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Amazing detail as a Falcon leaves Earth from Florida. We can see the rocket exhaust turbulence and shape, and even sunspots.

photo by John Winkopp

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"Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and as gorgeous as a Caravaggio."

Vogue did an interview with him: https://www.vogue.com/article... and this is his website: https://www.tattoodcloth.com; his embroidery machine is, he says, 104 years old.

And wait till you hear what happened to next week!

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elton john emerging among muppet crocodiles

"Check out my torn shirt featuring famous punk band The Pretenders! Only 80 bucks at Bloomies!"

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Today is the last day the National Park Service is accepting comment on TFG’s proposed fucking monument to himself.

Please join me in being loud about it: https://parkplanning.nps.gov/document...

Went bike camping.

This video is nuts. 60fps e-ink display isn’t something I thought I’d see. I’ve said this before, but I am glad the open source hardware folks are out there doing their thing. The video at 9m13s really struck a chord with me. I too have solved problems I never wanted to learn about. From the transcript:

“Here's what full-time on this project looks like: I work more hours than I ever did at my job. Nights, weekends - the boundaries blur. I play fewer games. I have less free time.

I solve problems I never wanted to learn about.

And here's the thing: I don't regret it. Because it's mine. When I make a decision, it happens. When I solve a problem, it stays solved. When I want to implement a feature, I don't need to convince anyone. I'm tired. But it's my tired.”

The product page is here: https://www.crowdsupply.com/modos-te...

Although we could do with a few more flying saucers just to cheer things up

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I just found out that my friend and mentor, J.D. (Dan) Larson, passed away. He was found unresponsive by a neighbour. He was 91 years old.

Dan had a long career in high-energy physics. After a PhD at Caltech, he developed particle accelerator technology at Oak Ridge and Argonne. In the 1990s he stepped away from research to care for his elderly parents in Independence, MO. He had been in poor health for the last couple of years, and died in the home he'd been born in. Dan was my mother-in-law's companion.

This picture was taken in December 2014, and Dan is holding up a collage my partner made for him to thank him for taking her to the airport in the middle of the night (hence the "3:10" clock). Dan drove a very well-used 1990 Ford station wagon, which had many sensors broken or failing. The airbag light was constantly flashing, as did the indicator in the collage. A tremendously precise man, it didn't bother Dan that his gas gauge was broken: he knew exactly how many miles he got on a full tank.

I'll miss him.

this album caught my eye this morning while looking through the collection of someone who had followed me on bandcamp.

a little fried today, so maybe a description another time. suffice it to say it's cool, dense, expansive, one heck of an interesting musical journey so far

stream // purchase // download:
https://nebasolobenegodiakite....

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I like the shadow experiment in the bottom right. Gonna stick with that.

"New York is a big, mean, wonderful, impatient city that has waited 53 years to celebrate the team it cares about most. Despite the reflexive swagger of its fanbase — “Knicks in four!” became a rallying cry across the boroughs this year; then “Knicks in five!” when they lost a game — it was still nearly impossible to process, in the hours after its N.B.A. championship, that any of this had happened.

When New York comes together — really comes together — it is often in response to something tragic: 9/11, Sandy, Covid. Part of the magic of this run was the notion that uncomplicated joy was also an option. At least every 53 years or so." - Matt Flegenheimer

Photo credit: AP

Finally left some prints and a couple of copies of a book in a funny little anonymous art box we have in the town, which my friend made.

Previously
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It's done. I installed everything this morning, and within about 10 minutes, neighbors started coming by to play.

This is just me (my wife shot the vertical video) plinking around.

I'll post a bunch of process photos and notes on the blog and add a link to that here eventually, but as of today, I'm really pleased with the sound quality from the resonators.

It's lovely having soft tones float up through the living room window as random people stop by to make random music.

It's the whole reason why I built the thing in the first place.

...a kind soul has made the effort of compiling various dumps people have made of old Macintosh system fonts (and other user-inaccessible fonts, such as "eWorld Tight 18"!), including bitmap and early OpenType fonts, and released them as uniform FontFactory and Truetype files.

There are hundreds of fonts and variations here. In the days before live onscreen vector graphics each size had to be drawn separately, so they look different in ways you can't replicate just by up/downscaling one font.

https://github.com/JohnDDun...

Chicago15 is my madeline.

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