1. Afternoon Walk

    Figure 1. A map of San Francisco, California. The path of a five mile (eight and a quarter kilometer) walk is indicated. About 10200 steps and 161 feet (49 meters) elevation over one and a quarter hours.
    Posted on Strava over two years agoon February 07, 2024 - 11:49 PM and archived here at /strava/2024/02/07/afternoon-walk/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/strava/2024/02/07/afternoon-walk/ in the Strava collection in both HTML and markdown.

  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
    Figure 1. Link preview of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmpgnzoFwNQ, "Black Mystery Has Been Revealed".

    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
    Figure 2. Link preview of https://www.allmusic.com/album/left-right-mw0000661555, "Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Left & R... Tracks & Reviews | 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
    Figure 3. Link preview of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmpgnzoFwNQ, "Black Mystery Has Been Revealed".
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon February 07, 2024 - 5:47 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/02/07/111891450141536608/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/02/07/111891450141536608/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  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!
    Figure 1. 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!
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon February 05, 2024 - 6:55 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/02/05/111880393554023398/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/02/05/111880393554023398/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  4. 🌈

    Figure 1. A map of San Francisco, California. The path of a three and three quarters mile (six kilometer) walk is indicated. About 7500 steps and 148 feet (45 meters) elevation over one and a quarter hours.
    Posted on Strava over two years agoon February 05, 2024 - 3:51 PM and archived here at /strava/2024/02/05/activity/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/strava/2024/02/05/activity/ in the Strava collection in both HTML and markdown.

  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 Press
    Figure 1. Link preview of https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262539487/mismatch/, "Mismatch".
    Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes DesignHow inclusive methods can build elegant design solution…Goodreads
    Figure 2. Link preview of https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39644200-mismatch, "Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design".

    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.
    Figure 3. 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.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon February 04, 2024 - 5:32 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/02/04/111874405993940842/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/02/04/111874405993940842/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  6. Afternoon Walk

    Figure 1. A map of San Francisco, California. The path of a one and three quarters mile (three kilometer) walk is indicated. About 3700 steps and 358 feet (109 meters) elevation over one hour, (three quarters of an hour moving).
    Posted on Strava over two years agoon February 03, 2024 - 9:39 PM and archived here at /strava/2024/02/03/afternoon-walk/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/strava/2024/02/03/afternoon-walk/ in the Strava collection in both HTML and markdown.

  7. Complimented on this “clean ass jacket” within five minutes of wearing it out for the first time, while waiting for a train to berkeley

    selfie in an elevator mirror wearing a new rock band jacket, black with white sleeves, green striped cuffs, collar, waist, and pockets, with a green two headed snake running up the sleeveI was on the way to see a doctor about a thing that cleared up the day before and two hours after I confirmed the $75-cancellation-fee appointment that I'd made three weeks prior
    Figure 1. selfie in an elevator mirror wearing a new rock band jacket, black with white sleeves, green striped cuffs, collar, waist, and pockets, with a green two headed snake running up the sleeveI was on the way to see a doctor about a thing that cleared up the day before and two hours after I confirmed the $75-cancellation-fee appointment that I'd made three weeks prior.
    selfie in an elevator mirror wearing a new rock band jacket, black with white sleeves, green striped cuffs, collar, waist, and pockets, with a green two headed snake running up the sleeve, "Queens" stitched along the rear shoulder
    Figure 2. selfie in an elevator mirror wearing a new rock band jacket, black with white sleeves, green striped cuffs, collar, waist, and pockets, with a green two headed snake running up the sleeve, "Queens" stitched along the rear shoulder.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon February 03, 2024 - 6:12 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/02/03/111868898695458760/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/02/03/111868898695458760/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  8. Jiggled!

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon February 02, 2024 - 9:34 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/02/02/111864030950473402/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/02/02/111864030950473402/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  9. Morning Walk

    Figure 1. A map of San Francisco, California. The path of a two and a half mile (four and a quarter kilometer) walk is indicated. About 5200 steps and 69 feet (21 meters) elevation over three quarters of an hour.
    Posted on Strava over two years agoon February 02, 2024 - 4:43 PM and archived here at /strava/2024/02/02/morning-walk/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/strava/2024/02/02/morning-walk/ in the Strava collection in both HTML and markdown.

  10. Speaking of the continually amazing 500songs, episode 76: “Stagger Lee” by Lloyd Price ( https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-76-stagger-lee-by-lloyd-price/) is absolutely fascinating and one of the best.

    Episode 76: “Stagger Lee” by Lloyd PriceEpisode seventy-six of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Stagger Lee” by Lloyd Price, and how a barroom fight 125 years ago led to a song performed by ev…A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
    Figure 1. Link preview of https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-76-stagger-lee-by-lloyd-price/, "Episode 76: “Stagger Lee” by Lloyd Price".

    “Ah you mean the Nick Cave song? Isn’t that a ‘traditional’ tune?" There’s so, so much more to it.

    Supplemental music should you choose to read the transcript rather than listen, or just want to hear even more: https://www.mixcloud.com/AndrewHickey/500-songs-supplemental-stagger-lee/

    500 Songs Supplemental -- Stagger LeeA mixcloud playlist of the songs excerpted in episode seventy-six of my podcast "A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs". To hear that podcast, visit 500songs.com. This episode is on the song "Stagger Lee", by Lloyd Price, and also features Duke Ellington, Nick Cave, Neil Diamond, Mississippi John Hurt, Ma Rainey, and more.Mixcloud
    Figure 2. Link preview of https://www.mixcloud.com/AndrewHickey/500-songs-supplemental-stagger-lee/, "500 Songs Supplemental -- Stagger Lee".
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon February 02, 2024 - 3:16 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/02/02/111862545300703663/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/02/02/111862545300703663/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.
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