1. sixth book of 2024: “How Infrastructure Works: Inside the systems that shape our world.”, by Deb Chachra ( https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/612711/how-infrastructure-works-by-deb-chachra/).

    How Infrastructure Works by Deb Chachra: 9780593086599 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: BooksNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "Revelatory, superbly written, and pulsing with wisdom and humanity, How Infrastructure Works is a masterpiece.” —Ed Yong, author of...PenguinRandomhouse.com

    I feel like more than a few people I follow posted about this over the past year so I eventually followed suit. More memoir (again!) than I’m normally into but just enough history, novelty, and new-to-me theory to be pretty good after all.

    The hardback cover of “How Infrastructure Works: Inside the systems that shape our world.”, by Deb Chachra, as I read it. White Helvetica-lookin’ title, subtitle, and author name in equal large sizes and weights over black asphalt spray painted with circles and arrows in orange, pink, and yellow. That infrastructure / utility workers paint the ground in specific colors in the U.S. is actually detailed in the book, so this is one of those rare cases where the cover artist read the book and wasn’t overruled by the publisher to do some other stupid thing instead. Huzzah!

  2. enclosing my next few months of walks

    A nine and a half mile (15 and a quarter kilometer), 1030 foot (314 meter) elevation walk over two and a half hours, (two and a quarter hours moving) in San Francisco, California. About 18900 steps.

  3. this is a qt of https://social.lol/@spotlightonpod/111952783201740255

    so after reading this I thought of a monthly “new artists” CD mailer subscription I had in the late 90s that I coulda swore had a Marley track one month, which is weird, right?

    so I checked my Plex for Marley, picked Catch a Fire, saw “Midnight Ravers”, which was the chorus I was thinking of, but not it.

    ddg for a remix and found it: Bill Laswell’s “Dreams Of Freedom (Ambient Translations Of Bob Marley In Dub)”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8sDYYwu2t8

    Midnight Ravers (Bill Laswell Remix)Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupMidnight Ravers (Bill Laswell Remix) · Bob Marley & The WailersDreams Of Freedom℗ 1997 The Island Def Jam Music G...YouTube

    neato.

  4. Morning Walk

    A five and a quarter mile (eight and three quarters kilometer), 449 foot (137 meter) elevation walk over one and a half hours, (one and a quarter hours moving) in San Francisco, California. About 10700 steps.

  5. Morning Walk

    A five and a half mile (nine kilometer), 512 foot (156 meter) elevation walk over one and a half hours in San Francisco, California. About 11100 steps.

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