1. Morning 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 148 feet (45 meters) elevation over one and a half hours, (one and a quarter hours moving).
    Posted on Strava over two years agoon February 01, 2024 - 3:32 PM and archived here at /strava/2024/02/01/morning-walk/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/strava/2024/02/01/morning-walk/ in the Strava collection in both HTML and markdown.

  2. Second book of 2024: Glyn Johns, "Sound Man” ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20949444-sound-man)

    Sound ManA memoir of a remarkable rock-and-roll career from Glyn…Goodreads
    Figure 1. Link preview of https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20949444-sound-man, "Sound Man".

    Two memoirs to start the year. Weird, I never read memoirs.

    This one was quoted in some video I watched chasing Chris Scruggs stuff ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeR2yZ2pWCw what a great band! that steel player?!) that I probably landed on looking up a https://500songs.com (which I’m 90 episodes into) citation, so I found myself reading it.

    - YouTubeEnjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.youtube.com
    A History of Rock Music in 500 SongsA History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
    Figure 2. Link preview of https://500songs.com, "A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs".
    The paperback cover of Glyn Johns “Sound Man” as I read it, subtitled: A Life Recording Hits With The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Eagles, Eric Clapton, The Faces…” (whispering: of that entire list of bands, I only really enjoy Led Zeppelin’s entire catalog, and barely a few individual songs from the rest. I don’t get the stones or the who, and I agree with The Dude re: the Eagles?)Anyway, it's fast, and fun if you ever went through a late 60s / early 70s rock phase before the 00s when it absolutely saturated american culture (let's not kid, it still does).
    Figure 3. The paperback cover of Glyn Johns “Sound Man” as I read it, subtitled: A Life Recording Hits With The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Eagles, Eric Clapton, The Faces…” (whispering: of that entire list of bands, I only really enjoy Led Zeppelin’s entire catalog, and barely a few individual songs from the rest. I don’t get the stones or the who, and I agree with The Dude re: the Eagles?)Anyway, it's fast, and fun if you ever went through a late 60s / early 70s rock phase before the 00s when it absolutely saturated american culture (let's not kid, it still does).

    third book of 2024: “Particle Theory", a collection of stories by Edward Bryant ( https://reanimus.com/store/index.cgi?author=Edward%20Bryant).

    I started this a while ago after reading an interview with Ted Chiang (maybe this one? https://www.sfsite.com/09b/tc136.htm).

    I really, really like Ted Chiang’s stories. Ted really, really likes Bryant’s stories. Some of these were quite good, some just OK. I stalled on it a few times.

    ”giANTS”, the one about ants, is one of the good ones ( https://nebulas.sfwa.org/nominees/edward-bryant/).

    Edward Bryant - The Nebula Awards®The Nebula Awards®
    Figure 4. Link preview of https://nebulas.sfwa.org/nominees/edward-bryant/, "Edward Bryant - The Nebula Awards®".

    (🐜 🐜 🐜 https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110209784638054304)

    gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image not my goofy ass sitting on a log reading Italo Calvino's "The Argentine Ant" only to discover by feel that I am sitting on a damned ant hill as they crawl up my back under my shirt 😬🤣 (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6752551)Mastodon
    Figure 5. Link preview of https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110209784638054304, "gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)".
    the paperback cover of the currently available I-assume-reissue from reAnimus press, with a font that might as well be called “space ship” in gray over black top and bottom and a washed out early 90s 3D rendering of some chemical over a washed out face. It’s so great that 50 year old collections can get picked back up and run by groups like reAnimus, and I look forward to the software getting more sophisticated, because the printing was pretty simple (top of page author on the left, top of page book name on the right, rather than story name, for instance), if better looking overall than lots of presses like this.
    Figure 6. the paperback cover of the currently available I-assume-reissue from reAnimus press, with a font that might as well be called “space ship” in gray over black top and bottom and a washed out early 90s 3D rendering of some chemical over a washed out face. It’s so great that 50 year old collections can get picked back up and run by groups like reAnimus, and I look forward to the software getting more sophisticated, because the printing was pretty simple (top of page author on the left, top of page book name on the right, rather than story name, for instance), if better looking overall than lots of presses like this.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon February 01, 2024 - 4:17 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/02/01/111854292375049358/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/02/01/111854292375049358/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  3. Morning Walk

    Figure 1. A map of San Francisco, California. The path of a three and three quarters mile (six and a quarter kilometer) walk is indicated. About 7700 steps and 131 feet (40 meters) elevation over one hour.
    Posted on Strava over two years agoon January 30, 2024 - 4:38 PM and archived here at /strava/2024/01/30/morning-walk/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/strava/2024/01/30/morning-walk/ in the Strava collection in both HTML and markdown.

  4. It took me about two years and a half years, but I’m caught up with This Old House.

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon January 30, 2024 - 4:02 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/01/30/111845738686561494/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/01/30/111845738686561494/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  5. Afternoon Walk

    Figure 1. A map of San Francisco, California. The path of a four and a quarter mile (six and three quarters kilometer) walk is indicated. About 8500 steps and 148 feet (45 meters) elevation over one and a quarter hours, (one hour moving).
    Posted on Strava over two years agoon January 30, 2024 - 12:37 AM and archived here at /strava/2024/01/30/afternoon-walk/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/strava/2024/01/30/afternoon-walk/ in the Strava collection in both HTML and markdown.

  6. Got this lovely new-to-me @paulrickards http://shop.paulrickards.com/large-plots/ large plot “20191020055321” back from the frame shop.

    Large Plots - Shop @paulrickardsAdditional large plots available in the Carousel CMY Gallery. Plot 20260423075014 24″x36″ watercolor, $500 Plot 20260422151124 24″x36″ watercolor, $500 Plot 20240904154425 24″x36″ watercolor, $500 Plot 20250203032040 CMYK Truchet Tile Rug 24″x36″ watercolor, $500 Plot 20240904054940 CMYK Truchet Tiles 24″ x 36″ watercolor, $500 Plot 20260321114617 CMYK Halftone Roses 24″ x 36″ watercolor, $500 Plot 20221209031748 … Continue reading "Large Plots"Shop @paulrickards
    Figure 1. Link preview of http://shop.paulrickards.com/large-plots/, "Large Plots - Shop @paulrickards".

    while i was at it, I used off-the-rack frames on the rest of the stuff.

    photograph, 24" x 36" watercolor pen plot, impressionistic swirls in pink, yellow, green, purple, in a bright green frame, hung with-in a wall of vitsoe bookshelves full of books
    Figure 2. photograph, 24" x 36" watercolor pen plot, impressionistic swirls in pink, yellow, green, purple, in a bright green frame, hung with-in a wall of vitsoe bookshelves full of books.
    plot detail in purple, pink, green, yellow
    Figure 3. plot detail in purple, pink, green, yellow.
    for additional framed plots laying on a counter
    Figure 4. for additional framed plots laying on a counter.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon January 29, 2024 - 6:04 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/01/29/111840558837046251/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/01/29/111840558837046251/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  7. Coming up with a plausible but even more frustrating syntax for plain text markup

    bold: ddoouubbllee eevveerryy lleetttteerr, because that’s how you made letters bolder on a typewriter.

    _underline_is_easy_but_lets_not_be_sloppy:_no_spaces

    italics are not supported, that’s what underline was for

    hyperlinks? _underlines_with_a_octothorpe #, # footnote the link at the bottom of the file

    https://just.kidding, hyperlinks are not supported

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon January 29, 2024 - 5:54 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/01/29/111840519014331843/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/01/29/111840519014331843/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  8. Our cane plant has flowered this month after I moved it away from the sliding glass door into a distant corner and it is very, very fragrant — neato, had no idea it flowered!

    photograph of a cane plant with two primary branch tops, flowers peaking out to the rear, in a 2’ round pot in a corner beside a leather sofa and behind a marble end table, in front of a wall of books on the left and a pale pink wall on the right
    Figure 1. photograph of a cane plant with two primary branch tops, flowers peaking out to the rear, in a 2’ round pot in a corner beside a leather sofa and behind a marble end table, in front of a wall of books on the left and a pale pink wall on the right.
    macro photo of the flower strand growing out the rear of the lower top can plant with 20 or so white 1” bursts of flowers on short green branches on a 3’ long green stalk
    Figure 2. macro photo of the flower strand growing out the rear of the lower top can plant with 20 or so white 1” bursts of flowers on short green branches on a 3’ long green stalk.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon January 29, 2024 - 1:36 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/01/29/111836672342638326/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/01/29/111836672342638326/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  9. Afternoon Walk

    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 404 feet (123 meters) elevation over two and a half hours, (one and a half hours moving).
    Posted on Strava over two years agoon January 28, 2024 - 8:28 PM and archived here at /strava/2024/01/28/afternoon-walk/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/strava/2024/01/28/afternoon-walk/ in the Strava collection in both HTML and markdown.

  10. 🐈🪨👀😮

    Figure 1. A map of San Francisco, California. The path of a five and a quarter mile (eight and a half kilometer) walk is indicated. About 10600 steps and 203 feet (62 meters) elevation over one and three quarters hours, (one and a quarter hours moving).
    Posted on Strava over two years agoon January 26, 2024 - 3:36 PM and archived here at /strava/2024/01/26/activity/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/strava/2024/01/26/activity/ in the Strava collection in both HTML and markdown.
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