Photo taken (of the home my Grandparents lived in for 70+ years) in July 2022 in Owosso Michigan with a Pixel. Culture # Found out about some wine documentaries when riding bicycles: Somm (2012) Somm: Into the Bottle (2015) Somm III (2018) Red Obsession (2013) Blood into Wine (2010) Tavour allows you to build out a custom box of craft beer and ship it to your home. However in Michigan this is currently impossible due to rough public policy. ...
Photo taken (Of Enoch the dog!) in May 2022 in Fulton Heights of Grand Rapids Michigan with a Pixel. Culture # Slack is something I’ve been looking to read more about, these two articles were interesting: My slack budget: 3 surprise problems per week Slack gives you space to notice/reflect on subtle things We saw a Sylvansport Go, seems like a great way to rapidly tent and keep yourself off the ground. ...
Photo taken (Of Enoch the dog!) in March 2022 in Fulton Heights of Grand Rapids Michigan with a Pixel. Culture # Brandon Sanderson did a crowd funding campaign for some previously un-announced novels in the Cosmere universe. Recently played Wingspan which has excellent game mechanics and a good deal of learning about birds! The same publisher has Scythe which is based on the works of Jakub Różalski. His alternative history dieselpunk steampunk mecha work is the basis for a crowd funded game called Iron Harvest. ...
Photo taken in March 2022 at Vintage Tube Services in Belding, Michigan with a Pixel. Culture # 100 years of whatever this will be with a thoughtful call for better regulatory foundations. With that last one being a bit heavy, Underrated reasons to be thankful is actually quite uplifting. An article on the phones of the Ukrainian President, which has all kinds of links to historical nation state networks. Was interesting to re-read about DSN and DRSN Maybe you should do less “work” (Hn discussion), which lead to reading about slack and expanding premium mediocrity. ...
Photo taken in September 2016 at Speyside Cooperage in Dufftown, Scotland with a Sony Alpha α7II, FE 28mm F/2. Culture # History of Czechoslovak LSD is the story of legality of LSD manufacture and use in an authoritarian communist state (After LSD had been largely banned in western society). Protocols not Platforms apparently inspired twitter to announce funding an open source decentralized standard for social media. History of Fidonet by Tom Jennings tells an interesting story. ...
Photo taken in October 2019 at The Storr in Isle of Skye, Scotland with a DJI Mavic 2 Pro. The last half of this year really got away from me in terms of writing things down and actually sharing it. These links are culled from a much larger list accumulated over the last seven months. Culture # Slow TV is a short documentary examining a Nordic cultural phenomena of watching things like train journeys, ferry boat rides, people knitting, etc. ...
Photo taken in December 2018 at Greenfield Village’s Weaving Shop in Dearborn, Michigan with a Pixel. It’s been a bit since the last assorted links. These are good for me (to keep track of my scouring), taking a break wasn’t a great idea. Culture # Danheim released a couple new albums and I’ve been playing them constantly. Found an artist named Chronotope Project which has a series of fantastic albums. ...
Photo taken in July 2016 at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area in Las Vegas, Nevada with a Sony Alpha α7II, FE 28mm F/2. Finally settled into Hugo. Seems that for now it’s ushered in a boon of reading and writing. Transitioning content from ghost was necessarily manual so I could re-read/edit/remove. It’s felt good to clean house a bit. Also adding a travel section so I can remember places that I’d like to go visit. ...
Photo taken in July 2016 at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area in Las Vegas, Nevada with a Sony Alpha α7II, FE 28mm F/2. Little late… I’ve been dragging my feet as on writing as I’ve become irritated (maybe for the final time) in the direction Ghost is headed. I’ve been mucking about with Hugo and am trying to decide on exactly how I want things to look before transitioning. ...
Photo taken in July 2016 at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area in Las Vegas, Nevada with a Sony Alpha α7II, FE 28mm F/2. Couple days late due to some travel, but this one was larger than my first attempt. Culture # There was an interesting article about bloat in our current web experience titled the The Bullshit Web which was pretty dang interesting, especially for those of us who are between 30 and 40 and watched this phenomena occur pretty intimately. ...