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Phoebe Bridgers dropped her new album “Lost Weekend” today, and I’m in love. I’ve had “Lost Boys” on repeat since June, and I love the acoustic version, too: So good. in: notes tagged: music
A smaller group today with Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, perhaps because of the baking temperatures expected in the middle of the day. So instead of the planned hay cut of the corky fruited meadow, we decided to focus on the other end...
Edinburgh International Film Festival is on — I went to two press shows, both films starring John Hannah. What a versatile actor he is — he can play an amnesiac gangster or a talking seal. Nothing in between, though, just those two. I...
I have a lot of old magazines back at my parents' place: mostly gaming stuff, a lot of comics too. A couple of shelves are stuffed with paper that's going to rot unless I take care of it properly, which I should1... I had my publications...
as I write this I am halfway through the second listen of Phoebe Bridgers' latest album, Lost Weekend. I am biased, of course, but I love it already. I rode my bike down the Los Angeles beach path this morning and got coffee and a...
is this thing on
There really is nothing like live music. Second best thing to being there in-person is getting to watch the video of the live takes.Loving Cory Wong's and Joshua Redman's live recording of On A Random Tuesday: Live At The Blue Note...
I just got the notification from WordPress that today is the official anniversary of my blog launching — I’ve been doing this for 19 years now! I don’t have too much to say about it at the moment, as I’ll probably wait until next year...
nights are getting darker but somehow at times my heart is lighter the dream still here alive
As an 80s kid, I recently got a couple dice sets that spoke to my childhood. First up is this set from 1985 games: VHS tape style dice case Example of the d20 in this set I saw this set one or two years ago on the 1985 Games site. I put...
After switching computer and moving from my old laptop (which ran Windows at first, and later Linux) to a MacOS computer, my old mouse became incompatible. It worked very poorly. I didn’t know how to fix it.I read online that my mouse...
Take this code: path = "C:\477_data" If we run this with Python 3.11+ in development mode (to enable deprecation warnings), we will see: $ python3.11 -X dev example.py /.../example.py:1: DeprecationWarning: invalid octal escape sequence...
Trump is clearly the Manchurian Puppet for Putin, destroying US military capability for decades to come: www.rnz.co.nz/news/worl…
In Ruby on Rails, the software ecosystem I predominantly work in these days, yarn has been the default package manager for the javascript side of things for a long time. (See my big write-up of the timeline & current state of frontend...
The reality of the wildfires in South Birmingham is starting to sink in. Years ago there was a tweet (remember tweets?) saying: “Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer...