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You want to have your thoughts solely in your own spot, your own personal digital garden, if you will, but the lure of BEING SEEN, in the same old places, proves too much to overcome.

an iphone really does make the most wonderful paperweight. it can do anything.

Songs in my head:

  • Grindstone, Uncle Tupelo
  • Everything Glorious, David Crowder
  • Bad Guy, Billie

Songs in my head today:

  • The Ruling Class, Loose Fur
  • Answers to Your Questions, Loose Fur
  • Psychedelic Orgasm, Kim Gordon

From the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/26/nyregion/nyc-bus-subway-fare-evasion.html

Fare beaters might also feel emboldened, experts say, because heavy traffic and a lack of bus lanes means that bus service can be slow and unreliable. For some riders, it is simply not worth the price of admission. The pandemic also reinforced the perception that fares were optional, after the authority made bus rides free for a few months in 2020.

Once you give something out for free, there's no turning back.

Songs in my head today:

  • The Ruling Class, Loose Fur
  • Answers to Your Questions, Loose Fur
  • Psychedelic Orgasm, Kim Gordon

I truly like Apple's "Spacialize Stereo" feature - but I wish I could have it minus the added reverb.

What would be the problem with just staying here in my chair by the window and reading novels and po-ems for the rest of my days?

On Emily Dickinson: I learned this week that in 2016 an edition of her poems was published which, for the first time, took into account her own prioritization and arrangement of her po-ems. At some point Emily assembled some small batches into booklets, perhaps showing which of her poems she held most dear.

I find it baffling that I had never known this. I have never heard that she did any arranging or other work toward publishing her work. I always assumed that later editors sorted through all the scraps, tried to pin down dates, and published everything all together in the books which exist (Final Harvest, that other newer one), not making any attempt to delineate between a fragment and a complete work.

How can it have taken more than a century for anyone to try and put the Dickinson canon into a form that might bear Emily's stamp of approval?

POV: the coffee beans have turned, but you still have another pound of them to grind through.

Deciding for whom to vote for pres. is about figuring out who you think is the best manager - the one with the best relationships. It's like being able to perceive the hearts of your teenage kids's friends by knowing who they hang out with, who they get along with.

As I thumb through the glossy magazine produced by a local private school, two things stick out to me: generational wealth, and the continued propagation of WASP-y aspirational status seeking. Conventionality. Is that a word? Conventionalness - the condition of fitting into the standard mold.

Songs in my head today:

  • Everything You Want, Vertical Horizon
  • Mean Girls, Charli

The poetry of Emily Dickinson still pricks my soul and haunts me. I remember Ed Folsom's class at Iowa, wherein I was made to memorize a po-em (he always had an emphasis on the second syllable).

Now I've just discovered a "new" edition of her po-ems (from 2016) called "Emily Dickinson's Poems as She Preserved Them." Which I must have. Does the library have it?

I used to get The NY Times in print for free from the stands that were placed throughout the University of Iowa campus. You swiped your student ID in the hopper, popped the lid, and grabbed a paper. I would sit at my desk, paper open, with a notebook, and write down notes on articles as I went.

I don't really know why I did this. But I did it for years.

Songs in my head this morning:

  • What Goes On (Ringo sings)
  • Marvelous Light
  • Whatshername, Green Day (is that title spelled correctly?)

I successfully pushed an update to my personal site that automatically sorted my "Reading" section by the most recently updated page. It uses the .md file into to sort things around. This made me pretty darn proud - because it's exactly how I wanted it to look.

Listen: I'm no web design genius. But an idea and or two, sparked into flame by the info and tutorials available online can get you very far down the path.

Today I randomly sang a quote from The National, "I'm going through an awkward phase," in my best Matt Behringer baritone and it made my daughter laugh out loud.

This is an official test of the push from the Mac. Using my long sought after method of creating a file via the terminal and then using mate to edit in Textmate.

The French love for their little Victor reminds me of Hawkeye fans love for Caitlin Clark. Bordering on obsession. I write this while wearing an Iowa shirt bearing her number.

When the strings kick in on Wall of Eyes. And you know This isn't a The Smile. It's a Radiohead record. Post-Radiohead. Okay.

Decided to go out to Braum's for end of summer after soccer ice cream. The kids were messing around with the salt shaker - one tasted some and remarked "Too salty!"

I forgot what I was going to write, just now. But I'm excited to be writing what I forgot to write from my new/old 2014 Macbook Air.