O/ to the product manager or whoever is responsible for apple’s “Reactions” menubar feature inventing or using a new and immature notification flow to tell me when my browser turns the feature off, we see you and appreciate you
Figure 1. photograph of our credenza in the morning sun, left to right, ficus,, prayer plant, orchid, prayer plant, rubber tree.an abstract expressionist acrylic triptic in bright colors is in the wall above.Figure 2. photograph of the first orchid to bloom since we got this darn thing, it's mostly white with some yellow highlights inside.Figure 3. macro of the orchid boom.
We have potted plans from at least three friends who left SF (and CA, it turns out), and one is an orchid that I never figured out how to do much with beyond keep alive for two years.
so we asked at the garden center and they suggested orchid food (sticks and spray) and sure enough, when fed, the primary sprout poked back up and grew 12" or so in the past few months and now we’ve got maybe four flowers to look forward to.
idk if/how we could have helped the first four buds which died off.
Figure 1. photograph of our orchid in an white orchid pot (holes in the side in a cross pattern, with set in a dish so that you can’t over-water it) on our credenza next to a red/green prayer plant, in front of a very light pink wall. A few large green leaves spill over the pot and one long trunk clipped to a stick in two places rises 12” before bending over at 90” on a gradual arc. At the top and end are four buds, the one furthest from the tip being the oldest and largest nearing half an inch in diameter and the others smaller and younger in diminishing size.Figure 2. top down photo of the same orchid plant and buds, macro on the buds where you can now see that there were three or four earlier buds which withered away and left nothing on the plant but a brown tip like a broken-off branch.
Was catching up on the O.G. after suggesting this doc to a friend and found out / was reminded maybe/why Donald Fagan’s response to being asked to be involved in any way was to say "fuck you”
Standing in a band labeled 30-80lbs that is wrapped behind and around the parallel bars of a chin up bar getting ready to do the 8th and final chin up of 3 sets of 8 when the band slips off my heels and thwaps me across the shoulder blades like only a 2" wide rubber band supporting my entire body weight can thwap
My lynch story is that a friend convinced us to fly to LA for one of his film festivals where this premiered (or at least was shown?) in a full theater of his fans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BSgM56SSJ0 and the next day I got to ride in an elevator with Blondie who was also at the festival
