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.comI 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.MastodonWhy 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
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 Mastersthis 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