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\n\nMeliorism (Latin melior, better): the idea that progress is a real concept and humans can interfere with natural processes to improve the world.
\n
What would it look like to embrace pragmatic meliorism instead of cynicism?
\nThis is harder than cynicism by orders of magnitude. It takes nuance, effort, and (critically) emotional risk. But it’s also more likely to actually improve things.
\nFrom Joan Westerberg We Don’t Need More Cynics. We Need More Builders.
\n", "date_published": "2025-01-17T10:05:49-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2025/01/17/an-open-call-for-pragmatic/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Helpful","Link"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2024/06/26/just-backed-the-latest-orbitkey/", "content_html": "Just backed the latest OrbitKey
\n", "date_published": "2024-06-26T20:06:38-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2024/06/26/just-backed-the-latest-orbitkey/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Link"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2024/06/22/oof-i-just-spent-hours/", "content_html": "Oof. I just spent hours answering questions for a survey about ADHD. Go [@catieosaurus]!(https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7ia8GKMYr2/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==) It made me feel things and remember things, but also helped me to feel proud of everything I have managed to accomplish despite this. Please share. If you have the diagnosis or are seeking it, I see you.
\n", "date_published": "2024-06-22T18:45:32-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2024/06/22/oof-i-just-spent-hours/", "tags": ["Himself","Brilliant"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2023/06/28/saints-at-bat-versus-the/", "content_html": "Saints at bat versus the Stripers
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\n📷
\nStorybook ending to the game: Saints were down by one at the bottom of the ninth. Bases were loaded after 2 outs. Final hit of the game hit the home run wall. Saints won, 13-9.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-28T12:40:38-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2023/06/28/saints-at-bat-versus-the/", "tags": ["Photos","Brilliant","Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2022/11/25/yesterday-i-found-about-twitter/", "content_html": "Yesterday I found about 8 Twitter accounts that I follow mentioned or listed a Mastodon address. Did a quick Twitter search for “mastodon” on followed accounts. Today I learned of Debirdify, which helped me to find about 100 more accounts I could follow directly from Micro.blog.
\n", "date_published": "2022-11-25T22:28:21-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2022/11/25/yesterday-i-found-about-twitter/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Helpful","Link"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2022/09/19/as-someone-who-has-read/", "content_html": "As someone who has read Neuromancer (on paper) (in the 1980s), I adore this: Hackaday Cyberdeck Contest
\n", "date_published": "2022-09-19T18:00:28-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2022/09/19/as-someone-who-has-read/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Link"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2022/09/10/first-time-visit-to-bauer/", "content_html": "First time visit to Bauer Brothers Salvage today was purposeful, to get a piece we had seen online. Let me just say, for old house people, it’s a wonderland. Lots to love!
\n", "date_published": "2022-09-10T09:35:49-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2022/09/10/first-time-visit-to-bauer/", "tags": ["Brilliant"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2022/05/27/its-funny-until-you-read/", "content_html": "It’s “funny”. Until you read the bylines. The Onion
\n", "date_published": "2022-05-27T17:52:18-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2022/05/27/its-funny-until-you-read/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Link"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2022/02/02/listening-to-a-lot-of/", "content_html": "Listening to a lot of Seasurfer lately. I discovered them a few years ago and was reacquainted with them again a few weeks ago. Most recent album has what would call more of a dark wave sound, more synth. Earlier albums I would call more shoegaze. But layers, distortion, reverb and harmonies all throughout
\n", "date_published": "2022-02-02T21:16:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2022/02/02/listening-to-a-lot-of/", "tags": ["Music","Brilliant"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2022/01/18/we-never-wax-steady-we/", "content_html": "\n\nWe never wax steady, we wax and wane.
\n
\nWe never wax steady, we wax and wane.
Brought to you by Deftones covering Cocteau Twins’ Wax and Wane
\n", "date_published": "2022-01-18T10:00:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2022/01/18/we-never-wax-steady-we/", "tags": ["Music","Brilliant","Link"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/12/29/read-nicholas-bates-your-word/", "content_html": "Read Nicholas Bate’s Your 2022 Word.
\nMy word for 2022 is Grow
\nIt’s not a resolution, nor a command. But it encapsulates so much on my mind.
\n", "date_published": "2021-12-29T11:59:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/12/29/read-nicholas-bates-your-word/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/11/28/inoreader-has-a-special-for/", "content_html": "Inoreader has a special for the next few days: 18 months of Pro for the price of 12.
\nI just renewed, carrying me into 2024. I must have done something similar last year?
\n", "date_published": "2021-11-28T14:48:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/11/28/inoreader-has-a-special-for/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Helpful","Link"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/11/28/was-just-introduced-to-the/", "content_html": "Was just introduced to the ideas of Ken Wilbur’s Integral Theory via the SLOWW Sunday newsletter.
\nThere’s a lot to unpack, here.
\n", "date_published": "2021-11-28T14:29:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/11/28/was-just-introduced-to-the/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Helpful","Status","Link"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/10/20/the-best-rss-feed-readers/", "content_html": "The Best RSS Feed Readers for Streamlining the Internet
\nI’m a paid Inoreader user. Arrived there from Feedly<Google Reader<AvantGo<PointCast and other local tools.
\nI highly recommend RSS to deliver your news to you. Beats re-checking a long list of favorites for updates, by far.
\n", "date_published": "2021-10-20T21:15:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/10/20/the-best-rss-feed-readers/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Link"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/10/03/when-you-find-a-british/", "content_html": "When you find a British show about designing kitchens and discover that you had already been following the firm on Instagram: deVOL Kitchens
\n", "date_published": "2021-10-03T11:12:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/10/03/when-you-find-a-british/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Link"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/07/25/we-have-become-the-data/", "content_html": "“…We have become the data we were supposed to be stealing or subverting.”
\nCyberpunk, Anti-Politics, and Postmodern Despair
\nI am Gen X. I was a Mondo 2000 reader.
\n", "date_published": "2021-07-25T16:23:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/07/25/we-have-become-the-data/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Link"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/07/19/i-have-a-new-vice/", "content_html": "I have a new vice: Spicy Japanese Peanuts from Picosita Candy
\nThey are covered in Tajin
\n", "date_published": "2021-07-19T17:56:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/07/19/i-have-a-new-vice/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Link"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/06/23/the-ambitions-are-wake-up/", "content_html": "\nShuffle Play unearthed a favorite. Nicole Blackman vocals with The Golden Palominos
\n", "date_published": "2021-06-23T17:18:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/06/23/the-ambitions-are-wake-up/", "tags": ["Music","Brilliant","Link"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/06/14/i-do-not-have-a/", "content_html": "I do not have a subscription to read the Washington Post, where the source article appeared, but I appreciate the quotes pulled out at 9TO5Mac. This seems like an appropriate stance for technology companies to take, and I appreciate it.
\nMicrosoft president attacks type of government gag order imposed on Apple
\nEspecially the sentiment behind this statement:
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2021-06-14T09:03:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/06/14/i-do-not-have-a/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Link"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/05/29/box-office-flops-that-are/", "content_html": "So that’s what they do. In secret. By serving search warrants on companies such as Apple, Google and Microsoft to obtain emails and messages that belong to our customers.
\n
35 Box Office Flops That Are Actually Worth Watching
\nKinda nice to get a second opinion on some titles I was already considering.
\nI have a long queue on DVD Netflix…
\n", "date_published": "2021-05-29T10:34:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/05/29/box-office-flops-that-are/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Link"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/05/04/minnesota-state-fair-announces-walkaround/", "content_html": "Minnesota State Fair Announces Walk-Around Days
\n“The fairgrounds will be open for a five-day ‘mini Fair’ over Memorial Day weekend with capped attendance.”
\n\n", "date_published": "2021-05-04T11:22:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/05/04/minnesota-state-fair-announces-walkaround/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Link"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/04/17/listening-to-the-nineties-today/", "content_html": "Listening to the Nineties, today.
\nThe author of a sub-blog I follow produced a series of posts called Insanely Great Nineties Songs You Aren’t Sick Of. Start here if that speaks to you… He has a post per-year and links to YouTube videos of all of the songs he mentions.
\nI worked for a record store from the summer of 1990 to the summer of 1994 and these hit home for me. But fair warning, these are mostly not Top 40 song lists.
\n", "date_published": "2021-04-17T18:08:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/04/17/listening-to-the-nineties-today/", "tags": ["Music","Brilliant","Link"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/04/04/the-forgotten-director-who-gave/", "content_html": "The forgotten director who gave us The Force, inspired 2001, and changed film
\n@ Ars Technica
\n", "date_published": "2021-04-04T15:52:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/04/04/the-forgotten-director-who-gave/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Link"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/03/13/so-theres-a-music-project/", "content_html": "So there’s a music project called Lost Horizons—that I didn’t know about 30 minutes ago—that features former Cocteau Twin Simon Raymonde and Richard Thomas who has drummed with Dif Jus and Jesus and Mary Chain. Their In Quiet Moments album includes a track called Every Beat that Passed which is the most Cocteau-Twins-like music I have heard since… Cocteau Twins. This project is no attempt to return to that sound, but that track is spectacular. The tracks I have heard from the same album have a Saint Etienne vibe, in that the tracks recall the 60s and 70s.
\n", "date_published": "2021-03-13T21:26:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/03/13/so-theres-a-music-project/", "tags": ["Music","Brilliant"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/03/13/i-am-very-pleasantly-surprised/", "content_html": "I am very pleasantly surprised with the most current release of the iOS Bullet Journal application. It is in no way designed to take the place of your paper journal. But allows you to photo your pages and assign them to a calendar day and page number inside of a journal. Another nice feature is the ability to assign a page to a Collection.
\nMost importantly, it backs up to the iOS Files application. I can use my iCloud Drive to store the backup file. No new account is required. No new subscription is needed.
\nThe application fully supports the Bullet Journal methodology, but gives you a way to review your notes even if you are away from the physical copy.
\nLastly, in a pinch, there is an ephemeral 72-hour Log for Tasks, Notes and Events. This provides a way to continue to capture until you can return to your paper Journal.
\nLovely.
\n", "date_published": "2021-03-13T16:55:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/03/13/i-am-very-pleasantly-surprised/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Helpful"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/03/10/today-i-learned-about-xkpasswd/", "content_html": "Today I learned about xkpasswd, a password generator inspired by the xkcd comic.
\nThe internet is brilliant when you look for the helpers.
\n", "date_published": "2021-03-10T09:35:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/03/10/today-i-learned-about-xkpasswd/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Link"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/03/03/dare-mighty-things-via/", "content_html": "\n\n", "date_published": "2021-03-03T07:20:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/03/03/dare-mighty-things-via/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Link"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/03/02/the-major-effect-of-testosterone/", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2021-03-02T16:30:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/03/02/the-major-effect-of-testosterone/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Helpful","TIL","Link"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/03/01/ish-books-on-autism-and/", "content_html": "100-ish Books on Autism and Neurodiversity
\nBooks approved by the autistic community about the autistic community
\n", "date_published": "2021-03-01T13:11:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/03/01/ish-books-on-autism-and/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Link"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/02/23/a-colleague-shared-this-and/", "content_html": "A colleague shared this and I don’t want to lose track of it:
\nRic Elias: 3 Things I Learned While My Plane Crashed
\nIt is a powerful few minutes.
\n", "date_published": "2021-02-23T08:08:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/02/23/a-colleague-shared-this-and/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Link"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/02/20/between-the-apps-i-use/", "content_html": "Between the apps I use and my browser history, I can’t figure out who had the link to the “Beautiful Bubble”–however I fully support and endorse this. I had already taken several of the steps outlined and this is a great framework for improvement.
\n", "date_published": "2021-02-20T10:08:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/02/20/between-the-apps-i-use/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Helpful","Link"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/02/17/more-like-this-please-mental/", "content_html": "More like this, please:
\nMental Health Professionals Responding to Police Calls Has Lead to No Arrests in the Past Six Months
\n", "date_published": "2021-02-17T17:14:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/02/17/more-like-this-please-mental/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Link"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/02/15/from-an-email-subscription-today/", "content_html": "From an email subscription today:
\n\n\nSo be good to each other. Be humble and kind. Be generous. If you fight for anything, fight for justice and fairness. That’s what we were put here for.
\n
This is what I believe.
\n", "date_published": "2021-02-15T09:45:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/02/15/from-an-email-subscription-today/", "tags": ["Himself","Brilliant","Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/02/07/the-winter-chill-playlist-on/", "content_html": "The Winter Chill playlist on Apple Music has a vibe very similar to the HED Kandi Winter Chill series from the late 90s and 2000s. It’s downtempo indie and electronica. I’m a fan!
\n", "date_published": "2021-02-07T11:05:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/02/07/the-winter-chill-playlist-on/", "tags": ["Music","Brilliant","TIL"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/02/05/i-recently-relistened-to-feels/", "content_html": "I recently relistened to Feels So Good by Chuck Mangione. I was in search of the source of a sample. I was in the right era and close to my target, but this was a miss. Except, listening to the full album track, I really enjoyed the musicianship—not only of The Man Himself, but also of the full accompanying band. Now, of course, it’s my current ear worm.
\nYou’re welcome.
\n", "date_published": "2021-02-05T13:29:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/02/05/i-recently-relistened-to-feels/", "tags": ["Music","Brilliant"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/01/17/gandalf-and-the-roman-cult/", "content_html": "Gandalf and the Roman Cult of Mithras
\nVia Explorator
\n", "date_published": "2021-01-17T18:53:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/01/17/gandalf-and-the-roman-cult/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Link"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/01/01/nature-illuminated-at-the-minnesota/", "content_html": "Nature Illuminated at the Minnesota Zoo is beautiful. It runs through January 17th, 2021. Highly recommended! Soundtrack on SoundCloud.
\n", "date_published": "2021-01-01T20:33:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/01/01/nature-illuminated-at-the-minnesota/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Link"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/12/26/tonights-project-i-actually-thought/", "content_html": "Tonight’s project. I actually thought for some time that I had been shorted one critical piece. Then I had to backtrack when I learned I had used an extra piece in error.
\n![\"\"](\"https://1-1.hjalmer.com/uploads/2020/9c8c4e1e62.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2020-12-26T18:55:00-06:00",
"url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/12/26/tonights-project-i-actually-thought/",
"tags": ["Photos","Brilliant"]
},
{
"id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/12/26/listening-to-wolfmother-today-they/",
"content_html": "Listening to Wolfmother today.
\nThey are a retro-looking blend of 70’s hard-rock, prog-rock and a little punk-rock. But with the vocal strength and musicianship to back it up. Not to mention cowbell and distorted organ.
\nI wish I could say I have been listening to them for a long time, but they came to me via a compilation from a friend. Today, I have been mining Apple Music for their back catalog.
\n", "date_published": "2020-12-26T12:48:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/12/26/listening-to-wolfmother-today-they/", "tags": ["Music","Brilliant","Status","Link"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/12/24/halfday-at-work-then-cleared/", "content_html": "Half-day at work, then cleared the drive of snow. Grateful for snow throwers. Husqvarna has been good to me.
\n", "date_published": "2020-12-24T16:42:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/12/24/halfday-at-work-then-cleared/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/11/30/i-dont-know-to-which/", "content_html": "I don’t know to which deity I owe the most thanks and praise, but I am grateful for the shoegaze genre and for Apple’s recommendation engine. I listened to a group called SPC-ECO on my commute this evening and loved it.
\nDo I start by genuflecting toward Grangemouth, Scotland?
\n", "date_published": "2020-11-30T18:03:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/11/30/i-dont-know-to-which/", "tags": ["Music","Brilliant","Link"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/10/22/impenetrable-absurdity/", "title": "Impenetrable Absurdity", "content_html": "The longer I live, the more I like this guy:
\n\n\nIn a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among men, a greater sincerity. We must achieve this or perish. To do so, certain conditions must be fulfilled: men must be frank (falsehood confuses things), free (communication is impossible with slaves). Finally, they must feel a certain justice around them.
\n
—Albert Camus
\n", "date_published": "2020-10-22T19:00:11-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/10/22/impenetrable-absurdity/", "tags": ["Brilliant"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/10/15/when-your-daughter-makes-you/", "content_html": "When your daughter makes you a treat. Clever girl!
\n![\"Brown](\"https://1-1.hjalmer.com/uploads/2020/f6b924bbf7.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2020-10-15T22:25:00-06:00",
"url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/10/15/when-your-daughter-makes-you/",
"tags": ["Photos","Brilliant"]
},
{
"id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/09/28/the-halloween-tree/",
"title": "The Halloween Tree",
"content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://1-1.hjalmer.com/uploads/2020/aab6da5bff.jpg\")
\nI love the novel The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury.
\nIt was one of the early young adult novels I read in my life, and possibly my first exposure to Ray Bradbury as a youth. As a boy it was the first time I had deeply considered death.
\nWhat I appreciated most was the historical scope and sweep of history, but I won’t lie that I don’t appreciate being so deeply mislead about Samhain. It’s fiction, of course. An author can write what he wishes. Powerful imagery, but… wrong.
\nYet I own paper and electronic versions.
\nIt means that much to me.
\n", "date_published": "2020-09-28T19:15:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/09/28/the-halloween-tree/", "tags": ["Brilliant"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/09/28/danse-macabre-op/", "title": "Danse Macabre, Op. 40", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://1-1.hjalmer.com/uploads/2020/96ef298a5d.png\")
\nMy love affair with Danse Macabre began in elementary school. Mrs. Otten played Halloween songs on the piano and we sang from mimeographed lyric sheets.
\nI was introduced to parts of the melody via a song called the Halloween Song, which has stuck in my head ever since, because the refrain includes singing the letters that spell the holiday.
\nIt sounded a lot like this YouTube. I’m certain my teacher played a copy of this very recording.
\nIn music classes in later years we listened to the symphonic version while watching filmstrips of artistic conceptions of what the various parts of the music could represent.
\nHere’s a great article from CBC which includes some great background on the piece and some really enjoyable renditions including one for two pianos.
\nFor me the piece is tied to Autumn and to All Hallow’s Evening, even though it wasn’t the intent of the composer.
\nSchools don’t track holidays the same way as they did, a long time ago. So for my daughter, I have work to do If I want this to stick.
\n", "date_published": "2020-09-28T18:51:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/09/28/danse-macabre-op/", "tags": ["Music","Brilliant"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/09/19/im-a-longtime-fan-of/", "content_html": "I’m a long-time fan of Randall Carlson which I owe to the Joe Rogan podcast. Anyway, outside of liking and subscribing to YouTube channels and videos, here is another way I can start to support his work.
\nSo, yay! The iridescent Gnosis sticker is cooler than I hoped it would be!
\n![\"\"](\"https://1-1.hjalmer.com/uploads/2020/62f9d9bbf4.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2020-09-19T10:37:00-06:00",
"url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/09/19/im-a-longtime-fan-of/",
"tags": ["Photos","Brilliant","Status"]
},
{
"id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/09/02/the-ninth-circuit-us-court/",
"content_html": "“The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled today that the NSA’s bulk collection of phone call metadata violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and was likely unconstitutional.”
\nVia EPIC
\n", "date_published": "2020-09-02T14:34:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/09/02/the-ninth-circuit-us-court/", "tags": ["Brilliant"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/09/01/the-greeks-had-no-original/", "content_html": "“The Greeks had no original sin and no eschatology because they saw nothing inherently wrong with the world in the first place.”
\nThings you find reading papers from Academia for the joy of it
\n", "date_published": "2020-09-01T11:08:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/09/01/the-greeks-had-no-original/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/08/16/to-speak-is-to-risk/", "title": "To speak is to risk being misunderstood. ", "content_html": "Please allow me to quote heavily from The Bard Terence McKenna—this selection comes from a discussion about language:
\n\n\n\n\nWe use rapidly modulated small mouth noises. As primates we have incredible ability to make small mouth noises. We can do this for up to six hours at a stretch without tiring. No other thing we can do approaches the level of variation with low energy investment that the small mouth noises do. A person using a deaf-and-dumb language is exhausted after forty-five minutes.
\n
\n\n\n\nBut a problem with the small mouth noises mode of communication is: I have a thought, I look in a dictionary that I have created out of my life experience, I map the thought onto the dictionary, I make the requisite small mouth noises, they cross physical space, they enter your ear, you look in your dictionary, which is different from my dictionary, but if we speak what we call ‘the same language’ it will be close enough that you will ‘sort of’ understand what I mean. Now if I don’t say to you, ‘what do I mean?’ you and I will go gaily off in the assumption that we understand each other.
\n
I stand behind my words.
\nWhat do I mean?
\n", "date_published": "2020-08-16T13:55:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/08/16/to-speak-is-to-risk/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/08/14/jnsi-with-elizabeth-fraser-cannibal/", "content_html": "\nJónsi with Elizabeth Fraser - Cannibal
\n", "date_published": "2020-08-14T14:42:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/08/14/jnsi-with-elizabeth-fraser-cannibal/", "tags": ["Music","Brilliant"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/08/09/technology-nostalgic-tape-deck/", "title": "Technology Nostalgic: Tape Deck", "content_html": "Aiwa AD-F350U
\nUsed a tape deck very much like the one pictured here. It was the first audio equipment I purchased. It played through a little amplifier I purchased in kit form and assembled in a high-school electronics class.
\nI dubbed many, many records from friends. Listened to hundreds of albums purchased new on cassette. Thousands of hours of my life are connected to this. Such an 80s artifact. It survived into the early 2000s but one too many lightning strikes to the power grid took it out. Still have the library of aging cassettes.
\nFor two decades, this was a critical furnishing in any of my living spaces.
\nListening to older music makes me think of the past.
\nThe internet did not disappoint me. I was able to triangulate and find an image of the very model I used to own.
\n![\"\"](\"https://1-1.hjalmer.com/uploads/2020/5b7e590d65.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2020-08-09T10:42:00-06:00",
"url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/08/09/technology-nostalgic-tape-deck/",
"tags": ["Photos","Brilliant"]
},
{
"id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/08/09/psychedelic-furs-the-ghost-in/",
"content_html": "\nPsychedelic Furs: The Ghost in You
\nStill Love it. From 1984, when I was a wee 16.
\n", "date_published": "2020-08-09T10:03:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/08/09/psychedelic-furs-the-ghost-in/", "tags": ["Music","Brilliant"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/08/08/on-i-always-think-of/", "content_html": "808 on 8/08
\nI always think of 808State
\n", "date_published": "2020-08-08T19:52:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/08/08/on-i-always-think-of/", "tags": ["Music","Brilliant"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/08/07/from-a-colleague-at-work/", "content_html": "From a colleague at work. You may have an earworm…
\n![\"\"](\"https://1-1.hjalmer.com/uploads/2020/3f37a697f3.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2020-08-07T08:02:00-06:00",
"url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/08/07/from-a-colleague-at-work/",
"tags": ["Photos","Brilliant"]
},
{
"id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/08/05/airpods-pro/",
"title": "AirPods Pro",
"content_html": "Despite the shipping company doing almost everything possible to unbox my AirPods for me, Apple’s overkill packaging protected the cargo very well.
\nThe setup experience has been truly lovely, the controls are lovely, integration with Apple Watch is lovely, audio is lovely, Transparency is lovely, Noise Cancelling is impressive.
\nOkay, I’ve only had them for scant hours now.
\nThese aren’t the first bluetooth headphones or earbuds I’ve worn, nor the first true wireless pair.
\nBut I will say these are the most thoughtfully designed and possibly among the best sounding
\n", "date_published": "2020-08-05T19:44:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/08/05/airpods-pro/", "tags": ["Brilliant"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/07/27/its-here-got-myself-a/", "content_html": "It’s here! Got myself a birthday present from @schoolstoic
\n
One of my favorite photos, from June 2010.
\n#michelewhitephotography
\n![\"\"](\"https://1-1.hjalmer.com/uploads/2020/62324711f2.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2020-07-25T11:43:00-06:00",
"url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/07/25/one-of-my-favorite-photos/",
"tags": ["Photos","Himself","Brilliant"]
},
{
"id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/07/18/apple-music-has-generated-a/",
"content_html": "Apple Music has generated a radio station based on my preferences. It is eerie to have me fed back to me, but also it’s on point.
\n", "date_published": "2020-07-18T13:15:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/07/18/apple-music-has-generated-a/", "tags": ["Music","Brilliant"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/07/16/today-i-learned-that-evapotranspiration/", "content_html": "Today, I learned that evapotranspiration, also called Corn Sweat (in the parlance of our times), is capable of influencing humidity over large areas. Ex: the Corn Belt
\n", "date_published": "2020-07-16T15:04:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/07/16/today-i-learned-that-evapotranspiration/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Helpful","TIL"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/06/27/missing-persons-spring-session-m/", "content_html": "Missing Persons - Spring Session M
\n", "date_published": "2020-06-27T19:47:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/06/27/missing-persons-spring-session-m/", "tags": ["Music","Brilliant"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/06/26/you-want-a-confederate-monument/", "content_html": "You Want a Confederate Monument?
\n", "date_published": "2020-06-26T19:09:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/06/26/you-want-a-confederate-monument/", "tags": ["Brilliant"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/06/26/file-under-things-i-wish/", "content_html": "File Under “Things I Wish I Had Thought of, Sooner”:
\n\n\nDeadpan Existential Jokes
\n
Would work great as a blog name or profile description
\n", "date_published": "2020-06-26T13:50:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/06/26/file-under-things-i-wish/", "tags": ["Himself","Brilliant"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/06/26/perfect-cantyoureadthesign/", "content_html": "Perfect.
\n#cantyoureadthesign
\n![\"\"](\"https://1-1.hjalmer.com/uploads/2020/35fd026a9e.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2020-06-26T11:36:00-06:00",
"url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/06/26/perfect-cantyoureadthesign/",
"tags": ["Photos","Brilliant"]
},
{
"id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/06/25/i-did-not-know-or/",
"content_html": "I did not know, or I forgot, that the Newton was powered by an ARM processor
\n", "date_published": "2020-06-25T18:46:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/06/25/i-did-not-know-or/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Helpful","TIL"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/06/20/dave-chappelle/", "content_html": "Dave Chappelle: 8:46
\n", "date_published": "2020-06-20T09:58:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/06/20/dave-chappelle/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Helpful"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/06/06/i-just-learned-you-can/", "content_html": "I just learned you can get the Apple TV aerial screensavers on your Mac.
\n", "date_published": "2020-06-06T09:33:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/06/06/i-just-learned-you-can/", "tags": ["Brilliant","TIL"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/05/08/just-unboxed-this-macally-keyboard/", "content_html": "Just unboxed this Macally keyboard and I’m already a fan!
\n![\"\"](\"https://1-1.hjalmer.com/uploads/2020/43438da2e2.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2020-05-08T17:26:00-06:00",
"url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/05/08/just-unboxed-this-macally-keyboard/",
"tags": ["Photos","Brilliant"]
},
{
"id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/01/10/neil-peart-is-the-best/",
"content_html": "Neil Peart is the best drummer, ever
\n", "date_published": "2020-01-10T20:27:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/01/10/neil-peart-is-the-best/", "tags": ["Brilliant"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/01/03/stop-me-if-youve-heard/", "content_html": "Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Tron Legacy character Zuse is probably not a reference to the Hellenistic pantheon as much as a nod to Konrad Zuse. I had wondered why the character was so vulnerable.
\n", "date_published": "2020-01-03T23:27:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/01/03/stop-me-if-youve-heard/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Helpful"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/01/02/i-have-been-using-foursquare/", "content_html": "I have been using Foursquare (now Swarm) for location check-ins for 10 years, now. I’m not consistent with lots of technology tools, but this one has stuck.
\nIt’s fun to look back at where I have been. When I look at a sequence of check-ins, remembering where and why, it helps me to reconstruct a day. It’s a fun tool that has helped me personally and professionally.
\n", "date_published": "2020-01-02T09:47:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/01/02/i-have-been-using-foursquare/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Helpful","Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2019/12/28/if-theres-anything-ive-learned/", "content_html": "\n\n“If there’s anything I’ve learned about politics it’s this: as soon as you conclude the other guys are complete idiots and intentionally doing evil things, immediately stop – because something is wrong. Your BS detector should be going off like a fire alarm.”
\n
How to Know What’s Right in Politics
\n", "date_published": "2019-12-28T13:07:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2019/12/28/if-theres-anything-ive-learned/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Helpful"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2019/12/27/remember-nuclear-detonations/", "content_html": "Remember: Nuclear Detonations, 1945-1998
\n", "date_published": "2019-12-27T15:49:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2019/12/27/remember-nuclear-detonations/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Helpful"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2019/12/24/one-last-rewatch-of-the/", "content_html": "One last re-watch of The Polar Express before… Mama and Poppa perform elven magic
\n![\"\"](\"https://1-1.hjalmer.com/uploads/2019/d7256d747b.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2019-12-24T20:44:00-06:00",
"url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2019/12/24/one-last-rewatch-of-the/",
"tags": ["Photos","Brilliant","Status"]
},
{
"id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2019/11/09/the-death-of-the-rude/",
"title": "The Death of the Rude Press",
"content_html": "\n\n“In the elite press—on cable news, in newspaper opinion sections—you can say the most monstrous things imaginable, as long your language is polite. What you can’t do is rudely express a desire for a more just world…”
\n
\n\n“…If your local media has no place for people who voice contempt for your city’s police chief, say, or your state’s attorney general, or the publisher of your city’s largest newspaper, all of those people will feel more comfortable in abusing their power. They will grind you down, and in the process, they’ll tell you to be civil about it.”
\n
The Death of the Rude Press @ New Republic
\n", "date_published": "2019-11-09T12:56:58-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2019/11/09/the-death-of-the-rude/", "tags": ["Brilliant"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2019/09/02/it-is-expected-that-work/", "content_html": "\n\n“It is expected that work of all kinds will be generally suspended, and that the wage workers of the whole city will enjoy the holiday.”
\n
Minneapolis Tribune, 1894
\n/via HCLib
\n", "date_published": "2019-09-02T14:11:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2019/09/02/it-is-expected-that-work/", "tags": ["Brilliant"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2019/04/29/fun-to-learn-a-bigger/", "content_html": "Fun to learn a bigger story:
\nDid Ellis Island Really Change People’s Names?
\n\n", "date_published": "2019-04-29T09:40:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2019/04/29/fun-to-learn-a-bigger/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Helpful"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2019/04/27/when-the-sun-hits-a/", "content_html": "\nA music blog with the tagline: Your resource for all things shoegaze and dream pop
\n", "date_published": "2019-04-27T16:30:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2019/04/27/when-the-sun-hits-a/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Helpful"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2019/03/29/science-museum-of-minnesota/", "title": "Science Museum of Minnesota", "content_html": "I still love dinosaurs!
\n![\"\"](\"https://1-1.hjalmer.com/uploads/2019/9c6d71fe07.jpg\")
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Rhone said it better than I was going to:
\n\nIf you are Minnesotan, you will nod knowingly.
\n\n", "date_published": "2019-01-30T09:07:23-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2019/01/30/rhone-said-it-better-than/", "tags": ["Brilliant"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2019/01/22/lumiere-brothers-footage-of-paris/", "content_html": "Lumiere Brothers footage of Paris, late 19th century
\n", "date_published": "2019-01-22T08:32:23-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2019/01/22/lumiere-brothers-footage-of-paris/", "tags": ["Brilliant"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2016/04/24/sense-of-loss/", "title": "Sense of Loss", "content_html": "Did we ever deserve them?\nDid we love them enough?
\nI listened to the Purple Rain soundtrack, watched the video of Prince’s Superbowl halftime performance, then spent at least an hour listening to the song Purple Rain on repeat.
\nJoy. Awe. Sadness.
\nTears.
\nAwash.
\n", "date_published": "2016-04-24T01:53:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2016/04/24/sense-of-loss/", "tags": ["Music","Brilliant"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2013/11/03/pink-moon/", "title": "Pink Moon", "content_html": "There is no end to discovery in music.
\n\nI have been listening to Pink Moon by Nick Drake on repeat for about the last two hours. Just the one song, which is something I rarely do.
\nI watched The Lake House on TV last night, and it was featured in the soundtrack. And I remembered that it was in Volkswagen convertible commercials a long time ago. Maybe ten years ago? I had assumed at that time that it was a current song by a current commercial artist. You know, because Volkswagen and Mitsubishi had been using Crystal Method, Dirty Vegas and Propellerheads tracks. I won’t lie: I have purchased albums on the basis of television commercials.
\nBut hearing it again made it fresh and I was determined this time to find it and download it.
\nIt’s not on the soundtrack album for The Lake House. Fortunately, IMDB lists the songs in the movie, in what I’m guessing is order of appearance.
\nI made a lot of wrong guesses as to which song it might be, because I didn’t think through the lyrics as they related to the song title. And I assumed incorrectly the song was from the late 90s.
\nSO. If he was still alive, I would owe Nick Drake an apology. And I find myself wondering what the rest of his œuvre is like. Pink Moon is the title track of his third album, released in 1972. He didn’t live long enough to produce a fourth.
\nIt’s a sweet, stripped down, two-minute song. Two guitars and a few notes on a piano, and a few lines of poetry repeated twice:
\nSee also: Nick Drake Pink Moon 1972 Full Album
\n", "date_published": "2013-11-03T23:16:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2013/11/03/pink-moon/", "tags": ["Music","Brilliant"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2013/05/26/kim-and-jessie/", "title": "Kim and Jessie", "content_html": "Kim and Jessie is a song that I can easily put on repeat.
\nM83’s last two albums have been trending toward a sound that is very nostalgic for me, and this particular song is a stand out example.
\nThough the song was released in 2008, it is heavily evocative of mid-1980s groups like ’Til Tuesday, Flock of Seagulls, and Tears for Fears. If you played a string of Top 40 hits from 1985 or 1986, and slipped in Kim and Jessie, I think a lot of people would think it sounds similar and familiar. Whether that makes you die inside a little or makes you a little giddy is personal, of course.
\nThe lyric is simple, and most of the song is repetition of the chorus:
\n\n\nSomebody lurks in the shadows
\n
\nSomebody whispers
\nSomebody lurks in the shadows
\nYeah, yeah, yeah
But the repetition of the lyric in the last part of the song really works for me, because it gives me a chance to notice the additional vocal parts and the simultaneous guitar solo which are layered subtly, not detracting from the melody but awaiting your attention.
\nI had not seen the video until just before writing this piece. While it doesn’t sync to the lyric, I think it tells a similar story that is equally open to interpretation.
\nAlbum information at M83’s official site
\nVideo at Last.fm
\nVideo at YouTube
\nLyrics Sites