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@dwalbert @jaheppler Thanks! The layout gobblins were on my side this time, everything worked out great.

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Quick backsplash project for my in-laws. If I set any more tile this summer I’m going to have to change careers.

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@jaheppler Housekeeping is very good. The rest of the books set in Gilead are also remarkable. Jack is a particular favorite, about Broughton’s son.

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@manton The name also… leaves something to be desired 🙃

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@jaheppler First time? How you holding up? (That book really did a number on me the first time I read it).

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@elliotlovegrove I thought you would enjoy this! He’s a treasure, I love basically everything he does (the songs with Kronos Quartet especially). It’s a great take of the CarolineShaw piece too.

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@JudsonGreene Windy, tax-free, and land-lord friendly.

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This is evidence for my hunch that AI is going to make my annual title IX training even more difficult to watch.

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Now that my bathroom remodel is done I have some time to practice again. Working on a program of three sonatas for the fall, including this beautiful piece by Mauro Giuliani. It has two absolute knockout tunes, this one being the second theme of the first movement.

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@bradleyandroos absolutely love “anarchist calisthenics” as a mindset. I think about this whenever I make/trade for something I could buy, but I didn’t have a good phrase for it.

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Music is: isaacgreene.com

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Went searching for an old Sam Amidon album and found this brand new one instead. I am exactly the intended audience for this kind of project, I’ve listened about 10 times now.

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Contrasts in Sound: isaacgreene.com

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@cliff538 some real gems in the wisdom section. Thanks for sharing.

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My son rendered me as a minifigure. This is a proud father moment.

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@jabel I definitely have albums like this. I listen to everything, but I have no idea why there are those albums that get you right away. There’s also hearing a live performance that you can’t get over, then being wildly disappointed by the album version (i call this the Tiny Desk Concert phenomenon).

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I cannot enhance what little skills I have by criticizing others.

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📚 Finished Reading: Theo of Golden, Allen Levi.

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Lovely, but not my cup of literary tea. I think this says more about my own difficulty being warmed and filled than anything else. Bigger hearted friends love this book and I completely get it.

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@apoorplayer I get a lot of smug satisfaction putting ridiculously large loads of lumber in my Prius (up to 10’ stock) while men in enormous trucks look on.

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@miljko Zippers > Snaps. It took exactly one nocturnal diaper change for the cute snapping jammies gifted to us to go into a drawer of things never to be used again.

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@ReaderJohn You’re not, they’re sending a lot more packets than Spotify or Apple Music. I never had problems using my 6 gigs of monthly mobile data until I switched to Qobuz. Now I use it all every month, even streaming in mp3.

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The soundiiz transfer was such a smooth process too if you didn’t do that yet. My only complaint is that the search function isn’t amazing. I hope it improves as they grow.

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This sensible piece by @bradeast has given me the literary metaphor I’ve needed. When it comes to AI, I’m Bartleby, and I would prefer not to.

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Two poems I often return to on Father’s Day:

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Those Winter Sundays, Robert Hayden. When this poem found me I needed the phrase “love’s austere and lonely offices\" so much.

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my father moved through dooms of love, e. e. cummings. I get more from this every year, but the music and rhythm is enough.

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@ablerism I picked up the latest The New Atlantis last night to find this frightful article on genetic screening. (Sorry if it’s paywalled, TNA doesn’t do gift links). With ethics like these, you have to wonder why we need then at all.

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@ablerism I appreciate this piece so much. Thinking how “come-and-see” is so much harder when selective abortion renders so many permanently invisible. I saw a middle-aged man with Downs syndrome this week and realized how unusual that has become even in my lifetime. When I was a kid and there was always someone with Downs in my life in some way. For nearly every European under a certain age it is as if it doesn’t exist.

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📚Finished Reading: Places I’ve Taken My Body, Molly McCully Brown.

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Great book of essays on her life with cerebral palsy, including one of my all-time favorites, Bent Body, Lamb. Which you should read, but only when you have the time and space to digest it.

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@robertbreen When I first read this I definitely found parts slow (having read the Gilead books first I had wildly high expectations), but it was working on a very deep level. The image of the train haunted me for weeks after I finished.

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@writingslowly I haven’t, I suspect it’s something teachers assume others are teaching or students already know. They generally use terrible study techniques though, it’s a huge benefit for them to learn better ones.

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It took me about one second to know I was going to love the new album from my favorite Baltimore band: Horse Lords.

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@writingslowly I really enjoyed this and agree completely. I teach music (in classes and one-on-one) and I’m constantly talking about practice techniques and approaches. In my freshman music theory class I spend a whole day on how we learn and another on how to practice. Every year students tell me it’s the first time they have heard either topic discussed in a course.

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@JudsonGreene do you remember touring the Corning museum? I feel like I was 11 or 12 when we did it, so you must have been little. I don’t remember anything about it except being amazed.

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📚 Finished Reading; Music, Imagination, & Culture, Nicholas Cook.

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He had me from the first line: “The main theme of this books is the difference between how people think or talk about music on the one hand, and how it is experienced on the other.”

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Watching these robotic demos I realized that a lot of my ambivalence (to put it nicely) about LLMs has something to do with their disembodiment. The chat interface is dehumanizing for real people, how can it humanize a data model?

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But hands doing work? That looks like a fellow intelligence to me.

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@JohnBrady @tinyroofnail I cannot remember where I read this, but pre-renaissance it was normal for young boys to be “Psaltered” (that is, have memorized the Psalms) by around age 8. What looks to us like a lofty goal was probably just evidence of basic training.

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@bradleyandroos Happy birthday! Halfway through my 30s and I can say they have been unreservedly better than my 20s so far.

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@PaulDeFazio of the many things to love about this photo, I’m utterly inspired by the flawless laying of newspaper to protect the floor.

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📚Finished Reading: The Fields of Praise, New and Selected Poems by Marilyn Nelson.

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As I said to someone earlier, distill all the intensity and beauty of a Toni Morrison novel into a poem and you get Marilyn Nelson. Not easy-reading stuff, but incredibly powerful.

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@lukemperez I love these kinds of stories. There’s was a similar event at an American Musicological Society conference that ended in a shoving match over whether Handel’s Messiah was sung by a chorus or one to a part originally. Ruffle the tweeds!

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📚Finished Reading: Galahad and the Grail, Malcolm Guite.

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I don’t think I’ve read an epic poem since I last read Beowulf. What great fun.

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@PaulDeFazio It was great, thanks for the recommendation! I had somehow missed that OpenAI actually bought physical books and scanned them in, I always assumed they downloaded them.

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@ReaderJohn Not many Italians in South Carolina, though much more likely the case in the bathroom I did when I lived in Baltimore.

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For the second time in five years I have had my behind handed to me by a tile setter who probably died before I was born. Those guys knew their business.

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It took me most of the day with a 20lb SDS hammer to gut a 6x8 bathroom. Now for the fun part, rebuilding!

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@dwalbert All my kitchen walls are covered in cabinets, but I’ll find somewhere in eyeline of the sink. I first saw it from Shea Alexander.

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Splash Pad season.

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Working by hand with a tool you made (that works perfectly) is just so satisfying.

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Happy that S.C. Bill 812 passsed and was signed into law making the “Idaho stop\" legal for bicyclists. This won’t change my riding much, but I will be breaking the law a lot less often.

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Nice hike in the blue ridge mountains today. View from Lookout Rock outside Montreat, NC.

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📚Finished Reading: One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez (trans. Gregory Rabassa)

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Just unbelievable. I don’t think I’ve ever encountered such an amazing collection of sentences and pages in one book.

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The hummingbirds are very late this year. Last year I saw my first one on God Friday (April 18). Just saw the first one of this year today.

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A Little Casual Birthday Numerology: isaacgreene.com

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When I posted my grades (from Canvas) yesterday about 1PM I had no idea what a headache I was avoiding. A few hours later and I would be in such a pickle, solidarity with everyone locked out of their courses.

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An offline gradebook has been added to my to-dos for next year.

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