Bacon cannot be rushed.
It will not be rushed.
Was gifted a new Apple TV for Father’s Day. First I watched Tron, then 808.
In other project news, I’m keeping an older EliteBook pc notebook alive via Ubuntu. I made the leap to Mesa 18.1.1 for video.
I don’t think it’s the placebo effect—video and rendering seem better, artifacts seem fewer.
In the past several weeks I have been working on long-dormant web projects, including changing my registrar, changing service with my host, adding SSL finally, then adding Micro.blog. Feels like home.
Very grateful to @manton for a new vision of networking and for rapid assistance on a technical issue.
A question I had not thought to ask before:
Why is today different from all other days?
Taken from an email in my work inbox this morning:
“…It is biased data, not machine learning alone that should be feared.”
That is certainly much more broadly applicable than in the field of AI. I see this at the crux of many of the socio-political issues we face as a culture.
Hello, World!
“Odin will not save you but he will give you inspiration and courage to save yourself…” I don’t remember where I first read, but I like it. #selfie #bearded #dramamuch
My first! I’m excited! #unimitsubishipencil #kurutoga
In the business parlance of our times, I have some “deltas” or “do-betters”
Brand new journal #leuchtturm1917 #startatthebeginning
Current Status
Learning more every day
Oh look, it it’s finally at the log in screen. But, wait, no! No it is not …
Currently #mnwx #blizzardwarning #ramseycounty #snow
It’s not #snowmagedon, but we planned ahead with provisions and are cocooning this weekend. #mnwx
Morning cuppa. Thank you, @joelgroethe #apisupply #apisupplylifts
Springtime. More than eight inches of snow today, because Minnesota. #mnwx #stpaul #bearded #beardstagram #theboldnorth
Detonations
#I would never have guessed anywhere near this number of detonations, ever.
What is the longterm legacy in our environment?
A big question I have is whether there is a correlation between the number of these devices set off and the heat in our atmosphere. If a single volcano can change global temperatures for years, what is the net effect of the waste heat and radiation generated by more than two thousand of these?
I Get the News I Need from the Weather Report
#The news can keep happening. That’s just fine.
I love the counterpoint between the refrain saying “Half of the time we’re gone, but we don’t know where…” and the backup singers singing “Here I am.”
The album Bridge Over Troubled Water, featuring the title track, came out in 1970, before I was two. I started listening to it in earnest when I was a teenager about ten years later. It’s still one of my favorite albums.
I’ve always enjoyed The Only Living Boy in New York, it stands out to me even as much as the more famous tracks.
Sense of Loss
#Did we ever deserve them? Did we love them enough?
I 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.
Joy. Awe. Sadness.
Tears.
Awash.
Music Is a Time Machine
#I listened to parts of two different albums tonight.
When I first listened to each album, my life couldn’t have been more different, emotionally. The albums were released only a few years apart, but one came during a happier time and another came during a dark descent.
Listening to each one, tonight, brought back places, names and faces.
Funny, the places one can travel, just by picking an album out of a list.
Pink Moon
#There is no end to discovery in music.
I 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.
I 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.
But hearing it again made it fresh and I was determined this time to find it and download it.
It’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.
I 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.
SO. 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.
It’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:
See also: Nick Drake Pink Moon 1972 Full Album