micro posts
- tons of great blue heron activity (flying, stalking, wading, on Turtle Willow, & Turtle Stick)
- tiny bright five-lined skink
- wood duck pair (and again on Turtle Willow)
- lots of turtles sunbathing
- Ishome - Eva
- Submotion Orchestra - Angel Eyes
- Massive Attack - Paradise Circus (Gui Boratto Remix)
- Clubroot - Low Pressure Zone
- Synkro - Acceptance
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”.
📚 Some good earth day sales from one of my favorite publishers (Library of America), including Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, John James Audobon, John Muir, Frederick Law Olmstead, Wendell Berry, Edward O. Wilson, and more.
Great animal day:
Rough pond day: some of the land bridge needs further remediation after prior work.
Great Blue Heron has been spotted a lot of times this weekend. Here it is hanging out on Turtle Willow.
🎶 Ok, let’s say I like Propaghandi and Rise Against and hardcore punk (esp. at the metalcore end of the spectrum), but find a lot of punk (esp. pop punk) to be vapid. What should I check out?
🗳️ Axios is doing interviews for Indiana gubernatorial candidates and so far, wow Brad Chambers seems like an adult in the room, compared to Mike Braun.
The Economist keeps emailing me to renew at a discount, but their renewal page is so broken it won’t even let me. So, no renewal I guess? 🤷♂️
🎶 Ridehail had a giant speaker in shotgun and an iPad for DJing. Had some triphop and dub stuff going, so here’s where I took it:
Driver cranked it!
⚽️ Let’s go #IXI
🎲 this seems like a very cool project, but I can’t get over the poor spelling and grammar 😬
Oceania 2084 - the orwellian TTRPG by Jocher Symbolic Systems
🎶 Finally found a succinct and useful definition of post-(genre) music, derived from an early post-rock definition from Simon Reynolds:
post-(genre) is music in which elements of (genre) are used for non-(genre) purposes
You’re about to be sent back to medieval times:
What do you bring with you to convince people that you are a wizard?
⚽️ Naeher again with three saves and a spot kick to help #USWNT win two tournaments in a row.
🔍 first five-line skink of the season, and the tail is unreal!
📺 We’ve been loving the French show “Astrid” (thanks to PBS/Walter Presents).
Any time we offer to watch another episode to one another, we try to use a new A-name (like Walter did in Fringe).
E.g. “Want to watch an Australopithecus tonight?”
It’s a fun little game.
🎲 There’s a Rose-Hulman plate (my nerd alma mater) parked in my neighborhood and it has dice, a hero forge box, and a DnD book in the back seat.
I want to introduce myself and share better games.
I’m unreasonably proud of this milestone.
Yet, it’s one of my most helpful habits.
If you do any reading (even just articles), I highly recommend Readwise. It’ll help you remember the key data, quotes, and points you took from your reading. Reviewing highlights from different sources each day also leads to valuable serendipity, because you’ll consider the relationship of ideas that may not have otherwise come into contact with one another.
