1. Afternoon Walk

    A five mile (eight and a quarter kilometer), 161 foot (49 meter) elevation walk over one and a quarter hours in San Francisco, California. About 10200 steps.

  2. one tell that this is good is that I immediately shazam’d it off of NTS’s “Expansions” mix ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmpgnzoFwNQ, which I now assume is named after the track (or suite) of the same name after this one on record), paused the mix and listened to it again, and then the everloving wife stormed over and asked when my music changed from good to bad and shut my door.

    Black Mystery Has Been RevealedProvided to YouTube by Rhino AtlanticBlack Mystery Has Been Revealed · Rahsaan Roland KirkLeft & Right℗ 1968 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United St...YouTube

    Rahsaan Roland Kirk, “Black Mystery Has Been Revealed”, from “left & right”, 1968 ( https://www.allmusic.com/album/left-right-mw0000661555)

    Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Left & R... Tracks & Reviews | AllMusicLeft & Right by Rahsaan Roland Kirk released in 1968. Find Left & Right reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.AllMusic

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmpgnzoFwNQ

    Black Mystery Has Been RevealedProvided to YouTube by Rhino AtlanticBlack Mystery Has Been Revealed · Rahsaan Roland KirkLeft & Right℗ 1968 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United St...YouTube

  3. good morning

    photograph from the corner of 25th Street at San Bruno Street looking northwest at San Bruno, a rainbow rises from the far right in an arc that, if complete, would end on Sutro Tower on the far left, but is only brightly visible for a few degrees of arcI’ve been jacking the saturation on my city shots lately to max it out because it feels more accurate at a glance to what it’s like to look at this stuff irl and also to pop the rainbow. I’m sure this is just a phase I’ll regret like when I used to add vigent to every photo I retouched. Whatever!

  4. 🌈

    A three and three quarters mile (six kilometer), 148 foot (45 meter) elevation walk over one and a quarter hours in San Francisco, California. About 7500 steps.

  5. fourth book of 2024: “Mismatch” ( https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262539487/mismatch/ ) subtitled “How Inclusion Shapes Design” by Kat Holmes ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39644200-mismatch).

    MismatchSometimes designed objects reject their users: a computer mouse that doesn't work for left-handed people, for example, or a touchscreen payment system that o...MIT PressMismatch: How Inclusion Shapes DesignHow inclusive methods can build elegant design solution…Goodreads

    I grabbed this one after landing on a Don Norman piece ( https://www.fastcompany.com/90338379/i-wrote-the-book-on-user-friendly-design-what-i-see-today-horrifies-me). I enjoyed “The Design of Everyday Things" so I followed Norman’s suggestion to read Mismatch.

    Pretty quick read, and full of things so obviously correct that I got impatient with the author’s patience? Good stuff.

    The paperback cover of Mismatch as I read it. Black helvitca on white title, subtitle, author, foreward author, left-aligned-on-center, top third. a design that reads like the 70s/80s trend of “generic” stuff, The bottom half is a black swirl stroke broken into 8 textures: blot, spikes, dots, bands, checkerboard, circles, stripes, and brush.

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