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  1. 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

  2. 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.
  3. Https://www.ubu.com/sound/dj_food.html

    UbuWeb Sound - DJ Food ubu.com (opens in a new tab)

    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

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

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

    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 4. 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.
  4. 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

  5. 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)

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

    love the tiny instruments on this

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

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

  8. 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 (opens in a new tab)

    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.

  9. 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.
  10. 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”

Pizza Slow (high quality)

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