Monthly recap: May 2024
Major update * Hiking: Sneath Trail and El Corte Madeira * Fanime (!) with Tara Minor update(s) * Finally switched from my Apple Watch to a Garmin Insight (more on that later ...) * Preferring…
The tower
This tree stump looked like a scale model of some sort of mountain fortress.…
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My favorite Russian songs
Context I’ve been sharing some of these off-and-on with people, I thought I’d spend half an hour and sit down and make the list. “Don’t tell my mom I’m in Chechnya” The most hummable of all these,…
Summer walk downtown
Just something about this lamp-speaker
Malfunctioning speaker had a sort of electronic wail to it: [wpvideo h9DYHG2m ]…
Guided drawing with Tara
Writing with constraints
This might be an extreme example of a maxim. I was dimly aware of a novel written without the letter “E”. Recently saw a mention of it and looked it up. "Gadsby" is a novel written by Erne…
Social Network Scores
The shape of things to come: (As seen in the Economist, April 13th edition)…
The many Nostalgias of Harry Potter
(an old draft!) I first read the Harry Potter books when I was a teenager. I revisited them when my daughter read them recently. There are, as I realized, several layers of nostalgia within them.…
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Backyard bird
Recorded this birdsong https://videopress.com/v/Bf4uxas6?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true Perhaps linked to this new bird feeder 🙂…