Presented with minimal comment since I don’t trust the law.
If you read the second article it says “she would never have taken part in the encounter if she had been sober”. That is rape.
Note: Two Shell --> Wargasm --> Clairo. Why not?
Note: You can teach an old dog new tricks: Floss has learnt to catch a frisbee. Not young enough to jump, but she'll get up onto her back legs.
Note: Skipping watching Glastonbury for six hour roundtrip to see LCD Soundsystem.
I was stupidly too lazy to do a May Music and for April Audio I just listed songs instead of albums and already it’s difficult to remember everything I’ve listened to so far this year. In an effort to redress the balance I’ll do a June Jams with things I’ve mostly actually listened to in June:
And notable ones I should have mentioned in May (or earlier):
Next year I’m thinking about doing a weekly “This is my jam” - I never actually used it when it was around, but I think a weekly post for earworms might be a good idea - at least if I happen to have one for the week.
Note: Disclosure 10/10
Note: Mike Skinner is even more Glastonbury than Chris Martin
Note: Cyndi Lauper has aged AWESOMELY
Note: Dua Lipa nailed it. That looked so much fun.
Look at that iMac. So close yet so far.
Had to do some recent further downsizing to accommodate squeezing another person into the house. My desk (which was off to the left of this photo) had to go in the garage to make way for a fridge freezer so I’m now micro-desking on the end of the cabinet storing the dogs’ stuff. I’m (obviously) still in the utility room/corridor with the dogs, washing machine (yay for noise cancelling in meetings) and shower room, but now I’m sat on top of the cat litter instead of half a metre away from it. It doesn’t sound great, but it is actually a nice little neuk.
Before the move was complete I did have an intermediate week when I ended up with the family computer on my desk where I could easily use it whilst “at work” and this meant I did finally get to explore using CSS for the show/hide on my archive page instead of JavaScript. Nothing came of it (I don’t think CSS can do that yet), but it was nice to get to tinker again - like with exercise, it’s nice to know it’s not lack of motivation on my part that is the problem.
I decided to put away my old iPhone and plug my headphones into the iMac instead. Since it is always logged in as me anyway (for AirMessage) I can also leave Spotify running and just control it through my phone. For 6music I ssh (hit exactly this issue) from my phone and use tmux and ffplay. This is cool and fun, but not really any more useful than having my old iPhone plugged in, although does save a tiny bit of space - and space… is short.
For the weekly finance updates I close my work laptop so I can stick the iMac keyboard on top of it, the trackpad in front of it and then swivel the iMac round. It works well enough for occasional use.
"For in winter the champagne brightness of the air and the sociability of the streets are grateful"
My daughter got me a very pretty Penguin Little Clothbound Classics copy of this for my birthday. I’m pretty sure I had read all these when I was going through previous (e-book) collections, but interestingly I discovered in reading this that “How Should One Read a Book?” has different variations. I.e. this quote is not in the version in this book. Huh.
The least surprised person is me.
Started as a much longer post, but, you know what? I’ve said it all before.
Keeping it short, but I can’t actually fault them for £35. This photo is at 800km of running. But there could be that much again of walking on them: I don’t track walking or dog-walking, but on average do 30km of running (extra because of running with A) and 90km total distance a week… some of that is walking around in the house, I also have one other pair of shoes (for “best”), but it seems safe to say there could be 1600km total on these).
Of course nearly all the grip has worn down, but that’s ok for this time of year. The toe-hole in the mesh started at around 370km of running, got to this size and thankfully didn’t get any bigger.
I might see, though, if I can treat myself and spend a whole five pounds extra on the EasyTrail next as they have a bit more toe coverage and 1mm extra grip to wear through. That might be my ideal road/trail/dog-walking shoe.
But unsurprisingly these are going to have to last a little longer first.
Note: Hmm, weird, cert renewed, but didn't reload for some reason. Was semi-offline for bit
Note: Finally got around to updating my opendkim keys and moving to 2048 bits from 1024
"Agnes rooted around in her mother's curler bag. She took out the Embassy packet and put two cigarettes in her mouth. She took a long draw and held the smoke inside for a long while. "Jesus can't pay my catalogue"."
True.
Note: Upgraded to NetBSD 9.4. Don't seem to have broken anything. Saving 10 for when I have a lot more time.
"Without a word, each man collected a handful of thin children, who followed obediently, like reverential shadows."
"He locked the door that lay behind his eyes and walked away, leaving the body, the plaster dust, the flask of cold tea, and the angry gaffer behind."
Note: Listened to the Steve Albini tribute mix on Mary Anne Hobbs' show :-(
Read this recently and am glad I am bucking the trend. For sure, hearing music from my teenage years (Throwing Muses, Belly, Sonic Youth, Dead Kennedy’s, and Senser are just a few) imparts a deep emotional response, but newer stuff is also doing similar: I remember exactly where I was when I first heard Self Esteem’s I Do This All The Time; I was running and listening to ChillDaBeats.
Someone in the comments talks about a truly wonderful thing they do with their friends where they have to put together a top ten of their favourite tracks from the current year. I have no friends, but collating my favourite tracks from the current year* and therefore actively listening to music from the current year, well, I’m up to three hours and six minutes of songs from this year already and I wish I’d started doing this before 2021.
* - Since I count songs on albums released in the current year some of the songs have often also been released as singles the previous year, but it’s still newer than the 90s.
These are the ten most recent posts (not counting any note drivel), for older posts see the Archive.