The story of New College of Florida “merits attention . . . if only to record the perseverance of those who, for more than three decades, struggled to overcome numerous and daunting difficulties to help keep the institution alive.” So wrote Furman C. Arthur, the school’s first employee, in his introduction to New College: The […]
Can Caspian really be 21 years old? You Are the Conductor was released in 2005, instantly launching the Beverly, MA post-rock band into the upper ranks. These past two decades have been kind to the quintet, although six years have passed since the
Bibio has the distinction of having appeared on our lists of Best Spring Albums and Favorite Fall Albums while also popping up in a Lost Children summer mix. Now teaming up with the pastoral synthesist Dorian Concept, the artist has produced
I first met the Japanese street photographer Yoshi Yubai back in late 2022 at the apartment of V. Vale in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood. Vale is the founder of the storied publisher RE/Search Publications. I happened to notice a synthesizer on a table in Vale’s living room, and learned it belonged to his wife, Marian […]
Now, this following message affects the tiniest fraction of Junto members, but unfortunately I have to mention it prominently, so no one can experience what they might otherwise feel is a surprise. As I mentioned last week, there are rules on the Lines message board (aka llllllll.co) regarding AI usage, among other forms of participation. […]
What a cosmic coincidence! In today’s image, Mars joins the Beehive cluster (M44 or Praesepe) below an auroral curtain and above a horizon of happy little trees near Lansjärv, Sweden
This stairway in Chile brings you only a little bit closer to heaven
Today's links Bundestrojaner: You can't make people more secure by making them less secure. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 9/11 sitcom; Jon Norman v Philcon; Bruce Sterling's post-9/11 geopolitics; Polaroid bankrupt; David Mamet x Shel Silverstein; "Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow"; Canadian government calls abortion doctors "terrorists"; Shanghai Ikea kicks out lonely, ...
Making git hooks visible: I don’t have that many Git hooks for my own repos but this looks like a good idea. I’m already using a Zsh hook to detect uv virtual environments: function auto_activate_venv() { if [ -f ".venv/bin/activate" ]; then source .venv/bin/activate fi } autoload -U add-zsh-hook add-zsh-hook chpwd auto_activate_venv
I found myself spending most of my time in a Wolfram notebook these days. For whatever reason, the builtin LSP has stopped working with BBEdit (maybe because I moved my user files to iCloud, or for whatever reasons I don’t really care at the present time) and code formatting (via CodeFormatter) is now a mess. I mean, it just hurts my eyes to find comma on a single line, like this: (indentation ...