Category: long story short
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Into the belly of the beast
No real news today except that I have not yet fully digested the anger that consumed me this weekend, I burned four hours wasting my time at SFO because Everything is Shitty these days, and I’m headed to DC right now just as political things appear to be metastasizing. Posted from 30,000 feet or so.
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Hacking time
As I’ve gotten older like everyone else I have noticed how time speeds up. Each new days is a smaller fraction of your life than the previous one. A summer that lasted a lifetime when you were nine passes in the blink of an eye when you are 50. But there is a positive side!…
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Dispatches from the edge
Microblogging never really found its way. Not like real protocols like email and such. Monopolizing status updates all in one place never made sense but it hung together chaordically for a long while between twtr and the nazi bar it became. Much like the yellow-pages style centralization that facebook rode to meta, this ultimately provided…
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The new phonebook is here!
I was unwinding on Friday afternoon near the end of a long week and tuned into Human Music with Bill the Cat on Humboldt Hot Air, coming soon to actual airwaves near you (if you live near Humboldt, one would assume). As expected (disclosure: I am long time fan of Bill’s deejaying, mixtape, and playlist…
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Underneath the big starry-ass sky
I won’t lie. It’s been a hell of a week. Being on an enemies list is a lot. Trying to support and take care of a team of anxious, good people feels like a lot of emotional labor, though I recognize that it comes with positions of responsibility and authority. Still, it’s a lot. By…
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Fired up, ready to go
OK, one day off to gather energy and back to it we go.
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Before I ever wrote a real song
A live take of “Sham Song” from September 9:
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The show must go on
For the first time since starting this recording project back in February of 2023, we were not able to schedule at least one session last September. Around the same time, Cecil and I got together to play a little and I struggled to find my hands on my own tune, “The Long Haired Kings.” This…
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Sometimes late when things are real
When there’s a lot going on a lot of time can pass before I feel ready to say something about it and by the time I am ready usually something else is going on and other things have happened in the meantime. It’s almost enough to make me want timestamped logs like this site to…
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So… this happened
Like an aging AAA slugger called up to the majors, like a prep-school outsider starting college, like a choreographer with bad knees getting access to the biggest stage, I find myself leading the product management chapter at 18F as it celebrates its tenth anniversary. 18F is a consulting entity in TTS (Technology Transformation Services) in…
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ODI, ride or die
This past Friday I finished my last day on easily the greatest job I’ve had so far in my long, strange and oftentimes charmed career. I started at ODI, initially as a contractor, when it was still called the Office of Digital Innovation. I joined the team working on California’s statewide Covid site (covid19.ca.gov) as…
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Swim-two-birds logo ideas
As part of my songwriting trip I established a music publishing company for publishing my songs and managing that side of their rights (I also signed up with BMI for the songwriter side of the equation, and included my alias, Crispy Bacon). The company is called At Swim-Two-Birds Music in full but generally I just…
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You’ll know when
This whole album project evolved somewhat naturally from my ongoing songwriting efforts. As far as I can tell, writing songs is the best writing medium for me. I’ve written short stories, novels, poetry, and plays, and in each case I feel that I was able to carve out something worthwhile from time to time, but…
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A.I. Green sings
Fatal error, my core can’t detect / Discarding sectors of uncertain prospect
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It’s possible
I’m sorry,
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Trust the wooosh
Not sure why but I still seem to have beginner’s mind when it comes to writing songs and even having a set of ten that I feel are ready for my first album has not shut down the ongoing process of discovering and writing songs, with this newest work in progress coming over the weekend:
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I sing a song of today
do, pay, get, call, taxes, upkeep, get, music, make
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Miracle teeth
Dentists all over the world have gone mad after a woman in [ussstate] posted a shocking video in which. . . She mixes coconut oil and THIS mineral to quickly fix her cavities The video went viral and millions of people have already tried the trick and enjoyed the extraordinary results.
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Grrr
I plan to strip down and rebuild this blog (gradually, over time) but it’s still annoying that something I did with a new summary page template messed up the basic typeface of the place!
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Ready fedi?
As I get more into this fediverse thing I want to start trying to wean my photos off of Instagram / Bookface and my videos off of YouTube / same. Just as Mastodon is an open federated microblogging service akin to Twitter, Pixelfed and Peertube and federated photo and video services. Just so, I have…
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Yule see
Where I am in my life now this time of year more and more represents a necessary period of calm and reflection, a time for taking stock and considering possible course corrections for the next cycle to come. This becomes more and more important and even dear to me, I find. Anyhow, see you on…