M & K Records is listed at RCS (location unknown). Eddie Quinteros: I think I was 13 or 14 when I joined the musician union at 14. I got busted playing a union house at 14 and after that I had to join, they were very powerful in those days! About 1956 I had another little group - we did a TV stint in San Francisco on KPIX... after I joined the union there was a singer bamed Bobby Freeman, and his manager saw me and wanted to know if I wanted to play guitar with them. He just had his song out…

It looks like we are doing this again--welcome to September's blog post about stuff I recently bought, stuff I would have tweeted about if I hadn't lost my X account to diabolical hackers, crackers, and fraud and deceit backers. Click the pictures below to get an eyeful of all the filthy details. In Mt. Airy, MD, in a shopping center with a Weis grocery store where you can buy Ovaltine and a Home Goods where you can buy the mass produced plastic Chinese Christmas decorations you need to fill up…

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I’ve been rocking an LG monitor that has noticeable burn-in. The old dog takes a while to flicker into life too. I’ve had it around eight years (the Dell before it lasted ten). I think the monitor is too dumb to be spying on me but I’m due an upgrade anyway.I picked up the BenQ RD280UG — the UG is the new 120Hz model.This dramatic reenactment is not me but my work day is worryingly similar.Was it worth the cost? It’s certainly not the cheapest monitor nor is it the most expensive. If it lasts…

I noticed that since having breasts that I am standing more upright, but not necessarily pushing my chest forward. A couple of other trusted people have noticed something similar. So was this a physical change (yet another one!) or was something psychological going on? I turned to ChatGPT for an answer, and it was more nuanced than I expected. With even quite modest breasts tissue the body's centre of balance changes and the person then learns to accommodate this by making constant subtle…

Ever since Piccalilli started to get traction, I’ve always seen CSS-Tricks, Smashing Magazine and A List Apart (among others) as peers. We all help each other behind the scenes and importantly, back each other. When CSS-Tricks was initially acquired by DigitalOcean, I was really happy for Chris. The work that he’d put into that publication was unreal with thousands of articles published along with elevating writers (including me) to building audiences of their own. It’s certainly something I…

Day Six in Tokyo Nabatame is back from the infirmary and his brief bout with mumps. Childhood mumps claimed my mother’s hearing but for Nabatame, it only took a sick day. The middle weekend is rapidly approaching and we have four wrestlers with zero wins and two kyujo (not including Hoshoryu). Juryo, however, is short … Continue reading Aki 2026: Day Six

My trip to Leipzig began, ofc, with S-Bahn chaos: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/muenchen-s-bahn-chaos-ursache-li.3548379?reduced=true. So I had to take an Uber to still catch my train. Lucky for me, the German train gods were with me, and I arrived on time at Leipzig’s main station. On Tuesday there was a meetup before the offical confereence but since I still had some time left I decided to first get a doner Then I used the two hours before the meetup to visit and walk around Leipzig. I…

First published 16 September 2008. I had no idea that this house was historically significant when I photographed it. It stands among many others along the Michigan Road on the north side of Plymouth, Indiana. I took pictures of many of these houses, but lingered longest before this one. It had the strongest presence. When blogger Hoosier Reborn saw this photo in my Old US 31 trip report, he pointed out that this house was built by Plymouth’s “first mayor/judge/state senator/land speculator.” I…

Sometimes we change our minds about big life choices: where we live, what career we pursue, who walks beside us. I’ve been pretty consistent so far, especially when it comes to what follows. A friend of mine wants to be donated to a body farm so she can “live again” by being prodded and measured in the hot sun for science. Not me. I want a different kind of life after life. Here’s a reminder of my plan, for anyone who needs or wants to know. When I die, I want to be gently curled into the fetal…

Further to yesterday’s post about improving this site’s performance, one of the lead developers of Grav was able to diagnose the problem. Turns out its an unruly plugin. Disable it, and rebuilding the site takes 2–3 seconds, versus the 15 minutes I was experiencing. Trouble is, that plugin’s author is less than responsive, so I’m not inclined to raise another issue or submit another PR. The developer did suggest an alternative, which I’ll try, but for now I am going to disable the plugin before…

1981 Western Technologies Platform: Atari 2600 “City by the Lake” is a very early Atari 2600 demonstration from Western Technologies, created as a technical showcase for what a newly established development team could achieve on Atari’s difficult-to-program console. The surviving material consists of a short looping animation showing a jet flying across a landscape while the reflection of a city shimmers in the water below. There is no player interaction or gameplay, but it provides a…

Some of my more interesting teaching ideas come when I get towards the end of what I have planned, and there's still a lot of class time left. Some days, I just finish. Some days I come up with something else because I've already let the class go early in the last week or two, and I don't want students to start to expect it.Yesterday I went to my Creative Writing class with worksheets, along with two sonnets: a traditional love sonnet by Constable and "My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the…

It began as a question, whether a person directing coding agents can build a faster drop-in Composer, and that question is answered. The compatible mode is finished and frozen as a control. viv continues as a research vehicle for package-manager design, one measured chapter at a time; Now exploring "Beyond composer" https://github.com/svandragt/vivace/blob/main/docs/research.md #projects #vivace

Jean Echenoz opens his tribute to his longtime editor and publisher, with an account that many other hopeful, and perhaps naïve, would-be authors might know well. It is 1979, he has just turned thirty-one, and he has finished writing a novel—his first: I don’t know if it’s my first; I don’t know if I’ll write … Continue reading "“We laugh, and I truly believe that we genuinely like each other.”: Jérôme Lindon by Jean Echenoz"

2019 police procedural mystery, tartan noir, fourth in the Jack Logan series. The Glencoe Mountain Rescue Team gets a shout, and finds a body, but not the one they were looking for.

There’s a shortage coming that nobody’s put on a slide yet: senior engineers. Every company on earth is about to want one who can drive a fleet of agents with judgment — and almost nobody is making new ones anymore, because AI ate the entry-level work juniors used to learn on. You cannot conjure a senior in a quarter. We just watched this exact movie with memory: DRAM prices went vertical because demand exploded and you can’t build a fab overnight. Senior engineers are next, and the only hedge…

"Wild Minds" is a 1998 science fiction short story by Michael Swanwick. It is about a man who refuses to be like everyone else and get his brain optimized. Non-Spoiler Summary In A Nutshell: "Wild Minds" follows Thom, a Catholic man who lives in a future Glasgow, Scotland. After meeting Hellene, an HR representative from Prague who does have an optimized brain, he brings her back to his place for a visit. She tries to convince him of the benefits of optimization, and he tries to explain the…

I turn 35 today, which feels like an age where I should probably have some things figured out. Not everything. That would be ridiculous. Don't be ridiculous. But maybe a few things. So I spent an unreasonable amount of time recently trying to figure out what I believe in. Not necessarily politically, or in the "which dead philosopher should I make my entire personality" sense (looks at his Marcus Aurelius and Buddha tattoos). More basic than that. What do I think makes a good life? Turns out…

Tuner (2025) • View trailerThree stars (out of five); rated R, for violence, dramatic intensity and considerable profanityAvailable via: Amazon Prime and other VOD optionsBy Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 9.20.26Of all the ways a film can fail, the most disappointing is when script, execution and tone show great promise during the first two acts... ...and then everything goes to hell during the third act, leaving viewers unsatisfied, and with an expression of bewildered “what…

The Aviatik C1 was introduced in 1915, one of the first German C-type armed reconnaissance aircraft.The observer/gunner sat in the forward cockpit with the pilot behind. This arrangement gave the observer's machine-gun a very limited range of fire, and in the last 50 aircraft produced the seating positions were reversed.To be honest, I'm not sure why I went to the effort of modelling this — probably because I wanted my Germans to have something as useless as the BE2c.

Time for a quick check-in with Latvian brewery Ārpus. Craft Central carries a vast array of their cans, and I judiciously picked a handful of ones that looked, shall we say, content-friendly.I began with something called Banana x Caramel x Pear Smoothie Sour Ale. For some unfathomable reason it was in the leftovers bargain bin section of the website. She's a messy bitch who lives for drama, overspilling the glass on pouring, then settling to a pug-ugly dull opaque beige colour. Of the named…

What’s going on, Internet? Today just seems like one of those days. It’s Friday evening and I’m standing here at my desk with a beer, messing with the blog. Placeholding some later posts that I meant to write but time got away on me. Listening to new music, playing new computer games, and watching new favourite old TV shows. Kids are in bed, and asleep. New golf clubs arrived. I got to have a swing at the range. New Miley Cyrus album. I was onto something, wasn’t I? Check out Bass Persuades,…

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What’s going on, Internet? If you don’t folllow my Bookmarks through the feed, then here’s the bookmarks from August. Enjoy. MOUSELING.net - Hyper Text Muck-up Language Solid tips for budding webmasters Welcome to the web we lost Sacha Judd tracing the good internet through X-Files fandom and webrings, and it’s still out there in the corners. How to Fix the Internet Not everything is fine on the Internet, but there’s an opportunity, and it starts with choosing what you pay attention to…

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Before I wax poetically – There's a new compilation out now, all proceeds go to World Central Kitchen and it is pretty awesome (Pyrrhon, Yhtill, Cave Sermon, Zeresh, etc). Check it out. My unending thanks to the good people at No Clean Singing and, well, Ian's Wolf's Week for shouting it out. This was supposed to be my "easy clicks" kind of post, envisioned in the twilight of 2019 as a counter to what I had conceived as being my obsession with bottom-heavy, abstract writing and way-too long…

Mt Hokkaido-Komagatake (北海道駒ヶ岳, hokkaido-koma-ga-dake) is one of the 200 Famous Mountains of Japan with an iconic pointy peak. It's also referred to as simply "Mt Komagatake" - however there are so many Komagatakes in Japan like Mt Kiso-komagatake, Mt Aizu-komagatake, Mt Echigo-komagatake, Mt Kai-komagatake (the list goes on...) that it's really worth being more specific than that! It's right near Onuma Quasi-National Park, and could make for a good side trip from Hakodate if you are looking…

iOS 27 with Liquid Glass dialled to max tinted is pretty great. The performance seems way up. I’ll probably give macOS 27 a go now (I avoided 26), but I’m a little wary of those Apple Intelligence tendrils.