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@ReaderJohn It’s sine qua non for the pretentious vocabulary! :)

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@bradleyandroos I learned about it in Utopia Drive by Erik Reese. Great book so far!

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@bradleyandroos I just recently learned about Josiah Warren’s “labor notes” and alternative currency experiments. I had no idea there were still places with alternative currency in the US!

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Ordinary Saints

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I recently stumbled on this lovely “coffee table website.” Paintings by Bruce Herman with poems by Malcolm Guite and music by J.A.C. Redford. I’ve only really looked at the paintings and poems, but it’s a nice bit of the Internet.

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@tinyroofnail Absolutely love a small town Main Street. A good argument for building with architectural interest if you don’t want everything torn down and turned intro a strip mall.

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@fgtech I tried to convince myself it was just the shadow making it look so out of square. Then I saw the second photo…

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📚Finished Reading: Four Seasons in Rome, Anthony Doerr

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Lovely little memoir of a year spent on a writing fellowship in Rome with his wife and infant twins (spoiler: he didn’t get much writing done). There isn’t very much literature about having twins (too tired to write); lots of solidarity here.

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@dwalbert Seeing healthy farmland absorb moisture is amazing. I’ve seen my brother’s fields take in an inch of rain in an hour and barely be muddy while the neighbor’s looks like a lake.

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@JohnBrady I love my TWSBI Eco, I think I’ve had it 10 years now and use it at my desk basically every day. In that time I’ve only used the little wrench once, take heart.

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@madaga I’m sure it stands up on its own, but I would recommend reading Mrs. Dalloway first. There are three interleaving storylines, one of which is based on Mrs. Dalloway. It might be hard to sort those out at first.

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@jabel My dad tells me that when he was a child the preacher would call out a page number rather than book and chapter for his sermon text. Sometimes he would start, “If you have the right bible, turn to page…”, by which he meant the Scofield that essentially everyone owned in his baptist church.

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@cjhubbs highly recommend following with Michael Cunningham’s The Hours now that you have Dalloway under your belt.

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Twelve years. We had the nicest weekend together (child free, thanks to my in-laws) just doing things we enjoy at home and around town.

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@canneddragons thanks for sharing!

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@JohnBrady @dwalbert I may have mentioned this before, but I visited in 2011 (two note changes ago!). It was a lovely experience. The church is basically open-air (no windows and doors, gravel walkways) so it very much felt like visiting a special site where something was ongoing. I did not know the bit about the age of their original organ though, that’s wonderful.

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@elliotlovegrove there’s a story about Segovia that he wouldn’t let students play the chaconne until they were at least thirty. Not because they couldn’t do it technically, but that they needed more experience and maturity for it.

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@jabel A lifetime of being called “an old soul” seems like good preparation.

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@bradleyandroos Oh, I’m a terrible scrabble player. I’m too focused on the vocabulary and forget to play the board (as my wife reminds me every time she beats me).

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@flotisserie Whenever I see the knitting-computing connection I have to share this project by Irene Posch. I think it was my introduction to this whole idea.

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@bradleyandroos Ah! Really could have used mammock 12 hours ago in a scrabble game. I lost badly.

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@frjonjordan Some people have all the fun! Looks so great, especially the “shop class as soul craft” one.

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The best part of finishing a big project: cleaning the shop.

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@madaga I reread The Scarlett Letter last summer (for the first time since high school) and enjoyed it so much. Interested to hear what you think if it’s your first time!

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Finally installed. Now that I see it I think, as I suspected, it needs painted. It’s just a little too brown, and part of the point of shelves here (besides holding a ton of books) was to diminish the amount of river rock showing. I like the river rock, but it’s kind of a lot.

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@JudsonGreene opthamalogy.

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@canneddragons After watching my wife and I started the audiobook of Utopia Drive by Erik Reece on a roadtrip (roadtrip books are the best roadtrip books). Only made it through section on the Shakers, but it was surprisingly insightful into the movement and its history.

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📚Finished Reading: As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner.

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Phew, short book with a huge punch. So much more accessible than the other Faulkner I’ve read, and perhaps the only book I know with a woodworking project as a central plot point.

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@JohnBrady yes, but it’s been years! I’ll have to watch it again, I think there’s resonance (sorry…) with this book there.

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📚Finished Reading: The Hum of the World, Lawrence Kramer.

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Fascinating book, pulled on many threads at once.

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@dwalbert Keep practicing your fiddle, it’s nice to have something to do while Rome burns.

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This afternoon I did what I normally do when despair raises its head: sat down with Bach’s D minor partita and played all the way through.

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This passage from the chaconne, the first bit of D major after 30 minutes of D minor, is what hope sounds like. What a gift.

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@JohnBrady I think we’re dealing with something different in AI than the blogging internet. No one (to my knowledge) was buying up farmland at ~$50,000/acre to house servers until about last year. Now it’s everywhere.

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That said, I would humbly suggest heeding that feeling of discomfort before you use AI for fun. As always, someone is downstream.

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@todd It’s the stupidity of the whole thing that is so truly galling.

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Datacenters come to Town: isaacgreene.com

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Starting to look like a bookshelf! I just need to final fit the dividers and we’re on to finishing.

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My working hypothesis is that our culture has been in decline since we stopped checking out library books like this.

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📚Finished Reading: The Odyssey, Homer (Trans. Robert Fitzgerald)

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Great book, you should read it.

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Not sure what I expected, but this was just pure fun. It’s the original fun summer read. And yes, I do have IMAX tickets later this week.

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📚 Finished Reading: The Psychology of Imagination, Jean-Paul Sartre.

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Several books I’ve read recently interacted with portions of this so I decided to go to the source. A bit of a chore to read (definitely out of my wheelhouse) but lots of insightful bits as well.

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Jean-Paul Sartre demonstrating he knows his audience:

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But since the idea…is still repugnant to many French readers, we shall resort to a subterfuge, that is, to a method somewhat more complex.

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The Word and The Shape: isaacgreene.com

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Got started on the dadoes today. On small projects I’ve been known to cut these by hand but life is short and summer shorter, so I used the tracksaw. It does a nifty job and doing the sides clamped together means everything lines up.

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Stuff Music Campers Say: isaacgreene.com

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📚Finished Reading: 1,000 Chairs.

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Not a book you might say you read, exactly, but I did read every word. Conclusion: being in a book does not make you a good chair. At least 500 were hideous, less than 100 I thought were worthwhile. Also confimed my dislike of Italian Modernism.

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Teaching high school guitar camp this week. One of my favorite weeks of the summer surrounded by kids who absolutely love playing music.

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Aftermath from flattening about 50 sq ft of Poplar panels for a huge set of shelves im making.

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The Price of a Name in the latest issue of Plough is don’t miss reading.

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Day trip to the Georgia Aquarium today. The kids absolutely loved it. There were a lot of people.

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Say want you want about FIFA, but the Treaty of Tourdesillas has been honored.

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The last time I saw a praying mantis was in my house in Baltimore. She in fact, as the hymnwriter once said, “came in through the bathroom window.”

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True to its name, this one was observing the sabbath with great piety.

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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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