Ninja posts would also be nice, when I’m just moving stuff around to make pinned posts
Mastodon posts
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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.
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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 (opens in a new tab)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 (opens in a new tab)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 (opens in a new tab)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 (opens in a new tab)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. -
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. -
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. -
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. 🪩🤗
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. -
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. -
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 (opens in a new tab)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. -
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
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. -
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 (opens in a new tab)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. -
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.