You’re absolutely right, you asked for a to go box for the rest of your meal and I just scraped food and paper straw wrappers off of the unfinished plates in the bus bin into one for you.
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Posted on Mastodon about eight months agoon January 08, 2026 - 7:44 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2026/01/08/115861189225477221/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2026/01/08/115861189225477221/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.
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Community tables 👎🏼
Posted on Mastodon about eight months agoon January 07, 2026 - 3:36 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2026/01/07/115854552180218749/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2026/01/07/115854552180218749/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown. -
Trip report nearly a year later: the home assistant music assistant add-on ( https://www.music-assistant.io/) plus https://www.radio-browser.info as a music provider are good enough now that I stopped using sonos apps entirely.
Music AssistantMusic Assistant is a music library manager for local and streaming sourcesMusic Assistant (opens in a new tab)radio-browser.inforadio-browser.info (opens in a new tab)Posted on Mastodon about eight months agoon January 05, 2026 - 5:22 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2026/01/05/115843647398828354/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2026/01/05/115843647398828354/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown. -
Increasingly, while sitting at restaurants waiting for my food, especially when I’m sitting outside in the cold, I finely sharpen a hatred of the very existence of “to go” orders and the people who place them, places that take them, and the various services and go-betweens who enable them.
everyone else is mad about qr code menus, but I get even madder about this.
when I make a to go order myself, I’m a very special boy and would like my food please and thank you.
Posted on Mastodon about eight months agoon December 31, 2025 - 6:50 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/12/31/115815678536353794/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/12/31/115815678536353794/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown. -
Got one of those neato pdp11/70 kits ( https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11-get-one) for my birthday. I am shoddy with detail work and managed to only botch two soldering pin-throughs which were easy enough to correct.
PiDP-11 Get One | obsolescenceobsolescence (opens in a new tab)only fitting that, having destroyed every pair of side cutters I’ve ever owned on guitar strings, I initially used a d’addario string winder/trimmer to cut the pins.
It was insufficient and I finally broke down and caught a bus to the hardware store for a little pair of kleins to finish the job.
Figure 1. my posting station, two apple studio displays on a white fully standing desk w/ a black embody chair. the desk is covered in entry level soldering gear, coffee cups, an NA beer can, and the kit, in pieces, during assembly.. 
Figure 2. closer, later shot of my posting station w. the pdp11/70 kid and a bunch of parts in deli containers surrounded by junk from my soldering gear including electrical tape, masking tape, radioshack leaded solder that is probably older than I am, pickup, wire strippers, needle nose pliars, pinchers, and a cheap iron. A white d’addario string winder sits on the plastic container lid I’m using as a bench rest.. Posted on Mastodon about eight months agoon December 31, 2025 - 6:36 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/12/31/115815624748942711/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/12/31/115815624748942711/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown. -
Idk how people who are able are not constantly, when at home, slinking around quiet as a mouse, from activity, to task, to seating, to get a snack, and so on, idk how they live.
“how quietly can I operate this latch? How softly can I close this door?” I think to myself.
"how delicately can I step–no, pad–across the room without dragging or stomping my feet. how can I coordinate my limbs like a little dancer?”
then the parents stay with us for the holidays.
Posted on Mastodon about eight months agoon December 27, 2025 - 3:07 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/12/27/115792153962703004/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/12/27/115792153962703004/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown. -
No application responds more quickly or irreversibly to keyboard shortcuts than the one you mistype into while thinking you are posting.
Posted on Mastodon about eight months agoon December 16, 2025 - 5:28 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/12/16/115730423763206811/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/12/16/115730423763206811/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown. -
Decent crumb!
20% wheat, 70% 00 , 10% bread (I was out of 00), sourdough levain, overnight ferment and bake.
Figure 1. the crust of a neo-neapolitan pizza torn into two sheet pieces on a plat. the bottom is leoparded, the crumb is very open. I made this before we went out for dinner in the spiral mixer, let it proof on the counter until we got back from a show, tossed the fermenter in my "server room” overnight, balled it up ~350g balls at 10AM, and launched the last one into an 800F oven around noon, leaving me three balls to spare for lunch this week, now cold fermenting.
Rainbow has great flour in bulk but it would be neat if there was somewhere to get residential quantities of spelt or hard red wheat or bolted wheat.
while i’m making requests, it would be neat if there was somewhere to buy residential quantities of swiss american pepperoni. molinari seems to have a vice grip on the city and it is boring a f.
totally possible i’m being too hard on myself when I use it, I’ve never made a pizza I didn’t complain about while I was enjoying it. for all I know swiss american and molinari are different labels of the same sticks. But what if?
"try a fanc—“ bzt, I want commercial prop 65 junk, not delicious snacks.
Posted on Mastodon about nine months agoon December 12, 2025 - 8:21 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/12/12/115708454189841280/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/12/12/115708454189841280/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown. -
Visited a friend this summer who I haven’t seen in person in ten years or so, but stay in touch with over email (ha!), so I know where they work and so on but not much else
anyway, I remembered that someone who might in theory work relatively close to them at their job was in a social space I was in, who posted in chats I ignored and meant nothing to me but I thought to ask “oh hey, (saying something like this paragraph out loud)” do you know this person?”
[squints at my phone]
“Yes.”
Posted on Mastodon about nine months agoon December 11, 2025 - 10:30 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/12/11/115703296853685192/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/12/11/115703296853685192/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown. -
Https://gameboat.org/the-resonant-computing-manifesto/
the resonant computing manifesto(if you haven't seen it, count yourself lucky.) The people who build these products aren't bad or evil. Most of us got into tech with an earnest desire to l...gameboat: a blog (opens in a new tab)nice.
the entire mode of discourse of the RCM, which I probably unfairly credit and think of as “wired house style” after my exposure to it in wired magazine in the 90s, says very little to me and I distrust people who use it. It is a childishly modey-mode. "here is some rhetoric.”
Every word and phrase choice is ad copy obscuring some other thing. Passive things are presented as active and primary things. active things are presented passively as inevitabilities.
right off the bat we’re making the world a better place instead of trying to pay the rent and participate in life. "this is nice but I could make it better.”
but what’s this? with the rise of, or emergence of, or I-just-learned-about-this of capital deploying a canceled scam with a new name? golly, they aren’t falling for it, what to do?
this calls for a yes or no decision, nothing else will do. are you with us?
step right up, yes, you, out of the crowd, step right up, this elixir will celebrate and elevate your very atomic individuality, blah blah
while writing this, my mac had no idea how to help me spell a word that was wrong in two very normal ways to be wrong, a doubled letter and a wrong vowel. 🤭
Figure 1. white text on a black background of my draft of a post in this thread with “inevitabilities” misspelled as “innevitibilities underlined in red dots.. Posted on Mastodon about nine months agoon December 11, 2025 - 2:47 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/12/11/115701479789700603/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/12/11/115701479789700603/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.