December 3rd, 2025
My dad, Edward, when he was stationed at Okinawa during the Korean War. He passed away this day in 1973.
December 2nd, 2025
Forgot to mention yesterday that I got my first issue of The New Yorker in the mail! Very excited to have a subscription to a real magazine again! I’m always amazed (not sure why) when I read stupid shit about music. This comment in a Rick Beato video of
December 1st, 2025
Wrote about kids and the news today. It’s Christmas music season right? I tend towards the stuff from the 50s/60s — in other words the stuff I grew up on. But I also highly favor early music/traditional carols these days and nobody does them better than The Sixteen.
November 30th, 2025
Start of a new week, end of a month. I spent basically the whole damned day shoveling snow. I got rid of our big snowblower back in September instead of fixing it. Big mistake as yesterday was the snowiest November day in Chicago history, beating a 74 year old record.
November 29th, 2025
I wrote the other day about writing online/blogging: That goes along for a bit until it doesn’t. So I’m not sure where that leaves me. At least this time I didn’t nuke all of the sites like I have in the past. Stuff is sitting there
November 28th, 2025
Learned some interesting things about the Meslo font I’ve been using for years in iTerm on the Mac and had never bothered to look up before: 1. Meslo comes in three “line gaps” to control spacing between lines: – (S)mall, (M)medium, (L)arge 2. There is also a
Padre Guilherme
Just discovered this guy. The DJ sets are really something and the set he did in Rio at the statue of Christ the Redeemer was absolutely amazing. Full set here:
Happy Thankgiving!
Wishing everyone a happy, peaceful, Thanksgiving. Here we're doing the usual including watching the National Dog Show. Dinner and Beaujolais Nouveau later!
November 26th, 2025
Had to laugh reading this piece because I feel the exact same way and I know what all this stuff is and how it works. Tech people are mostly insufferable on the Internet. The same person wrote this piece about the fact that the stuff making it to the Bear
