Perfume PosseJoy Forever by Jean Patou Heya Posse! In the wake of the new L’Heure Bleue 2026 release by Guerlain I thought we could take a look at Patou’s Joy Forever. When it first came out in 2013 I sneered wholeheartedly at its usurpation of the… Continue Reading → Perfume PosseJoy Forever by Jean Patou

I wrote a post several years ago called Don’t Look at the Keys. I wrote it after having a minor breakthrough when starting to get back into a regular piano practice. When I was quite young, my first piano teacher used to tell me: “Don’t look at the keys when you’re playing the piano.” At the time I wrote the post in 2019, I was trying to do more sight reading, and this was a very useful heuristic to re-internalize. When you’re sight reading, it’s necessary to read directly from sheet music and…

A thing that used to be great on Twitter and is starting to get really good on Threads are big individual things or happenings that inspire all kinds of commentary and jokes. Big sporting events and tournaments (Super Bowl, World Cup, recently the WNBA Finals) are good for this. Famous people dying —— that's another good one. When a famous person dies and they were actually good people while they were alive (Dolly Parton is a good recent example), Twitter used to be —— and Threads currently is…

The night was dark and foggy, with visibility only a few meters outside the boat. But winds were light and going quite comfortable. Easy conditions have continued throughout the day. Wind shifted more to the west, allowing us to unfurl the full genoa on a beam reach. Going is slow but pleasant. Just before noon even the sun came out, allowing batteries to be replenished and some wet gear dried out. Since tomorrow we’ll likely sight New Zealand, we enjoyed a proper freshwater shower. Distance…

I am not a big city person. I do not like large crowds. And yet. In the process of preparing for a trip to Japan: insurance, entry paperwork, itineraries, that sort of thing. Originally, the plan was to explore some smaller, off-the-beaten-path destinations. But plans change.Now, it will be a week in Tokyo and a week in Osaka, both with side trips. The focus will be on museums, art exhibitions, funky jazz kissas, and cool coffee shops. Two weeks…a quick trip. In short: to wrap ourselves in…

“Most of us don’t need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.” –Robert Brault On a peaceful spring day, life at Café LycoReco is hectic as Chisato tries to find sake for one of the patrons. She stops briefly to share a conversation with Takina. Later, Chisato grows excited at […]

My baby girl just turned 7 months. I started working on two playlists for her over a year ago, before she was born, back when we called her Baby Z. [AI would never spend a year, let alone a day, on a playlist.] This first playlist is for all the nights I’m up with her for her midnight feeding, and for every other night after. This one’s for you, Rem. The first of many. Listen to Baby Zzz on Spotify

Everyone Loves a Dog – New York, New York I snapped a quick picture of the dog from a completely different vantage point. It was okay, but nothing special. I’m glad I followed through with this second photo because it is miles above the first one. What was originally envisioned as just a dog on the street with its owner turned into something special. I couldn’t have anticipated the reaction from the three men on the street. It obviously makes the picture. It’s also a wonderful slice of…

A little over a week ago, on the night of the Brazilian election runoff, I spent several hours going slowly from despair, to cautious hope, to a sort of weary joy. I live, these days, in a downtown area of São Paulo. I generally hate crowds, but on that night I did walk the length of Avenida Paulista, the city's de facto public square, where people were gathering—at first just to celebrate, and later on to hear president Lula's victory speech, which he delivered in front of the iconic Modernist…

Paddlers Coffee is quite a popular cafe that I’ve seen pop up a number of times now as I’ve been researching for new coffee shops to visit in Tokyo. It’s a little out of the way (in a suburb called Hatagaya a little bit west of Shibuya) but recently with the opening of the new indie bookstore Featherheart Books nearby, I finally had a good enough excuse to check it out. They are more of an espresso-style cafe, serving lattes (with soy or oat milk options available), plus cold brews. Paddlers…

I keep going back to stare at the map shown above in Apple News. It's wonderful to see how dramatically most of the country shifted their stance in the recent election. Opening the News app and smiling is a strange sensation, but a welcome one! Zooming in, look at this list of amazing things: Democrats will control both the House and the Senate Many states that have been run by Republicans for decades flipped significantly or entirely Most AI and crypto super PAC money was wasted on losing…

Last month, I learned that it’s apparently not common behavior in computer users to start fiddling with the URL of a link that they receive, just to see what happens. “It wouldn’t even come to my mind to do that!” was one reaction. And that’s how I ended up discovering a vulnerability on a service that I personally used. Unlike most security vulnerabilities that get reported nowadays, it didn’t take me a fleet of token-thirsty LLM-based agents to get the job done. I just noticed that the e-mail…

two Flags on Orange. Flag on Oranges. Examples of Flag on Orange, 1998, etching and aquatint, 27 x 20 in or so, ed. 2/27 [l] went to Agnes Gund, and ed. 13/27 [r] to MoMA Print people are just like, duh, but I love how aquatint reproduces the effects of paint so closely. And it only really occurs to me when looking at two of the same print. Like the two examples of Jasper Johns’s Flag on Orange (1998), the first edition he put out from his new Low Road Studio press, from Aggie Gund [left] and…

I've been interested in Mount Everest for roughly three decades now. I've read numerous books on the topic, including the 1997 classic INTO THIN AIR, and over the years I've also seen a number of documentaries.Needless to say, when I saw a poster for EVEREST: THE OTHER SIDE (2026) at my local theater I was intrigued and made plans to see it despite knowing little about it in advance.EVEREST: THE OTHER SIDE is a National Geographic documentary about climbers Jim Morrison and Hilaree Nelson,…

Survivor 51's players merged, ate grubs, and then spilled their guts—all over the grubs and camp, leading to a delightfully chaotic strategic scramble.

A couple months are, I received an email from a stranger who said they were a fan of the site and developed an app for me. I was kind of confused on how to take that at first, then realized how awesome that was and really excited about it. I figured since the midterms are over and nobody gets $5000 (ha! like they would have at all), I thought this would be a great time to share this. Ramen Journal can be found at www.theramenrater.com/journal. So, what does it do? It has a barcode scanner – and…

TF. TF. TF TF TF ! Thank fuck ! I know it ain’t over til the orange monster croaks -or whatever the saying is — but now that the creature from hell has been curbed, our compressed diaprhagms, mangled brains, our traumatized brain cells – ten years of this shit! It has been so difficult; more than we even realize, so fucking damaging for so many human beings; reckless; unconscionable; VILE. I have lost myself during this period, or at least gone awry; astray; diseased ( who knew that my malady…

A rude rat, a voidchicken, and a hanging lizard. Started by talking to everyone onboard the ship and sending the boy off to find us some Large Life Essences. No idea how long it takes or by what clock, but there's a lot of options for crafting ingredients to send him out for. Now that we have somewhere to store shit on the ship I was able to offload all the crafting supplies. I also noticed that I can't seem to find the necklace that we were given that was supposed to show we were friends with…

From late 2008 until 2017, I followed an anime review website called The Nihon Review. It died in 2017, but survived in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. I discussed the site, and offered a brief summary, in On Review Scoring Systems: he Nihon Review was an anime review and forum site that was mostly active from 2004-2016. It is no longer online, but it survives in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Nihon review had a number of anime reviewers (the roster changed over time), and they…

A bit of impromptu ramblings here. I was in the middle of racking my brain on how to create a child theme (I know, I can just open the theme tutorial on WPORG and follow it like a good student I should be, but I tend to go yeehaw-ing on things), then I ended up with thinking about featured images on my blog. From there, I found some things to… uh, rant about. Please note that this is not a jab on anyone. I know that folks at Automattic already on a stressful situation right now and having a…

Rick Wilkerson sat on a park bench watching a flock of pigeons absolutely devour a homeless man. He took a slow bite from a ham on rye, beside him his lunch bag the only other witness to the strange crime. To be certain, this wasn’t typical avian behaviour. He knew he should run away, but he’d never seen anything like this before. Shock kept him seated here, he supposed, and if he was being honest a bit of morbid curiosity, too. The world had been such a mess over the past decade or so. It…

Nilo®, a Vietnamese company, grows trees that bear a tropical fruit called soursop or guanábana, squeezes the fruits, and sells cans of the juice with pulp.

I reckon LLM agents can control CNC machines, and I reckon this already works today although I don't know if anyone is doing it yet. For annoying reasons I don't currently have any computer that has access to a CNC machine and the internet simultaneously so I can't immediately try this out but it would be good to experiment with. You could have a really simple AGENTS.md describing how to connect to FluidNC or whatever and parameters for the machine it's controlling, and then you could do simple…

There are a whole bunch of features and fixes coming to Safari with Apple’s OS 27.3 update. One that is not in the beta release notes but appears nevertheless is support for Global Privacy Control. This new standard is effectively a replacement for Do Not Track with legal muscle that should permit you to indicate your tracking preference one time and then, theoretically, never again see a cookie consent banner. In practice, it will take time for websites to add support, and it requires users to…

Glenn Ligon, Study for Negro Sunshine (Red) #5, 2019, oilstick and acrylic on paper, 16 x 12 in., being sold to benefit the Gund Art Foundation There’s something kind of great about so many of the works in Agnes Gund’s collection coming from benefit auctions. In a way, she understood the assignment: if an artist is going to be asked, and going to make the gesture of donating an artwork to a cause, someone needs to buy it. And one artist who donated works repeatedly is Glenn Ligon, and one…

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Welcome to Chud Nuremberg All of the major factions of the American right — Silicon Valley oligarchs, AI sex cult dweebs, Substack race scientists, Trumpist DC staffer goblins, psychotic Nazi wizards, and pickup truck selfie divorcés — are all on one app now. It’s the perfect honey pot. They spend their days on X getting their brains absolutely melted by the site’s infinite scroll 4chan feed and because they’re conservatives they obviously assume their sad, lonely worldview and experience…

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I have created a new OpenPGP key and will be transitioning away from my old key. Below is a signed statement. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 I have created a new OpenPGP key and will be transitioning away from my old key. As far as I know, my previous key has not been compromised and will remain valid for the foreseeable future. However, I plan to use my new key for all future signing and encryption. ## Previous key * Fingerprint: 4ABA 06DE B3ED 6251 03B7 CFF7 F692 B548 0172…