I treated myself to a CD of Kenny Garrett’s 2003 album Standard of Language, having been seduced by the Penguin Guide to Jazz calling it “unmissable” (and indeed I was not disappointed); the eighth track is called “Gendai,” and of course I had to look that up in my Japanese dictionary, where it was defined as ‘the present age, modern times; modern, contemporary, current.’ But then I wanted to know the etymology, so I turned to Wiktionary, where I learned that it was from Chinese 現代 (xiàndài),…

“Side Two” LP in progress. At 14 songs, it is nearly complete. I expect to release it before the year’s end. The post Another Saturday, Another Song. appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.

Upon seeing the screenshots of this game, and apparently not bothering to read the description, I bought it assuming it was a more horror-themed Kikikaikai-style shooting game. Other than each starring a young female exorcist, however, the two games have almost nothing in common! What Deep Shinonome: Yin Yang Maiden (which is the name it's given in the Switch's UI, while Shinonome Abyss: The Maiden Exorcist is what's on the title screen)actually is is a stage-based survival horror game,…

I’m starting sewing down the appliqué for the front of my jacket. I’m hoping to finish it this weekend. Selfie a day for a year, day 42: Oct 3, 2026 edition.

littleFedi is "A small ActivityPub server written in Go" It was officially released (I think) yesterday, and is another project from Stefano Marinelli of BSSG fame. A few years ago I'd decided I wanted to "own my content" 🙄 so I ran an instance of Mastodon. Mastodon is overkill and I didn't enjoy it. Then, later, I installed an instance of Go2Social, which worked well. Trouble was, I was all-in with social media at the time and being on a single-user instance felt lonely...nothing useful in…

Autograph Hound Saturday — and Brian Leno got so excited over his new bust of King Kong he began digging in his extensive files of John Hancocks, and look what he’s found: Here’s some King Kong fun. The drawing of Kong is signed by the three principals in the film, Fay Wray, Bruce Cabot and Robert “Bob” Armstrong. The Armstrong is a little messy but he added 1934, which helps a lot. It also bears the signature of John Northpole, who played a sailor in Kong. He had parts in Citizen Kane, Captain…

Talking Heads Speaking In Tongues Get It At Discogs Talking Heads found a way to open up the dense textures of the music they had developed with Brian Eno on their two previous studio albums for Speaking in Tongues, and were rewarded with their most popular album yet. Ten backup singers and musicians accompanied the original quartet, but somehow the sound was more spacious, and the music admitted aspects of gospel, notably in the call-and-response of "Slippery People," and John Lee Hooker-style…

My newest MCP experiment was to add it in WT Builder and then Claude was able to watch me creating content in near real-time through tool calls and give me immediate feedback on typos and grammar suggestions.

I’ve really been liking T3Code lately, especially its inbox-style organization.Most of my time is split between two projects, but the rest is scattered across about 20 repos. With T3, on any device, I can open a prompt, get something done, and move on without leaving tabs or sessions behind.I still use Orbs a lot. The choice is mostly gut (and automation): Orbs for getting things done and verified; local for more back-and-forth type work.

One year ago, this would have been a lousy Saturday for a small business owner. Today, I made a sandwich why all this happened. It is now monitoring the situation and I get to do some cleaning (that isn’t a huge win 😀)

a kind of music begins to fill the air inside the 3-mat hut. a prelude abides, is resonant in its utter simplicity. then counterpoint emerges. a fugue, radiant and crepuscular in its subtle complexity. before all that, at first, there was just a quiet murmuring of voices, first one then a polyphony of them, the trenchant electricity before a performance the sound a hall makes when the audience is alive, expectant, waiting. then the silence descending when the instruments tune themselves awake.…

I’m a bit late to write this post today because I’m a creature of infinite distraction, after a long week. But here I am! Books acquired this week This week I haven’t got anything new (thank goodness, since I’ve been doing plenty of that, ahaha), but I did get a couple of poetry collections from the National Poetry Library: I’ve read both already, but I do want to page back through and re-read some of the poems in each before I write my review. Posts from this week As ever, here are the posts…

My Claude Code CLI statusline shows the folder, branch, context and cost under every prompt. The Code tab of the Claude Desktop app shows none of it, because the desktop app never runs the statusLine command.desktop-statusline is a Claude Code mod that fills the gap. It’s the second plugin in my Claude Code plugin marketplace, after session-metrics. The marketplace post has a short section on it. This is the full version.what it showsWhere you are. Folder, git branch, a 🌳 marker in a worktree,…

Places I've eaten in Bangalore and whether they're worth another visit.A little food notebook for Bangalore. Places I’ve visited, rated out of five. I’ll keep updating this as I explore more. 📝 Note: This is also an experiment, I might spin this into a separate maps collection. Name Neighborhood Rating Note Burma Burma Indiranagar ★★★★★ One of my all-time favourites in the city. I've gone back multiple times. Lotus Biscoff Bubble Tea is a must! Toit Indiranagar ★★★★★ Great food, great drinks,…

A few weeks ago the papers did their annual round of opinion pieces by parents talking wistfully about dropping their 18-year-olds off at university, which reminded me that I’d been dragging my heels on my own wistful post about exactly that—for so long, in fact, that he’s now nineteen and has just started second year. Time to pull out the draft and finish it, or I never will. At the end of August last year I undertook the rite of passage of so many parents in the UK: helping your eldest child…

In our group chat, my fishing partners and I spend too much time scrutinizing photos of bass that other anglers have posted. People who fish are habitual liars (I say this fondly), and most of our conversations take the form of debates about whether a fish is really as big as someone claims. Lately, though, we’ve been asking a different question: Is that fish even real? Bait and Switch Fishermen have always exaggerated the size of their catches. But AI has taken the practice to a different…

Today I got a flu shot and my 13th COVID-19 shot since March 2021. Thirteen as a Lucky Number I got 2 initial COVID-19 shots in March 2021, and 1 every 6 months thereafter. So here we are at number 13, in a process that is now routine. “Isn’t 13 vaccinations too many?!” is the panicky question likely to be asked by people who haven’t thought it through. No, 13 is exactly the right number for a senior. Every 6 months, like clockwork. This particular version is mNEXSPIKE, the Moderna version for…

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The long-abandoned Circle Theater, originally opened in 1947, stands in an empty lot in Northwest Dallas. It most recently operated as a music venue, Stereo Live Dallas, before closing as a casualty of the pandemic. The post Silent Screen appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

Today is that sad day when I take the boat in to be put in storage for the winter. Until next summer Magic Waves!

Thank you to Mervyn for letting me copy his detailed, entertaining and beautifully presented account of his family’s history. Most of his family lived in Terling. This is one of the nearest villages to Witham, which is less than five miles away, so there were many links between the two places. A few of the family lived in Witham, but it mostly appears as the ‘big city’, that Terling people had to visit for anything important, like school, registering a birth, or attending the Petty Sessions if…

I use the Syndication Links plugin on my blog to link to social media posts that link back, or that I’ve incorporated into the blog entry. Or to mirrored photos on Flickr, or posts on Tumblr. As part of exploring Gopher, I’ve been cross-posting more, and decided I should start linking to the Gemini copies of my posts the same way. Except Syndication Links wouldn’t accept gemini: URLs. It would accept gopher: URLs. I dug around and determined that it’s not the plugin, but an internal…

What you are seeing here is a protuberance extruding from the venter of Quenstedtoceras cf. leachi (Sowerby). It is a pathology in the shell from hosting immature bivalves that shared the seas with these Middle Jurassic, Upper Callovian, Lamberti zone fauna from the Volga River basin. The collecting site is the now inactive Dubki commercial clay quarry and brickyard near Saratov, Russia.&

What happens when you allow yourself to be guided by your feet? I’d just had coffee with John Davies to talk through our talk at Wanstead Book Festival the following night focusing on John’s book of Soviet Maps, Red Atlas and also other mapping curiosities. It was a perfect afternoon for a walk and I had a strong feeling to just follow my nose and see where my feet led me. After initially resisting the lure of jumping on a tube or bus somewhere, I eventually found myself in the bed not the…

Link: Amazon pledges $1B to data center communities, warns that local opposition threatens U.S. AI lead, by Todd Bishop in GeekWireThis is a sign that protests are working:“Amazon says it will spend more than $1 billion over five years in the U.S. communities where it builds and operates data centers, responding to a growing backlash across the country against the tech industry’s massive AI infrastructure buildout.”But I’d consider this a settlement rather than a win: companies like Amazon need…

The Syndication Links plugin is great for linking out to social media posts related to your WordPress or ClassicPress blog entry. It can also send out those posts to some platforms. But it can’t possibly know every social network out there, or every Mastodon server, and so a lot sites outside the most common will show a generic website icon instead of something more specific. The plugin has a filter, syn_link_mapping, that you can use to add custom icons for different sites. You can also use it…

Welcome to The Film Noir Files, the noir series here at Shadows and Satin and over at Speakeasy, the blog authored by my pal Kristina, where each month we recommend a film noir feature for you to watch on TCM. We never know what the other has selected until we post, and part of the fun is trying to never pick the same movie! As I’d expected, I faced a bit of a challenge finding a film noir to recommend for October, especially with many gems airing this month that I’ve already highlighted, like…

Like a good book or an incredible outfit, being on vacation transports you into another version of yourself. Prologue Table of ContentsWhy People We Meet On Vacation?The BookConcluding Thoughts Why People We Meet On Vacation? I originally planned on reading People We Meet On Vacation two years ago on my vacation to Halifax. I thought it would be funny and cute to read a book with this name while on vacation. I even bought a physical copy of the book and took it with me to Halifax. I did not get…

<p>I&rsquo;ve been making things for a long time. While the destination was always fantastic - little is as catharic as making something truly novel <em>exist</em> - the journey is oft as important. My skills and experience that have powered my career and defined my character are hard earned through chasing that creator high.</p> <p>AI threatens that. I do not harbor the (frankly, justified) zealous hatred that many artists voice; nor do I adhere to their boycotting of the tools. I am not an AI…