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
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 (opens in a new tab)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 (opens in a new tab)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 (opens in a new tab)
You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like https://botsin.space/@wayback_exe/111670277950182240
Nice, nice, American Masters: “Max Roach”
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/masters/max-roach/
Max Roach | American Masters | PBSView all Max Roach content on the American Masters website.American Masters (opens in a new tab)this thing is chock full of software upscaling a la “Let It Be”, and that’s certainly a choice. I know this pisses lots of people off (like normalization, autotune, drum machines, etc) and I’m not gonna tilt at it, it’s just a thing people are doing right now.
I think it’s ok to be mad at the dip in quality between film and digital and not want to present it in 320 lines of blur. I don’t think this is a “let people enjoy things” take.
23rd book of the year: “Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia" by Jason Pargin. Fun as expected. A pre-order, because that this point I just subscribe to Pargin stuff.
It’s been two months since I finished anything, my head has not been in the right space to read, I’d bounced off three other things, and I’ve been taking lots of long walks instead.
kinda fun to have started ( https://mastodon.social/@gravely/109689742882840282) and ended the year w/ Pargin ( https://johndiesattheend.com)—completely unplanned.
gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image second book down, the new Jason Pargin (f. k. a. David Wong), "If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe." It was fun! I lol'd a few times, didn't want to put it down, etc. Jason put a tiny house of leaves gimmick in it (it's full of metafiction shit tbh) but I only noticed it was happening for the last word so if you read it, let me know what it says (I'm going to go cheat and google it right now).Mastodon (opens in a new tab)Was looking for a set of configuration params for something incredibly tedious to look up from scratch yesterday
I was pretty sure I’d temporarily had it in an unsaved sublime text tab and stumbled into sublime not only supporting “command-shift-T” to restore closed tabs but that I could keep going, back years in fact. Yikes. Wasn’t there though.
Maybe iTerm? Sure enough: Session -> Open paste history, from three weeks ago.
kindof a typical weekday: walk the kid to Flynn, continue on to try to hit blocks I’ve never logged walking, do about 5 miles, be back by 9-ish. But, today, I finally logged the last few blocks of Noe in the somewhat arbitrary bounds I established for myself to completion.
New bounds: from Caesar Chavez to 101 to 280 to San Jose Ave.
A friend not on fedi turned me on to “A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs" yesterday. I just enjoyed the first four episodes or so and it’s excellent https://500songs.com
A History of Rock Music in 500 SongsA History of Rock Music in 500 Songs (opens in a new tab)Like any hobby I guess, doing this is a great way to shut up my stupid brain, but this one helps me sleep. At least that’s the idea, anyway.
Bernal is next, then Glen Park.
Well this got out of hand, as usual with me.
I wanted to make a goal for myself, so I started adjusting where I went so that I can have walked every street b/w 20th, valencia, 30th, and market (but not market).
The last few walks have been weirdo routes to tag dead end streets and main drags.
I had intended to finish tonight but I was too hungry for the last few blocks of Noe.
