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  1. Oops, broke off the first cork screw, sending a second one in after it

    ecu corked bottle of red wine with a bit of corkscrew protruding from the top left off the corn and a full corkscrew entering it from the top right
    Figure 1. ecu corked bottle of red wine with a bit of corkscrew protruding from the top left off the corn and a full corkscrew entering it from the top right.
    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon March 20, 2023 - 12:56 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/03/20/110052888685231134/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/03/20/110052888685231134/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  2. Orchid a-comin’

    orchid in a pot on a table, large flower bud the size of a small flower bud (about the size of a small grape)
    Figure 1. orchid in a pot on a table, large flower bud the size of a small flower bud (about the size of a small grape).
    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon March 19, 2023 - 2:52 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/03/19/110047679178322194/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/03/19/110047679178322194/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  3. Huh, never heard of a “clarihew” ( https://archive.org/details/biography00chesuoft/page/10) poem before: a sort of shitty limerick about a historical figure. Cute. Named after the author of a book of them.

    Biography for beginners : being a collection of miscellaneous examples for the use of upper forms : Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveInternet Archive

    Terrible. 😂

    a scan of a page the original book from the internet archiveMIGUEL DE CERVANTESThe people of Spain think CervantesEqual to half a dozen Dantes:An opinion resented most bitterly By the people of Italy.
    Figure 1. a scan of a page the original book from the internet archiveMIGUEL DE CERVANTESThe people of Spain think CervantesEqual to half a dozen Dantes:An opinion resented most bitterly By the people of Italy..
    opposing page, with illustration that looks like a woodcut print or pen drawing of a stack of dantes glaring at a smug cervantes
    Figure 2. opposing page, with illustration that looks like a woodcut print or pen drawing of a stack of dantes glaring at a smug cervantes.
    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon March 19, 2023 - 2:42 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/03/19/110047643534173076/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/03/19/110047643534173076/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  4. This Chico Freeman jazz tune, “The Search” ( https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-outside-within-mw0000090953) just came around on NTS Expansions ( https://www.nts.live/infinite-mixtapes/expansions) and made me put my book down and look it up. Cool line!

    Chico Freeman: The Outside Wi... Tracks & Reviews | AllMusicThe Outside Within by Chico Freeman released in 1978. Find The Outside Within reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.AllMusicExpansions - Infinite Mixtapes | Listen on NTSJazz and its many mind-expanding variations.NTS Radio

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8uwt7L-xVw

    01 The Search Featuring Jack DeJohnette Cecil McBee John HicksEnjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.YouTube
    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon March 19, 2023 - 1:39 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/03/19/110047392613915275/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/03/19/110047392613915275/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  5. Wind gust max speed in the mission hit 27.7 mph on my little sensor in the alley so far today. neat.

    24 hour line plot of wind gust speed maximums measured in miles per hour on March 14, 2023
    Figure 1. 24 hour line plot of wind gust speed maximums measured in miles per hour on March 14, 2023.
    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon March 14, 2023 - 7:56 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/03/14/110023394142405702/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/03/14/110023394142405702/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  6. I read this one back in 2013 and I’m sure there are more modern treatments (which I’d be happy to hear about) but if you want get a 1987 perspective on the failed promises of computer skill acquisition you would probably do worse than to read Dreyfus & Dreyfus’s "Mind Over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the Computer” ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1039572.Mind_Over_Machine).

    Mind Over MachineDefining the limits of computer technology, the authors…Goodreads

    This post was written by a human.

    The paperback cover of “Mind Over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the Computer” (1987) by Hubert L. Dreyfus and Stuart E. DreyfusThe cover features two overlapping pink sillouettes of human facial profiles looking up and two the right over a black background.
    Figure 1. The paperback cover of “Mind Over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the Computer” (1987) by Hubert L. Dreyfus and Stuart E. DreyfusThe cover features two overlapping pink sillouettes of human facial profiles looking up and two the right over a black background..
    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon March 14, 2023 - 6:52 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/03/14/110023144110288743/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/03/14/110023144110288743/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  7. Ah, jeeze, these hamsicks and circle-As are really picky about having the crust cut off of their diagonal cut PB&Js and the skins peeled off of their apple slices and etc, and etc. I really [looks into the camera] “do not get it” (I’m trying to make my catchphrase go viral)

    peeking into the party around the person I don’t know who opened the door: Hey!

    Slightly later over a beer: uh, so what do you do? (people love this question)

    Oh me? I’m a founder. We make [unintelligible]. Haha, yeah, no, it’s software for cold calling people. No yeah it still “works” ha ha ha. You don’t answer your phone? Wow do you mind if I double-click on that, I [looks into the camera] “do not get it” (I’m trying to make my catchphrase go viral at the party)

    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon March 14, 2023 - 3:01 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/03/14/110022234292918479/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/03/14/110022234292918479/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  8. Inventing a new “federal housing insurance corporation” as a thought experiment and being tackled and beaten unconscious by 90 Stanford grad founder-in-bio posters wearing Fnord brand “punch left" gear I didn’t even know sports basement sold because that part of the store is invisible to me, a normal person

    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon March 13, 2023 - 8:42 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/03/13/110017912867134325/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/03/13/110017912867134325/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  9. This guy is picky as hell about clocks

    selfie in the re-election of a black braun bc17 wall clock
    Figure 1. selfie in the re-election of a black braun bc17 wall clock.

    four other braun clocks throughout the house (the only other clocks in the house)

    braun bcn17 wall clock
    Figure 2. braun bcn17 wall clock.
    braun bcn17 bedside alarm clock (it ticks!)
    Figure 3. braun bcn17 bedside alarm clock (it ticks!).
    braun bcn17 desk alarm clock (it ticks!)
    Figure 4. braun bcn17 desk alarm clock (it ticks!).
    braun bcn17 wall clock
    Figure 5. braun bcn17 wall clock.
    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon March 12, 2023 - 6:55 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/03/12/110011831038034218/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/03/12/110011831038034218/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  10. 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/1606339706811097088

    Tweet screenshot@ImJuneFacts: The best novel I read this year was The Museum of Eterna's Novel (the First Good Novel). It has 50 prologues for the simple reason that the book is reluctant to begin, and is metafiction in the sense that it explores an intermediate reality between our own and that of the fiction
    Figure 1. Tweet screenshot@ImJuneFacts: The best novel I read this year was The Museum of Eterna's Novel (the First Good Novel). It has 50 prologues for the simple reason that the book is reluctant to begin, and is metafiction in the sense that it explores an intermediate reality between our own and that of the fiction.
    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon March 12, 2023 - 5:57 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/03/12/110011601484725615/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/03/12/110011601484725615/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.
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