🎶 new genre just dropped
Spouse:
‘Noise Unit’: another one of Toddy’s nicknames
🎶
I had never seen a Great Blue Heron and Great White (Great Egret) at the same time.
Is there anybody playing kabaddi in central Indiana?
🎶 I’m coming to it late, but I’m really enjoying American Arson.
Request: camera recommendation 📸
Notes:
- primary use is photos of wildlife
- I’m a complete novice
- … but I will take some lessons
- primary frustration using iPhone (12 pro max) is getting a clear zoomed-in shot
🐢 I think 18 is a new record for Turtle Willow.
🎶 I’m slowly migrating my music to lossless (ALAC) by re-ripping our CDs, re-downloading bandcamp, and re-downloading better files from iTunes and Amazon (where available).
I’m carrying over my ratings from iTunes and Plex and then prioritizing listening to 5-start tracks and unrated items. It has me thinking about my rating system again. It’s now something like:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: I want to hear this again soon
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: Happy to have this show up on a plalist, shuffle, DJ-mode, album, etc.
⭐️⭐️⭐️: Hrm, not sure if this is a good one for me
⭐️⭐️: I don’t really want to hear this
⭐️: Why do I even own this?
Pictured is my “shuffle” playlist, to which I often apply “DJ Stretch” from PlexAmp’s “Guest DJ” modes.
Finally reading the namesake of the band that adorns so many of my t-shirts: Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis 📚🎶
Behold my brilliant commentary during this Merlin Bird ID recording.
CYBER*NAILS
I like that Turtle Willow is still heroically sending out new growth every year, despite being downed and climbed upon.
May we all be so resilient.
Just noticed (remembered) that we put May 19 on the calendar as a holiday. “Bodexpress Day”
⚽️ Sad it’s falling apart with #IXI, but I do hope Indy gets a successful MLS bid. Can we not do a military-themed title this time?
I’m not the first to say something like this, but it bears repeating:
In the USA, you are more likely to get arrested for blocking traffic than for striking and killing a pedestrian or cyclist
The commerce must flow.
I glanced at my email and saw this:
Waar schrijf jij je takenlijsten op?
Thought it was weird spam for just a second before realizing it was Dutch. 😆
foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan
So weird to see these together in the same sentence, but I know the reason is roughly “they’re all allies of the USA government, who are scared of the other involved parties” despite one of these being on the opposite end of the “powerful aggressor is threatening territory” equation.
⚽️ You can now get an #IXI jersey with the “anarchy firefly”.
