My grandma found an old tiny camera in her basement that wasn’t working and asked me if I would use it. This isn’t the first time this has happened - I think I’ve gotten three other cameras this way. | Continue reading
I am lucky enough to walk up to the Music Box for a midnight 11:15 showing of this where half the audience runs down the aisles to dance in the pit under the screen for most of the movie. As they assembled the stage during the opening songs, I think: I wonder if the show started … | Continue reading
We thoroughly enjoyed vibing in the warehouse space of the Shed as DARKSIDE bathed it in driving and glittering electro-rock. Every song was ten minutes or longer, but worth it - especially to hear Golden Arrow live and drawn out. | Continue reading
We thoroughly enjoyed vibing in the warehouse space of the Shed as DARKSIDE bathed it in driving and glittering electro-rock. Every song was ten minutes or longer, but worth it - especially to hear Golden Arrow live and drawn out. | Continue reading
Got to watch this at The Music Box with live accompaniment by the Alvin Cobb Jr Trio. The jazz music was a huge highlight, especially when the KKK rode at night and they transitioned to spacey spooky synths. There was a lot going on. For too many characters. And even though the t … | Continue reading
We got to watch this with live accompaniment by the Alvin Cobb Jr Trio at The Music Box. Syncopated jazz made the movie’s beats hit better but wasn’t enough to save the thin plot. I’m sure this was more interesting when it first screened, but the climax was more of a falling acti … | Continue reading
Arranging this ikebana in the sunlight this morning | Continue reading
I don't know what this movie was trying to tell me. The director made a lot of decisions, but it felt like every one was made independently and many in a different direction. It's sci-fi, so of course I'm going to appreciate the world-building bits, but I left feeling a bit queas … | Continue reading
I traded in my Apple Watch Ultra this week. I haven’t been using it since I got this Garmin Instinct 2x Solar a couple months ago. It’s got better battery, buttons, and the same basic capabilities, for much less bank. | Continue reading
The U.S. legislative body is in a tough spot these days. In light of an executive branch that I didn’t vote for and that I see actively harming those around me, as well as a judicial branch that I see acting against my wishes, I am trying to turn more to my legislators (U.S. Repr … | Continue reading
They're removing the efficiency and safety | Continue reading
Upon a rewatch with friends, I liked this movie a *bit* less than the first time, but it's still great. The soundtrack is really what makes it pop for me. This time, I felt even more that it's a parable about how inhuman and alien it is to hurt other people. | Continue reading
This book had been on my “to read” shelf for over a year and somehow I remembered to bring it with me on a couple trips to Toronto this winter. I had no idea that the cold Winter planet would echo so perfectly the snowstorms that delayed me on both trips and the snowdrifts that I … | Continue reading
About a warm friendship in a cold world | Continue reading
I love this movie every time I see it. The sun and sound and straight pace let the whole story reinforce the villain's inevitable footsteps of doom. And every time, as I get older between each viewing, I identify more and more with the sheriff's sigh and stare and steadfast pursu … | Continue reading
I got into a big fight with my wife over a very minor stupid unrelated thing after we watched this. I feel like that's relevant somehow. I laughed *a lot* during the hunt sequence and I appreciate that the ending was a re-centering on her main problem, but I feel like the whole n … | Continue reading
I love the pop-up, only-available-in-your-inbox, newsletters from Craig Mod. He’s running another this week, and today’s first issue invigorated me. I heavily encourage you to subscribe if you like travel, personal stories, or photography: About a Nightingale | Continue reading
It’s a very Chicago thing to spend the last Saturday of February standing out in the cold in a street music festival to dance along with punk and hard pop and synth bands. But we love Music Frozen Dancing every year. | Continue reading
On my who-knows-what-number rewatch, it's no longer scary like I remember but oh so exciting and funny and well-paced. | Continue reading
I loved the first third, felt let down by the middle, and was disoriented in the last third. There were hilarious edits and timing and surrealist lines to kick it off, but it couldn’t sustain that pace and perspective. It had me laughing and grimacing with glee, but left me unful … | Continue reading
I’ve been using Raycast for the past couple years on my MacOS computers for keyboard-based hotkeys/launching/etc. It also has excellent snippet/text-expansion support. We were discussing at work how to better structure feedback on PR/code reviews, and I shared how I use Raycast t … | Continue reading
Finally getting some sun in the morning windows as this winter takes its last gasps | Continue reading
I am dropping the use of the Johnny Decimal categorization framework on this site. For just over a year, I used it to govern and organize the tags used between the posts and pages here. I found the decimal system too restrictive and better suited for physical, 2D space. It was, a … | Continue reading
I’ve been listening to this off and on since its release in September, 2024 and the ethereal lyrics have been ringing in my head. Highly recommended for morning work sessions and for singing along discordantly. | Continue reading
I can never take Jack Lemmon seriously. But this film has such a turn of tone that you feel slapped onto your heels and all the better for it. | Continue reading
Sarah Barthel, the lead singer, was definitely still sick after cancelling an earlier stop on the tour. But it was a banger of a show anyway. We went with a whole group and Marybeth made Valentines for everyone. | Continue reading
Utterly ridiculous and disjointed. I had to yell at the screen multiple times because gravity kept breaking. But the gravity of the situation was never lost of Fab and Furious J Mo who was cut from a wholly different movie. | Continue reading
It’s ironic that a movie about a minimalist architect would be so superfluously long. I think this magnificent performance could have been edited to half the length and it would have been a much better film. And the ending: while I appreciate the footage, it was jarring incongruo … | Continue reading
Went for a run on the hotel treadmill in Canada and the video was from a trail I ran last month in New Zealand. Trippy. | Continue reading
Noah Kalina recommended this album when the artist called in to a recent show. It sounds like someone grappling with past relationships and habitual late nights in the city by making synth and sample music. Great for playing loud in your New York studio apartment on a rainy night … | Continue reading
Imagine you were going to make a splatter horror flick but the only vocabulary you could use were bright, flashy, 15 second TV commercials for consumer products. I disproportionately enjoyed the in-frame cropping to focus on one expression. And the fact that everyone's name is a … | Continue reading
At a rally in the Loop demanding that Senators Duckworth and Durbin oppose Trump’s Cabinet nominees and oppose the control of the U.S. Treasury by Elon Musk. | Continue reading
I had been using Kagi for a while before Perplexity’s popularity really picked up. | Continue reading
Someone at work yesterday asked for jazz album recommendations and immediately I had to send back a link to this one: possibly my favorite jazz recording. The liveliness and ease you can hear in each song is wonderful. | Continue reading
I highly recommend listening to this while walking, preferably through a doorway, into an atrium of people with high ceilings with majestic murals, through hallways and more doors, out onto a green veranda, walking and walking, finding a tent with soft club music, meeting someone … | Continue reading
I've been wanting to review/think about music and albums recently. I want something like letterboxd but for music. So far, the closest thing I've found is https://rateyourmusic.com I just don't like that it doesn’t have an API or any way to get whatever I write there into my own … | Continue reading
I’m glad she wandered into that rave and discovered the house music scene the rest of us have been loving for a while. It’s not heavy house, but more like a twinkling, wispy flower blooming in the deep pulse of late-night rave. | Continue reading
I am working from the Shopify Toronto office this morning because I’m at an in-person “burst” with the senior engineering leadership from the developer-interfaces/”Build” team. I get to sit in the big window with the big sunshine and look out on the city as it cleans out the snow … | Continue reading
Kinda like Brat lite. She didn’t commit as hard on the highs and didn’t dig deep enough on the lows, which put too little range into the whole album. Still decent to listen to while working, but I probably won’t come back to it. | Continue reading
I’ll put this back on when I’m riding through Seoul at night, bleary-eyed and coast it out. Some lovely bops in there, mixed with a whole lotta overdrive fuzz. | Continue reading
It’s very inspiring to see an older person who has figured out their message and medium and is just doing it every day. Eno is open about his process and is honest about his mind and makes you feel like a friend; like the whole performance (this live, uniquely formed showing) is … | Continue reading
spec.modelcontextprotocol.io/specificatio… I’m excited for a future where I have a suite of MCP implementations/servers that I collect and bring around with me to different clients/LLMs in different contexts/devices | Continue reading
There's a scene in beautiful slow-motion snowfall where Ellen regards von Franz. She stays in shadow as he climbs the stairs toward the light. He smiles and says something like, "In heathen times, you would have been a priestess of Isis." I wanted to see more of *that* movie. The … | Continue reading
We had a large group of us for the Jamie XX In Waves concert. Drinks at Fat Cat beforehand. The lighting rigs were extended out into the packed crowd and it made the Aragon Ballroom feel like a happily writhing rave dance floor. And everyone was dancing, stomping, yelling, sweati … | Continue reading
I’ve been using Fitbod for strength workout planning for I think 3 years now. I like it because it tracks which lifts I do and aims to suggest workouts that stress new muscles in new ways throughout my training cycles. | Continue reading
This book was recommended to me by Mike Shaver a couple years ago and I only just now got around to reading it. Carlos has made it freely available, which is nice. | Continue reading