Sad to send a MacBook Pro to the recycle bin. 2008 15”— Obsolete I think by now. Battery expanded in the chassis and now the cooling fans run constantly and firmware no longer sees the internal hard drive. Was my favorite notebook ever.

Sometimes I just fire Front242 into my eardrums as loud as I can take it.

That thing where your contact lens is bugging you at work and the light in the bathroom is terrible so you can’t really see the lens and you loose track of it after your first attempt to remove it and you poke yourself in the eye a few times before you discover the lens is actually hanging from your eyelashes, then it falls from your eye and vanishes and you and a colleague cannot find it anywhere.

Sent wishes into the sky at #thelightsfestival tonight, in full view of Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, and Venus

I don’t know if it’s cultural baggage from the traditional school year, because my birthday is in the summer, because time seems to pass so quickly, or if it’s because Summer is my favorite season, but the change to September is heavy for me.

An argument for a middle ground in the war for your attention: Permanent Do Not Disturb

First exercise set is to get the equipment in place. Test pilot Sofia confirms all systems operational.

Spent a long time today working through setting up a Keybase profile. I am deeply intrigued by the web-of-trust concept. This is one of the things that attracted me to the Micro.blog platform.

I salute you, web designers. Trying to make my little one-page web site look the same on more than any two browsers was a lesson in compromise.

📷 📸 #flatpack #IKEA

Reworked the landing page on my vanity domain, hjalmer.com. I probably think this song is about me.

I’m happy to see people are still actively experimenting with Web design and interactivity. I’m looking forward to new things that work.

I just learned Brutalist Web Design is a thing. I get a kick out of it. The tenets remind me of reading the work of Jakob Nielson in the late 90s.

I encountered the link above last night on my phone. It was glorious.

But I’m feeling less Brutalism and more Bauhaus.

What’s the story behind deoxy.org led me to find reoxy.org.

“Did he pee?”

What are questions you shout across the house when you have children or pets?

Who doesn’t want the chance to drive a fire engine?

L’après-midi à l’hôtel

Testing the Sunlit app for posting

Probably everyone else already knows this but planning systems will find a way into your life.

Listening to Bill Laswell at the moment. I’m nowhere close to a completist, but that is a deep vein to mine. Today, I pulled up his Wikipedia article. Holy Cats is that man prolific.

The credo of his former Axiom record label is “Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.”

He is described on the M.O.D. Technologies record label pages as an iconoclast.

That sings to me.

I’m a big fan of his solo work, as well as the Material and Golden Palominos projects.

Links to many musicians and genres here.

Purchased today. Recommended!

There Is Only Now album by Secret Shine

secretshine.bandcamp.com itunes.apple.com

Prepped a new batch of yogurt. Enjoyed a Bloody Mary. Planning the coming weekend. Listening to music. Remembering the past. Making way for the new.