Town Hall #21: Basement
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Well, I've become a painting goblin, minus the paint.
My days have been pleasantly packed with spring gardening, family time, deep work, lecture prep (4+ talks coming up), 3D modeling, etc.
Quiet is nice. Life is good. I'm alive.
But anyway, I've been up here long enough -- the basement beckons.
Writings
- Dear advertisers, please respect my thirst for novelty.
- the best words
- Foods for Straight Teeth & Easy Breathing
- ☆ long time; forgot to human
- Concat Arrays with SQL Aggregate Functions
- P&B: Taylor Troesh
- Why I Write Extremely
- ☆ Tidy Dice
- Hyper-Realistic 2037 Concept Car Interior
- Half-Star Emoji (for Half the Price)
Soon
| 2024.05.21-24 | Chicago, US | Circularity '24 |
| 2024.05.26-31 | Amsterdam, NL | DDD Europe |
| 2024.06.07-15 | Oslo, NO | NDC Oslo |
| 2024.07.04-07 | Los Angeles, US | Anime Expo |
| 2024.08.08-11 | Las Vegas, US | Def Con 32 |
| 2024.10.19-21 | Las Vegas, US | WWWY |
Thoughts
| 2024.04.17 | idea: hole-digging meditation workshop called "digging deeper with holistic meditation" |
| 2024.04.16 | if you don't disclose your baby's sex, you'll get fewer pink/blue gifts |
| 2024.04.13 | apparently acorns have no actual corn in them |
| 2024.04.12 | stringly-typed vs. strongly-typed |
| 2024.04.09 | Note to self: Meat is defensible, but my current lifestyle isn't. Factory meats are no good. |
| 2024.04.08 | "That's enough, Johnny! You're grounded. No dinner, no television, and definitely no sousaphone." |
| 2024.04.03 | if this gets 10 likes i will steal the declaration of independence |
| 2024.04.02 | :syntax off |
| 2024.03.30 | big idea: a minigolf course called Un Petit Put |
| 2024.03.29 | My laptop disconnects from the internet every 15 minutes (*/15 4-14 * * *) until I turn it on again. I built a sandcastle to dam the tides, and to restrain myself from rollicking in them. |
| 2024.03.29 | Chronic completionism is misery. |
Finds
| 2024.04.15 | "leviacene" complements "anthropocene" |
| 2024.04.14 | ♫ every day is the worst day of my life ♫ |
| 2024.04.14 | fear me, for i am an unstoppable and capricious god |
| 2024.04.12 | "I did some research into this some time ago. We were looking into "bio-light" using luciferase (the mentioned firefly protein). The thing is that that protein emits one photon for 1 ATP (fuel) molecule. The amount of ATP needed to make a 200 lumen plant, is kilograms per day. Completely unfeasible." -- @teekert |
| 2024.04.12 | say something old in a new way |
| 2024.04.11 | Nuclear Power Trio - Critical Bass Theory |
| 2024.04.11 | ninja warrior, but it's skateboards |
| 2024.04.10 | good dehydration recipes |
| 2024.04.09 | only morons and cowards "respond to incentives." healthy people do what they want to do if reasonably practical, great people do what they want to do no matter what. … -- @alicemazzy |
| 2024.04.04 | Check out the Future of Coding Weekly Digest and Slack Archive. |
| 2024.04.04 | Please convince my wife to let me turn our home into a charter house -- SCIENCE HOUSE! |
| 2024.03.28 | "Structured data. Not too much. Mostly text." |
| 2024.03.28 | a seven harp ensemble couldn't hold me back |
| 2024.03.28 | This is /now, a microblog. |
| 2024.03.28 | This is now a microblog. |
Books
| ★★★★★ | review | The World According to Garp :: John Irving |
| ★★★★★ | review | Educated :: Tara Westover |
| ★★★★ | review | The Night Circus :: Erin Morgenstein |
| ★★★★ | review | The Midnight Library :: Matt Haig |
| ★★★★ | review | The Dispossessed :: Ursula K. Le Guin |
| ★★★ | review | A Soil Owner's Manual :: Jon Stika |
| ★★★ | review | Paved Paradise :: Henry Grabar |
| ★★★ | review | The MANIAC :: Benjamin Labatut |
| ★★★ | review | Genius at Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway :: Siobhan Roberts |
| ★★ | review | What Do You Care What Other People Think? :: Richard P. Feynman |
| ★★ | review | The Upcycle :: William McDonough and Michael Braungart |
| ★★ | review | Nine Princes in Amber :: Roger Zelazny |
| ★★ | review | From Here to Eternity :: Caitlin Doughty |
| ★★ | review | Revolver: Sam Colt and the Six-Shooter That Changed America :: Jim Rasenberger, Jacques Roy, et al. |
| ★★ | review | Book Thief :: Markus Zusak |
| ★★ | review | Birnam Wood :: Eleanor Catton |
| ★ | review | Among Others :: Jo Walton |
| review | Little, Big :: John Crowley |
Music
| ★★★★★ | Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile :: The Goat Rodeo Sessions |
| ★★★★★ | The Lemon Twigs :: Everything Harmony |
| ★★★★★ | Janelle Monáe :: The ArchAndroid |
| ★★★★ | Strawberry Girls :: French Ghetto |
| ★★★★ | Portishead :: Third |
| ★★★★ | Hiromi :: Move |
| ★★★★ | DOMi & JD BECK :: NOT TiGHT |
| ★★★★ | A Skylit Drive :: Wires…And The Concept Of Breathing |
| ★★★ | The Octopus Project :: Hexadecagon |
| ★★★ | Sufjan Stevens :: The BQE |
| ★★★ | Nuclear Power Trio :: Wet Ass Plutonium |
| ★★★ | Nils Frahm :: All Melody |
| ★★★ | Nala Sinephro :: Space 1.8 |
| ★★★ | Jethro Tull :: War Child |
| ★★★ | Gupi :: All |
| ★★★ | Good Tiger :: A Head Full of Moonlight |
| ★★★ | Chick Corea :: Plays |
| ★★★ | Carmen Jaci :: Happy Child |
| ★★ | ooxygen :: Puppy - EP |
| ★★ | Technimatic :: Better Perspective |
| ★★ | TURQUOISEDEATH & vmrrobotic :: Fool's Sanctuary |
| ★★ | Swan Lake :: Beast Moans |
| ★★ | Snail's House :: Lumi |
| ★★ | Snail's House :: Imaginarium |
| ★★ | Rush :: Snakes & Arrows |
| ★★ | Near the Parenthesis :: L'Eixample |
| ★★ | Moonlit Sailor :: We Come from Exploding Stars |
| ★★ | LITE :: Multiple |
| ★★ | Into It. Over It. :: Figure |
| ★★ | Hitsujibungaku :: our hope |
| ★★ | Hitsujibungaku :: Tonneru Wo Nuketara |
| ★★ | Helloween :: Walls of Jericho |
| ★★ | Devendra Banhart :: Mala |
| ★★ | DZA :: XENOBOT.1 - EP |
| ★ | Joie De Vivre :: The North End |
| ★ | Frank lero and the Patience :: Parachutes |
| ★ | EXO :: EX'ACT - The 3rd Album |
| ★ | Drose :: Boy Man Machine |