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stuff I like
Apr 18
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“ Well, but how deeply I regret any sadness you have suffered and how grateful I am in anticipation of any good you have enjoyed.  That is to say, I pray for you.  And there’s an intimacy in it.  That’s the truth.
— “Gilead”, Marilynne Robinson
Feb 13
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jazz.edu

“Jazz isn’t dead, it just smells funny”

— Frank Zappa

I’ve been on an allmusic.com-inspired jazz exploration the last few weeks.  It’s mostly 50s and 60s stuff for me right now.  Here’s the list of my favorites so far:

  1. A Love Supreme, John Coltrane
  2. Kind of Blue, Miles Davis
  3. That’s Where It’s At, Stanley Turrentine
  4. Pithecanthropus Erectus, Charles Mingus
  5. Blue Train, John Coltrane
  6. Moanin’, Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers
  7. Midnight Blue, Kenny Burrell
  8. The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, Charles Mingus
  9. Bitches Brew, Miles Davis
  10. New York, New York, George Russell
Apr 01
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“ I will recruit for myself and you as I go,
I will scatter myself among men and women as I go,
I will toss a new gladness and roughness among them,
Whoever denies me it shall not trouble me,
Whoever accepts me he or she shall be blessed and shall bless me.
— Walt Whitman, “Song of the Open Road”, Canto 5
Mar 24
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“ Don’t search for answers, which could not be given to you now because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, one distant day live right into the answer.
— R. M. Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Dec 15
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This makes me very, very happy.

Dec 10
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» switch before the recursion takes us all
Dec 01
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“ I am Beauty come into the Hell of the Practical.
—  Benjamin de Casseres, Mirrors of New York : on skyscrapers
Nov 28
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» Graph of the Internet Backbone

Beautiful graph of the routers that comprise the internet backbone. 

Nov 22
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zefrank on top of his game on week 3 of the writer’s strike