When I went from my old iphone SE to this 16e, the experience definitely enshittified. Swipes don’t always work, silencing alarms takes a screenshot half the time, notifications of all forms are hit or miss, pushed updates are broken. No I don’t want face id or siri or that sneaky new playground app

Finally some quality content to start posting on Bsky

I’ve gotten in the habit of getting up earlier so I can sit a while longer with a my coffee

My aural aesthetic, you ask? It’s making 90’s proto-grunge played on a 40 year old CD player with channel delay sound like it did in my fever dreaming head when I was young, sad and alone.

Sometimes you’ve got to do it scared

There is a black and white stray cat in the Palm Springs airport. Past security, in the food court, in and out of the hedge. How did it get there? I want to know it’s story.

Some farmer’s market colors

i am happy to fight for freedom with the libertarians but also, we don’t really need to *talk*

✨ Coyote Appreciation Post ✨ 🐺 Rainshadow & Daravel 📸 Nissou & Teej #furry #furries #fursuit #fursuitmaker #coyote #fursuitfriday

Was reminded of HIM today. 🥰🐓 Where are you now?? early #FursuitFriday 📷 Haski

details on club 7, I really love this card, probaly beacuse I love gardening character is Taztiger74

Complex emotions tonight. Thinkin about avali, listenin to Alabama Shakes, drinkin wine & ponderin the manuscript that was accepted after a single major revision in 48h. That’s a secret, shh

It’s fun to play with gain structure. One can crank 70dB of gain from the phono stage alone, almost all of which is thrown away in the preamp. Or, dial the phono stage back to 46dB & do 1:1 in the preamp, & get a completely different tone. Instead of op-amp swing, it’s trafo tang.

Lately I’ve had recurring dreams of not finishing my PhD, or being let go from my postdoctoral advisor’s lab, or last night’s nonsense of bacterial plates left near the cell culture area. None of these traumas ever happened. I never dream about the actual trauma of carrying mail for 6 months.

ruined the magic charcoal

This gives me the best opportunity to share this lovely piece I got from @puffffy.bsky.social

SFGATE, if yr listening, there needs to be a way to like & subscribe to good articles. Like the one on Mark Mothersbaugh’s show at SF Sketchfest. I’m too dumb to copypasta from my phone

Why isn’t there a chatbot named Personal Jesus

What even are coyotes. San Francisco coyote swims to Alcatraz for first time ever www.sfgate.com/local/articl...

It’s mid-January in California and that means SPRING. Nuthin much for the birds to eat ‘cept black olives. Heckin birds.

“God’s away on business.” -Tom Waits (by way of jazz24)

I’m sitting at home, workin on a revision to a submitted manuscript & thinkin about FC. This is my life now.

Probably no FC for me. It’s been a rough week & I’m home watching a Depeche Mode concert

For me, Flea and his music is a guiding star. If you have ever vibed with his music, check out at least this first song, A Plea. officialflea.bandcamp.com/album/honora

🌟

You know the stray has claimed you when they come all the way in the garage to barf on the carpeted steps leading into the house

A surprise stained glass window for @katav.gay, one of the sweetest, coolest, and brightest animals in the world 🐺🪢☀️

Maybe next year

All I can be here for right now is some insipid nonsense. youtu.be/2twY8YQYDBE?...

Idc what you’re worth or what you become worth, it’ll always piss you off when a vending machine eats yr quarter

There’s smth about this exotic chocolate & thick carmel valley chardonnay that I’ve been nibblin and sippin these last days that make for long, lurid dreams. Real batshit nonsense like a reactor supplying more power than NYC going haywire & me running the parkour of my life tryin to get away in time

😎

Made a little dude.

Hey

A rising tide totes all goats.

It’s been raining for days & I haven’t ridden so I spent time in the garage resurrecting an amp project. I had to pull a bunch of filter capacitors & scrounge some other parts to build a dual rail supply, so it cost nothing. I’m listening to it now. Sorry, I took no good pictures of the guts.

This is how I spent my New Years, building yet another phono stage from parts on hand while I wait for a Mouser delivery. I’ll be back at work on Monday, I don’t have a chassis for this, what even am I doing

Last year I donated to a nonprofit serviced by Flipcause & even paid their processing fee. It looks like that money never got to the charity! Thieving techbros! They should be put in jail. Bay Area tech startup collapses into bankruptcy, owing $29M to nonprofits www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

Happy New Year on this peaceful, rainy morning.

As the year draws to a close, I’m signing off 2025 with a magical find! An ancient amber bear. Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø, Denmark, from a submerged Mesolithic settlement in the North Sea. ✨ Happy New Year all! ✨ National Museum of Denmark 📷 by me #Archaeology

For my last photo post of 2025 I think I'm gonna lock this in as one of my favorite overall shots of the year. Taken in almost complete darkness in brutally cold, windy conditions on my California trip. #california #landscape

She’s finished & singing

Told ya

Merry Christmas! 🎄

Central Park, Christmas Day (and night). It’s gonna snow here tonight.

Lux dramatis

There has been some progress.