRONUT.BMF

    https://mastodon.art/@clipart/113631784683328453

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon December 11, 2024 - 2:38 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/12/11/113631866793424873/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/12/11/113631866793424873/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  20. Reminded of all the places I’ve tagged with my kid before they could write and make me stop.

    i’m down to the last few months before their reading catches up with this nonsense, I gotta get back on my game

    I think this was in john wayne airport five years ago

    a toddler (my kid) under two years old wearing red shoes and black pants and a black shirt stands with their back to us in front of a giant magnetic easel with rainbow colored plastic magnetic letters scattered over it, including: G r A V E L Y across the middle in red, purple, red, orange, blue, and green
    Figure 1. a toddler (my kid) under two years old wearing red shoes and black pants and a black shirt stands with their back to us in front of a giant magnetic easel with rainbow colored plastic magnetic letters scattered over it, including: G r A V E L Y across the middle in red, purple, red, orange, blue, and green.
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon December 10, 2024 - 4:56 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/12/10/113626749597680347/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/12/10/113626749597680347/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  21. Dang!

    sunrise over the mission, the center, most distant bands of clouds are bright orange, the nearest high clouds are white and blue
    Figure 1. sunrise over the mission, the center, most distant bands of clouds are bright orange, the nearest high clouds are white and blue.
    sunrise over bernal heights, the left and right, most distant bands of clouds are bright orange, the nearest high clouds are white and blue
    Figure 2. sunrise over bernal heights, the left and right, most distant bands of clouds are bright orange, the nearest high clouds are white and blue.
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon December 05, 2024 - 3:02 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/12/05/113600819935616183/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/12/05/113600819935616183/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  22. Can we not?

    can we not "can we not?”?

    can we not ‘can we not "can we not?”?’?

    can we not can we not 'can we not "can we not?”?’?

    can we not… ah jeeze I’m all out of quotation indicators

    got 'em

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon December 04, 2024 - 9:39 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/12/04/113596717379444369/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/12/04/113596717379444369/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  23. For a publication called The Atlantic, they sure go way out of their lane posting about stuff that happens on the various continents a lot

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon December 04, 2024 - 12:00 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/12/04/113591612759275570/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/12/04/113591612759275570/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  24. Ninja posts would also be nice, when I’m just moving stuff around to make pinned posts

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon December 01, 2024 - 4:43 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/12/01/113578566342685158/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/12/01/113578566342685158/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  25. Greetings

    Books

    Why: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110011601484725615

    gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image Aside: I mostly chose what to read when someone else who I specifically think is cool (even if I don't know them or w/e) says or posts that they like something and it has almost never let me down. This one, for example, I picked up in December: https://twitter.com/ImJuneFacts/status/1606339706811097088Mastodon

    2023: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/109661276920611083#.

    gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image first book of the year down, (I think via @leigh@ottawa.place somewhere?): "Axiomatic," a collection of Greg Egan's short stories that appeared in various science fiction magazines (mostly Interzone and Asimov's) between 1989 and 1992. Great late 80s hard SF shorts I don't do star reviews, but, folks, they're good stories https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156783.Axiomatic aside: a characters is mentioned to have received their advanced degree in 2023, which I'm sure felt reasonably far out at the time.Mastodon

    2024: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/111681527425154217

    gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image 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/110011601484725615Mastodon

    2025: TBD

    Walks

    https://mastodon.social/@gravely/111433245331859281

    gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)Attached: 3 images so I walk a few miles every morning looked for an app help me be more intentional about taking streets I've never taken before and was susprised when https://citystrides.com/ pulled in... every walk I've ever recorded in strava. it's neat seeing the stark difference between tight squiggles of political lit drops up and down steps from years ago (usually hanging door cards on every house doorknob on a turf of a few blocks) next to meanderings of normal walks on sidewalksMastodon
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon December 01, 2024 - 4:41 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/12/01/113578560772258906/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/12/01/113578560772258906/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  26. Caught a hot tip that “A People’s History of North American Music" is rad, in Berkeley on the 11th and SF on the 12th https://www.mississippirecords.net/calendar-2024/west-coast-tour-a-peoples-history-of-north-american-music, have plans the 12th I might cancel or not and go the 11th, tbd

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon November 30, 2024 - 3:20 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/11/30/113569748928461792/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/11/30/113569748928461792/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  27. Sf being a small town, it went like this

    “and for this one I got a few days ago, it’s Sun Ra so you know I gotta get something that sparkles”

    "what night did you go?” another customer asks

    “saturday”

    "I went friday”, he says

    “right on”

    “sparkles, what are they like ABBA?" the frame shop worker asks

    “no, kinda the opposite of ABBA" says the other guy

    “more like jazz I guess" I say

    “afro-futurism" he says

    “uh, OK" the frame shop guy says

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon November 29, 2024 - 4:37 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/11/29/113567220198210122/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/11/29/113567220198210122/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  28. Getting another @paulrickards piece framed at the same time as the @SunRaUniverse poster I got Saturday at the show.

    I wanted to get the plotter piece with ornate yellow cope in the top right corner but it would have been 10x the cost so I lowered my sights a little to the one on the piece. 🖊️☀️

    And the Sun Ra Arkestra poster absolutely had to be sparkles, but again the ones pictured around it are eye-poppingly expensive so I went with a smaller, finer grit, but still sparkle, not pictured. 🪩🤗

    a pen plog on paper, and a larger poster, on a work table at the frame shop on the left is a medium sized yellow and orange pen line plot (done on a computer plotter) of a sun with rays casting outon the right is a Sun Ra Arkestra poster illustration of abstract green, orange, brown, and pink shapes over a gray square that takes up most of the poster, which has a creamy white background
    Figure 1. a pen plog on paper, and a larger poster, on a work table at the frame shop on the left is a medium sized yellow and orange pen line plot (done on a computer plotter) of a sun with rays casting outon the right is a Sun Ra Arkestra poster illustration of abstract green, orange, brown, and pink shapes over a gray square that takes up most of the poster, which has a creamy white background.
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon November 27, 2024 - 12:52 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/11/27/113552177734947081/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/11/27/113552177734947081/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  29. Every morning I crack three eggs into a non-stick pan on medium heat, slide them off to a plate sunny side up when they are ready, return the pan to the stove, raise the heat to medium-high, and fry spinach and a few cherry tomatoes in olive oil which spatters oil all over the place

    today after having made a mess, oh idk, probably a thousand times or so over the past few years, I plopped the spinach on top of the tomatoes once it wilted a little and it prevented the spatter mess entirely. gdi.

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon November 26, 2024 - 6:45 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/11/26/113550735429510308/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/11/26/113550735429510308/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  30. Logging on

    https://beige.party/@RickiTarr/113549771635080860

    Ricki Yasha Tarr (@RickiTarr@beige.party)We are pretty lucky that most fires burn within our visible light spectrum, but there was this one time at NASA. Apparently, hydrogen is very pale when it burns and can't be seen by most people, not only that, but it burns very cleanly and with little ambient heat. The scientists had to walk around with brooms in front of them, and if the broom caught fire they'd know where the fire was, they called this The Broom Method. https://shop.minimuseum.com/blogs/cool-things/the-broom-method?srsltid=AfmBOordQRxmUUxMvh3jV2XN7K7vUapiG87WCIQ5a_35TTj99CH5v0gybeige.party
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon November 26, 2024 - 4:35 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/11/26/113550226348407390/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/11/26/113550226348407390/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  31. Standing in the back of the club wearing a kn95 and earplugs wishing mask precautions weren’t a thing anymore and that i hadn’t stood where i did the entire j mascis (Witch) show in baltimore twenty years ago

    also my phone just reminded me it’s almost bedtime

    photo of the marque of The Great American Music Hall in SF, the Sun Ra Arkestra is playing tonight, i'm inside
    Figure 1. photo of the marque of The Great American Music Hall in SF, the Sun Ra Arkestra is playing tonight, i'm inside.
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon November 24, 2024 - 4:45 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/11/24/113536109859518747/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/11/24/113536109859518747/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  32. When I was a energy company security person back in the 00s my intrusion detection system hit on a VNC signature and I had a network capture running so I went and carved it out and replayed the video of it and it looked just like this and I panicked a little (I had no idea what our actual control systems looked like) and then called the worker who I saw on the other end of it

    they were doing volunteer work for their local ice skating rink

    https://fedi.computernewb.com/@vncresolver/113515876167083817

    VNC Resolver (@vncresolver@fedi.computernewb.com)Attached: 1 image IP Address: 79.101.19.182 Port: 5900 Location: Belgrade, Central Serbia 🇷🇸 ASN: AS8400 TELEKOM SRBIJA a.d. Client Name: HMI-0814 Hostname: 79-101-19-182.static.isp.telekom.rs ComputerNewb ID: 910695 https://computernewb.com/vncresolver/browse/#id/910695Computernewb Mastodon
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon November 20, 2024 - 4:29 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/11/20/113516226386683438/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/11/20/113516226386683438/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  33. The picnic was a success, we used two of the grills, four or five of the tables, and some of us grabbed e-bikes back to work downtown from the parking racks up the street because the ride from Chase to the Ferry Building is pretty nice even on a cool day

    someone approached and asked how we booked the spot because they wanted to do the same thing so I got to relate that story, then they took a picture one of the grills we were using, which I thought was weird, but I guess people just do that anymore

    and someone from the parks service walked over and gave us three huge trash bags and asked that we make sure to clean up after ourselves, which of course we had planned to, and did, but that was nice

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon November 20, 2024 - 2:31 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/11/20/113515761760950814/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/11/20/113515761760950814/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  34. I should be allowed to drop some words in some sentences and some letters in some words

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon November 19, 2024 - 4:41 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/11/19/113507779338437851/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/11/19/113507779338437851/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  35. It’s a secret to everybody. I put my sourdough starter in the little closet under the stairs where my home server and network gear is when I feed it on weekends in the winter.

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon November 18, 2024 - 2:31 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/11/18/113501609612079404/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/11/18/113501609612079404/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  36. Most of the content is even more personally embarrassing than it was when I blew it away last time, six years ago. No one should have to reconcile with specific texts of their own teens, twenties, or thirties, which was the explicit reason I used to keep it up, until I didn’t believe it anymore: the unexamined life, blah, blah, blah

    the actual work of getting it to build was mostly fighting with the cruft of fads and new-things (shtml, textpattern, wordpress, octopress, etc) and incredible journeys ( https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/) and stuff I’d divested from over whatever reasons seemed sufficient at the time. Oh, we are all protest-deleting our github accounts now? Ok, I can do that. Oh, flickr got acquired and is being weird? Cya. tumblr too? bummer.

    Our Incredible JourneyPutting the ack! in acquihireTumblr

    so I’m finally going back to 1999, running it for myself only, on my home internet connection. kinda nice tbh

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon November 17, 2024 - 3:43 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/11/17/113499060835170195/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/11/17/113499060835170195/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  37. Got my old 1999-2011 blog ( https://web.archive.org/web/20170709060307/http://archives.grantstavely.com/ to build with 11ty ( http://11ty.dev ) during idle time over the past few weekends. I don’t know if it’s even possible or coherent to rebuild the 2011-2018 tumblr ( https://web.archive.org/web/20180330002228/https://grantstavely.com/) I replaced it with

    Grant Stavelyweb.archive.orgEleventy is a simpler static site generatorEleventy is a simpler static site generator.EleventyGrant Stavelygrantstavelyweb.archive.org

    anyway, 11ty seems nice

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon November 17, 2024 - 3:41 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/11/17/113499051826322142/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/11/17/113499051826322142/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  38. I can hear this hooky Newmanesque chorus (or a much better one probably) getting played at Giants games and everything

    Oh, San Francisco

    Oh, I gotta go

    Oh, I gotta go

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon November 14, 2024 - 10:49 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/11/14/113483746129413618/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/11/14/113483746129413618/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  39. Planning a picnic and intending to use the grills at the new bayfront park ( https://www.sf.gov/news/mayor-london-breed-celebrates-grand-opening-bayfront-park-mission-bay) and it looks like, oops, no bathrooms there?

    Mayor London Breed Celebrates Grand Opening of Bayfront Park in Mission Bay | SF.govWith stunning views of the San Francisco Bay and an innovative design that incorporates structures made from reclaimed steel from the old Bay Bridge, the new vibrant waterfront destination by Chase Center adds to a network of over 40 acres of park and open spaces within Mission Baysf.gov

    why does LA get a randy newman and we don’t?

    someone who knows better has a hot tip that there is in fact a bathroom up the steps next to harmonic in thrive city (“yea, I’m going to the city next week”; some local “hey, we don’t say “the city” you sound like a damned tourist, we say whole ass name [enunciating carefully] Thrive city, c’mon.”)

    need to investigate this claim

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon November 14, 2024 - 10:45 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/11/14/113483731010545724/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/11/14/113483731010545724/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  40. Those jerks at HBO better not disrespect Steve Huey, JD Ryznar, David B Lyons, and Hunter Stair with all that is going on with the world right now

    https://youtu.be/a55pyQsI3GQ?si=PkOJ9lDI-daL530t

    Music Box: Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary | Official Trailer | HBOBefore video killed the radio star, smooth rock ruled the airwaves.The new HBO Original Documentary #MusicBoxHBO: Yacht Rock premieres November 29 on @hbomax...YouTube

    :22 second mark, phew ok, we’re gonna be ok

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon November 13, 2024 - 10:43 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/11/13/113478063872104112/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/11/13/113478063872104112/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  41. The lower clouds this morning were as much fun as the sky itself, like fog sneaking off to the bay instead of burning off like it’s supposed to

    photograph of san francisco in the mission looking southeast at sunrise this morning (some dox) the sky is streaked with orange-lit clouds over a blue sky backing, but low at the horizon and heading east, a thick gray cloud bank roils slowly
    Figure 1. photograph of san francisco in the mission looking southeast at sunrise this morning (some dox) the sky is streaked with orange-lit clouds over a blue sky backing, but low at the horizon and heading east, a thick gray cloud bank roils slowly.
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon November 12, 2024 - 2:06 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/11/12/113467535204387573/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/11/12/113467535204387573/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  42. Dorothea lange bot is posting my neighborhood!

    https://mastodon.ozioso.online/@DorotheaLange/113465438690782374

    Dorothea Lange (@DorotheaLange@mastodon.ozioso.online)Attached: 1 image Mission District. San Francisco, California. Rent twenty to twenty-two dollars a month for three or four rooms #MissionDistrict #SanFrancisco #California #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017759783/Ozioso Mastodon
    screen grab from the matrix where Mouse runs to everyone else to say that morpheus is fighting neo
    Figure 1. screen grab from the matrix where Mouse runs to everyone else to say that morpheus is fighting neo.
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon November 11, 2024 - 6:07 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/11/11/113465652092989151/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/11/11/113465652092989151/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  43. Clarkesworld Issue 217 ( https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/prior/issue_217/) was pretty solid all around. I think I left 216 in a hotel room (d’oh!), so I’m going back to finish the last two stories of 215 and then I’ll check out 216 on the web.

    Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & FantasyClarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: Issue 217Clarkesworld Magazine

    I particularly liked "Midnight Patron” by Mike Robinson ( https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/robinson_10_24/)

    Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & FantasyClarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: Midnight Patron by Mike RobinsonClarkesworld Magazine
    The cover of Clarkesworld issue 217, a ship that looks like a cross between Sputnik and a junk fly over a body of water banked by cliffs on either side over a sepia nebulae filled star fieldhttps://clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_217/Upon finishing instruction at Art Center, Robert Watts spent the next decade in aerospace where he was exposed to, and rendered, many secret and wildly advanced concepts. This period was followed by a movement into the much broader field of general illustration and storytelling assignments. His career has included the broadest range of styles, media and subject matter imaginable. Most notable among all these has been a deep love of fictional adventure, from Jules Verne to Larry Niven. The story has always been key, be it Nemos’ submarine Nautilus, or the saga of the Ring World. The search goes on into the worlds we only dream of seeing.
    Figure 1. The cover of Clarkesworld issue 217, a ship that looks like a cross between Sputnik and a junk fly over a body of water banked by cliffs on either side over a sepia nebulae filled star fieldhttps://clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_217/Upon finishing instruction at Art Center, Robert Watts spent the next decade in aerospace where he was exposed to, and rendered, many secret and wildly advanced concepts. This period was followed by a movement into the much broader field of general illustration and storytelling assignments. His career has included the broadest range of styles, media and subject matter imaginable. Most notable among all these has been a deep love of fictional adventure, from Jules Verne to Larry Niven. The story has always been key, be it Nemos’ submarine Nautilus, or the saga of the Ring World. The search goes on into the worlds we only dream of seeing..
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon November 10, 2024 - 3:42 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/11/10/113459417950547842/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/11/10/113459417950547842/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  44. If you are in line to vote for trevor chandler stay in line

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon November 08, 2024 - 10:42 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/11/08/113449747099754364/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/11/08/113449747099754364/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  45. The network stack on os x sequoia sucks, wish I hadn’t upgraded

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon November 08, 2024 - 8:50 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/11/08/113449305791898106/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/11/08/113449305791898106/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  46. A little late for Halloween 2024 but this Sun Ra tune, "The Forrest of No Return” just came my way and I’ll be bringing it back next year for sure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt6WLWnMTAU

    The Forest Of No Return (9:30 Club)Provided to YouTube by Redeye WorldwideThe Forest Of No Return (9:30 Club) · Sun RaPink Elephants On Parade℗ 2024 Modern HarmonicReleased on: 2024-07-05Main ...YouTube

    edit: https://sunramusic.bandcamp.com/album/pink-elephants-on-parade

    Pink Elephants on Parade, by Sun Ra & His Arkestra13 track albumSun Ra
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon November 08, 2024 - 5:20 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/11/08/113448479355919799/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/11/08/113448479355919799/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  47. Flipping the OBS scene from “face cam” to “footage”, the increasingly tangential pop-documentary archival clip style that has replaced burns-style photo-pans-and-zoom of actual subject matter with abstract and completely unrelated stock that, at best, is period correct or ironically untrue to the nonsense I’m spouting as I go into a big monologue to staff about getting our reports done on time

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon November 07, 2024 - 7:06 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/11/07/113443236671014620/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/11/07/113443236671014620/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  48. Looking up the chicago school of economics building to make a house of leaves jokes in chat and unsurprised to find it looks like a god damned church

    photograph of a brick church seminary on a partly cloudy day from 50 foot up looking down and across the entanceThe former Chicago Theological Seminary building located at 5757 South University Avenue was adaptively reused to house instructional and research programs for the Department of Economics and the office, conference, and research facilities for the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics. The 100,770 gross square foot main building was renamed the Saieh Hall for Economics in June 2014. The renovation began in Fall 2012 and encompassed repairs and upgrades to the building envelope, HVAC and electrical and voice/data systems, and bringing the building infrastructure up to all required life/safety and accessibility codes. New space was constructed below grade for mechanical rooms and a large tiered lecture hall. To connect the east and west existing buildings at the ground level, a new building entrance was constructed by vacating the alley exiting to 58th Street. Construction was completed in June 2014. from: https://facilities.uchicago.edu/construction/5757south-university/
    Figure 1. photograph of a brick church seminary on a partly cloudy day from 50 foot up looking down and across the entanceThe former Chicago Theological Seminary building located at 5757 South University Avenue was adaptively reused to house instructional and research programs for the Department of Economics and the office, conference, and research facilities for the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics. The 100,770 gross square foot main building was renamed the Saieh Hall for Economics in June 2014. The renovation began in Fall 2012 and encompassed repairs and upgrades to the building envelope, HVAC and electrical and voice/data systems, and bringing the building infrastructure up to all required life/safety and accessibility codes. New space was constructed below grade for mechanical rooms and a large tiered lecture hall. To connect the east and west existing buildings at the ground level, a new building entrance was constructed by vacating the alley exiting to 58th Street. Construction was completed in June 2014. from: https://facilities.uchicago.edu/construction/5757south-university/.
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon November 07, 2024 - 6:32 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/11/07/113443102522541512/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/11/07/113443102522541512/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  49. Was in the mood for more Kelly Link and landed on an interview ( https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2023/12/15/kelly-link-kevin-brockmeier/ ) instead. it starts off strong talking about this fun idea of nighttime logic, daytime logic, and dream logic, then they compare book lists fitting each.

    BOMB Magazine | Kelly Link by Kevin BrockmeierExpanded from our Winter issue, the author of beloved fantastical stories illuminates nighttime logic—plus songs for writing and bonus reading lists that…BOMB Magazine

    warning: it’s pretty dangerous if you have a growing-the-to-read-pile-habbit, I picked up three of the books in their lists.

    Kevin BrockmeierIn every workshop I teach, I end up mentioning the distinction you makebetween nighttime logic, daytime logic, and dream logic. It's an idea thatalways generates much curiosity; my students view it as a source not onlyof creative clarity but of creative permission. To begin with, here's my bestattempt at articulating these different storytelling approaches: A narrativepossesses daytime logic when at the end you can say, "This happened,and then this happened, and it makes sense, and I can explain why." Withnighttime logic, you say, "This happened, and then this happened, and itmakes sense, and I can't explain why." And with dream logic, you say,"This happened, and then this happened, and it doesn't make any sense."In other words, daytime logic produces a logical, causal kind of sense,while nighttime logic produces a more mysterious, emotional kind ofsense. Dream logic produces emotion but not sense. Are there ways inwhich you would reshape this explanation for me? What have I missed?Kelly LinkI like your articulation a great deal. I might add that there's somethingabout nighttime logic that produces the sensation in the reader that we arein a space between daylight and dreaming.
    Figure 1. Kevin BrockmeierIn every workshop I teach, I end up mentioning the distinction you makebetween nighttime logic, daytime logic, and dream logic. It's an idea thatalways generates much curiosity; my students view it as a source not onlyof creative clarity but of creative permission. To begin with, here's my bestattempt at articulating these different storytelling approaches: A narrativepossesses daytime logic when at the end you can say, "This happened,and then this happened, and it makes sense, and I can explain why." Withnighttime logic, you say, "This happened, and then this happened, and itmakes sense, and I can't explain why." And with dream logic, you say,"This happened, and then this happened, and it doesn't make any sense."In other words, daytime logic produces a logical, causal kind of sense,while nighttime logic produces a more mysterious, emotional kind ofsense. Dream logic produces emotion but not sense. Are there ways inwhich you would reshape this explanation for me? What have I missed?Kelly LinkI like your articulation a great deal. I might add that there's somethingabout nighttime logic that produces the sensation in the reader that we arein a space between daylight and dreaming..

    Link uses the term manichaeism in this interview and I don’t know it but didn’t look it up because I wanted to keep reading. then this morning I’m reading https://inthesetimes.com/article/former-left-right-fascism-capitalism-horseshoe-theory and it’s got manichaeism used too.

    Losing the Plot: The “Leftists” Who Turn RightWhat do we make of former friends who fell down the rabbit hole of the Right?In These Times

    Dang. so I go pop open https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichaeism and from there eventually land on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogomilism, which, haha, explains the last Link novel’s name for one of the characters, “Bogomil.”, which I let slide when I read that.

    Manichaeism - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.orgBogomilism - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

    I’m a very, very credulous reader. "Oh, ok, whatever.”

    anyway, so bogomil, probably had the usual baggage, but I bet this specific bit didn’t work out too well for them

    ![wikipedia screenshot, text:Doctrine [edit ]оучать же свою си не повиновати са властелемь своимь; хоулаще богатым, царьненавидать, рягажть са старбишинамь, оукарніть болары, мрьзькы богоу мьнатьработа жщаю цьсарю, и вьсакомоу рабоу не велать работати господиноу свомоу.ucetu je soja si ne povinovati se vlastelem svoim; xuleste bogatyie, cari nenavidet, regajot sẹ stareisinamum, ukarjajot boljary, mriziky bogu minetu rabotajosteje cesarju, i visjakomu rabu ne veleti rabotati gospodinu svojemu.They teach their followers not to obey their masters; they scorn the rich, they hate the Tsars, they ridicule their superiors, they reproach the boyars, they believe that God looks in horror on those who labour for the Tsar, and advise every serf not to work for his master. 32]- Cosmas the Priest, Treatise Against the Bogomils](./113448223430456892.png)

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon November 07, 2024 - 4:55 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/11/07/113439890422927632/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/11/07/113439890422927632/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  50. Violet, fuscia, deep orange, sunshine yellow gradient. that’s pretty.

    https://botsin.space/@CALandscapeBot/113439510288765240

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon November 07, 2024 - 3:47 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/11/07/113439621912571569/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/11/07/113439621912571569/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  51. It’s really clever how oven makers put the big stock pot burners on the back so’s when you accidentally pull your entire salt cellar out of the upper cabinet next to the stove with an errant finger while trying to get a pinch in a hurry for something else and about two cups of kosher salt dump all over the stovetop, counter, floor, etc, none of it gets in the stock pot with dinner in it

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon November 03, 2024 - 1:32 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/11/03/113416440282823592/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/11/03/113416440282823592/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  52. What will it take to connect this all the way to Mission? I want to understand

    alt-text for quoted image: a street design displaying proposed changes to a bike lane in san francisco

    https://carfree.city/@sfmtadocsbot/113409728354860618

    SFMTA Reports & Docs Bot (@sfmtadocsbot@carfree.city)Attached: 1 image Proposal for Valencia design - November 19 MTAB https://www.sfmta.com/media/41021/download?inlineCar Free City
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon November 01, 2024 - 10:47 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/11/01/113410128213463299/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/11/01/113410128213463299/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  53. Https://missionlocal.org/2024/10/in-a-new-era-of-local-politics-some-democratic-clubs-fight-to-stay-relevant/

    In a new era of local politics, some Democratic clubs fight to stay relevant Some Democratic clubs are redefining their space and their roles in a political scene fueled by millions coming from the private sector.Mission Local

    The _________ (corporation name) Political Action Committee Democratic Club

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon October 31, 2024 - 1:20 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/10/31/113402238958428246/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/10/31/113402238958428246/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  54. “Persons will HOB NAILS BOOT! ARE FORBIDDEN IN THIS OFFICE [By Order of Postmaster].”

    delightful effort made here at professional hand lettered sign making, jaunty !, etc, then ruined (or improved further) with an answer to the presumed "says who?” that looks like it was added when the sign was already on the wall by someone with a felt-tipped marker

    https://mastodon.ozioso.online/@DorotheaLange/113356285657110012

    Dorothea Lange (@DorotheaLange@mastodon.ozioso.online)Attached: 1 image Untitled photo, possibly related to: FSA (Farm Security Administration) county office. Bonners Ferry, Idaho. See general caption 51 #BonnersFerry #Idaho #FORBIDDEN #America https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017774122/Ozioso Mastodon

    that the added text is in parenthesis is specifically great

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon October 23, 2024 - 1:26 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/10/23/113356961885253112/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/10/23/113356961885253112/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  55. Looking at linkedin from time to time is like wandering into the wrong church where I don’t know any of the rituals (which for me would be any church, but I do know one set of rituals I don’t practice, at least) and seeing random people I know there, doing some of the moves

    damn you’re here? where is here? oh, they left. huh.

    hey, want to come to dinner? no? this is so weird

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon October 23, 2024 - 12:59 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/10/23/113356856917128704/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/10/23/113356856917128704/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  56. The only robot i want in my life but can’t have is a chrome plated smokers robot

    https://octodon.social/@Taweret/113354194527885031

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon October 23, 2024 - 2:51 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/10/23/113354464939162309/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/10/23/113354464939162309/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  57. 25: “I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom” by Jason Pargin ( https://static.macmillan.com/static/smp/starting-to-worry-about-9781250285959/)

    publisher’s hardback illustration for the hardback of “I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom” by Jason Pargin, as I read it. The book is black but the dust jacket is white with black caps sans in three descending rows along an arc ending on DOOM over a bright green splatbelow the title an illustration of the protagonist, a girl in a red hoodie and green sunglasses sits on a black road case labeled A NOVELI'M STARTING TO WORRY ABOUTTHIS BLACK BOX OFD00MJASONPARGINBESTSELLING AUTHOR OFJOHN DIES AT THE ENDA NOVEL
    Figure 1. publisher’s hardback illustration for the hardback of “I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom” by Jason Pargin, as I read it. The book is black but the dust jacket is white with black caps sans in three descending rows along an arc ending on DOOM over a bright green splatbelow the title an illustration of the protagonist, a girl in a red hoodie and green sunglasses sits on a black road case labeled A NOVELI'M STARTING TO WORRY ABOUTTHIS BLACK BOX OFD00MJASONPARGINBESTSELLING AUTHOR OFJOHN DIES AT THE ENDA NOVEL.

    a few of my favorite very-online writers—but I’m think of Pargin and Jeb Lund (who for all I know don’t know each other at all) specifically here and not like, uh, Lockwood—are pretty good about using their veterans-of-forum-wars (or at least that era of online) past to be pretty strong voices for not being assholes on the internet.

    this is a lot of that

    cw: mens rights nonsense

    my point: so if you feel like you don’t need some old guy rubbing your nose in a “deuteragonist" (I had to look up the word for that) “hey look at this kid who is a twitch streamer who is kinda black pilled, don’t be lame like this”, because you yourself are also over that, maybe skip this one

    Ultimately it’s a fun read and a break from the John and Zoe books and pretty mad at the same stuff a lot of people are on mastodon are mad about re: the other social networks, so, I’m glad I read it.

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon October 20, 2024 - 4:10 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/10/20/113337791874294252/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/10/20/113337791874294252/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  58. An elaborate rude metaphor in which every landmark the dashed line loops around on weathered parchment before it eventually reaches the X-marks-the-spot is a pivot in virtualization stacks by the freenas people trying and failing to lose both the the annoying virtualization (jails, docker, kubernetes, etc) janitors inhabiting each landmark and the actual pirates who use their projects to power their NASs 🏴‍☠️

    I was gonna have a visual aid of a real pirate treasure map for this but it seems like real pirates merely wanted real maps, which were hard to come by back then

    makes a lotta sense I guess!

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon October 19, 2024 - 5:31 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/10/19/113335277913509455/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/10/19/113335277913509455/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  59. Convincing myself that my bad posts in chat, that even the people who used to reply to, have stopped replying to, to me, are still worth doing, for the lurkers

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon October 19, 2024 - 4:29 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/10/19/113335031871020339/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/10/19/113335031871020339/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  60. Pressing the bubble on pop-°-matic® TROUBLE® is now AI.

    sales photo of the board game TROUBLE, which I played the heck out of when I like six years old, over a white void in the matrix or whatever. The box faces us in single point perspective in the top left and the game itself in red, green, yellow, and blue at a jaunty angle as if on a table in front of usthe entire premise of the game is that you can push on a clear plastic bubble in the middle to make a die role insidepop ° matic®Instrucciones del juego ingles y espasolTROUBLEBump others back in this Race-Ahead Game...But don't get caught or you're in Trouble!TROUBLETROVOURFeaturesPop-o-matic Dice RollerJust press the bubble and yournumber's up!Famity5+|25-35 | PLAYERSA WARNING:CHOKING HAZARO ThiS tY3800TROUGLE
    Figure 1. sales photo of the board game TROUBLE, which I played the heck out of when I like six years old, over a white void in the matrix or whatever. The box faces us in single point perspective in the top left and the game itself in red, green, yellow, and blue at a jaunty angle as if on a table in front of usthe entire premise of the game is that you can push on a clear plastic bubble in the middle to make a die role insidepop ° matic®Instrucciones del juego ingles y espasolTROUBLEBump others back in this Race-Ahead Game...But don't get caught or you're in Trouble!TROUBLETROVOURFeaturesPop-o-matic Dice RollerJust press the bubble and yournumber's up!Famity5+|25-35 | PLAYERSA WARNING:CHOKING HAZARO ThiS tY3800TROUGLE.
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon October 19, 2024 - 4:25 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/10/19/113335019044611900/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/10/19/113335019044611900/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  61. It would be nice a la “smoking or non?" at restaurants if I could make a reservation for outdoor dining and not arrive to find “outdoor” to be four walls of clear vinyl and propane

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon October 17, 2024 - 10:45 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/10/17/113325186558757816/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/10/17/113325186558757816/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  62. Kinda worry that sonos is never going to re-add direct stream urls to their first party apps or even fix the players to load the ones that are already there, and that think the fix is going to be a DIY sonos service app and not entire DIY controllers, which, unfortunately, seems to be the bias

    they are, otherwise, goldilocks pieces of hardware for my specific preferences, so broader alternatives are not interesting

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon October 17, 2024 - 7:59 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/10/17/113324534408298924/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/10/17/113324534408298924/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  63. Doodling on maps with satellites

    screenshot crop of a mapped walk in Strava detailing that I walked p much every path in the south-west corner of City College this morning, which means lots of doubling back, looping, taking each meandering path back to the same spot, each set of stairs on all sides of and round buildings, in the fog
    Figure 1. screenshot crop of a mapped walk in Strava detailing that I walked p much every path in the south-west corner of City College this morning, which means lots of doubling back, looping, taking each meandering path back to the same spot, each set of stairs on all sides of and round buildings, in the fog.
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon October 16, 2024 - 4:42 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/10/16/113318096861103104/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/10/16/113318096861103104/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  64. Wtb a nudie cohn suit (or suits) for halloween and general casual wear

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon October 13, 2024 - 6:11 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/10/13/113301462206469748/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/10/13/113301462206469748/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  65. 🚶🏽‍♂️

    🏁 what I’m considering Sunnyside (including City College like https://sunnysideassociation.org/the-neighborhood/ does seems greedy)

    The Sunnyside NeighborhoodSome facts about the Sunnyside neighborhood: Founded as a district in 1891 by the Sunnyside Land Company. Located in south-central San Francisco, between City College of San Francisco and Mount Dav…Sunnyside Neighborhood Association

    City College has so many damned pathways that it’s going to take a bunch of tedious human pen-plotter meanders that I’m going to consider it its own thing, like I did w/ Laguna Honda which I already walked but Strava paused as I put my phone back in my pocket from the top of the trailhead so I gotta go do again at some point.

    Bonus, I can start from Balboa Park BART for a while now.

    A map of San Francisco, Balboa Park BART along the center-bottom, Glen Park BART in the top right corner, 280 bisecting along the two, and the entirety of Sunnyside’s streets (and most alleys) marked with a purple trail. I’ve also decided to walk the front paths of City College rather than loop down to Ocean Ave to square off the ‘hood because it was prettier.
    Figure 1. A map of San Francisco, Balboa Park BART along the center-bottom, Glen Park BART in the top right corner, 280 bisecting along the two, and the entirety of Sunnyside’s streets (and most alleys) marked with a purple trail. I’ve also decided to walk the front paths of City College rather than loop down to Ocean Ave to square off the ‘hood because it was prettier..
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon October 13, 2024 - 1:06 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/10/13/113297430229589431/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/10/13/113297430229589431/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  66. Lol at the worldbuilding you get mid-book explaining why multiples are absolutely taboo:

    a planet colonized libertarians who named their planet Gault gets invaded by a another libertarian who keeps cloning himself and militarizing until he’s taken over, and nukes the first ship to come see what’s going on

    The nearest other planet realizes they have to nip this in the bud and sends a ship into Gault at .9 c.

    cya shitlord

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon October 12, 2024 - 8:29 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/10/12/113296342134967912/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/10/12/113296342134967912/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  67. 24: "Mickey7”, by Edward Ashton ( https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250275035/mickey7)

    picked up after a friend who had already enjoyed it linked https://x.com/mickey17movie/status/1836197947668860958 in discord, very fun, read it in a few days.

    Mickey 17 (@Mickey17Movie) on XWhat's it feel like to die? From director Bong Joon Ho, comes Mickey 17 - only in theaters January 31, 2025. #Mickey17X (formerly Twitter)
    Discord chat log review from a friend, who, now that I’ve read the book, I’m not sure I agree with re: “its about capitalism”, but it’s definitely about a guy whose job sucks, and it gets a pretty good chapter-long jab in at libertarians which is always vital to the revolution.Screenshot reads:Mickey 7 is a fun read, it's about capitalism and a guywhose job sucksI mean the director did Parasite
    Figure 1. Discord chat log review from a friend, who, now that I’ve read the book, I’m not sure I agree with re: “its about capitalism”, but it’s definitely about a guy whose job sucks, and it gets a pretty good chapter-long jab in at libertarians which is always vital to the revolution.Screenshot reads:Mickey 7 is a fun read, it's about capitalism and a guywhose job sucksI mean the director did Parasite.
    The cover of Mickey7 on paperback, as I read it (almost, I got my copy far enough along that it has “soon to be a major motion picture” on it too)An astronaut is on a spacewalk over a ringed gas giant w/ a nondescript moon over a mostly dark nebula filled star field (which has nothing to do with the story and is kinda hokey but “look at me I’m Science Fiction” gets the job done I guess. The title “MICKEY” is in white along the top with a particle effect that everyone seems to be doing (which makes sense on like, 4k+ TVs to show off but otherwise is just kinda a sand look or snow? idk), while in the center taking half the height of the cover is the number 7, author name in smaller print along the bottom.
    Figure 2. The cover of Mickey7 on paperback, as I read it (almost, I got my copy far enough along that it has “soon to be a major motion picture” on it too)An astronaut is on a spacewalk over a ringed gas giant w/ a nondescript moon over a mostly dark nebula filled star field (which has nothing to do with the story and is kinda hokey but “look at me I’m Science Fiction” gets the job done I guess. The title “MICKEY” is in white along the top with a particle effect that everyone seems to be doing (which makes sense on like, 4k+ TVs to show off but otherwise is just kinda a sand look or snow? idk), while in the center taking half the height of the cover is the number 7, author name in smaller print along the bottom..
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon October 12, 2024 - 8:15 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/10/12/113296286000527805/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/10/12/113296286000527805/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  68. Have been watching a pile of Harris’s student’s. TILFBH specifically gells with me, and so I’ve watched and re-watched the first few https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebepc8lYrKs without an instrument, or with an instrument but not a metronome, just kinda singing or playing along as I watch, trying to hear the secondary dominant (the C#), and the Major stuff and so on

    Things I've Learned From Barry Harris Episode 1 Scales on the Blueshttps://www.skool.com/chris-parks-tilf-barry-harris https://www.skool.com/chris-parks-tilf-barry-harrisThis is the first in several episodes discussing the t...YouTube

    today I felt ready to pickup a guitar and dig out my metronome for the first exercise here, the blues

    my recall for the scales is fine even in every other common CAGED position

    the tempo is fine

    playing with a metronome clackin’ on the 2s and 4s is brutal! I feel like someone trying to jump rope just slamming themself in the leg.

    metronome: clack clack clack clack clack…

    me, trying as hard as I can: clack THREE clack ONE clack THREE clack TWO clack FOUR clack FUCK

    metronome: clack clack clack clack clack…

    if I manage to come in on a correct one I’m fine and it feels fine

    (yeah I know all about the ol’ harry connick jr video, but if you don’t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI-CU2VTVic)

    friends don't let friends clap on 1 and 3.Download transcriptions at https://georgecolliermusic.com and check out the Discord!: https://discord.gg/3qxNDA3NCyOriginal video: https://www.youtube.com/wa...YouTube
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon October 11, 2024 - 11:39 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/10/11/113291427751389948/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/10/11/113291427751389948/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  69. Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt3rKxRvmO4

    Here Come The Warm Jets (2004 Digital Remaster)Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupHere Come The Warm Jets (2004 Digital Remaster) · Brian EnoHere Come The Warm Jets℗ 2004 Virgin Records LimitedRe...YouTube
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon October 10, 2024 - 8:06 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/10/10/113284924048042555/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/10/10/113284924048042555/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  70. 23: "Moonbound”, by Robert Sloan ( https://www.robinsloan.com/moonbound/)

    Welcome to the Dragon MoonThis mini-site serves as companion to Moonbound, the new novel by Robin Sloan.Robin Sloan

    p good! kinda Y.A. and a little slow to start but w/e, fun ending

    The cover of Moonbound, by Robert Sloan s I read it. An illustration of a red clouded sky has a tear in it through which the moon and night sky are visible over a green earth
    Figure 1. The cover of Moonbound, by Robert Sloan s I read it. An illustration of a red clouded sky has a tear in it through which the moon and night sky are visible over a green earth.
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon October 09, 2024 - 4:13 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/10/09/113275516686352634/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/10/09/113275516686352634/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  71. Does it like 00 flour and salt? sure looks like it

    photograph of a 6qt fermenting tub this morning with neapolitan pizza dough (100% 00, 65% hydration) I used sourdough starter instead of my usual SAF instant. The dough isn’t exactly flat but it’s at about .75 qt? maybe .5?
    Figure 1. photograph of a 6qt fermenting tub this morning with neapolitan pizza dough (100% 00, 65% hydration) I used sourdough starter instead of my usual SAF instant. The dough isn’t exactly flat but it’s at about .75 qt? maybe .5?.
    photograph of the same 6qt fermenting tub this evening, 11 hours later, risen to just over 2 qt.
    Figure 2. photograph of the same 6qt fermenting tub this evening, 11 hours later, risen to just over 2 qt..
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon October 09, 2024 - 3:54 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/10/09/113275442292395418/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/10/09/113275442292395418/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  72. Made my first sourdough country bread ( https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/pain-de-campagne-country-bread-recipe, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL6ogX38NcY) yesterday after following instructions from King Arthur to make my own starter ( https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/sourdough-starter-recipe), after @skinnylatte mentioned how good PJ Hamel’s recipes are ( https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/113105640187688460)

    Pain de Campagne (Country Bread)Sourdough bread made with little hands-on effort and long fermentation.King Arthur BakingThe Best Everyday Sourdough (using unfed starter) is Pain De CampagneHave you heard of Pain De Campagne? It might be the only sourdough bread recipe you'll ever need. Martin is in our kitchen to show you how easy it is to make...YouTubeSourdough StarterThis is the tried-and-true method we use for making homemade sourdough starter here at King Arthur. The method you'll read in our sourdough starter recipe has evolved over time to best serve home bakers’ needs; making a sourdough starter is equal parts science and art, after all.King Arthur BakingAdrianna Tan (@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)If you’ve ever thought ‘I’m a bad baker’, get a digital scale and bake your way through everything that PJ Hamel publishes on the King Arthur recipes site. No substitutions. Just pick a few and do it. https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/author/pj-hamel My theory is that the internet is awash with bad recipes, and everyone’s a better baker than you think #Food #BakingHachyderm.io

    plenty of room for improvement, but very much not bad!

    photograph, top down, of a round loaf of sourdough bread sitting on a medium oxo plastic cutting board which is itself on a white kitchen towel w/ a blue stripe on it. the loaf has three vertical slashes and two horizontal slashes and is a dark brown to black in places, just how it should be afaik
    Figure 1. photograph, top down, of a round loaf of sourdough bread sitting on a medium oxo plastic cutting board which is itself on a white kitchen towel w/ a blue stripe on it. the loaf has three vertical slashes and two horizontal slashes and is a dark brown to black in places, just how it should be afaik.
    photograph, looking down at a round loaf of sourdough bread that has been cut in half, one half propped up so that the open crumb faces the camera, sitting on a medium oxo plastic cutting board which is itself on a white kitchen towel w/ a blue stripe on it. A long serrated bread knife is next to the loaf on the right.the crumb consists of bubbles large and small, scattered throughout, surrounded by with a very thin but hard crust
    Figure 2. photograph, looking down at a round loaf of sourdough bread that has been cut in half, one half propped up so that the open crumb faces the camera, sitting on a medium oxo plastic cutting board which is itself on a white kitchen towel w/ a blue stripe on it. A long serrated bread knife is next to the loaf on the right.the crumb consists of bubbles large and small, scattered throughout, surrounded by with a very thin but hard crust.

    my intent here, from the get go, was to use the starter for pizza dough but the bread was good enough and easy enough that I’ll probably also be making it on the regular too (I’m already looking forward to having a loaf on hand the next time I make coq au vin)

    I’ve already got a never-miss “water the house plants” Sunday morning ritual to add the starter to, and almost all of the equipment and techniques from pizza making transferred well

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon October 06, 2024 - 5:00 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/10/06/113261547057424354/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/10/06/113261547057424354/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  73. Sitting at chase center eating dinner at Gott’s the night before last and U.S. football was on the giant wall TV and I couldn’t exactly follow what was going on but it included a timeline of a player’s multiple concussions over the past few years, seems bad, idk

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon October 02, 2024 - 1:43 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/10/02/113238121028659182/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/10/02/113238121028659182/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  74. To the tune of I Should Be Allowed to Think

    I should be allowed to ninja edit my posts

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon September 26, 2024 - 6:56 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/09/26/113205378667008236/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/09/26/113205378667008236/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  75. This morning’s spooky:

    on my third walking tour of Sunnyside, listening to the excellent https://cocaineandrhinestones.com episode on Rusty and Doug Kershaw ( https://cocaineandrhinestones.com/rusty-doug-kershaw-cajun-way) which in a surprise twist to me ends up being very much also about Neil Young’s On the Beach and Tyler Mahan Coe, the host, opens with a brief history of the acadian people and what’s my first turn on the walk? Acadia Street. Whoa.

    Cocaine & Rhinestones | The podcast about the History of Country MusicCocaine & Rhinestones is a podcast about the history of 20th Century Country Music and the lives of those who gave it to us. Every episode is created by Tyler Mahan Coe.Cocaine & RhinestonesCR013 - Rusty & Doug Kershaw: The Cajun Way | Cocaine & RhinestonesDoug Kershaw is the most famous Cajun musician in history. His brother, Rusty, is not, though you may be more familiar with his work than you realize. These brothers come from a long tradition of…Cocaine & Rhinestones
    screenshot of pocketcasts on my phone that I took as I stopped to turn on Acadia
    Figure 1. screenshot of pocketcasts on my phone that I took as I stopped to turn on Acadia.
    a photograph of a concrete sidewalk ending at a concrete curb. to the right are the yellow bumpy ramp sidewalk cut that SF deploys everywhere, and at center, the concrete is stamped with the street name, as SF deploys these stamps at all intersections:ACADIA
    Figure 2. a photograph of a concrete sidewalk ending at a concrete curb. to the right are the yellow bumpy ramp sidewalk cut that SF deploys everywhere, and at center, the concrete is stamped with the street name, as SF deploys these stamps at all intersections:ACADIA.
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon September 26, 2024 - 5:29 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/09/26/113205034687509691/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/09/26/113205034687509691/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  76. Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uMNrujMdJU watching this old Barry Harris lecture w/ a jazz group he’s teaching or rehearsing, and I’d always heard he was engaging but, wow. Not much chance I’m ever going to use this stuff but it has held my attention the entire time

    Feeling the "and"This video is part of a collection of videos which Frans Elsen recorded during workshops that Barry Harris gave at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague betwee...YouTube

    this one is mostly about coming in on the and, not rushing, using triplets, and other things.

    ‘jazz used to be about dancing’

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon September 26, 2024 - 1:33 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/09/26/113204107990639476/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/09/26/113204107990639476/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  77. 22: “Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World”, by Naomi Klein

    Another one that I waited out thinking “eh, probably great but maybe I’ll pass” and then people I follow just kept citing it months and months later, so onto the pile it went. My first and not last Klein book, about significantly more than I expected.

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/138505710-doppelganger

    Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror WorldWhat if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquire…Goodreads
    the cover of doppelganger, as i read it (in hardback, with the dust cover set atop the to-read pile). All cover text is a white grotesque over a full color author photo that is glitched (kinda like my own profile photo) into a few dozen horizontal bands and distorted along red, green, and blue shifts our of horizontal sync to the left and right. DoppelgangerA TRIP INTO THE MIRROR WORLDNaomiKlein
    Figure 1. the cover of doppelganger, as i read it (in hardback, with the dust cover set atop the to-read pile). All cover text is a white grotesque over a full color author photo that is glitched (kinda like my own profile photo) into a few dozen horizontal bands and distorted along red, green, and blue shifts our of horizontal sync to the left and right. DoppelgangerA TRIP INTO THE MIRROR WORLDNaomiKlein.
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon September 22, 2024 - 5:18 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/09/22/113182344256000582/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/09/22/113182344256000582/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  78. I tend to buy clothes on ebay rather than dealing with retail—like thrifting with less effort and better selection (especially for bright colors and patterns). On the way to getting some other thing, I ended up impulse buying a pair of broadcloth pajamas and now I’m Ricky Ricardo morning-or-evening-scene pilled

    they are made of the same-ish material as bed sheets and the fit is very oversized so it feels like being in bed still. definitely beats the old sweat-pants-and-a-t-shirt thing i m o

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon September 20, 2024 - 2:09 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/09/20/113170276919121131/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/09/20/113170276919121131/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  79. Realistic only very large.

    https://botsin.space/@NoveltyBot/113163637569597391

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon September 19, 2024 - 1:03 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/09/19/113164352666142424/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/09/19/113164352666142424/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.
  80. photograph of a tree in san francisco in bernal heights changing fall colors presenting us with a lovely gradient from the top, where the leaves are golden orange with red edges, to the bottom, where they are still a vibrant green
    Figure 1. photograph of a tree in san francisco in bernal heights changing fall colors presenting us with a lovely gradient from the top, where the leaves are golden orange with red edges, to the bottom, where they are still a vibrant green.
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon September 14, 2024 - 10:38 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/09/14/113138304906394513/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/09/14/113138304906394513/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  81. Huh, I wonder if I can walk down here

    photograph of san francisco looking north-west from 100-ish Coleridge St downhill, down a driveway with a building to the left and a park to the right. IN the center is a store-bought STOP sign. Under the stop sign is a nice (I guess, if you have to have it) custom sign explaining that there is no way to get to Mission Street (the other side of this block) from here. To the right is a store-bought generic private property sign. At the bottom of the driveway, and this is the new thing, the residents have bought two foot high letters and spelled out PRIVATE PROPERTY along the fence at the bottom of their driveway. if you’ve been descending straight down the hill from Bernal, you’ve heretofore enjoyed:1. mid-block steps through a garden2. a half block of Emerelda Ave3. another set of mid-block steps through a garden4. another half block of Emerelda Ave5. another set of mid-block steps through a garden6. private property signs
    Figure 1. photograph of san francisco looking north-west from 100-ish Coleridge St downhill, down a driveway with a building to the left and a park to the right. IN the center is a store-bought STOP sign. Under the stop sign is a nice (I guess, if you have to have it) custom sign explaining that there is no way to get to Mission Street (the other side of this block) from here. To the right is a store-bought generic private property sign. At the bottom of the driveway, and this is the new thing, the residents have bought two foot high letters and spelled out PRIVATE PROPERTY along the fence at the bottom of their driveway. if you’ve been descending straight down the hill from Bernal, you’ve heretofore enjoyed:1. mid-block steps through a garden2. a half block of Emerelda Ave3. another set of mid-block steps through a garden4. another half block of Emerelda Ave5. another set of mid-block steps through a garden6. private property signs.
    photograph of san francisco looking north-west from 100-ish Coleridge St downhill, from the same vantage point as the prior photo, but zoomed in on the two foot high letters and that spell out PRIVATE PROPERTY along the fence at the bottom of the driveway. it’d be cool if there was a zip line / gondola across to noe from somewhere along this dumb route.
    Figure 2. photograph of san francisco looking north-west from 100-ish Coleridge St downhill, from the same vantage point as the prior photo, but zoomed in on the two foot high letters and that spell out PRIVATE PROPERTY along the fence at the bottom of the driveway. it’d be cool if there was a zip line / gondola across to noe from somewhere along this dumb route..
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon September 14, 2024 - 8:01 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/09/14/113137685269696623/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/09/14/113137685269696623/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  82. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises [Movement 6]

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQdLWlvgHOg&list=PLZN-Qk4Q9ORCRaxYQSvSlcIB8618eWjyu&index=6

    Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises [Movement 6]Available now wherever you listen: https://luakabop.lnk.to/promisesbM"Promises" is the new album by Floating Points and Pharoah Sanders, featuring the London...YouTube

    dang, this is still really great

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon September 13, 2024 - 3:29 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/09/13/113128121381289639/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/09/13/113128121381289639/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  83. Look so-and-so, i know I’m being a complete stick in the mud here but I refuse to subscribe to a paper that runs editorial board opinion columns I disagree with on a regular basis, and it isn’t on principle, it’s discipline, it’s a boycott, that sort of thing

    [turning to break the fourth wall] that’s why I send my money to mission local and joe esk

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon September 12, 2024 - 6:47 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/09/12/113126070497676121/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/09/12/113126070497676121/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  84. Looks like we found the trail 2 ur moms house

    photograph of a hiking trail in thick fogon the left third of the photo, a muddy double-track meanders aheadon the right over grass and underbrush, front of trees in the forrest, a white corrugated plastic board sign is posted on two wiresand written along the left at an angle is something I can’t make out. in the middle, there is an arrow and hand written text I can read, above a tag I also can’t make out, which says:ꜛ2 urmomshouse-????
    Figure 1. photograph of a hiking trail in thick fogon the left third of the photo, a muddy double-track meanders aheadon the right over grass and underbrush, front of trees in the forrest, a white corrugated plastic board sign is posted on two wiresand written along the left at an angle is something I can’t make out. in the middle, there is an arrow and hand written text I can read, above a tag I also can’t make out, which says:ꜛ2 urmomshouse-????.
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon September 07, 2024 - 8:06 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/09/07/113098068735860383/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/09/07/113098068735860383/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  85. I need to find a band to play with, picking up a guitar at home just gets junior’s attention and then breaks the impulse to pick up the instrument in the first place, like a dog or cat vectoring in on the one person who isn’t into one or the other (which is also me usually), or like a helicopter manager ignoring the headphones and full screen doc or IDE for a “hey, do you got a second?”

    well, I didn’t, but I guess I have all day now, because, welp!

    by corollary, managers who do that are actually saying “hey, hey. will you play with me?”

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon September 07, 2024 - 5:42 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/09/07/113097504563492049/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/09/07/113097504563492049/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  86. Making stuff once a week with perishables has really upped my kitchen hygiene; I p much don’t touch anything with my fingers anymore that I’m not about to cook and eat immediately, with the exception of salt

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon September 07, 2024 - 4:59 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/09/07/113097335170054990/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/09/07/113097335170054990/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  87. Blah blah blah “kindly" blah blah blah

    your foster parents are dead, lets go

    a screenshot from Terminator 2 of the T100 on the left and a young John Connor on the right. The T100 is on a pay phone talking to the T1000 at John Connor’s house, tricking the T1000 into admitting that it is not actually John’s foster-parent by asking after John’s dog but using the wrong name for itTERMINATOR (in John's voice) I'm right here. I'm fine. (to John, a whisper) What's the dog's name? JOHNMax.Terminator nods. Speaks into the phone.TERMINATORHey, Janelle, what's wrong with Wolfy? I can hear him barking. Is he okay? JANELLE (filtered) Wolfy's fine, honey. Where are you?Terminator unceremoniously hangs up the phone.Turns to John.TERMINATORYour foster parents are dead. Let's go.Terminator heads for the bike. John, shocked, stares after him.[pushing up glasses] This scene gets a lot of meme time but it’s also pretty funny because you would think the dumb ol’ T1000 would have been loaded with a pretty extensive dossier on John Connor that included the dog’s name.
    Figure 1. a screenshot from Terminator 2 of the T100 on the left and a young John Connor on the right. The T100 is on a pay phone talking to the T1000 at John Connor’s house, tricking the T1000 into admitting that it is not actually John’s foster-parent by asking after John’s dog but using the wrong name for itTERMINATOR (in John's voice) I'm right here. I'm fine. (to John, a whisper) What's the dog's name? JOHNMax.Terminator nods. Speaks into the phone.TERMINATORHey, Janelle, what's wrong with Wolfy? I can hear him barking. Is he okay? JANELLE (filtered) Wolfy's fine, honey. Where are you?Terminator unceremoniously hangs up the phone.Turns to John.TERMINATORYour foster parents are dead. Let's go.Terminator heads for the bike. John, shocked, stares after him.[pushing up glasses] This scene gets a lot of meme time but it’s also pretty funny because you would think the dumb ol’ T1000 would have been loaded with a pretty extensive dossier on John Connor that included the dog’s name..
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon September 07, 2024 - 3:32 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/09/07/113096994048526028/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/09/07/113096994048526028/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  88. Was still thinkin’ about that marg from a few weeks ago, and a then a friend in Marin gave us a few tomatoes from her garden.

    this one is topped with additional chiffonaded basil, and smoked sea salt

    I had pan fried some hot italian sausage (intending to pair with red onion slices and provolone instead of mozz) while the first two baked, for a third pizza, but this one was so good I didn’t even bother with it, and so I tossed the extra dough ball in the freezer

    photograph of a margherita neapolitan pizza on a large cutting board, fresh out of the oventhe pizza has charred bubbles on the cornicione, and is topped with with tomato sauce, mozzarella, basil, and a fan-circle of thin, orange slices of a fresh garden tomato, topped with additional chiffonaded basil, and smoked sea saltin the background, also on the cutting board is half of a similar pepperoni pizza
    Figure 1. photograph of a margherita neapolitan pizza on a large cutting board, fresh out of the oventhe pizza has charred bubbles on the cornicione, and is topped with with tomato sauce, mozzarella, basil, and a fan-circle of thin, orange slices of a fresh garden tomato, topped with additional chiffonaded basil, and smoked sea saltin the background, also on the cutting board is half of a similar pepperoni pizza.
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon September 07, 2024 - 3:20 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/09/07/113096944320497351/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/09/07/113096944320497351/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  89. Grandfather Hot Dog Stand

    https://botsin.space/@oldroadside/113091581104915225

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon September 06, 2024 - 4:47 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/09/06/113091626488187951/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/09/06/113091626488187951/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  90. Worked my way up to a jogging a full mile over the past few weeks and, I guess my form was wrong, or my body wasn’t ready in spite of all the walking I do. I didn’t notice any one bad move but when I tried to repeat the mile jog a few days later and couldn’t make it a block.

    By the weekend, I had to bail a mile into a simple walk, and I’ve paused walks and strength training for at least a week while whatever is going on calms down.

    as a life-long “why on earth would I do that to myself?" and "what are they running from?” sayer coasting on the metabolism and cholesterol levels of youth, I finally, when I don’t need one, have a real excuse to not like running

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon September 04, 2024 - 1:35 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/09/04/113079546089279175/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/09/04/113079546089279175/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  91. 21: “Family Furnishings", by Alice Munro

    The later, somewhat darker, more explicitly autobiographical half of Munro’s anthologies of short stories.

    Munro’s characters tend to (I know this reads like a horoscope) move on from situations for the next thing without a plan, or to be a little selfish before getting back to being serious, if they ever do. She’s always putting characters on trains, or in cars, or on buses.

    Previously: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110531577683425679, https://mastodon.social/@gravely/112440630402434626

    gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image thirteenth book of '23, “Wilderness Station" (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25194123-a-wilderness-station) by Alice Munro (previously issued as "Selected Stories” (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14281.Selected_Stories)). Wow! Loved it. The “Selected Stories” title has had time to be rated and critiqued by much more careful readers. Lots of comparisons to Chekov, who I suppose I'll check out next. I'll also definitely be getting the companion collection, Family Furnishings, Selected Stories 1995-2014.Mastodongravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)RIP Alice Munro I'm a few stories into "Family Furnishings, Selected Stories 1995-2014”, the companion to “A Wilderness Station", which I read a year ago, and expect to finish it before summer is out.Mastodon
    the cover of A Family Furnishings, selected stories: 1995-2014, originally published as Selected Stories. green on white water color text under an illustration of (I assume) the author, somewhat older than in the previous anthology
    Figure 1. the cover of A Family Furnishings, selected stories: 1995-2014, originally published as Selected Stories. green on white water color text under an illustration of (I assume) the author, somewhat older than in the previous anthology.
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon August 27, 2024 - 5:08 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/08/27/113032252172197084/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/08/27/113032252172197084/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  92. Texts like this are like the inverse of gell-mann amnesia, and the best ones (which this is? Idk I’m not that well read to say!) do so w/o degrading into the easier and tedious "we’re all failing and need to do better” conference keynote gimmick simulation of it.

    anyway, by which I mean, you read about an area of focus in another field and see the author clearly knows what they are talking about and moreover that the grievances they have align w/ the same grievances you have in your own field

    two “fun facts" (my kid picked up that phrase and has been using it arbitrarily, so now I do)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedestrian_scramble “Barnes Dances”

    Pedestrian scramble - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

    I forgot David Byrne wrote about biking, so now that is is on the list of shit to read http://davidbyrne.com/explore/bicycle-diaries/about

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon August 25, 2024 - 4:06 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/08/25/113020685267242475/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/08/25/113020685267242475/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  93. 20th book of 2024: “Killed by a Traffic Engineer”, by Wes Marshall ( https://www.killedbyatrafficengineer.com).

    Killed by a Traffic EngineerKilled by a Traffic Engineer, book, transportation, transport, safety, road crashes, accidents, pedestrians, bicycling, bike, walkKilled by a Traffic Engineer

    Lots of people read this last year when Marshall published it and the title was so catchy, I thought about it after the last few accidents in SF, which made me think I should go back and actually read it.

    80+ three page ideas, lots of overlap with the incident management side of my day job, casually written (if a little too pop, even, but I guess that’s ok).

    Every field is like this, it seems.

    The paperback cover, as I read it, of “Killed by a Traffic Engineer”, by Wes Marshall. Title and author name in all caps grotesque, pitch in a standard case, all center aligned, title top, author name bottom right, pitch bottom left, white on black. In the center is a photograph of a stop sign that has been damage and the lower left corner bent out of shape, so that it only says O PRed spine, white text.KILLED BYA TRAFFIC ENGINEERO PShattering the Delusion that ScienceUnderlies Our TransportationSystemWESMARSHALL
    Figure 1. The paperback cover, as I read it, of “Killed by a Traffic Engineer”, by Wes Marshall. Title and author name in all caps grotesque, pitch in a standard case, all center aligned, title top, author name bottom right, pitch bottom left, white on black. In the center is a photograph of a stop sign that has been damage and the lower left corner bent out of shape, so that it only says O PRed spine, white text.KILLED BYA TRAFFIC ENGINEERO PShattering the Delusion that ScienceUnderlies Our TransportationSystemWESMARSHALL.
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon August 25, 2024 - 3:59 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/08/25/113020658124244216/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/08/25/113020658124244216/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

    “daddy I thought we were supposed to be playing legos?”

    “this is playing legos!”

    batman was not impressed.

    photograph of a stack of 10 lego legs or "pants" in a rainbow with fire mario on top standing on a small green platform facing a gray lego figure with like 20 heads stacked on top, the top one has long hair and is wearing a red hard hat. head-lord is taller than leg-lord by a few heads. a dumb old gray batman lego figure (normal height) stands between them looking up being mad about everything
    Figure 1. photograph of a stack of 10 lego legs or "pants" in a rainbow with fire mario on top standing on a small green platform facing a gray lego figure with like 20 heads stacked on top, the top one has long hair and is wearing a red hard hat. head-lord is taller than leg-lord by a few heads. a dumb old gray batman lego figure (normal height) stands between them looking up being mad about everything.
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon August 25, 2024 - 12:33 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/08/25/113019845706695271/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/08/25/113019845706695271/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  95. Inspired but in no way meeting the bar set by the amazingly incredible early girl tomato marg I had at the pizza, bagel, and beer fest last weekend

    photo of a Neapolitan pizza w/ sauce, cheese, and basil
    Figure 1. photo of a Neapolitan pizza w/ sauce, cheese, and basil.
    macro photo of a Neapolitan pizza w/ sauce, cheese, and basil from crust to crust
    Figure 2. macro photo of a Neapolitan pizza w/ sauce, cheese, and basil from crust to crust.
    macro photo of a Neapolitan pizza w/ sauce, cheese, and basil, sliced, showing off the crust
    Figure 3. macro photo of a Neapolitan pizza w/ sauce, cheese, and basil, sliced, showing off the crust.
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon August 24, 2024 - 2:42 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/08/24/113014692345506613/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/08/24/113014692345506613/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  96. 😬 a lil’ nervous, I have an appointment with a stylist this afternoon, my first since February 2020, when I was forced to end years of an every-three-weeks wash and style scissor-cut booking near the office (a luxury). I, eventually started cutting my own.

    I found “very short” to be pretty easy to DIY, but decided to let it go nearly two years ago and started growing it out long, w/ DIY maintenance.

    6 months in: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/109928979027718696

    gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image i'm at the combination hair growing out selfie / "i guess i'm a large size shirt now" selfie/ lol at this shirt which i like to read as both for and against drinking postMastodon

    another year in (2 months ago): https://mastodon.social/@gravely/112696371678091310

    gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image recently returned from two weeks spent in NC, SC, and MD and if I hadn't been at the beach, bay, or poolside every other day (and sure of imminent return to the bay) I would have a buzz cut right nowMastodon
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon August 21, 2024 - 5:12 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/08/21/113001127046896199/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/08/21/113001127046896199/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  97. Check it out, shadows of the tower in the fog

    also the interior panels seem to have a much fresher coat of orange paint than what we typically see from the rest of the city

    a photograph of a large radio tower, Sutro Tower, in san francisco at a dutch angle with the sun centered opposite, shining through the tower supports with fog throughout. the upper spires of the tower are casting long shadows in the fog
    Figure 1. a photograph of a large radio tower, Sutro Tower, in san francisco at a dutch angle with the sun centered opposite, shining through the tower supports with fog throughout. the upper spires of the tower are casting long shadows in the fog.
    selfie more or less under the tower of a large radio tower in san francisco, or at least as close as it can be approached without working there
    Figure 2. selfie more or less under the tower of a large radio tower in san francisco, or at least as close as it can be approached without working there.
    the tower from the western woods, a very muddy singletrack leads straight away in the bottom left in a green, sun-dappled forest, while the red and white tower looms to the rear in the top right
    Figure 3. the tower from the western woods, a very muddy singletrack leads straight away in the bottom left in a green, sun-dappled forest, while the red and white tower looms to the rear in the top right.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon August 18, 2024 - 11:38 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/08/18/112985658806059350/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/08/18/112985658806059350/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  98. 🚶🏽‍♂️ 🚶🏽‍♂️ 🚶🏽‍♂️

    🏁 what I’m considering “the rest of Eureka Valley”, Clarendon Heights?, Upper Market, and Midtown Terrace. I’m gonna have to come back for the interior of Laguna Honda.

    I’ve bee consistently pecking away since my last post in April, but for most of them I need to “get there” first which makes it harder to do in the morning. I’d rather bike when I have that much time. Then summer break started, vacations, etc.

    Next idk, maybe Dogpatch and Mission Bay?

    A San Francisco street map centering the area around Twin Peaks, bound by 17th street along the north, Noe St. to the east, Portola to the south, and 9th ave on the west. Surrounding Twin peaks, most streets have a meandering purple GPS path I’ve logged on it, generally completing (in order I walked it) Eureka Valley, Clarendon Heights, Upper Market, and Midtown Terrace.
    Figure 1. A San Francisco street map centering the area around Twin Peaks, bound by 17th street along the north, Noe St. to the east, Portola to the south, and 9th ave on the west. Surrounding Twin peaks, most streets have a meandering purple GPS path I’ve logged on it, generally completing (in order I walked it) Eureka Valley, Clarendon Heights, Upper Market, and Midtown Terrace..
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon August 18, 2024 - 10:44 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/08/18/112985445957082638/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/08/18/112985445957082638/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  99. Logging on

    https://tvwatch.party/@ryan/112972381931044700

    スランプモード (@ryan@tvwatch.party)Attached: 1 video i, too, would simply duck an incoming RPGTV Watch Party
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon August 16, 2024 - 3:31 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/08/16/112972416778684752/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/08/16/112972416778684752/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  100. Announcer: Thirty parents in SF agree.

    Parents: [in unison] The Junction in Mill Valley is ideal!

    Parent gravely: They have a damned pirate ship!

    [The parents all nod in agreement]

    Unnamed older parent: The beer garden vibe is also nice.

    [The parents nod in agreement and toast their drinks]

    Parent gravely: It’s a too bad there’s nothing like it in San Francisco!

    [The parents continue to nod in agreement]

    Announcer: Thirty parents in SF agree, The Junction in Mill Valley is ideal!

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon August 15, 2024 - 2:59 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/08/15/112966631346702611/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/08/15/112966631346702611/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  101. 19th book of 2024: “Sourdough”, by Robin Sloan ( https://www.robinsloan.com/books/sourdough/).

    SourdoughA novel about work and eating, robots and microbes, and more.Robin Sloan

    Re-using my comment on Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore: “Fun, light, very quick read. Very weird to read something so connected to ~2017~ techie-San-Francisco and get 100% of the references and roll my eyes at a few of them.”

    Started Sloan’s newest, Moonbound, immediately afterward, and it’s very different so far.

    The paperback cover of “Sourdough”, by Robin Sloan. btw, it would be cool if publishers wrote their own alt-texts for their own covers!A photograph of a pale and cracked loaf of bread on a barely tinted solid yellow is covered in yellow crinkle-cut ovals in a sticker effect, one has the title, another a blurb, and so on (pasted bwloe. The author’s name is in the lower left in a cooper-like all-caps block serif.Pasted words:INCLUDESNEWTALE OFTHEPENUMBRAVERSE,THE SUITCASE CLONESOURDOUGH"Deliciousfun... Asoddlydelectableas itsnamesake."THE WASHINGTONPOSTAUTHOR OFMr. Penumbras24-HourBookstoreROBINSLOAN
    Figure 1. The paperback cover of “Sourdough”, by Robin Sloan. btw, it would be cool if publishers wrote their own alt-texts for their own covers!A photograph of a pale and cracked loaf of bread on a barely tinted solid yellow is covered in yellow crinkle-cut ovals in a sticker effect, one has the title, another a blurb, and so on (pasted bwloe. The author’s name is in the lower left in a cooper-like all-caps block serif.Pasted words:INCLUDESNEWTALE OFTHEPENUMBRAVERSE,THE SUITCASE CLONESOURDOUGH"Deliciousfun... Asoddlydelectableas itsnamesake."THE WASHINGTONPOSTAUTHOR OFMr. Penumbras24-HourBookstoreROBINSLOAN.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon August 12, 2024 - 3:12 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/08/12/112949694895278734/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/08/12/112949694895278734/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  102. I think fauxtesting kinda sucks but this one cracks me up every time I walk past it because I also think scoldy and bossy signs also suck.

    A fake road sign in the window of a house in san francisco that says:PRIVATESIGNDO NOTREADI'm sure on the backside, it didn't say nothing, etc., etc.
    Figure 1. A fake road sign in the window of a house in san francisco that says:PRIVATESIGNDO NOTREADI'm sure on the backside, it didn't say nothing, etc., etc..
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon August 07, 2024 - 1:06 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/08/07/112918056536009723/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/08/07/112918056536009723/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  103. Moved a few afternoon meetings to make the last hour and a half of Kid Koala at SF MOMA’s ‘Art of Noise’ exhibition. I’m a huge fan from way back, was amazing!

    Normally a phone-in-pocket-guy at shows but, he put on on John Carpenter’s soundtrack to Big Trouble Little China to play a bit of “Pork Chop Express” and I had to send proof back east to brag.

    photograph of Kid Koala at SF MOMA's ‘Art of Noise’ exhibition in front of a knee-level table of fancy audio gear, with stacks of records, probably 60 or 80 or so, leaning against the table, and Kid Koala standing on front of it, looking at the back cover of John Carpenter’s soundtrack of Big Trouble Little China trying to decide what song to play for us
    Figure 1. photograph of Kid Koala at SF MOMA's ‘Art of Noise’ exhibition in front of a knee-level table of fancy audio gear, with stacks of records, probably 60 or 80 or so, leaning against the table, and Kid Koala standing on front of it, looking at the back cover of John Carpenter’s soundtrack of Big Trouble Little China trying to decide what song to play for us.

    oh word, which one was that? don’t worry, I got you

    (previously: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/107848168559145930)

    gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image "You just listen to the old Pork Chop Express here now and take his advice on a dark and stormy night when the lightning's crashin' and the thunder's rollin' and the rain's coming down in sheets thick as lead. Just remember what old Jack Burton does..."Mastodon

    and so on

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon August 06, 2024 - 11:20 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/08/06/112917640539450111/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/08/06/112917640539450111/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  104. Nice, sometimes, when the fog is just right, as the sun sets, you get a rainbow through it

    cropped photo of a rainbow over the mission in san francisco from the center bottom of the frame to the top 1/6th from the right-edge, a power line crossed 1/6th across the bottom edge and the top two stories of building in the bottom left face west and reflect the sunset in its windows. the sky is mostly cloudy with some blue
    Figure 1. cropped photo of a rainbow over the mission in san francisco from the center bottom of the frame to the top 1/6th from the right-edge, a power line crossed 1/6th across the bottom edge and the top two stories of building in the bottom left face west and reflect the sunset in its windows. the sky is mostly cloudy with some blue.
    cropped photo of a rainbow touching down on the golden (dead) grass of bernal heights, the saturation is maxed out as is the luminance or something like that. A utility pole, trees, and buildings on 26th street fill the bottom 1/6th of the grame
    Figure 2. cropped photo of a rainbow touching down on the golden (dead) grass of bernal heights, the saturation is maxed out as is the luminance or something like that. A utility pole, trees, and buildings on 26th street fill the bottom 1/6th of the grame.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon August 03, 2024 - 3:20 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/08/03/112895934978673603/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/08/03/112895934978673603/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  105. I’m three stories in to my first paper copy of @clarkesworld ( https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/) after subbing a week or two ago and all three are great, the print format is great, no regrets, would recommend, etc.

    Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & FantasyClarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: Issue 238Clarkesworld Magazine

    just finished “The Best Version Of Yourself” By Grant Collier ( https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/collier_07_24/) and it’s particularly good i m h o

    Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & FantasyClarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: The Best Version of Yourself by Grant CollierClarkesworld Magazine
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon August 03, 2024 - 3:06 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/08/03/112895878180718236/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/08/03/112895878180718236/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  106. (my friday pizza bake is threaded so that you can mute it)

    inspired by the "Bitter & Smokey” I had for lunch at Tony’s Napoletana yesterday, but too lazy to go buy ricotta or pancetta or broccoli rabe, I did the thing every online recipe commenter does and subbed the heck out of it with what I had on hand, but this time it turned out delicious, even with the left over frozen dough from a month ago that I used

    I pre-cooked the broccoli in a carbon steel pan in the pizza oven, as one does

    A screen grab of the menu from Tony’s NapoletanaBITTER & SMOKYbroccoli rabe,smoked pancetta,smoked mozzarella,lemon, ricotta,crushed red pepper$34
    Figure 1. A screen grab of the menu from Tony’s NapoletanaBITTER & SMOKYbroccoli rabe,smoked pancetta,smoked mozzarella,lemon, ricotta,crushed red pepper$34.
    Photograph of the pizza before baking, topped with smoked provolone, mozz, red pepper flakes, grilled broccoli, and olive oil, on a bamboo peel resting on a stainless steel tabletop under an Ooni Koda 16 gas pizza oven. The flames of the oven are visible at the top of the photo as high as they get, and the oven is about 1000 degrees, the stone in the 800-900s, Fahrenheit.
    Figure 2. Photograph of the pizza before baking, topped with smoked provolone, mozz, red pepper flakes, grilled broccoli, and olive oil, on a bamboo peel resting on a stainless steel tabletop under an Ooni Koda 16 gas pizza oven. The flames of the oven are visible at the top of the photo as high as they get, and the oven is about 1000 degrees, the stone in the 800-900s, Fahrenheit..
    macro photograph of the pizza from inches above looking from one crust to the other, plated and sliced into quarters; the cheese has bubbled and browned in spots, the broccoli is charred a bit, and there’s a lemon wedge in the center, and the crust is browned with leopard spots
    Figure 3. macro photograph of the pizza from inches above looking from one crust to the other, plated and sliced into quarters; the cheese has bubbled and browned in spots, the broccoli is charred a bit, and there’s a lemon wedge in the center, and the crust is browned with leopard spots.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon August 03, 2024 - 2:56 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/08/03/112895838287111458/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/08/03/112895838287111458/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  107. “pedestrian activity is that intuitive factor"

    in other word, infrastructure is people!

    https://sfba.social/@LukeBornheimer/112893746759026176

    Luke Bornheimer (@LukeBornheimer@sfba.social)Attached: 1 image What Kyle said ⬇️ SFMTA is making bad, car traffic-centric excuses for not implementing a citywide No Turn on Red policy (which SFMTA is framing as a “ban”—framing that makes it seem extreme and more likely to be opposed publicly). It’s long past time for a citywide NTOR policy.SFBA.social
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon August 02, 2024 - 10:03 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/08/02/112894688208365461/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/08/02/112894688208365461/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  108. Have a great evening y’all

    https://youtu.be/kvzULQdcwsA?si=VxUJC2JZs0oPJQIF

    LOS SANTOS - Saturno 2000SUBSCRIBE TO ANALOG AFRICA´s CHANNEL - http://bit.ly/2riUuLLVISIT ANALOG AFRICA - https://analogafrica.bandcamp.com/LIKE ANALOG AFRICA - https://www.facebook...YouTube
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon July 31, 2024 - 1:25 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/07/31/112878492466709861/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/07/31/112878492466709861/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  109. The purpose of a bollard is what it does

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon July 31, 2024 - 1:24 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/07/31/112878489071912799/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/07/31/112878489071912799/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  110. Our house spaghetti recipe was O.P. last week. I need to start making this sauce for pizza, I think it’d work fine.

    garlic cloves from an entire head, enough basil, stem and all, to fill the rest of a small sauce pan, and a healthy pinch of red pepper flakes, frying in a quarter cup of olive oil
    Figure 1. garlic cloves from an entire head, enough basil, stem and all, to fill the rest of a small sauce pan, and a healthy pinch of red pepper flakes, frying in a quarter cup of olive oil.
    reserved sauce from a 22 ounce can of whole peeled san marzanos, add with finishings for brightness or earlier if the tomatoes start to burn, or split the difference
    Figure 2. reserved sauce from a 22 ounce can of whole peeled san marzanos, add with finishings for brightness or earlier if the tomatoes start to burn, or split the difference.
    whole peeled san marzanos from a 22 ounce can and a pinches of red pepper and salt flakes frying in a few tablespoons of olive oil. turn to taste, once it’s where you like it, carefully use a wire potato masher or bladed dough cutter to break up the tomatoes, reduce heat to a simmer
    Figure 3. whole peeled san marzanos from a 22 ounce can and a pinches of red pepper and salt flakes frying in a few tablespoons of olive oil. turn to taste, once it’s where you like it, carefully use a wire potato masher or bladed dough cutter to break up the tomatoes, reduce heat to a simmer.
    pre-warmed heath commune ceramic shallow bowl full of al dente spaghetti noodles finished in the oil (use a fine mesh strainer and discard or re-purpose the garlic and basil) and tomatoes from the other photos with a tablespoon of unsalted butter, another tablespoon of olive oil, and two tablespoons of parmesan, topped with more parmesan and chiffonaded basil
    Figure 4. pre-warmed heath commune ceramic shallow bowl full of al dente spaghetti noodles finished in the oil (use a fine mesh strainer and discard or re-purpose the garlic and basil) and tomatoes from the other photos with a tablespoon of unsalted butter, another tablespoon of olive oil, and two tablespoons of parmesan, topped with more parmesan and chiffonaded basil.

    I’m aware of and have tried the half-onion pan fried in butter approach to a simple red sauce and the subtlety of it is completely lost on me.

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon July 29, 2024 - 2:59 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/07/29/112870369236873232/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/07/29/112870369236873232/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  111. For mom and junior: mozz and pecorino over sauce, pep all over for junior, and add basil and olives on the other half, for mom

    for me: tomato sauce, pecorino, basil, smoked provolone, hot Italian sausage

    top down photo of the hugest oxo cutting board with two 12” neapolitan pizzas on it. top right is the sausage and cheese, bottom left is all pep, half olives
    Figure 1. top down photo of the hugest oxo cutting board with two 12” neapolitan pizzas on it. top right is the sausage and cheese, bottom left is all pep, half olives.
    ECU photo half pep, olives, basil, half pep only, all over mozz and sauce - the red, green and black is on the left half of the photo, the red and white on the right half
    Figure 2. ECU photo half pep, olives, basil, half pep only, all over mozz and sauce - the red, green and black is on the left half of the photo, the red and white on the right half.
    ECU, sausage, leopard spotted smoked provolone, basil, w/ huge crust bubbles in the bottom-left corner
    Figure 3. ECU, sausage, leopard spotted smoked provolone, basil, w/ huge crust bubbles in the bottom-left corner.
    photo of plated slices, showing off the crust bubbles in the sausage/provolone pizza. p good tonight!
    Figure 4. photo of plated slices, showing off the crust bubbles in the sausage/provolone pizza. p good tonight!.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon July 27, 2024 - 1:36 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/07/27/112855888553989786/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/07/27/112855888553989786/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  112. People who contain their aspirations (never demands) to what is immediately achievable think the rest of us are annoying as hell, but, in a surprise twist, guess what

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon July 24, 2024 - 3:43 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/07/24/112842229846681391/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/07/24/112842229846681391/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  113. Finally checked biking up twin peaks off my list after a friend suggested I head up via glen park instead of the usual routes. it’s the same climb (and I hate climbing) but gradual over 5 miles instead of bunched up in the last mile and a half.

    then, since I was already in spandex (very rare!), I tacked on a normal bay loop for the miles

    photo from Christmas Tree Point in San Francisco, looking down on a switchback of Twin Peaks Boulevard in the bottom half of the photo. The entire top half of the photo contains downtown San Francisco, in theory, but is solid gray with fog
    Figure 1. photo from Christmas Tree Point in San Francisco, looking down on a switchback of Twin Peaks Boulevard in the bottom half of the photo. The entire top half of the photo contains downtown San Francisco, in theory, but is solid gray with fog.
    Selfie in a black and white giro helmet, transition glasses which are full tint black at this point, and a black cycling jesey with little red polka dots and a bright red zig zag across the front. My bike, a red and white gravel bike, is behind me, leaning up against the pink metal railing at Christmas Tree Point in San Francisco.
    Figure 2. Selfie in a black and white giro helmet, transition glasses which are full tint black at this point, and a black cycling jesey with little red polka dots and a bright red zig zag across the front. My bike, a red and white gravel bike, is behind me, leaning up against the pink metal railing at Christmas Tree Point in San Francisco..
    a photograph of the golden gate bridge, in san francisco, taken from below, in the parking lot of Fort Point, through a chain link fence. A black sign with yellow left and right hand prints at high-five height labeled HOPPERS HANDS is fixed to the fence as a touch point for people who walk, bike, hike, or whatever, to get here and then turn around as it is a dead end
    Figure 3. a photograph of the golden gate bridge, in san francisco, taken from below, in the parking lot of Fort Point, through a chain link fence. A black sign with yellow left and right hand prints at high-five height labeled HOPPERS HANDS is fixed to the fence as a touch point for people who walk, bike, hike, or whatever, to get here and then turn around as it is a dead end.
    Screen shot from Strava of my route, a red line over a map of san francisco through the mission, glen canyon, twin peaks, down 17th, across cesar chavez, and up around the bay to the golden gate bridge, then returning through the presidio, golden gate park, the wiggle, to the mission
    Figure 4. Screen shot from Strava of my route, a red line over a map of san francisco through the mission, glen canyon, twin peaks, down 17th, across cesar chavez, and up around the bay to the golden gate bridge, then returning through the presidio, golden gate park, the wiggle, to the mission.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon July 21, 2024 - 10:26 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/07/21/112826828644236997/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/07/21/112826828644236997/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  114. Tonight’s pizza*: tomato sauce, pecorino romano, capers, black olives, anchovies, pepperoni, chili crisp, olive oil

    • kenji’s neapolitan w/ bob’s red mill 00 (which is very good imo) and SAF instant
    two slices of neapolitan pizza on a white plate topped with tomato sauce, pecorino romano, capers, black olives, anchovies, pepperoni, chili crisp, olive oil
    Figure 1. two slices of neapolitan pizza on a white plate topped with tomato sauce, pecorino romano, capers, black olives, anchovies, pepperoni, chili crisp, olive oil.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon July 20, 2024 - 1:05 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/07/20/112816128344726958/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/07/20/112816128344726958/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  115. Dudesl love to not post for weeks at a time and then right as the eye doctor’s dialation drops kick in, get brain foam they have a scrape away immediately while squinting and blinking at their dumb phone in a dark room

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon July 17, 2024 - 9:50 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/07/17/112804037720671614/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/07/17/112804037720671614/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  116. Pedantly explaining to the fourth wall that i can get away with it because i’m in the third panel, after the person in the second panel pedantly explaining to the fourth wall why people who say what I said can’t get away with what Zi am getting away with because they are in the only other panel than theirs, the second panel of two

    [flicks the light on] whoa! look at all these cockroaches in here! holy shit this is now how we behave! do better!

    [my friends and I scurrying away, unkillable, but diving for cover anyway] “shut up! shut up! get out! get out! turn the lights back off!”

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon July 17, 2024 - 8:48 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/07/17/112803793802981097/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/07/17/112803793802981097/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  117. Feeling matchy-matchy, might lean

    a photo of me leaning, with arms crossed, against an avocado green brick building next to a window protected by decorative cast iron security bars also painted avocado greenI’m wearing a black DOOM LOOP had, a black silk jacket with white silk sleeves that have arm length patches of green double-headed snakes running from wrist to shoulder over a light pink oxford, faded maroon corduroy pants, and black on black suede old school vans
    Figure 1. a photo of me leaning, with arms crossed, against an avocado green brick building next to a window protected by decorative cast iron security bars also painted avocado greenI’m wearing a black DOOM LOOP had, a black silk jacket with white silk sleeves that have arm length patches of green double-headed snakes running from wrist to shoulder over a light pink oxford, faded maroon corduroy pants, and black on black suede old school vans.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon July 14, 2024 - 4:38 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/07/14/112785826448542476/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/07/14/112785826448542476/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  118. Follow friday: https://botsin.space/@bestpizzaintown

    https://botsin.space/@bestpizzaintown/112775780386387788

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon July 12, 2024 - 11:45 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/07/12/112776179019962790/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/07/12/112776179019962790/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  119. Would honestly prefer to give whoever needs it (this morning, an optometry office) a social security number equivalent and my public-persona handle rather than 1) the name I go by (which happens to be my middle name) and 2) my last name-including-how-to-spell-it, and then 3) disambiguating that from my full legal name, which has a different first name as well as a suffix

    the full ritual as we perform it is too close to a cultural conflict and wildly inefficient. let me give you a guid

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon July 12, 2024 - 4:26 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/07/12/112774453015211568/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/07/12/112774453015211568/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  120. My eyes also just kind of slide off of paragraph length posts on this website as I scroll through it but I’ll keep posting that shit anyway I guess

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon July 11, 2024 - 4:47 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/07/11/112768871776727138/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/07/11/112768871776727138/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  121. Thanks to discord’s hokey use of a command for command-K, officially “Find or Start a Direct Message" per their docs, I am always constantly narrowly avoiding direct messaging someone I do not know who has the last name of Jerke who I assume also idles in an open source community server I idle in, when I try to switch to the chat I made for talking about anything but games on my friend’s gaming-oriented community server which they immediately renamed and locked to #jerk_factory for me

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon July 11, 2024 - 4:46 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/07/11/112768868603176403/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/07/11/112768868603176403/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  122. 18th book of 2024: “Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore”, by Robin Sloan ( https://www.robinsloan.com/books/penumbra/).

    Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour BookstoreA novel about books and technology, cryptography and conspiracy, friendship and love.Robin Sloan

    Fun, light, very quick read. Very weird to read something so connected to ~2012-techie-San-Francisco (I was here by then) and get 100% of the references (and roll my eyes at a few w/ 12 years of hindsight).

    The paperback cover “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore”, by Robin Sloan, as I read it. Nine rows of yellow blocks stamped alternating between four or five stacked on their back and four or five upright like books on a shelf but leaning left or right at random. The title and “A Novel” and author name are in hand written script over the entire front.
    Figure 1. The paperback cover “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore”, by Robin Sloan, as I read it. Nine rows of yellow blocks stamped alternating between four or five stacked on their back and four or five upright like books on a shelf but leaning left or right at random. The title and “A Novel” and author name are in hand written script over the entire front..
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon July 11, 2024 - 3:11 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/07/11/112765662693423877/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/07/11/112765662693423877/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  123. I think if cars and car parts were stollen at the rates bikes are in U.S. cities, deployed technical controls would look a lot more like off-site valet parking than like racks on the sidewalk, and the compensating control would look a lot more like car insurance than like adding the car to your home insurance policy, and nothing at all like whatever the latest video from some guy in NYC posting how to use three specific locks in very specific ways

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon July 06, 2024 - 4:04 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/07/06/112740391088032684/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/07/06/112740391088032684/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  124. 17th book of 2024: "The Book of Love”, by Kelly Link ( https://kellylink.net/books/the-book-of-love, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/157981682-the-book-of-love).

    The Book of Love - Kelly LinkUS: signed/personalized copies available from Book Moon. Playlists: Apple; Spotify. UK: Head of Zeus.  In the long-awaited debut novel from bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link, three teenagers become pawns in a supernatural power struggle. LA Times Book Prize Winner · Lithub 38 Favorites of 2024 · Vulture Best Books of the Year […]Kelly LinkThe Book of LoveThe Book of Love showcases Kelly Link at the height of …Goodreads

    I kind agree w/ the haters on this one but maybe not very strongly?

    the hardback cover of “The Book of Love” by Kelly Link, as I read it. Title in mixed case mixed case THE BooK oF LoVE” and author’s name upper case, both in black over a solid red background. Four rows of five moons line the cover in gold: crescent, waxing, full, waning, crescent. Alternating left and then right waning first, then waxing moons have silhouettes of faces instead of earth-shadows.
    Figure 1. the hardback cover of “The Book of Love” by Kelly Link, as I read it. Title in mixed case mixed case THE BooK oF LoVE” and author’s name upper case, both in black over a solid red background. Four rows of five moons line the cover in gold: crescent, waxing, full, waning, crescent. Alternating left and then right waning first, then waxing moons have silhouettes of faces instead of earth-shadows..
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon July 05, 2024 - 8:49 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/07/05/112735849916188773/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/07/05/112735849916188773/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  125. Lovely weather to bicycle across the only bridge we can.

    maybe some day, the other will be opened up!

    photo from the visitor’s lot on the north side of the golden gate bridge on a clear sunny day. the nearer, lower two-fifths of the photo contain a near stone wall, with my red and white steel frame gravel bike leaning against it on a gravel path. the distant, top three-fifths contain the san francisco bay, city skyline to the left, golden gate bridge to the right, and sutro tower in the distance
    Figure 1. photo from the visitor’s lot on the north side of the golden gate bridge on a clear sunny day. the nearer, lower two-fifths of the photo contain a near stone wall, with my red and white steel frame gravel bike leaning against it on a gravel path. the distant, top three-fifths contain the san francisco bay, city skyline to the left, golden gate bridge to the right, and sutro tower in the distance.
    a photo of the golden gate bridge from below, taken from the parking lot at Fort Point, an old military (US Army) base under the southern end of the bridge on the san francisco bay shorline
    Figure 2. a photo of the golden gate bridge from below, taken from the parking lot at Fort Point, an old military (US Army) base under the southern end of the bridge on the san francisco bay shorline.
    photo of the Bay Bridge to Treasure Island and Oakland beyond, taken from the southern bay shore approach, on a clear sunny day
    Figure 3. photo of the Bay Bridge to Treasure Island and Oakland beyond, taken from the southern bay shore approach, on a clear sunny day.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon July 03, 2024 - 7:39 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/07/03/112724253081073342/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/07/03/112724253081073342/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  126. ☺️ aww, a man gave up his parking spot* on valencia at 23rd** for me***

    • double parked in the bike lane with two empty car spots to his right

    ** sfmta is committed to not putting in a protected bike lane here to Mission St because of nonsense complications

    *** to ask me, after he caught up with us, what I’d said to him

    🤗

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon July 01, 2024 - 9:55 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/07/01/112713463211038510/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/07/01/112713463211038510/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  127. 🫱🏼‍🫲🏽 Hall of Justice Juror Group On Standby 601 🫱🏼‍🫲🏽

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon June 30, 2024 - 6:52 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/06/30/112707080729238515/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/06/30/112707080729238515/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  128. Https://www.worldchasetag.com/ WTC is on the TVs on the patio at the Yankee. I’ve never heard of it. Seems like one of the most pure of sports and the most lefty-spectacular. 🏃

    World Chase Tag® | HomeA website dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of the most played and popular activity in the world - Chase Tag®. Otherwise knows as 'it', 'you're it!' or 'Tig' (UK), 'Tag, you're it' (USA), Onigokko (Japan), Tikkertje (Netherlands), Lovitca (Croatia), Na honenou (Czech Republic) or Ostrakinda (Ancient Greece).worldchasetag.com
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon June 29, 2024 - 12:42 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/06/29/112697130588091842/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/06/29/112697130588091842/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  129. Recently returned from two weeks spent in NC, SC, and MD and if I hadn’t been at the beach, bay, or poolside every other day (and sure of imminent return to the bay) I would have a buzz cut right now

    full length mirror selfie, red/white-stripe high top vans, maroon levis corduroys, black/white thin-hoirzontal-striped shirt under a black jean jacket with ‘gravely’ embroidered in cursive above the the left pocket, nearly-shoulder length hair parted on my left, flipping up at the ends in a mess because I haven’t touched it in a long time
    Figure 1. full length mirror selfie, red/white-stripe high top vans, maroon levis corduroys, black/white thin-hoirzontal-striped shirt under a black jean jacket with ‘gravely’ embroidered in cursive above the the left pocket, nearly-shoulder length hair parted on my left, flipping up at the ends in a mess because I haven’t touched it in a long time.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon June 28, 2024 - 9:29 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/06/28/112696371678091310/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/06/28/112696371678091310/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  130. I love that Joe Esk is bird dogging Mark F.'s (hiss) listing on the ballot as a ”small business owner" ( https://missionlocal.org/2024/06/ballot-designation-marandidates-small-business-owner-superbooty/).

    I also noticed today that Mission Local’s excellent “Meet the Candidates” (e.g. https://missionlocal.org/2024/06/meet-district-5-candidates-week21-safe-consumption/ ) series puts “Job” at the top of the bio-list.

    Meet the District 5 candidates: Do you support safe-consumption sites?Two District 5 support safe-consumption sites. Others range from wanting drug-free options to compelled substance abuse treatment.Mission Local
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon June 25, 2024 - 11:17 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/06/25/112679810657631951/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/06/25/112679810657631951/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  131. Kinda funny how much this Gene Clark tune from 1967 sounds like it has Tom Verlaine circa 1977 on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjyO6DsYjEU&list=PLJQhzJ0-uTmYI6jNwU1tNSUl_Z4HmOY76&index=4

    Is Yours Is MineProvided to YouTube by SBCMGIs Yours Is Mine · Gene Clark · The Gosdin BrothersGene Clark With The Gosdin Brothers + bonus tracks℗ Originally Released 1966 S...YouTube
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon June 25, 2024 - 12:03 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/06/25/112674330187033293/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/06/25/112674330187033293/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  132. Chef’s travel tip: many folks out there in the wide wide western world consider little black dots on their food to be a delicacy

    to achieve this effect, find the little shaker container labeled “P” (why P? no one knows), tip it over, and shake vigorously over food to sight

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon June 24, 2024 - 3:55 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/06/24/112672408535862979/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/06/24/112672408535862979/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  133. Back east visiting. Took a walk and passed a bar that used to have live music where a band that was ok with young people sitting in had a weekly — a thing I tried exactly once. I sucked. The bar has been renamed and the bandstand is gone.

    I win.

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon June 18, 2024 - 8:18 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/06/18/112639471644342428/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/06/18/112639471644342428/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  134. Riding my bike over sideshow rubber elsewhere in the city from time to time: eh heheh hehe

    laying in bed at 3 last night listening to a side show that sounded like it was in our alley: 😦

    from a cab we had a 5:00AM alarm to catch: oh, lol, it pretty much was. Cesar Chavez and Valencia

    photo of an intersection covered in tire rubber left by cars and motorcycles doing donuts, taken from my cab on the way to the airport
    Figure 1. photo of an intersection covered in tire rubber left by cars and motorcycles doing donuts, taken from my cab on the way to the airport.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon June 09, 2024 - 12:14 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/06/09/112586605311339727/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/06/09/112586605311339727/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  135. Lovely bit of dark tower lore

    https://mastodon.art/@MichaelWhelan/112576076603050189

    Michael Whelan (@MichaelWhelan@mastodon.art)Attached: 2 images The over colored sky has a hallucinatory quality which is evocative of the dreamlike feeling of the story. I confess that I wore a similar robe for much of the time I was painting this scene. https://www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/gunslinger-man-in-black/ 2/2Mastodon.ART
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon June 07, 2024 - 3:44 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/06/07/112576106707643164/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/06/07/112576106707643164/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  136. Super neat paper

    https://hachyderm.io/@mononcqc/112552422086316478

    Fred Hebert (@mononcqc@hachyderm.io)New #paper notes: Morgan G. Ames' Charismatic Technology (https://www.morganya.org/research/Ames-charisma-aarhus.pdf) This one defines the concept of "charismatic technology"—Utopian sounding tech that is fundamentally conservative and over-promises in way that makes its deployment success unlikely. It is guided through the example of the OLPC program crossing themes like education and childhood then taking away attention from better solutions. Notes at https://ferd.ca/notes/paper-charismatic-technology.html & https://cohost.org/mononcqc/post/6244257-paper-charismatic-tHachyderm.io
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon June 03, 2024 - 2:08 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/06/03/112553080189786548/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/06/03/112553080189786548/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  137. 16th book of 2024: “You Like it Darker”, by Stephen King ( https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/201242757-you-like-it-darker)

    You Like It Darker“You like it darker? Fine, so do I,” writes Stephen Kin…Goodreads

    There are a few authors I simply pre-order without question—Jason Pargin, Kelly Link, Emily Wilson in the past year alone, but always King. I was going to save this for vacation in a few weeks but ended up with more time on my hands so it came off the pile.

    I particularly liked "The Answer Man”

    The hardback cover of “You Like it Darker” by Stephen King, as I read it. Author name over title in a pale yellow all-caps futura variant with a few pointed descenders and an interesting capital K specifically (more like a leaning V with a tail stollen from the letter Q?) over a photograph of an island with two palm trees in dark browns and blues.
    Figure 1. The hardback cover of “You Like it Darker” by Stephen King, as I read it. Author name over title in a pale yellow all-caps futura variant with a few pointed descenders and an interesting capital K specifically (more like a leaning V with a tail stollen from the letter Q?) over a photograph of an island with two palm trees in dark browns and blues..
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon May 31, 2024 - 3:30 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/05/31/112536416133337755/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/05/31/112536416133337755/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  138. 15th book of 2024: "White Cat Black Dog”, by Kelly Link.

    I particularly enjoyed the last one, “Skinder’s Veil”

    I’ve never actually read any actual Brothers Grimm, nor have I read (or even heard of) Lang’s “The Blue Fairy Book” which I just learned about in a review of these Link stories, so I think they have to both go on the pile.

    the paperback cover of “White Cat, Black Dog”, by Kelly Link, as I read it.The cover is an illustration of a broken open acorn. The half that faces the reader says STORIES on the inside and the half resting on its back has a small black dog sitting in it. Title above, author name below. “White Cat,” in black, and “Black Dog” in a sepia.NATIONAL BESTSELLER WHITE CAT,BLACK DOG "The master of the modern fairy tale." —TodayA short story sorceress. -The Washington Post"An expert illusionist. —The-New YorkerSTORIESKELLY LINKFINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE
    Figure 1. the paperback cover of “White Cat, Black Dog”, by Kelly Link, as I read it.The cover is an illustration of a broken open acorn. The half that faces the reader says STORIES on the inside and the half resting on its back has a small black dog sitting in it. Title above, author name below. “White Cat,” in black, and “Black Dog” in a sepia.NATIONAL BESTSELLER WHITE CAT,BLACK DOG "The master of the modern fairy tale." —TodayA short story sorceress. -The Washington Post"An expert illusionist. —The-New YorkerSTORIESKELLY LINKFINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon May 25, 2024 - 12:47 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/05/25/112498971705277433/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/05/25/112498971705277433/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  139. Junior’s TK teacher gave him a old craft mobile in a book from 1983 (when I was his age)

    a photograph of the book’s staple binding removed and the eight color printed card stock pages spread as four landscapes two by two over the fifth containing instructions, set on our our dining table in rows of two, two and one. I forgot to take a picture of the cover. Oops.the color pages contain shapes in primary colors, perforated so as to be punched out, and a map of how to assemble them into a mobile also visible are a few eames shell chairs in green, walnut, pink, and red,, a red cup of coffee, and a rubber plant in the corner
    Figure 1. a photograph of the book’s staple binding removed and the eight color printed card stock pages spread as four landscapes two by two over the fifth containing instructions, set on our our dining table in rows of two, two and one. I forgot to take a picture of the cover. Oops.the color pages contain shapes in primary colors, perforated so as to be punched out, and a map of how to assemble them into a mobile also visible are a few eames shell chairs in green, walnut, pink, and red,, a red cup of coffee, and a rubber plant in the corner.
    a photograph of the book’s staple binding removed and the eight color printed card stock pages spread as four landscapes two by two over the fifth containing instructions, set on our our dining table in rows of two, two and onethe color pages contain shapes in primary colors, perforated so as to be punched out, and a map of how to assemble them into a mobile.My kid, bottom right, is cutting out the strips that will make the hoop-top of the mobile, using safety sissorsalso visible are a few eames shell chairs in green, walnut, pink, and red,, a red cup of coffee, and a rubber plant in the corner
    Figure 2. a photograph of the book’s staple binding removed and the eight color printed card stock pages spread as four landscapes two by two over the fifth containing instructions, set on our our dining table in rows of two, two and onethe color pages contain shapes in primary colors, perforated so as to be punched out, and a map of how to assemble them into a mobile.My kid, bottom right, is cutting out the strips that will make the hoop-top of the mobile, using safety sissorsalso visible are a few eames shell chairs in green, walnut, pink, and red,, a red cup of coffee, and a rubber plant in the corner.
    a photograph of the book’s staple binding removed and the eight color printed card stock pages spread as four landscapes two by two over the fifth containing instructions, set on our our dining table in rows of two, two and one, now jumbled with supplies including clear tape, two staplers, a box of staples, a measuring tape, and a spool of butcher’s twina sonic the hedgehog toy now supervises from the center of the tablethe color pages contain shapes in primary colors, perforated so as to be punched out, and a map of how to assemble them into a mobilethe hoop is assembled, and my kid is pointing at the map of next steps also visible are a few eames shell chairs in green, walnut, pink, and red,, a red cup of coffee, and a rubber plant in the corner
    Figure 3. a photograph of the book’s staple binding removed and the eight color printed card stock pages spread as four landscapes two by two over the fifth containing instructions, set on our our dining table in rows of two, two and one, now jumbled with supplies including clear tape, two staplers, a box of staples, a measuring tape, and a spool of butcher’s twina sonic the hedgehog toy now supervises from the center of the tablethe color pages contain shapes in primary colors, perforated so as to be punched out, and a map of how to assemble them into a mobilethe hoop is assembled, and my kid is pointing at the map of next steps also visible are a few eames shell chairs in green, walnut, pink, and red,, a red cup of coffee, and a rubber plant in the corner.
    a photograph of the assembled mobile hanging over my kid’s bed. the wall behind the bed is a light blue, the ceiling and window trim are white
    Figure 4. a photograph of the assembled mobile hanging over my kid’s bed. the wall behind the bed is a light blue, the ceiling and window trim are white.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon May 20, 2024 - 1:07 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/05/20/112473568578178070/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/05/20/112473568578178070/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  140. Homer still holds up because he repeats this same narrative echo in the form of advice over and over:

    “Hey, lesser God, go and give that mortal these instructions.”

    “Sure thing. Hey, you! Zeus says, ‘instructions’ (verbatim).

    “Gee thanks. Hey, wife or friend or whatever, Zeus says ‘instructions’ (verbatim), what do you think?”

    “Damn, you better follow ‘instructions’ (verbatim).”

    Reader: You fool!

    “I’m no fool!” [disregards instructions, dies]*

    • except for Priam.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon May 17, 2024 - 4:37 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/05/17/112454573972749823/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/05/17/112454573972749823/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  141. 14th book of 2024: “The Iliad", by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson.

    I really enjoyed Wilson’s “Odyssey” and “Oedipus Tyrannos” translations and had hoped to get to this last fall when I put it on the to-read pile. Alas.

    I’ve never read any The Iliad before, and it does kinda go on a bit (really? that’s your thoughts on the Iliad? sure why not, is “it was good” better?).

    Wilson manages to sneak in some slapstick amid all the brutality.

    (previously: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/103030875431089669)

    gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image yo, that mist work in discord?Mastodon
    the hardback cover of The Iliad, by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson, as I read it, after pre-ordering it and letting it sit on the shelf for six months. The cover is going for a torn effect with the text below in black, red, and white capital serif over a gold painted wall with a tile motif along the bottom over a red band occupying half the cover on the right and bottom side, while under the torn paper or behind the crumbled wall is an illustration of a winged shirtless god holding something I’m sure I’m supposed to recognize but do notTranslated byEMILYWILSONTHEILIADHOMER
    Figure 1. the hardback cover of The Iliad, by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson, as I read it, after pre-ordering it and letting it sit on the shelf for six months. The cover is going for a torn effect with the text below in black, red, and white capital serif over a gold painted wall with a tile motif along the bottom over a red band occupying half the cover on the right and bottom side, while under the torn paper or behind the crumbled wall is an illustration of a winged shirtless god holding something I’m sure I’m supposed to recognize but do notTranslated byEMILYWILSONTHEILIADHOMER.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon May 17, 2024 - 4:21 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/05/17/112454514263887654/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/05/17/112454514263887654/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  142. RIP Alice Munro

    I’m a few stories into “Family Furnishings, Selected Stories 1995-2014”, the companion to “A Wilderness Station”, which I read a year ago, and expect to finish it before summer is out.

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon May 14, 2024 - 5:31 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/05/14/112440630402434626/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/05/14/112440630402434626/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  143. Muni fare enforcement at the inbound 27 / 12 stop on Cesar Chavez at Valencia

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon May 14, 2024 - 3:21 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/05/14/112440120354922862/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/05/14/112440120354922862/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  144. The cool sierpinski

    https://fedi.astrid.tech/objects/c59e6af6-bdf5-4d0c-907a-3d0bf3956e32

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon May 13, 2024 - 1:01 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/05/13/112431076146008656/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/05/13/112431076146008656/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  145. Ah, jeeze, this listener-supported streaming rock station doesn’t erase the rock music that came out between my junior year in high school when music “went to shit” and my junior year in college when I started listening to listener-support streaming stations and they weren’t playing “that new stuff”

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon May 08, 2024 - 8:42 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/05/08/112407407804617545/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/05/08/112407407804617545/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  146. The New York Trilogy was on the reading list for a Detective Fiction course I took in college (lovely course!) and, because it’s so great, I’m sure I don’t have that copy on my shelf anymore because I foisted it on someone with "you have to read this” after one of the re-readings I’d given it since then.

    RIP Paul Auster.

    Previously: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/111047297740981549

    gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)Telling a friend about 4, 3, 2, 1 over dinner, I said it was romantic and lovely, if you didn't mind new yorkers in love with new york, ellis island through the 60s, the anti-war movement, and all that shit we've heard so much about, which I did not mind. Later, while my kid was eating pizza and getting sauce two inches up both cheeks, I asked him to fold it in half and the guy at the next table who'd overheard me laughed and said "I'm from New York and it's really like all of that, you know”Mastodon
    photograph of the Paul Auster books on my shelf, which are mostly heavily sun-faded Penguin paperbacks with a few hardbacks intermingled, including:Oracle NightMr. VertigoMan in the DarkThe Invention of SolitudeIn the Country of Last ThingsLeviathanThe Music of ChanceinvisibleThe Book of IllusionsHand to Mouth4 3 2 1
    Figure 1. photograph of the Paul Auster books on my shelf, which are mostly heavily sun-faded Penguin paperbacks with a few hardbacks intermingled, including:Oracle NightMr. VertigoMan in the DarkThe Invention of SolitudeIn the Country of Last ThingsLeviathanThe Music of ChanceinvisibleThe Book of IllusionsHand to Mouth4 3 2 1.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon May 01, 2024 - 2:29 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/05/01/112366307034356997/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/05/01/112366307034356997/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  147. Bored, looking at property listings for decorating ideas while holding a Geiger counter modified to detect and measure the wrongness of refrigerator door hinge swing and handing pointed at the screen the entire time

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon April 29, 2024 - 1:30 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/04/29/112354748019496846/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/04/29/112354748019496846/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  148. One problem with giving your casual industry pals chat a name with all the series business labels* as a joke is that you end up posting your weekend plans all casual like to the actual serious business chat

    • ACP, FOUO, Confidential, SECRET, etc
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon April 28, 2024 - 7:22 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/04/28/112350471725548598/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/04/28/112350471725548598/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  149. Aside, while i’m mad-posting about cars

    in the fall when I started these walks I was able to make up for morning routine interruptions by ending my day with a walk instead.

    I had to knock that shit off after daylight savings because it is even unsafer than normal to be a pedestrian crossing streets as soon as the sun begins to set, and that just gets worse and worse hour over hour until the sun comes back up

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon April 27, 2024 - 4:52 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/04/27/112344218670755387/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/04/27/112344218670755387/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  150. I simultaneously A) dream about getting out of big business and opening a tiny pizza parlor and/or coffee shop as a worker owned business and B) have absolutely no respect for the “small business owner” class I would join doing so and don’t understand why anyone else does

    it seems like cartels all the way down?

    probably incredibly naive, making almost no attempt to map what I want to achievability, what I’d prefer is a municipalized neighborhood services plan where districts can establish their own priorities for rubber-stamp retail distribution so that I can open my pizza parlor as a city worker and union member (well, I’d be in management, so idk)

    implementation could box rent seekers out out by acquiring all the retail property in neighborhoods and then sprinkling planned retail back into them

    “Hi, welcome to the Munizza! How did you travel to our store today? Uh-huh? That’s great, and from about how far? Thanks so much, uh, what can I getchya?”

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon April 27, 2024 - 2:31 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/04/27/112343663249509115/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/04/27/112343663249509115/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  151. Heather k, please help

    our small business owners are being fattened on ice cream sugar cones, fudgesicles, rainbow sherbert pops, swirl lollys, and pastel mints and then gobbled up by witches whose houses are painted with those delicious treats and nobody is talking about it

    please amplify this for your audience at the new yawk times, thanks in advance

    —concerned in bernal

    photograph of the garage door of a pink stucco house with white trimthe garage door panels are white with illustrations of an ice cream sugar cone, a fudgesicle, a rainbow sherbert pop on the main panels, and swirl lollys, and pastel mints on along the smaller top panelssomeone tagged the fudgesicle kinda clumsily in white spraypaint but at least used a heart in it so that’s nice I guess
    Figure 1. photograph of the garage door of a pink stucco house with white trimthe garage door panels are white with illustrations of an ice cream sugar cone, a fudgesicle, a rainbow sherbert pop on the main panels, and swirl lollys, and pastel mints on along the smaller top panelssomeone tagged the fudgesicle kinda clumsily in white spraypaint but at least used a heart in it so that’s nice I guess.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon April 24, 2024 - 4:48 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/04/24/112327216636969711/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/04/24/112327216636969711/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  152. Injured my left lat and/or trap yesterday lifting weights doing this compound move incorrectly

    that’s right, i hurt myself shrugging

    a screenshot of fitbod.app video instructions for a compound deadlift move that ends in a shruga man in black shorts, a black shirt, black tennis shoes, and black socks holding dumbbells in both hands is paused mid-shrugunder the photo, the app describes this move:Demo & InstructionsDumbbell RomanianDeadlift to Shrug
    Figure 1. a screenshot of fitbod.app video instructions for a compound deadlift move that ends in a shruga man in black shorts, a black shirt, black tennis shoes, and black socks holding dumbbells in both hands is paused mid-shrugunder the photo, the app describes this move:Demo & InstructionsDumbbell RomanianDeadlift to Shrug.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon April 24, 2024 - 1:57 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/04/24/112326542713235507/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/04/24/112326542713235507/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  153. Kinda annoying (to me, of me, and of-me-to-me) to read a great story and think “ah dang this was originally published in so-and-such maybe I should just subscribe to that to see those stories as they come out” but it always ends up being the atlantic or the new yorker or some other nonsense I can’t tolerate reading.

    thanks for funding the arts, jerks!

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon April 24, 2024 - 2:55 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/04/24/112323942872687152/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/04/24/112323942872687152/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  154. 13th book of 2024: “Bliss Montage”, by Ling Ma ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60243188-bliss-montage").

    Bliss MontageA new creation by the author of Severance, the stories …Goodreads

    I forget why this got my attention but I will cop to the “by the author of Severance” blurb helping more than somewhat, not realizing that it’s a novel that predates the show by four years and is completely unrelated to it.

    What a lovely mistake! The stories were excellent and I will probably grab the novel too. Warning: maybe check the content before starting on the first two stories?

    the paperback cover of "Bliss Montage", by Ling Ma, a close up color photo of a clear plastic bag of oranges, so close only one full orange is visible while about 9 others are cropped in various ways and the size of the bag is not determined, while the title, authors name, and blurb are overlayed in all caps grotesque distorted as if it were printed on the clear plastic, to nice effect.BLISSMONTAGEStoriesLING MAAuthor ofSeverance
    Figure 1. the paperback cover of "Bliss Montage", by Ling Ma, a close up color photo of a clear plastic bag of oranges, so close only one full orange is visible while about 9 others are cropped in various ways and the size of the bag is not determined, while the title, authors name, and blurb are overlayed in all caps grotesque distorted as if it were printed on the clear plastic, to nice effect.BLISSMONTAGEStoriesLING MAAuthor ofSeverance.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon April 21, 2024 - 6:28 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/04/21/112310622617412932/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/04/21/112310622617412932/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  155. Saw Bill Frisell’s solo show last night in Berkeley and it was pretty trippy for me that he opened his 8PM set with You Are My Sunshine, which is the song my wife sings to our kid at his bed time, which is 8PM. it’s like I hadn’t left home.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBtjKTEHKUM his performance of it last night had a lot more skronk on it, but, this, generally

    Bill Frisell - "You Are My Sunshine" | Fretboard JournalBill Frisell performs "You Are My Sunshine" at the Fretboard Journal magazine HQ. On this track, Bill is playing his heavily modified Fender Telecaster with ...YouTube
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon April 19, 2024 - 3:54 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/04/19/112298694460907379/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/04/19/112298694460907379/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  156. Https://web.archive.org/web/20240413115023/http://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/sf-traffic-ticket-decline-data-19383950.php

    Charts reveal stunning trend in S.F. traffic tickets — and point to huge challenge for citySan Francisco has seen a decade-long drop in traffic citations, a trend that police have vowed to reverse. A Chronicle analysis shows the drop in detail.San Francisco Chronicle

    doomed

    infrastructure cannot be corrected by process controls

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon April 16, 2024 - 2:41 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/04/16/112281417927596446/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/04/16/112281417927596446/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  157. I’ve never used a modal single-letter keyboard command in Slack on purpose.

    Screenshot of the context menu for a message in slack scrollback detailing all the mistakes you can make if you put Slack the message-in-scrollback mode, specifically consisting of these accidents:Mark unread URemind me about this > Forward message... FCopy link LPin to channel PStart a huddle in thread...Edit message E
    Figure 1. Screenshot of the context menu for a message in slack scrollback detailing all the mistakes you can make if you put Slack the message-in-scrollback mode, specifically consisting of these accidents:Mark unread URemind me about this > Forward message... FCopy link LPin to channel PStart a huddle in thread...Edit message E.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon April 15, 2024 - 7:24 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/04/15/112276869709821957/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/04/15/112276869709821957/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  158. Gravely googling: reliable source of pearl onions in sf fresh or frozen

    it’s only coq au vin, small shallots will do

    mise for coq au vin: a cutting board with diced carrots on top of a board scraper, quartered mushrooms, smashed garlic, peeled shallots, minced parsley, and diced potatoes (for a side). left to right behind the board: a few cups of broth with gelatin in a measuring cup, a peeler, a bottle of red wine, a compost container, ands a chef knife
    Figure 1. mise for coq au vin: a cutting board with diced carrots on top of a board scraper, quartered mushrooms, smashed garlic, peeled shallots, minced parsley, and diced potatoes (for a side). left to right behind the board: a few cups of broth with gelatin in a measuring cup, a peeler, a bottle of red wine, a compost container, ands a chef knife.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon April 13, 2024 - 2:06 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/04/13/112264294393665142/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/04/13/112264294393665142/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  159. Pave, Pave, PAVE.

    https://alt.pavethe.earth

    alt.pave.the.earth faqalt.pavethe.earth
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon April 11, 2024 - 2:27 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/04/11/112253054030262504/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/04/11/112253054030262504/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  160. 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.

    Magic for Beginners - Kelly LinkRandom House re-released Magic for Beginners with a newly designed cover and an added conversation between Joe Hill and Kelly Link. Perfect for readers of George Saunders, Karen Russell, Neil Gaiman, and Aimee Bender, Magic for Beginners is an exquisite, dreamlike dispatch from a virtuoso storyteller who can do seemingly anything. Kelly Link reconstructs modern […]Kelly Link

    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.”
    Figure 1. 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.”.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon April 11, 2024 - 12:28 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/04/11/112249752136235849/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/04/11/112249752136235849/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  161. 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
    Figure 1. photo of a Sequoia grove to me east, the rising sun above, blue skies behind.

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

    The Hortlak - Kelly LinkEric was night, and batu was day. The girl, Charley, was the moon. Every night, she drove past the All-Night in her long, noisy, green Chevy, a dog hanging out the passenger window. It wasn’t ever the same dog, although they all had the same blissful expression. They were doomed, but they didn’t know it. […]Kelly Link

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

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

    me: 🙄 yes

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon April 09, 2024 - 5:28 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/04/09/112242440691555636/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/04/09/112242440691555636/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  162. 🚶🏽‍♂️ 🚶🏽‍♂️ 🚶🏽‍♂️

    🏁 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.
    Figure 1. 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..
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon April 08, 2024 - 7:57 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/04/08/112237364935529933/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/04/08/112237364935529933/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  163. 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,
    Figure 1. 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,.

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

    TrustAlternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593420317. An unpa…Goodreads

    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.
    Figure 2. The paperback cover of "Trust", by Hernan Diaz, as i read it, except my copy as the pulitzer prize winner seal on it..
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon April 07, 2024 - 7:15 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/04/07/112231536310932156/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/04/07/112231536310932156/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  164. 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.

    MoomMove, zoom, and snap windows. Arrange windows in layouts. Auto-adjust to display setups.Many Tricks

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

    MoomMove, zoom, and snap windows. Arrange windows in layouts. Auto-adjust to display setups.Many Tricks
    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.
    Figure 1. 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
    Figure 2. 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.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon April 07, 2024 - 2:10 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/04/07/112230338206448244/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/04/07/112230338206448244/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  165. 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”
    Figure 1. wide angle photograph looking up hill at the huge ‘L’ from “INDUSTRIAL”.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon April 06, 2024 - 10:08 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/04/06/112226554425787613/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/04/06/112226554425787613/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  166. 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

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon April 03, 2024 - 8:07 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/04/03/112209090680360713/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/04/03/112209090680360713/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  167. In gmail on web with the preview pane enabled for a sorted mailbox:

    archiving the first (top) message causes gmail to select the message below the archived message

    archiving any non-top messages that aren’t the ultimate (bottom) message causes gmail to select the message above the archived message

    archiving the ultimate (bottom) message causes gmail to select the message above the message above the archived message.

    🤷🏻‍♂️

    i just wanna inbox-zero from the oldest message, folks, is that so bad [I get hit in the chest w/ a tomato thrown from the audience] no, not that one, the one below it [a shoe flies by, the entire crowd is hissing and booing, an anvil drops from the stage lights and crashes to the floor just to my left] see if I press ‘y’ google is all ’n’ and imo that’s [a giant hook enters from stage right] a huge ‘L’ [the house lights come up, a google bus crashes into the venue, workers start pouring ou—

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon April 02, 2024 - 5:53 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/04/02/112202903015867309/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/04/02/112202903015867309/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  168. Wanted to read Chekhov but wasn’t sure what translation to look for, learned that Nabokov had a dislike for Constance Garnett, remembered that Nabokov was also on my todo list, started Pnin, and right away, he’s doing the moves, dumping on Garnett 🤗

    photograph of page sixty-something of "Pnin" not Nabokovit reads:He tried habitats of another type: rooms for rent in private houses which, although differing from each other in many respects (not all, for instance, were clapboard ones; a few were stucco, or at least partly stucco), had one generic characteristic in common: in their parlor or stair-landing bookcases Hendrik Willem van Loon and Dr. Cronin were inevitably present; they might be separated by a flock of magazines, or by some glazed and buxom historical romance, or even by Mrs.Garnett impersonating somebody (and in such houses there would be sure to hang somewhere a Toulouse-Lautrec poster), but you found the pair without fail, exchanging looks of tender recognition, like two old friends at a crowded party.
    Figure 1. photograph of page sixty-something of "Pnin" not Nabokovit reads:He tried habitats of another type: rooms for rent in private houses which, although differing from each other in many respects (not all, for instance, were clapboard ones; a few were stucco, or at least partly stucco), had one generic characteristic in common: in their parlor or stair-landing bookcases Hendrik Willem van Loon and Dr. Cronin were inevitably present; they might be separated by a flock of magazines, or by some glazed and buxom historical romance, or even by Mrs.Garnett impersonating somebody (and in such houses there would be sure to hang somewhere a Toulouse-Lautrec poster), but you found the pair without fail, exchanging looks of tender recognition, like two old friends at a crowded party..
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon March 31, 2024 - 8:50 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/03/31/112192273187022060/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/03/31/112192273187022060/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  169. I’m constantly flip flopping things in my imagination and honestly it’s kinda intrusive and annoying but also some people clearly do not and cannot and it’s so weird imaging their world

    the typical stuff:

    looking at a young person and imagining them older, even much older

    seeing an old person and reminding myself that they were once my age, once in high school, or elementary school

    gender presentation alternates

    etc

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon March 30, 2024 - 12:47 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/03/30/112181881104101019/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/03/30/112181881104101019/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  170. I still spin my phone the same way I did twenty years ago with my thumb on my blackberry’s thumb wheel and middle finger on the back of the phone

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon March 29, 2024 - 4:51 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/03/29/112180007904786645/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/03/29/112180007904786645/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  171. Shameful-bystander-“they oughta”-comment

    using (protest) signs to shame a (shameless) mayor in a major U.S. city about traffic infrastructure when (ineffective) signs are their preferred compromise, for the same reasons, even (they are cheap, easy to put up quickly), sure is something

    important follow up disclaimer: signs are but a small part of activism, one person’s shame and action is not the actual sole or specific expected result, there is almost always a larger strategy, there isn’t a “right way” to protest, etc

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon March 29, 2024 - 2:49 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/03/29/112179529082443826/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/03/29/112179529082443826/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  172. Feeling pretty isolated and lonely this evening, so much that socials are downright off-putting, I can’t get into the book I’m reading, and there’s nothing to watch that is appealing at all. oh, I do have an American Master’s to finish, let’s see

    https://www.pbs.org/video/hopper-an-american-love-story-faeahk/

    American Masters | HOPPER: An American love story | Season 38Discover the secrets behind Edward Hopper’s most iconic and enigmatic works.pbs.org

    ah, christ, this guy!?

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon March 28, 2024 - 4:26 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/03/28/112171417745707256/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/03/28/112171417745707256/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  173. I forgot to check on this last night! Phew, we remain on standby.

    F

    screenshot from https://sf.courts.ca.gov/divisions/jury-services/jury-reporting-instructionsGroup Numbers: 606, 611, 616, 618 and 624Please report in person on the following date, time and location:Date: Friday, March 29, 2024
    Figure 1. screenshot from https://sf.courts.ca.gov/divisions/jury-services/jury-reporting-instructionsGroup Numbers: 606, 611, 616, 618 and 624Please report in person on the following date, time and location:Date: Friday, March 29, 2024.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon March 27, 2024 - 3:57 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/03/27/112168473221722482/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/03/27/112168473221722482/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  174. 🫱🏼‍🫲🏽 Hall of Justice Juror Group On Standby 611 🫱🏼‍🫲🏽

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon March 25, 2024 - 2:52 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/03/25/112154060611085258/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/03/25/112154060611085258/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  175. 🌈

    a cropped and oversaturated photograph out of a window of a rainbow over the mission in san francisco.
    Figure 1. a cropped and oversaturated photograph out of a window of a rainbow over the mission in san francisco..
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon March 24, 2024 - 12:24 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/03/24/112147814419652273/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/03/24/112147814419652273/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  176. Ninth book of 2024 (is counting like this annoying? idk, it’s all one mutable thread, so, whatever): “Get in Trouble", by Kelly Link ( https://kellylink.net/books/get-in-trouble).

    Get in Trouble - Kelly LinkPaperback edition: February 9, 2016 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Fiction “A collection of short stories in which a writer with a fertile and often fabulist imagination explores inner lies and odd corners of reality.” Indies Choice Book of the Year Finalist Time Magazine Top 10 Fiction of 2015 · NPR 2015 Great Reads · Slate […]Kelly Link

    More great stories, some of which, but fewer than those in “Stranger Things Happen” would fit right in with those collected in “Black Water” ( https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110403938932091902) and “Black Water 2” ( https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110899731695137550).

    gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)Attached: 2 images twelfth book of '23 for me, "Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature” (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53080.Black_Water I started a Bookwyrm and posted there too but, alas no one there has reviewed it yet), edited by Alberto Manguel. 72 fantastic stories in a door stop of a paper back (at least that's how I read it), each one with a contextual introduction, and organized into themes. I'm now looking forward to starting the second one Manguel collected, Black Water 2. Previously: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/109372394967950916Mastodongravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image 16: “Black Water 2, More Tales of the Fantastic” loved it, full of surprises and delights from authors I've never heard of and authors most have — Arthur Conan Doyle, F Scott Fitzgerald, E B White, Joseph Conrad, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Margret Atwood, George Bernard Shaw , Arthur C Lark) — and stories too , like Melville's Bartleby. "The Complete Gentleman” turned me onto Amos Tutuola, who I'm now reading in full. And a story from Isabell Allende?! Nice. previously: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110403938932091902Mastodon
    the trade paperback cover of “Get in Trouble”, by Kelly Link, as I read it.An painted illustration of a small farm house in a clearing in a wood; a woman in a red shirt and jeans approaches the house up the front walk while two foxes approach from the left in front of a healthy fruit tree, the dead and leafless mirror of which is on the right. The entire illustration is upside down and the title, painted in call capital white handwriting over the sky is surrounded by and set on by black birds.
    Figure 1. the trade paperback cover of “Get in Trouble”, by Kelly Link, as I read it.An painted illustration of a small farm house in a clearing in a wood; a woman in a red shirt and jeans approaches the house up the front walk while two foxes approach from the left in front of a healthy fruit tree, the dead and leafless mirror of which is on the right. The entire illustration is upside down and the title, painted in call capital white handwriting over the sky is surrounded by and set on by black birds..
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon March 24, 2024 - 12:05 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/03/24/112147741477243985/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/03/24/112147741477243985/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  177. Seventh book of 2024: “Titanium Noir", by Nick Harkaway ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62052321-titanium-noir). What it says on the tin and knows it. Spoonfuls of chewy metaphors.

    Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandl…Goodreads
    cover of “Titanium Noir”, by Nick Harkaway, as I read it, hardback (which is black). Black block stencil TITANIUM along the top over a black stencil fedora containing a shiny metallic head, dripping onto more black stencil NOIR over a brilliant green field. The authors name and other blurb elements including a quote from William Gibson are in a monospace console font.
    Figure 1. cover of “Titanium Noir”, by Nick Harkaway, as I read it, hardback (which is black). Black block stencil TITANIUM along the top over a black stencil fedora containing a shiny metallic head, dripping onto more black stencil NOIR over a brilliant green field. The authors name and other blurb elements including a quote from William Gibson are in a monospace console font..

    eighth book of 2024: “Stranger Things Happen", by Kelly Link ( https://kellylink.net/books/stranger-things-happen-old).

    Stranger Things Happen - Kelly Link“Pity the poor librarians who have to slap a sticker on Kelly Link’s genre-bending, mind-blowing masterpiece of the imagination, Stranger Things Happen.” —Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia, for NPR’s You Must Read This This first collection by award-winning author Kelly Link, takes fairy tales and cautionary tales, dictators and extraterrestrials, amnesiacs and honeymooners, revenants and […]Kelly Link

    So good, I’m grabbing another collection of Link’s, "Get in Trouble”, immediately.

    the paperback cover of “stranger things happen”, by Kelly Link, as I read it. A mid-century lookin’ color illustration of a blonde woman in a blue blouse, tan skirt, and black heels carries a flashlight through a dark wood.
    Figure 2. the paperback cover of “stranger things happen”, by Kelly Link, as I read it. A mid-century lookin’ color illustration of a blonde woman in a blue blouse, tan skirt, and black heels carries a flashlight through a dark wood..
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon March 16, 2024 - 10:59 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/03/16/112107846021665865/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/03/16/112107846021665865/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  178. This coat is reversible and I’ve been liking it both right-side-out and inside-out so the collar is permanently in cooler-than-me casual rebellion

    iphone selfie of me in our wall length mirror by the front door in a pink and blue flannel lined jacket over a sneppy t-shirt (fake snoopy), jeans, pride rainbow / white hi-top vans, in front of a joan cornella booty-poop print on the wall. there’s a huge red wall calendar for march taped to the door and an eames color-ball coat rack full of coats and masks next to me
    Figure 1. iphone selfie of me in our wall length mirror by the front door in a pink and blue flannel lined jacket over a sneppy t-shirt (fake snoopy), jeans, pride rainbow / white hi-top vans, in front of a joan cornella booty-poop print on the wall. there’s a huge red wall calendar for march taped to the door and an eames color-ball coat rack full of coats and masks next to me.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon March 13, 2024 - 2:43 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/03/13/112088906799371151/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/03/13/112088906799371151/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  179. I love views of downtown as I enter the city afar, and from hilltops and rooftops in the neighborhoods. But I always also imagine the following dialog with myself:

    "Wow, hard to believe people built all that over there”

    "Yeah, pretty neat! Do you want to go there? Maybe into one of those cool buildings?”

    “Nope.”

    “Do the people who live there like it?

    "Nobody lives there.”

    “OK, but at least the buildings are used to good stuff? Right?"

    “No, not really.”

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon March 08, 2024 - 6:07 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/03/08/112061399817796863/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/03/08/112061399817796863/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  180. Laying in bed “watching tv” on my laptop, but about to close it and go to sleep. it is 8:50PM.

    Screen grab of Antiques Roadshow in Plex. A guest on the right in a yellow polo shirt and a tan derby hat is talking with his hands about how he acquired the antique he has brought for appraisal. The roadshow staff, in a vertical stripe polo shirt listens attentively. Between them, propped on a table, is three drawings mounted on a blue felt board. top center: the color pen and watercolor on paper of the original sofa background from the first season of Beavis and Butthead. Below left, a pen and paper drawing of Butthead. Below right, a pen and paper drawing of Beavis.The appraiser estimates the sofa to be $1,000, auction price, and the two drawings that are not colored to be $1,000 together, or $500 a piece.
    Figure 1. Screen grab of Antiques Roadshow in Plex. A guest on the right in a yellow polo shirt and a tan derby hat is talking with his hands about how he acquired the antique he has brought for appraisal. The roadshow staff, in a vertical stripe polo shirt listens attentively. Between them, propped on a table, is three drawings mounted on a blue felt board. top center: the color pen and watercolor on paper of the original sofa background from the first season of Beavis and Butthead. Below left, a pen and paper drawing of Butthead. Below right, a pen and paper drawing of Beavis.The appraiser estimates the sofa to be $1,000, auction price, and the two drawings that are not colored to be $1,000 together, or $500 a piece..
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon March 07, 2024 - 2:35 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/03/07/112054901515078201/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/03/07/112054901515078201/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  181. 🏁 what I’m considering Mission Dolores, Castro, and Eureka Valley, bound by Market, Valencia, and 20th.

    Glen Park next for real this time, I think. Or Potrero Hill. Maybe both.

    A San Francisco street map centering the area bound by 101, 280, and Market, on which every street has 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, and Eureka Valley. (I think of the Castro north of market as Corona Heights or Duboce Triangle).Along the way this time I filled in lots of alleys I had skipped in Noe Valley because walking on Valencia is getting pretty tedious (and I’ve lived on or a block off of it for 14 years).
    Figure 1. A San Francisco street map centering the area bound by 101, 280, and Market, on which every street has 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, and Eureka Valley. (I think of the Castro north of market as Corona Heights or Duboce Triangle).Along the way this time I filled in lots of alleys I had skipped in Noe Valley because walking on Valencia is getting pretty tedious (and I’ve lived on or a block off of it for 14 years)..
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon March 03, 2024 - 8:24 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/03/03/112033625093612349/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/03/03/112033625093612349/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  182. Just learned that I’m supposed to have an ascending-horn-punctuated introduction of my achievements and a. k. a.s, fml https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3hnm4Shybg

    Introduction By Fats Gonder/ Opening Fanfare (Live At The Apollo Theater, 1962)Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupIntroduction By Fats Gonder/ Opening Fanfare (Live At The Apollo Theater, 1962) · James BrownJames Brown Live At ...YouTube
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon February 29, 2024 - 9:30 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/02/29/112016897446343899/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/02/29/112016897446343899/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  183. It’s still fun to be surprised my own browser word replacement filters. I’ve got half a dozen going right now, loving it.

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon February 27, 2024 - 3:47 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/02/27/112001392877844540/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/02/27/112001392877844540/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  184. Another nice day to try SFMTA recommended bike routes ( https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/pdf_map/2021/06/sfmta_recommendedbikeroutes_0.pdf), so this time I went southeast: Chavez to Illinois to Cargo, side-quest out Heron’s Head Park and Hunter’s Point, back on the route to Mendel, Palou, Keith, Carrol, out to Candlestick Point, reverse back to Jenning, Paul, Bayshore, and Chavez home.

    Lovely!

    picture of the SFMTA pdf of recommended routes of the southeast corner of San Francisco
    Figure 1. picture of the SFMTA pdf of recommended routes of the southeast corner of San Francisco.

    hiked Bayview hill yesterday, today was very much a “I want to go down there” result

    photograph, view south from the top of bayview hill to oyster point and SFO Airport
    Figure 2. photograph, view south from the top of bayview hill to oyster point and SFO Airport.
    photograph of the parking lot for the now demolished Candlestick Park stadium from the Bayview Hill Trail
    Figure 3. photograph of the parking lot for the now demolished Candlestick Park stadium from the Bayview Hill Trail.
    Photograph of San Francisco from the initial climb of the Bayview Hill trail
    Figure 4. Photograph of San Francisco from the initial climb of the Bayview Hill trail.
    Photograph of Bayview Hill, reversing the second in the series, above from the parking lot of Candlestick Park. Most the actual lot and “Hunter’s Point Expressway” around the hill at this point are just a fenced off lake and are inaccessible.
    Figure 5. Photograph of Bayview Hill, reversing the second in the series, above from the parking lot of Candlestick Park. Most the actual lot and “Hunter’s Point Expressway” around the hill at this point are just a fenced off lake and are inaccessible..
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon February 25, 2024 - 10:56 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/02/25/111994588712008098/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/02/25/111994588712008098/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  185. Sixth book of 2024: “How Infrastructure Works: Inside the systems that shape our world.”, by Deb Chachra ( https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/612711/how-infrastructure-works-by-deb-chachra/).

    How Infrastructure Works by Deb Chachra: 9780593086599 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: BooksNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "Revelatory, superbly written, and pulsing with wisdom and humanity, How Infrastructure Works is a masterpiece.” —Ed Yong, author of...PenguinRandomhouse.com

    I feel like more than a few people I follow posted about this over the past year so I eventually followed suit. More memoir (again!) than I’m normally into but just enough history, novelty, and new-to-me theory to be pretty good after all.

    The hardback cover of “How Infrastructure Works: Inside the systems that shape our world.”, by Deb Chachra, as I read it. White Helvetica-lookin’ title, subtitle, and author name in equal large sizes and weights over black asphalt spray painted with circles and arrows in orange, pink, and yellow. That infrastructure / utility workers paint the ground in specific colors in the U.S. is actually detailed in the book, so this is one of those rare cases where the cover artist read the book and wasn’t overruled by the publisher to do some other stupid thing instead. Huzzah!
    Figure 1. The hardback cover of “How Infrastructure Works: Inside the systems that shape our world.”, by Deb Chachra, as I read it. White Helvetica-lookin’ title, subtitle, and author name in equal large sizes and weights over black asphalt spray painted with circles and arrows in orange, pink, and yellow. That infrastructure / utility workers paint the ground in specific colors in the U.S. is actually detailed in the book, so this is one of those rare cases where the cover artist read the book and wasn’t overruled by the publisher to do some other stupid thing instead. Huzzah!.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon February 20, 2024 - 3:44 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/02/20/111961745828233019/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/02/20/111961745828233019/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  186. This is a qt of https://social.lol/@spotlightonpod/111952783201740255

    so after reading this I thought of a monthly “new artists” CD mailer subscription I had in the late 90s that I coulda swore had a Marley track one month, which is weird, right?

    so I checked my Plex for Marley, picked Catch a Fire, saw “Midnight Ravers”, which was the chorus I was thinking of, but not it.

    ddg for a remix and found it: Bill Laswell’s “Dreams Of Freedom (Ambient Translations Of Bob Marley In Dub)”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8sDYYwu2t8

    Midnight Ravers (Bill Laswell Remix)Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupMidnight Ravers (Bill Laswell Remix) · Bob Marley & The WailersDreams Of Freedom℗ 1997 The Island Def Jam Music G...YouTube

    neato.

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon February 18, 2024 - 2:13 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/02/18/111952893696037729/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/02/18/111952893696037729/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  187. Learning from 500songs.com ( https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-116-where-did-our-love-go-by-the-supremes/ ) that the Supremes were called “the no hit supremes” within Motown and made to do stuff like “The Rock and Roll Banjo Band” until Holland, Dozier, and Holland had a say in matters, smdh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJer8U5WtWk

    Episode 116: “Where Did Our Love Go?” by The SupremesEpisode one hundred and sixteen of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Where Did Our Love Go?” by the Supremes, and how the “no-hit Supremes” became the …A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs(The Man With The) Rock And Roll Banjo BandProvided to YouTube by Universal Music Group(The Man With The) Rock And Roll Banjo Band · The Supremes50th Anniversary: The Singles Collection 1961-1969℗ 196...YouTube
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon February 14, 2024 - 9:12 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/02/14/111931893352844720/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/02/14/111931893352844720/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  188. 🏁 what I’m considering the inner mission, bound by 101, Cesar Chaves, and Valencia

    A San Francisco street map centering the area bound by 101, Ceasar Chavez, and Valencia, on which every street has a meandering purple GPS path I’ve logged on it. (I tried to walk Erie St a few times but it’s been under construction each time.)
    Figure 1. A San Francisco street map centering the area bound by 101, Ceasar Chavez, and Valencia, on which every street has a meandering purple GPS path I’ve logged on it. (I tried to walk Erie St a few times but it’s been under construction each time.).
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon February 14, 2024 - 5:30 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/02/14/111931020126463242/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/02/14/111931020126463242/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  189. Fifth book of 2024: “A Wizard of Earthsea”, by Ursula K. Le Guin ( https://www.ursulakleguin.com/a-wizard-of-earthsea).

    Ursula K. Le Guin — A Wizard of EarthseaUrsula K. Le Guin

    After enjoying every single story in the “Hainish Novels and Stories ( https://www.ursulakleguin.com/hainish-novels-and-stories), I figured I can’t go wrong tackling Earthsea for the first time by just reading all of them in the similar “The Books of Earthsea" ( https://www.ursulakleguin.com/the-books-of-earthsea).

    Ursula K. Le Guin — Hainish Novels and StoriesUrsula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin — The Books of EarthseaUrsula K. Le Guin
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon February 12, 2024 - 5:09 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/02/12/111916780149970310/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/02/12/111916780149970310/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  190. 🚶🏽‍♂️ 🚶🏽‍♂️ 🚶🏽‍♂️ 🚶🏽‍♂️ 🚶🏽‍♂️ 🚶🏽‍♂️ 🚶🏽‍♂️ 🚶🏽‍♂️ 🚶🏽‍♂️ 🚶🏽‍♂️

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon February 08, 2024 - 9:09 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/02/08/111897905765375818/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/02/08/111897905765375818/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  191. One tell that this is good is that I immediately shazam’d it off of NTS’s “Expansions” mix ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmpgnzoFwNQ, which I now assume is named after the track (or suite) of the same name after this one on record), paused the mix and listened to it again, and then the everloving wife stormed over and asked when my music changed from good to bad and shut my door.

    Black Mystery Has Been RevealedProvided to YouTube by Rhino AtlanticBlack Mystery Has Been Revealed · Rahsaan Roland KirkLeft & Right℗ 1968 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United St...YouTube

    Rahsaan Roland Kirk, “Black Mystery Has Been Revealed”, from “left & right”, 1968 ( https://www.allmusic.com/album/left-right-mw0000661555)

    Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Left & R... Tracks & Reviews | AllMusicLeft & Right by Rahsaan Roland Kirk released in 1968. Find Left & Right reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.AllMusic

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmpgnzoFwNQ

    Black Mystery Has Been RevealedProvided to YouTube by Rhino AtlanticBlack Mystery Has Been Revealed · Rahsaan Roland KirkLeft & Right℗ 1968 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United St...YouTube
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon February 07, 2024 - 5:47 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/02/07/111891450141536608/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/02/07/111891450141536608/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  192. 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!
    Figure 1. 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!.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon February 05, 2024 - 6:55 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/02/05/111880393554023398/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/02/05/111880393554023398/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  193. 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).

    MismatchSometimes designed objects reject their users: a computer mouse that doesn't work for left-handed people, for example, or a touchscreen payment system that o...MIT PressMismatch: How Inclusion Shapes DesignHow inclusive methods can build elegant design solution…Goodreads

    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.
    Figure 1. 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..
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon February 04, 2024 - 5:32 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/02/04/111874405993940842/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/02/04/111874405993940842/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  194. 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
    Figure 1. 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
    Figure 2. 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.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon February 03, 2024 - 6:12 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/02/03/111868898695458760/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/02/03/111868898695458760/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  195. Jiggled!

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon February 02, 2024 - 9:34 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/02/02/111864030950473402/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/02/02/111864030950473402/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  196. 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.

    Episode 76: “Stagger Lee” by Lloyd PriceEpisode seventy-six of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Stagger Lee” by Lloyd Price, and how a barroom fight 125 years ago led to a song performed by ev…A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs

    “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/

    500 Songs Supplemental -- Stagger LeeA mixcloud playlist of the songs excerpted in episode seventy-six of my podcast "A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs". To hear that podcast, visit 500songs.com. This episode is on the song "Stagger Lee", by Lloyd Price, and also features Duke Ellington, Nick Cave, Neil Diamond, Mississippi John Hurt, Ma Rainey, and more.Mixcloud
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon February 02, 2024 - 3:16 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/02/02/111862545300703663/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/02/02/111862545300703663/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

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

    Sound ManA memoir of a remarkable rock-and-roll career from Glyn…Goodreads

    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.

    - YouTubeEnjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.youtube.comA History of Rock Music in 500 SongsA History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
    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).
    Figure 1. 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)..

    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/).

    Edward Bryant - The Nebula Awards®The Nebula Awards®

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

    gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image not my goofy ass sitting on a log reading Italo Calvino's "The Argentine Ant" only to discover by feel that I am sitting on a damned ant hill as they crawl up my back under my shirt 😬🤣 (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6752551)Mastodon
    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.
    Figure 2. 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..
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon February 01, 2024 - 4:17 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/02/01/111854292375049358/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/02/01/111854292375049358/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

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

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon January 30, 2024 - 4:02 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/01/30/111845738686561494/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/01/30/111845738686561494/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  199. Got this lovely new-to-me @paulrickards http://shop.paulrickards.com/large-plots/ large plot “20191020055321” back from the frame shop.

    Large Plots - Shop @paulrickardsAdditional large plots available in the Carousel CMY Gallery. Plot 20260423075014 24″x36″ watercolor, $500 Plot 20260422151124 24″x36″ watercolor, $500 Plot 20240904154425 24″x36″ watercolor, $500 Plot 20250203032040 CMYK Truchet Tile Rug 24″x36″ watercolor, $500 Plot 20240904054940 CMYK Truchet Tiles 24″ x 36″ watercolor, $500 Plot 20260321114617 CMYK Halftone Roses 24″ x 36″ watercolor, $500 Plot 20221209031748 … Continue reading "Large Plots"Shop @paulrickards

    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
    Figure 1. 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
    Figure 2. plot detail in purple, pink, green, yellow.
    for additional framed plots laying on a counter
    Figure 3. for additional framed plots laying on a counter.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon January 29, 2024 - 6:04 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/01/29/111840558837046251/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/01/29/111840558837046251/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  200. 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

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon January 29, 2024 - 5:54 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/01/29/111840519014331843/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/01/29/111840519014331843/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  201. 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
    Figure 1. 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
    Figure 2. 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.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon January 29, 2024 - 1:36 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/01/29/111836672342638326/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/01/29/111836672342638326/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  202. 🏁 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.
    Figure 1. 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..
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon January 15, 2024 - 9:29 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/01/15/111762091731715616/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/01/15/111762091731715616/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  203. Https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/

    The Untold Story of SQLiteOn today's show, I'm talking to Richard Hipp about surviving becoming core infrastructure for the world. SQLite is everywhere. It's in your web browser, it's in your phone, it's probably in your car, and it's definitely in commercial planes. It's where your iMessages and WhatsApp messages are stored, and if you do a find on your computer for *.db, you'll be amazed at how many SQLite databases you find. Today, Richard is going to share his story. It's the story of creating a small open source project and having it grow beyond your wildest ambitions. It's the story of following that success wherever it leads: From relationships with tech-giants to interesting testing procedures and more. corecursive.com

    I’m going to write my own mail server.

    All right.

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon January 14, 2024 - 3:27 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/01/14/111755005082105576/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/01/14/111755005082105576/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  204. 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
    Figure 1. photo of cutting board with shallot, garlic, thai peppers, green pepper, and basil, bottles of sauce lined up to the rear.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon January 05, 2024 - 3:00 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/01/05/111701106621651158/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/01/05/111701106621651158/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  205. First book of 2024: Ellen Ullman, "Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents” ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/486625/questions).

    Close to the Machine — Reader Q&AAsk Goodreads members about Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents.goodreads.com

    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

    gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image first book of the year down, (I think via @leigh@ottawa.place somewhere?): "Axiomatic," a collection of Greg Egan's short stories that appeared in various science fiction magazines (mostly Interzone and Asimov's) between 1989 and 1992. Great late 80s hard SF shorts I don't do star reviews, but, folks, they're good stories https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156783.Axiomatic aside: a characters is mentioned to have received their advanced degree in 2023, which I'm sure felt reasonably far out at the time.Mastodon

    Why I post these: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110011601484725615

    gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image Aside: I mostly chose what to read when someone else who I specifically think is cool (even if I don't know them or w/e) says or posts that they like something and it has almost never let me down. This one, for example, I picked up in December: https://twitter.com/ImJuneFacts/status/1606339706811097088Mastodon
    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.
    Figure 1. 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..
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon January 01, 2024 - 4:01 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/01/01/111681527425154217/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/01/01/111681527425154217/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.
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