I do this manually each Saturday, usually in the morning over coffee: collating most of the little comments I’ve made on social media (as well as related notes), which I think of as my public scratch pad, during the preceding week. These days that mostly means post.lurk.org (especially because the Algorithm keeps kicking me off Facebook even though I’ve down nothing even remotely inappropriate). Sometimes the material pops up earlier or in expanded form.
▰ The phrase “unforeseen consequences” is generally employed by someone who has never read a science fiction novel in their life
▰ After guitar class I sometimes shoot a quick video of myself playing what my instructor had just gone over, especially chord voicings that are entirely new to (and currently befuddling) me, and my face in them always look like someone shared some sort of really shocking state secret — eyes wide, brow furrowed, mouth shut
▰ Donald Fagen needs to get Pushead to draw his next album cover just to see if the haters can resist the lure of purchasing it
▰ The best thing about a new Soderbergh movie is new Soderbergh interviews
▰ Sometimes elegant solutions are more elegant than they are solutions
▰ That explosion at 9:20am (San Francisco) on Thursday, February 9, 2023, was something else. Whew. Incredibly loud. Set the hair on my arms up and frazzled my nerves. I saw reports of sirens across the park, so I got the sense it was in the Sunset, not the Richmond District (where I live), because I wasn’t hearing the sirens here. Looks like it was on 22nd Avenue, maybe near Moraga?
▰ That thing where after playing a video game for a while you stand up and are all too aware that moving and looking around are entirely separate actions
▰ PCB designs are my visual cotton candy. (This is the 4Swing module from Gieskes.)
▰ Ooh, Jean Painlevé’s The Sounds of Science, with the Yo La Tengo score, has been added to the Criterion streaming service this month
▰ 1993: “I didn’t know if I should laugh or cry.”
2023: “I didn’t know if I should use the laugh emoji or the cry emoji.”