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Are we not men?
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A street sign: "This dimension protected by houses who walk like men; For more information call: 1-844-517-4445 Ext: 781". The sign hass ome stickers and graffiti. There are three stylized logos of red houses with little feet and an eyeball.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
More surreal Toronto street art signs at the link. "Warning! Frog", etc. The phone number apparently works but I haven't called it yet!
More surreal Toronto street art signs at the link. "Warning! Frog", etc. The phone number apparently works but I haven't called it yet!
Lunch
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Bowl of ramen
Niban broth with fresh noodles, tare of mixed fats, tamari, fish sauce and mirin, topped with eel jerky, jalapeno brined egg, and rib meat leftover from last night's grillin', toaster-roasted nori, and nori furikake
DAMNIT
Good golly!
bury it deep
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A large, rusty round door is embedded in a dull green concrete wall. The door, if that's what it is, has various bolts, vents, and complexities that make the purpose hard to define. To the left and connected to it is a small keypad with glowing green and red lights. Above it is a pipe, and a single glowing fluorescent light. On the wall above it is a faded stencil of "30" in red paint, and a grimy sign with a red triangle on it. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
Black Mesa Research Facility with a different art director. :-)
endorse me for "bonafide sludgesicle man" on linkedin
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https://www.kexp.org/media/filer_public/6a/6a/6a6ac083-7fe4-434e-8d54-9006d860c030/michael-stipe-scrummy.gif
per my "adventures of pete & pete" rewatching over the weekend (see: https://mltshp.com/p/1RTSB)
of all the wondrous cameos dotting the series (iggy pop! juliana hatfield! marshall crenshaw! kate pierson!) i had completely blanked on the fact that michael stipe himself popped up in one of the (pre-series) specials - "what we did on our summer vacation", which aired in 1991
also, important addendum, i need that "captain scrummy" cap ASAP
of all the wondrous cameos dotting the series (iggy pop! juliana hatfield! marshall crenshaw! kate pierson!) i had completely blanked on the fact that michael stipe himself popped up in one of the (pre-series) specials - "what we did on our summer vacation", which aired in 1991
also, important addendum, i need that "captain scrummy" cap ASAP
"sludgesicle" is a subgenre of metal that deserves to be invented.
IIRC the band at the school dance is Luscious Jackson.
@ardgedee LOL, would 100% be at the forefront of this very gooey movement
Fun fact: The Devil Wears Prada 2 is exactly the right length for one platelet donation
why do I feel this way?
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airbrushed illustration of a drink on the rocks with a cherry hovering over it
ARE YOU BEING SEXUALLY AROUSED BY THIS PICTURE?
Because using exacto blades to physically mask an image is hot!
@heyitsal Ha!
I did a thing yesterday
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A cyclist on a gravel road at dawn with a misty river in the distance
I am visiting Minnesota for a week. Yesterday was the culmination of my year-long bicycle training and my brother and I rode The DAMn - the day across Minnesota gravel bike race. Starting on the South Dakota border at midnight, Aug 1st we had 24 hours to get across the Wisconsin border on a set course consisting of 80% gravel roads through river bottoms and expansive ag fields.
You got to Wowsville! At least in my estimation!
DAMn that's some serious riding, hope it all went smoothly and you're getting some good rest today. I've done many gravel rides, but the longest was just over half of the DAMn, and nothing at all recently. I'm out for a much shorter and easier ride around Mpls today.
It was awesome getting to explore a part of MN that I've not really spent much time in, @wjcstp. The Minnesota River valley is gorgeous and I had the pleasure of being down in there at misty sunrise. And your bicycling community eats sleeps and breathes "Minnesota Nice" really well. Didn't hurt they offer up a cold pint of Spotted Cow at the finish line too.
Me and my mural
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A good friend of mine dropped by and wanted to take my picture.
This Modern World
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A cartoon by Tom Tomorrow
*sob*
also: FCKING VOTE!!!
also: FCKING VOTE!!!
The RFK quote text looooooooooool
How long before Rump poops out yet another cabinet member, explosively?
mv_rn
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That green thing is the “dumpster” at #letoile. And these pixies are dancing on it apropos of some island based Up with People offshoot… or so I’m told…
It’s not entirely clear…
the extended bus rides and the cannabis I’m forced to consume to tolerate them make for strange bedfellows from time to time…
Hell…
It’s August, I’m tired, they might not even be there….
I should take a photo…
Wait.
It’s not entirely clear…
the extended bus rides and the cannabis I’m forced to consume to tolerate them make for strange bedfellows from time to time…
Hell…
It’s August, I’m tired, they might not even be there….
I should take a photo…
Wait.
You really are on a marathon to October. I hope to visit that restaurant someday.
“Angela” (theme from Taxi) - Bob James and Mikael Jorgensen
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Video from the audience (I assume) of Bob James on stage at Solid Sound. He’s seated in front of a keyboard that is facing the audience. The stage is dark behind him, save for three downward-facing spotlights illuminating the stage. He starts playing “Angela,” the theme from “Taxi,” and is soon joined by Mikael Jorgensen, keyboardist of Wilco, who is standing at a keyboard perpendicular to Bob.
“At the end of the second night [of Solid Sound at MASSMoCA in the Berkshires at the end of June] Jeff Tweedy [of Wilco] suggested that Bob James and Mikael [Jorgensen, Wilco keyboardist] walk out just before Wilco’s Saturday closing set and perform ‘Angela’, the iconic theme from the TV show ‘Taxi’.”
Mikael Jorgensen first met Bob James when he was very young because his father was Bob’s recording engineer from 1975-1990. “In October 2022 Mikael saw Bob perform at The Catalina Jazz Club in Los Angeles after not seeing him for over 30 years. Their brief post-show interaction felt like there was more to say, so Jorgensen decided to direct a film that told Bob’s story.”
Read more about the upcoming documentary “Bob James: Avant Smooth”: https://www.bobjamesdoc.com
See also this article from WAMC: https://www.wamc.org/news...
Mikael Jorgensen first met Bob James when he was very young because his father was Bob’s recording engineer from 1975-1990. “In October 2022 Mikael saw Bob perform at The Catalina Jazz Club in Los Angeles after not seeing him for over 30 years. Their brief post-show interaction felt like there was more to say, so Jorgensen decided to direct a film that told Bob’s story.”
Read more about the upcoming documentary “Bob James: Avant Smooth”: https://www.bobjamesdoc.com
See also this article from WAMC: https://www.wamc.org/news...
Here’s a lovely 10-minute mix of Bob James’ songs “Curated & Mixed by: Wiz”: https://mltshp.com/p/1RDYE
it delighted me that Bob James even goes "ba-baa, ba-BAA!" to this tune
Under the Milky Way tonight
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Nightside view of Earth and Milky Way
Astronaut Don Pettit took this photo from the ISS using a modified tracking camera. See linked comments for more info. Not AI
https://www.threads.com/share...
https://www.threads.com/share...
This is what I’ve always imagined the view to be from Straylight in “Neuromancer.”
@MackReed I can smell the inside of the tug from memory
@MackReed YES! So clear.
And @idogcow, 'Mute be playin' a righteous dub.
And @idogcow, 'Mute be playin' a righteous dub.
Living in the 90's CD Commercial
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Man I hate the 500 miles song so much.
@dad I sang 500 miles with a bunch of teachers at one of our school talent shows. It was a lot of fun.
I would buy this on vinyl right now.
manual code review
Jurassic nerdery
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Dude in the Jurassic Park office with about 4 computers on his desk
"For a film shot in 1993 — when a lot of households still didn’t have computers — Jurassic Park contained a ton of them. The offices in the movie have everything from Mac powerbooks to high-end graphics-workstations and even supercomputers. Silicon Graphics donated $875,000 worth of computer equipment, Apple donated $350,000, and the filmmakers got another $500,000 of “additional hardware and software”.
Over at his blog, Fabian Sanglard has written a byzantine exegesis of every computer that appears onscreen; he’s got over three dozen screenshots, and he outlines every machine in each."
Source: https://fabiensanglard.net/jurrasic...
Over at his blog, Fabian Sanglard has written a byzantine exegesis of every computer that appears onscreen; he’s got over three dozen screenshots, and he outlines every machine in each."
Source: https://fabiensanglard.net/jurrasic...
It's a Unix system. I know this!
Failed Postcards...
some new-old (old-new?) music next week
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square instagram photo, somewhat low res: OP (left) sitting on a couch, hunched over a nylon string guitar, with one side of a stereo pair of mics in front of him. to his right, a second person fallen asleep on a pile of mic cases on the other side of the couch. behind them is a studio sound diffuser on the wall
something coming down the pipeline, thought i’d let MLTSHP know about it first.
a few months ago, when i moved to a new laptop, i found an intriguing session bounce, labeled only “windmills - nick - acoustic”.
it turned out to be a long, uncut stereo recording of me in 2015, noodling through some song ideas for the windmills drummer while we took a break from recording a full band track. (photographic evidence above; i lulled him to sleep)
in between the noodling, the rambling, and the joking, there were a few songs i played all the way through in somewhat-coherent form. they were rough, but at least somewhat complete, so i thought “why not release ‘em?"
god bless my friend dereck, who engineered the original sessions. (https://www.quiethouserecording.com/) he not only found the original session files in his archives, but he was able to extract them, do some basic mixing/mastering, and turn them into usable tracks in less than an hour. bless him, he’s too good.
so! next week, probably on the next bandcamp friday, i’ll release a few scruffy tracks. listen for free, pay a few bucks for a download if you like ‘em. i’ll consider it motivation to work on new music, which i’ve been kind of missing (and lightly dabbling with again) lately.
will post when they’re out in the wild, but you can keep an eye on my page if you like:
https://nmgarcia.bandcamp.com
a few months ago, when i moved to a new laptop, i found an intriguing session bounce, labeled only “windmills - nick - acoustic”.
it turned out to be a long, uncut stereo recording of me in 2015, noodling through some song ideas for the windmills drummer while we took a break from recording a full band track. (photographic evidence above; i lulled him to sleep)
in between the noodling, the rambling, and the joking, there were a few songs i played all the way through in somewhat-coherent form. they were rough, but at least somewhat complete, so i thought “why not release ‘em?"
god bless my friend dereck, who engineered the original sessions. (https://www.quiethouserecording.com/) he not only found the original session files in his archives, but he was able to extract them, do some basic mixing/mastering, and turn them into usable tracks in less than an hour. bless him, he’s too good.
so! next week, probably on the next bandcamp friday, i’ll release a few scruffy tracks. listen for free, pay a few bucks for a download if you like ‘em. i’ll consider it motivation to work on new music, which i’ve been kind of missing (and lightly dabbling with again) lately.
will post when they’re out in the wild, but you can keep an eye on my page if you like:
https://nmgarcia.bandcamp.com
Meet Willem
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A Lagotto Romagnolo pup, white-brown (roan) curly with a brown head and a white streak on his forehead
Our newest member of the household. He’s 8 weeks old and the cutest.
So cute!!!
Very wiggly I bet!
Breakfast
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Toast on a plate
Toasted Grand Central Bakery potato sourdough, with alderwood smoked salmon from the Warm Springs reservation (paid a lot extra to help with their fire recovery), freshly boiled eggs from Deck Farms and ground mustard from our garden.
Ground mustard!
I have an unused pepermolen I just found a use for!
I have an unused pepermolen I just found a use for!
@joost I use it on everything particularly when I learned the health benefits
Your task today
Aussie Beer Prank
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I usually hate pranks, I suffer from secondhand/vicarious embarrassment big time. But this, this I enjoyed. Harmless and fun.
"I wish my arm was shorter because it feels like grabbin’ ya!" 😁
Also, it doesn't get more Aussie pub than this pub.
"I wish my arm was shorter because it feels like grabbin’ ya!" 😁
Also, it doesn't get more Aussie pub than this pub.
I love Phil.
jesus christ what happened to you?
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christ statue face mostly torn up
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Buttpoems
today at the Repair Fair
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a 3D printer with a little printed orange boat inside sits on a wooden stage in an old town hall building in front of a painted curtain which has a tableau of the floating bruidge (which is right outside)
I went to help people with tech at the Repair Fair today, It was in Brookfiend Vermont (pop. 900-ish), one town over from where I live which has as its claim to fame, a floating bridge. The event was at the local town hall building which has been lovingly restored including a painted theater curtain which has a view of the floating bridge. I brought my friend Matt and HE brought his 3D printer. Not a lot of people needed tech help but a lot of people had questions about the 3D printer. The whole time I was thinking "Damn, I really should have brought my mending"
workhorse of a printer. only problems I've had with mine is occasional filament breaks inside the AMS which required a annoying amount of disassembly to fix.
I also only use it in local mode, because fuck cloud connected devices that can catch fire.
I also only use it in local mode, because fuck cloud connected devices that can catch fire.
@cristin this is also my current printer, which has been a performance revelation after the Voxilab Aquila I started with. I’m even printing useful things sometimes (mostly not) and I am sure I’ve logged more hours I. 6 months than I did in 4 years with the old one.
@crazyunclejoe I just spent a few hours this weekend reclaiming time-lapse video using homeAssistant, the bambu HACS integration which sees all the printer data, and a small shell script.
because in their wisdom, the bambu people made time-lapse only available if you have the cloud access turned on.
Today I printed a two key keyboard switch holder to attach to my dog door opener, and also two limit switch brackets to hold the limit switches in place permanently because the temporary testing limit switch adhesive of hot glue doesn't work long run :)
but yeah, done so much printing with this thing. accessories for my desk, computer bracket to hold a raspberry pi behind a monitor and also a GPIO switch in the right position, holders to mount my headphone and audio switcher on the bookcase next to my desk, very cute halloween votive candle covers, and thousands and thousands of anti-ice whistles.
because in their wisdom, the bambu people made time-lapse only available if you have the cloud access turned on.
Today I printed a two key keyboard switch holder to attach to my dog door opener, and also two limit switch brackets to hold the limit switches in place permanently because the temporary testing limit switch adhesive of hot glue doesn't work long run :)
but yeah, done so much printing with this thing. accessories for my desk, computer bracket to hold a raspberry pi behind a monitor and also a GPIO switch in the right position, holders to mount my headphone and audio switcher on the bookcase next to my desk, very cute halloween votive candle covers, and thousands and thousands of anti-ice whistles.
Backstage Pass
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Photo of a disembodied hand holding a backstage pass that reads :
Styx
AFTER SHOW
2026
AUG 01 2026
With an image of a bird ion the background
Styx
AFTER SHOW
2026
AUG 01 2026
With an image of a bird ion the background
Last night I was pretty much Jenny Wright's character in The Wall—except the old man up past his bedtime version.
Suddenly your heart is pounding
Wishing secretly you were a star
Wishing secretly you were a star
Marilyn street collage
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A black and white print of a 1954 photograph of Marilyn Monroe, "Ballerina Sitting," Milton Greene, has been cut into 4 or 5 (one of the pieces is upside-down) pieces and left by the stone steps of an apartment building next to some other trash and brown leaves.
my own photo
saved to /marilynmonroe!