Writer, programmer, editor, business human, parent in Brooklyn, NY. Mauna Loa 329.15.
To my fellow NYC data+climate nerds: Would love to see you at this event in NYC late September!
We're adding climate data to Aboard (https://aboard.com) to make it useful for doing adaptation work, and then...doing some climate adaptation work with it. Other folks will be there too! Plus good food.
It'll be a good event. Kindly RSVP!
Trouble sleeping? Here’s a 1960 album about how to create a flight plan, coordinate with air traffic control, and fly a small airplane around California. https://archive.org/details/lp_instrument-flight_no-artist
Why not relax to the soothing sounds of the 1963 office? Enjoy my favorite track—“Plastic Laminator.”https://archive.org/details/lp_the-sounds-of-the-office_michael-siegel/disc1/02.04.+Plastic+Laminator.mp3
@oldmankris@mastodon.xyz We only celebrate pip!
Me: The world is moving backwards. There's no progress. It's over.
My terminal: A new release of pip is available. To update, run: pip install --upgrade pip.
My spouse could not figure out why my alarm kept going off at 1:30AM, and kept trying to turn off whatever was beeping on my phone. Little did she know that I had gone to bed listening to a 1974 recording of the Bay Area Synthesizer Ensemble, my headphones fell out, which meant the phone started playing through its speakers, and it was buffering slowly—so every ten minutes a cacophony of Buchla beeps would spill out, stop, then start again.
“On October 18, 1972, Tom Zahuranec invited the radio audience down to the KPFA Music Office to communicate mentally with a philodendron which was wired with liquid electrodes feeding impulses into a Buchla synthesizer.”
This is a wild interview from 1994—about growing up during the Cultural Revolution. I keep thinking about it. Basically every content warning applies: https://archive.org/details/RTFM-Comm-940530
A thing that makes me very paranoid is that the mod labor is pretty obscured here because the UX tries to be familiar, and also the social dynamics are old Internet, i.e. you're not gonna get cancelled you're gonna get 3,000 words emailed to you at midnight about transgressions from a total stranger (I'm old Internet I've both sent and received those). I wish there was a big red DONATE button up top. Running one of these with say 10k users is a full-time job and I kind of hope...it becomes one, god that would be great, come on board and provide great fediverse systems to people, it'll cost $10/mo. I'll figure out how to donate in any case!