Just killed my phone pretty good. I fell down the stairs and it was in my hand that broke my fall. Can’t trade it in, so I will deal with my carrier in the morning to see what can be done.

Wore my kilt again this weekend, outside and everything, too. I’m already thinking about the coming Renaissance Festival and how I want to present myself. And I found the regional company that made the kilt i bought last year: Highland Kilt Company.

There are a lot of places to buy kilts, online.

Managing a collection of music isn’t that hard, once you’ve got storage. Managing its digital facsimile is a pain in the ass. Rewarding in terms of availability, but endless challenges to do it well.

My contribution to a Valentine’s group chat at work. There was a plushie passed around and we were supposed to stage a picture with the it. I was the only one who included the photographer.

I regret nothing.

A collection of whatever-it-is-you-collect is necessarily backward looking. However, as that space grows, it still can help you forge new connections and learn new things and see through new eyes.

It’s kinda Zuckerberg’s job to say his is better. So… not really surprised that’s in the press.

One of my favorite forms of research when reading fiction is to look at character names, in particular the etymology, and various forms of the name through history. That can lead you to the well of information your author drew from.

The main disadvantage to reading a book while connected to the internet is that is that you run into discussions of the book you’re reading. Just a few words can spoil plot points. This is why we can’t have nice things.

Is there any greater privilege than sitting down with a good book and an iPad for quick reference to a map or to recorded history or even botany?

Is there a way to rip 5.1 audio from a DVD to import into iTunes libraries? I found a tool that will rip to WAV files, which Plex handles well. I can rip the stereo audio to Apple Lossless, which of course is perfectly lovely. But if I could preserve the Dolby aspects, that would be cool, too.

Candidate description for what I do: I solve word problems

Yes, I work in technology. No, I will not fix your computer.

And yet, the tiny targets for performing critical app functions prevent me from using app features I want.

I’d never do this, but if I had a stream of all of the accodental screenshots I have taken on iOS, I could publish a lot of content for a long time. I’m getting tired of everything waking my phone and every surface and action activating something.

“Silent H” was a category on Jeopardy, today. I feel seen.

Had lunch with an old friend today. He is shipping overseas soon and for a long while. I was not prepared for how much it would hurt, for how sad I would feel. Making plans to celebrate his return.

I found a book with witches and vampires and alchemy, set in Oxford. So, naturally, I’m up too late

I moved out of my house for a several months in a span from November to May. Here’s why: Conway Whole House Remodel. Apparently we’re weird. We remodeled our house for us, not for some unknown next owner.

Currently reading: The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien 📚

I had forgotten how much I loved the elves, and missed Gandalf.

I never don’t love a favorite song, but my relationship to it changes.

Sometimes a song lights fireworks. Sometimes I remember the fireworks the song lit, fondly.

It’s an interesting thing, going through my CDs, disc by disc. Encountering the infatuations I have had, both in terms of artists and genres.

What I listened to, at what point in my life, is linked deeply to memory.

More and more I am deeply impressed with the iPad and its effectiveness even as a primary work device. However, some seemingly “normal” activities like printing .eml attachments from the Outlook app throws a wrench into the machinery. Two apps needed.

I was very happy with the way that Numbers handled the playlist export from Music. It inferred a delimited file and presented the contents formatted in a very easily understood fashion. It was super easy to copy the two columns I wanted to share, and Nova helped me make markdown fast.

1. Eternal Lover — Moonwater
2. Karmic Light — Tetsu Inoue
3. They Come in Peace — Tranquility Bass
4. Plateau — Orb
5. A Study of Six Guitars — Amorphous Androgynous
6. Session 3: Wien in E — Tosca
7. Anthropomorphic — Qubism
8. No One in the World [Edit] — W.F.O.
9. Fat Chair — Terra Thaemlitz
10. edit:one — DJ Iri
11. Creatures Made Of Light Glide Softly Across The Slowly Ever-rotating Homeworld In Gentle Undulations Of Warm Dub Through The Encircling Golden Ether Common To System 35 — Mysteries of Science
12. #19 — Aphex Twin
13. Tranquility Base — Omicron
14. A Stream With Bright Fish — Brian Eno & Harold Budd
15. Expanding — Young American Primitive

A mix CD gift from Caleb, circa 2019.

1. Premonition — YukaKita Mura
2. Phoenix — WolfMother
3. Space Cruise — Ben Prunty
4. Abyss Watchers — Yuka Kitamura
5. Vignette: Panacea — Disasterpeace
6. Vordt of the Boreal Valley — Motoi Sakuraba
7. Mind’s Eye — WolfMother
8. Excerpt from The Tribulation — Michael Salvatori, C. Paul Johnson, Martin O’Donnell, Paul McCartney
9. End of the Line — Michael Salvatori, C. Paul Johnson, Martin O’Donnell, Paul McCartney
10. Odyssey — Home
11. Far Away — WolfMother
12. Siege Dancers — Michael Salvatori, C. Paul Johnson, Martin O’Donnell, Paul McCartney
13. Excerpt from The Union — Michael Salvatori, C. Paul Johnson, Martin O’Donnell, Paul McCartney
14. God? — Alec Holowka
15. Aldritch, Devourer of Gods — Motoi Sakuraba
16. Guardians Lost — Michael Salvatori, C. Paul Johnson, Martin O’Donnell, Paul McCartney
17. Where Eagles Have Been — WolfMother
18. The Alien — Ben Salisbury, Geoff Barrow
19. Soul of Cinder — Yuka Kitamura
20. Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) — Eurythmics

From a Maxell XLII 90 cassette given to me by my friend Chuck. Side A dated 6/20/94, Missing songs: Marion Diez, Half the Time. Side B dated 6/21/94

1. Get Enough — Ivy
2. You Bite My Tongue — Unwound
3. Our Caballero — Don Caballero
4. Blade of Grass — Versus
5. A Mouthful Of Exhaust — Man Or Astro-Man?
6. Sweet Pea — Seam
7. All Set to Go — Hard-Ons
8. Suki — Unrest
9. Rebound — Sebadoh
10. Alison — Slowdive
11. Bronx Cheer — Mercury Rev
12. Bricks — Crain
13. Solitary Set — Polvo