We have a whiteboard on our fridge. Most weeks, we update the whiteboard with what’s happening that week, along with doodles, quotes, competitive nonsense, bragging rights, etc.. My wife is great about photographing it before we erase and start the new one, and had built a nice historical archive. So I made a photobook of the whiteboards from the last few years.
I’m growing to love digital-to-print projects like this. A while back I made my old Day One iphone journals into a printed book. I’ve got some ideas for more…
Had another Friday morning coffee & coworking with some friends. What a treat.
Felt like a rough work-week even though nothing notably bad happened. I gotta work on ending each day crisply before I crash! It’s often better to step away and circle back rather than power through.
Art
A Qing dynasty-era cape embroidered to look like peacock feathers. Broken and Restored Multiplication, oil and silver paper on canvas by Suzanne Duchamp. Outside the Box, quilt by Jenny Voss. Double Still Life, sculptures by Katy Cowan.
Books
War and Peace.
Running
Nursing a minor injury, so I’m using that and the lingering piles of snow as an excuse to recupe.
Around the Web
Isometric NYC.
“Upload an architectural render. Get back what it’ll actually look like on a random Tuesday in November.”
Map of home values by ZIP code.
Pretty Images Are Dead. Long Live Documentary Photography. “Documentary photography survives because it possesses something AI fundamentally cannot: intent born from witness.”
“Politics is a repeated interaction. If you want politicians to keep doing the useful things, you have to show that useful things earn support.”
An archive of mouse pointers. I dislike the latest macOS version rounded off the tip of my mouse pointer. I like it sharp.
The story of the macOS poof animation.
“Stamina is a core bottleneck to work and with LLMs in hand it has been dramatically increased.”
“Here’s what using Claude Code initially felt like: cooking with ingredients from a stranger’s fridge.”
Everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong.
Latent space engineering and management as an AI superpower.
Music
Amina Claudine Myers, Song for Mother E. Gospel organ/piano. Love the extended organ opening in “Have Mercy Upon Us“.
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 18; Franck: Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra perf. Alexis Weissenberg, Berliner Philharmoniker cond. Herbert von Karajan. The Rachmaninov is probably a candidate for top-3 or top-5 most-listened-to classical works, always pays dividends. The Franck was in one ear and out the other.
Remscéla, Milkweed. Fuzzy, distorted lofi folk songs based on the Táin saga. See “How Conchobor was Begotten“.
Ø, Mika Vainio, Sysivalo. Largely rhythm-less, dark, vaguely-ombinous ambient. I like it! “Etude 4“.
Purelink, Faith.
Movies
This Is Not a Film. I respect Panahi’s work, and the drive/obsession/risk to put this together but as a viewer, you’re mostly watching a guy talk on the phone in his kitchen and it’s not the most interesting thing to watch.
Things Will Be Different. Good scifi time travel thriller. Great little world they’ve invented here. Wonderful sound, too. More movies about siblings!
The Meg. A re-watch. Humor falls flat, and repetitive in the way of many monster movies, but overall decent.
TV
The X-Files, s5e17 “All Souls“. I like these religious episodes, and how the writers blend and remix historical materials.
Line of Duty, s6e5. Only two more episodes left of this show, and it’s making me sad.
Law & Order, s1e2.
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