A little Delray night sky
This thing on, pt 2?
Jetpack radar ping test with image.
Shooter Heaven
jell-olives – castelvetrano, negroni, orange
a brilliant bite from Cat’s birthday dinner last night at Café Mars
Leafcutter Capture 202307
Was on the road for over a week, into last week.
NYC ⏩️ Cuyahoga Falls ⏯️ Chicago ⏩️ Indianapolis ⏩️ Pittsburgh ⏩️ NYC
Still processing the adventure. A bit of family heaviness preceded, too. Hung over the quiet parts.
Today I saw a female leafcutter bee in my Brooklyn backyard carrying a leaf back to the underground lair she’s building in the soil between two of our garden’s bluestones.…
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An American Wall
Eastern Wall of the Richmond Police Department Headquarters
Grace and Jefferson Streets
Richmond, VA
20230624.0735
Sculpture
“Thin Blue Line,” Michael Stutz (2005)
Public Art Commission
Plaque
“Site Of The House In Which
Samuel Preston Moore
Surgeon General
Confederate States of America
Lived From 1863 To 1865
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This Tablet Is Placed By The
Confederate Memorial Literary Society A.D.
Service Ursa
20230530.1522, Boynton Beach, FL
Savannah, GA 20230622.2021
#tbt The Moose Hunter (1994)
Bullwinkle on set of the Vietnam War epic The Moose Hunter, after wrapping the tense Russian Roulette scene.
Hardcore TV (HBO), 1994
20230614.0548 Moon Football
The Moon and Jupiter setting over Delray Beach, FL.
14 June 2023
05:48a
Lol the moon was Aries’ football.
Free Thoughts 2023g
The evolution of reading and attention span leaves me terrified to write paragraphs longer than 2.75 sentences. Some paragraphs, however, require multi-sentence packages to deliver complete thoughts. That said, the copious negative space now around paragraphs opens up
It’s not the notion of what constitutes a short sentence that has changed, but rather, what constitutes a complete thought.…
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tuesday prompts
“the programmer of our universe’s Simulation, pointillism oil painting”
“A person who believes everything is an illusion”
“Boston Dynamics robot breast feeding a baby boy”
“Why are you here?”
low-priority throttle
This Terminal command to disable MacOS’s default “low-priority throttle” has been indispensible while backing up with Time Machine of late:
sudo sysctl debug.lowpri_throttle_enabled=0
Leaving it on (“=1”) shunts the backup to the last in line for the CPU no matter what. My backup process, however, is a VIP club goer.
Would that I could control, with one simple line of code, the throttle on my darkest thoughts.…
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Thoughts Aloud 2023d
Sound is physical art.
it’s better to understand what you’re doing rather than to get the right answer
Nothing is random.
You don’t need things you use all the time to “look like new”, just well tended.
We see in most people what we look for, more than what they project.…
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random fr(ai)day: a pile and a poll
Prompt Pile 202302a
“an analog stereo receiver knob that expands space.”
”Kandinski’s ‘Regret’”
“The last musician on Earth, photographed by William Eggleston.”
”A guitar pedal that controls space and time.”
Punch Line Poll! How does an AI keep a secret?
- In a database!
- Co-located on a global network!
- “Recently” deleted!
- Alphabetically, by date, time, and user!
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nyc star log 20230215
From our garden last night. Orion’s Belt visible, too, lower right.
And from just outside our building’s front door tonight. Orion out hunting in full force.
(xtra)terrestrial vacation
The idea that alien life forms would conform to our dimensional perspectives and physics, and yet still leave themselves vulnerable to human weapons and hate, is naive.
…“An Earthland vacation this light-year? Really?”
“I heard it’s pretty, and I always wanted to go.”
“Okay, but just remember to bring ‘sion-block-“
“Yes, I packed ‘sion-block!”
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70-year shutter click
My IRL family, Maplewood, NJ, 1981 [me: 2nd from bottom left; paternal grandparents Ida & Morris: top row left; self-timer composition, Kodak stock, format unknown]
Down in Florida last month, I began to organize my parents’ 6 bins of photographs, the earliest of which reached back into the 1880s. Aside from being an invaluable record of my family history, the trove also provides, upstream, a fractal of the entire era of mass manual photography.…
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