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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 🏁 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.

  10. 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.
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