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"title": "Dan Jewett",
"home_page_url": "https://terribleideas.me",
"feed_url": "https://terribleideas.me/feed.json",
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"title": "Text.fyi",
"slug": "text-fyi",
"content_html": "<p>I was cleaning out old bookmarks today and came across this quirky service that epitomizes the sort of simplicity we crave for publishing on the net (albeit anonymously.) <a href=\"https://txt.fyi/about/\">text.fyi</a></p>\n<p>Here's my one and only post on the service back in 2018. <a href=\"https://txt.fyi/+/8a8129b2\">Maker</a></p>\n<p>And here is the writing interface, markdown ok. <a href=\"https://txt.fyi\">text.fyi</a></p>\n<p>Can you get yourself to publish something that you know no-one will ever see? If you don't copy the URL, <em>you'll</em> never see it again either! 🙂</p>",
"pub_date": "2024-10-06T19:00:46-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-10-06T22:57:12.335673-05:00",
"post_type": "Micro",
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},
{
"title": "Firefox",
"slug": "firefox",
"content_html": "<p>Goodbye Firefox. But where to now?</p>",
"pub_date": "2024-10-05T08:01:36-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-10-05T08:01:46.012557-05:00",
"post_type": "Micro",
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},
{
"title": "MTG",
"slug": "mtg",
"content_html": "<p>Marjorie Taylor Green declared yesterday, with maps of southeastern US as props, that Democrats are capable of controlling the weather and that they used this power to wreak havoc and destruction on the red state havens of their enemies.</p>\n<p>I must thank her for erasing the last tiny vestiges of belief I clung to in the gravitas of responsible leadership. I’m not naive but I desperately wanted to believe that being close to the highest levels of power in our democracy would inspire some level of seriousness and sense of duty.</p>\n<p>No. The only person stupider than MTG is me.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://x.com/mtgreenee/status/1842039774359462324\">Original Tweet</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-control-weather-1963686\">Newsweek reporting</a></p>",
"pub_date": "2024-10-04T07:36:58-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-10-06T11:16:58.081340-05:00",
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{
"title": "Kawase Hasui (1883-1957)",
"slug": "kawase-hasui-1883-1957",
"content_html": "<figure class=\"featured-image\"><img src=\"https://terrible-django.s3.amazonaws.com/img/post_images/Tenno-ji_Temple_in_Osaka-1.jpg\" alt=\"This is a woodblock print depicting a Japanese temple from the Showa period. There is a gentle snow falling and in front of the temple a person with an umbrella walks away from us leaving footprints in the snow.\" title=\"Tenno-ji Temple in Osaka (Osaka Tenno-ji)\"><figcaption><p>Tenno-ji Temple in Osaka (Osaka Tenno-ji)</p></figcaption></figure><p>Kawase Hasui (1883-1957).<br />\nTenno-ji Temple in Osaka (Osaka Tenno-ji).<br />\nShowa period, 1927. Woodblock print.</p>\n<p>With the colder months approaching, I look forward to the possibility of experiencing the sense of peace this beautiful print elicits.</p>",
"pub_date": "2024-09-13T18:20:53-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-10-01T22:10:30.177202-05:00",
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"title": "Tenno-ji Temple in Osaka (Osaka Tenno-ji)",
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"caption_text": "Tenno-ji Temple in Osaka (Osaka Tenno-ji)",
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"title": "Low Carb/No Carb",
"slug": "low-carb-no-carb",
"content_html": "<p>In no part of the following text should one assume an unspoken \"you should.\"</p>\n<p>I began to move towards zero carbohydrate consumption earlier this year. It was not sudden and I had dallied and experimented with the concept for a while before that. I experienced periods of low-carb intake followed by periods of complete loss of appetite control. The intensity of the binge-eating was alarming and prompted me to be more serious about the experiment.</p>\n<p>I have been as close to zero-carb as I can get for over three months now. Not that long, but long enough to make some observations. Do I ever cheat? Yes. I have on a few of occasions enjoyed a beer with a friend, limiting it to only one. Last year, I broke an eight year abstinence on drinking. When I stopped drinking I believe it was more of a lifestyle choice than a response to an addiction. Drinking an occasional beer now hasn't put me in any sort of tailspin risk, but I will say that I do notice the unpleasant physical remnants of the experience afterwards, and I would just as soon skip them.</p>\n<p>It took a while to give up bread. We have some pretty great bakeries here in Lawrence, KS. Hard to walk past. But for the most part, I consumed bread in the form of tortillas which I used to help me consume various combinations of meat, sour cream, and cheese. I do love Mexican food. I now use a bowl instead. If I'm feeling fancy I might add some salsa if I can determine it hasn't had any sugar or other poisons added to it.</p>\n<p>So I feel great.</p>\n<p>Not perfectly great, but in comparison to preceding decades...freaking great.</p>\n<p>These are the things:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Improved Mood<sup id=\"fnref:1\"><a class=\"footnote-ref\" href=\"#fn:1\">1</a></sup> - My mood has stabilized a lot. Around the time I started this experiment with diet, I lost a job which I loved. This would have typically caused...problems. I have grieved over it, and it still weighs on me, but I have not despaired and I remain forward-looking.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Less anxiety, more focus.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Night Sweats are gone. After years of soaking the pillow and sheets</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Sleep Improved. For a couple of reasons. One is that I am not constantly thirsty and consume less water. My middle of the night trips to the bathroom have stopped. Secondly, I fall asleep more easily. The pre-sleep, anxious thought, rabbit hole does not occur nearly as often now.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Gums stopped bleeding. This was just normal for the longest time. When I brushed my teeth there was always blood. I now brush my teeth four times a day (no toothpaste) and there has been no bleeding. Zero. None.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>How shall I describe the way my gastrointestinal tract feels? Transparent? Invisible maybe. Never in my life has my digestive system been so quiet and unobtrusive. No rumbling, no complaining. No feelings of gas, bloating, or inflammation.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>I don't wake up sore. For a long time I had been experiencing intense pain in my head, neck, and shoulders upon waking. Straight to the Ibuprofen every morning. Wrong pillow? Wrong posture? Something I ate? The last one apparently. That pain is gone now.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Weight Loss. This is the one everyone wants to know about. I lost about 12 pounds pretty quickly when I got deliberate about zero-carb intake. Since then things have slowed in terms of weight loss, but my weight continues to go down. If I want a more dramatic weight drop, I will likely have to exercise more and reduce my calorie intake just like everyone else in the universe.</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p>It doesn't fix everything.</p>\n<p>Regrettably, this food regimen has not done anything to improve my general character flaws and my hair has not become thicker and isn't growing back. I <em>do</em> feel more open to the possibility of conquering some things about myself that have vexed me for a very long time. Even in this later stage of my life.</p>\n<div class=\"footnote\">\n<hr />\n<ol>\n<li id=\"fn:1\">\n<p>I have suffered from what I would call low-grade depression since my late teens. Not always intense, although there were instances, but rather a steady chipping away at my psyche that has had profound impacts on my life. When it comes to depression it doesn't have to be dramatic to be damaging. <a class=\"footnote-backref\" href=\"#fnref:1\" title=\"Jump back to footnote 1 in the text\">↩</a></p>\n</li>\n</ol>\n</div>",
"pub_date": "2024-09-13T12:06:48-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-09-13T12:26:09.725356-05:00",
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},
{
"title": "Concept of a Man",
"slug": "concept-of-a-man",
"content_html": "<p>\"I have a concept of a plan,\" resonates so much with me and let's be real, everyone, because well,...guilty as charged.<br />\nBut I can own that I procrastinate and that my personal failings are often the source of my anxiety and lack of focus and direction. The Republican candidate lacks the ability for any such self-reflection and therefore also has only \"a concept of a man.\"<br />\nWhich concept is severely broken.</p>",
"pub_date": "2024-09-11T09:43:03-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-09-11T09:44:55.979790-05:00",
"post_type": "Micro",
"featured_image": null
},
{
"title": "Debate Glow",
"slug": "debate-glow",
"content_html": "<p>Up early to make sure I experience all the satisfaction of the day after.\nThe day after Kamala Harris handed that shit talking bridge-troll the one part of his body that isn't the color of dried apricot.</p>",
"pub_date": "2024-09-11T06:49:16-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-09-11T06:52:07.145795-05:00",
"post_type": "Micro",
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{
"title": "Venn the Cat",
"slug": "venn-the-cat",
"content_html": "<p>Venn the cat.<br />\nThe plural of ox is oxen.<br />\nThe plural of box is …</p>\n<figure class=\"flex flex-col text-base text-center\"><img src=\"https://terrible-django.s3.amazonaws.com/img/post_images/venn_the_cat-1.jpg\" alt=\"Venn the cat has his orange and white self snuggled into his favorite thing. A box on the bed.\" title=\"Venn the Cat\"/></figure>",
"pub_date": "2024-09-09T09:16:58-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-09-17T09:14:19.391148-05:00",
"post_type": "Micro",
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},
{
"title": "Time Remembered",
"slug": "time-remembered",
"content_html": "<p>I found this gem yesterday, buried on Disc 9 of the Bill Evans Complete Riverside Recordings. Zoot Sims is inspired. Jim Hall on guitar, Ron Carter on bass, Philly Joe Jones on drums. Tracked it down on YouTube. Perfect for a Sunday morning.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jMymWD8bcE\">Bill Evans - Time Remembered</a></p>\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/-jMymWD8bcE?si=k1YoyogtLMAQSwai\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen></iframe>",
"pub_date": "2024-09-08T08:24:47-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-09-08T08:28:37.715619-05:00",
"post_type": "Micro",
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},
{
"title": "Early Starts",
"slug": "early-starts",
"content_html": "<p>Looks like I'm getting back to a schedule more like I kept when I was coaching. A 4am wake up wasn't planned but I don't mind it. I don't really differentiate weekends from weekdays anymore.<br />\nGood morning all.</p>",
"pub_date": "2024-09-07T04:53:41-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-09-07T04:54:45.440829-05:00",
"post_type": "Micro",
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},
{
"title": "Confession",
"slug": "confession",
"content_html": "<p>Confession.<br />\nTime to completion using Claude.ai to solve my Django Admin tagging issue: Longer than I hoped.<br />\nTime to completion without Claude's help: ∞</p>",
"pub_date": "2024-09-06T16:20:56-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-09-06T16:22:05.256432-05:00",
"post_type": "Micro",
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},
{
"title": "Select2 for Tagging in Django",
"slug": "select2-for-tagging-in-django",
"content_html": "<p>Well it took most of the morning, but I was able to implement a better way of adding and editing tags for posts in the Django admin. Used the Select2 library loaded from a cdn. Will try doing it with the Django-Select2 package next.</p>",
"pub_date": "2024-09-06T14:57:16-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-10-13T22:40:40.287771-05:00",
"post_type": "Micro",
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},
{
"title": "It's Like Snow",
"slug": "its-like-snow",
"content_html": "<p>The use of the word 'like' in every phrase uttered by these two student radio DJs has the effect of numbing my ears.</p>\n<p>I imagine being buried in a snowfall of the word until nothing in the aural landscape is discernible. My fingers remain warm.</p>",
"pub_date": "2024-09-05T07:17:28-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-09-06T14:43:22.224324-05:00",
"post_type": "Micro",
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},
{
"title": "Good Morning 2024-09-04",
"slug": "good-morning-2024-09-04",
"content_html": "<p>Good morning Micro.blog and Mastodon! It looks like it's going to be a beautiful day here in Lawrence, KS. Hump day! All easier from here on out!</p>",
"pub_date": "2024-09-04T08:14:00-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-09-04T12:54:12.328871-05:00",
"post_type": "Micro",
"featured_image": null
},
{
"title": "Today's Breakfast",
"slug": "todays-breakfast",
"content_html": "<p>This morning's breakfast. You can have some too!</p>\n<figure class=\"flex flex-col text-base text-center\"><img src=\"https://terrible-django.s3.amazonaws.com/img/post_images/simplify_p4BOGah.jpg\" alt=\"A large white bowl containing an artificial stone imprinted with the word Simplify.\" title=\"Simply bowl\"/></figure>",
"pub_date": "2024-09-03T10:11:19-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-09-17T09:12:01.521336-05:00",
"post_type": "Micro",
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},
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"title": "New York morning in Kansas",
"slug": "new-york-morning-in-kansas",
"content_html": "<p><strong>A New York Morning in Kansas</strong>. 69° here in Lawrence this morning. I love going out on my little back porch and being reminded of boyhood mornings in Chautauqua, NY.</p>\n<p>Our family would vacation at Chautauqua Lake. I would be out early looking for nightcrawlers to go fishing with. A very happy memory triggered by this morning's cool air.</p>",
"pub_date": "2024-09-02T09:59:28-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-09-04T12:54:04.318776-05:00",
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{
"title": "Bill Evans",
"slug": "bill-evans",
"content_html": "<figure class=\"featured-image\"><img src=\"https://terrible-django.s3.amazonaws.com/img/post_images/bill-evans.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photo of Bill Evans at the piano.\" title=\"Bill Evans\"><figcaption><p>Bill Evans (1929-1980)</p></figcaption></figure><p>It's been forty-four years since <a href=\"https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Bill_Evans\">Bill Evans</a> passed. Would it be naive to think in all that time there has been no one to surpass him in the art of jazz piano improvisation? We have seen Keith Jarrett's improvisational virtuosity and McCoy Tyner's muscular strides through a set of chord changes. We've seen more structurally cerebral players manipulate and experiment with the limits of aural legitimacy, testing out what our ears and brains are willing process as music. Countless great players deserving of our attention.</p>\n<p>But for sheer lyricism? As I listen to Evans this morning, I have the sensation that his exploration of melody will leave me deeply satisfied. As if he were saying, \"This is a beautiful melody. Let me show you the possibilities it contains while still letting it remain itself. That will be my gift.\"</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOV0HIh4DoQ\">Bill Evans - Solo Piano</a></p>",
"pub_date": "2024-09-01T12:27:11-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-10-01T22:12:29.149012-05:00",
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"title": "Bill Evans",
"alt_text": "Black and white photo of Bill Evans at the piano.",
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},
{
"title": "Art Pepper",
"slug": "art-pepper",
"content_html": "<p>Happy Birthday to the great Art Pepper. (1925-1982)</p>\n<p>Here he is on his signature tune <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU1UE-D-9ec\">Straight Life</a>.</p>",
"pub_date": "2024-09-01T08:44:43-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-09-04T12:53:49.980331-05:00",
"post_type": "Micro",
"featured_image": null
},
{
"title": "Kansas Nuns",
"slug": "kansas-nuns",
"content_html": "<p>From my state. Somebody's gotta do it.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://apnews.com/article/catholic-benedictine-nuns-esg-shareholder-activism-e8d8111e8d2c00ced463db40863ec45b\">How a small group of nuns in rural Kansas vex big companies with their investment activism.</a></p>",
"pub_date": "2024-08-31T15:25:20-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-09-04T12:53:43.287268-05:00",
"post_type": "Micro",
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},
{
"title": "Solo Bill Evans",
"slug": "solo-bill-evans",
"content_html": "<p>What a gift to start the day this way. Listening to the solo performances from Bill Evans Complete Riverside Recordings.</p>\n<p>The finest combination of beauty and genius. </p>\n<figure class=\"flex flex-col text-base text-center\"><img src=\"https://terrible-django.s3.amazonaws.com/img/post_images/bill_evans_solo_riverside_v0pbUQ7.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of The Complete Riverside Recordings of Bill Evans\" title=\"Solo Bill Evans Cover\"/></figure>",
"pub_date": "2024-08-31T07:47:47-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-09-17T09:08:31.789136-05:00",
"post_type": "Micro",
"featured_image": null
},
{
"title": "Waitng",
"slug": "waitng",
"content_html": "<p>And here we sit. Making everything better with this advanced animation of how broken the web is. #pleaseusetext</p>\n<figure class=\"flex flex-col text-base text-center\"><img src=\"https://terrible-django.s3.amazonaws.com/img/post_images/po_verify_5qVPLS5.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of progress widget stuck at 99% complete.\" title=\"Postal Waiting\"/><figcaption>Verifying my identity is a painstaking process.</figcaption></figure>",
"pub_date": "2024-08-30T08:16:40-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-09-17T09:06:45.383772-05:00",
"post_type": "Micro",
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},
{
"title": "Coffee Infrastructure",
"slug": "coffee-infrastructure",
"content_html": "<p>Approaching the final steps of dismantling my coffee infrastructure. Down to decaf these last weeks. Time to replace the ritual itself. #removealljoy</p>",
"pub_date": "2024-08-29T17:12:43-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-09-04T12:53:29.638258-05:00",
"post_type": "Micro",
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},
{
"title": "Harris-Walz Crop Art",
"slug": "harris-walz-crop-art",
"content_html": "<p>Right here in Lawrence, KS!</p>\n<figure class=\"flex flex-col text-base text-center\"><img src=\"https://terrible-django.s3.amazonaws.com/img/post_images/crop_art_kamala.jpg\" alt=\"Aerial view of crops manipulated to look like Kamala Harris and Tim Walz\" title=\"Crop Art\"/><figcaption>Kamala Harris and Tim Walz by crop artist Stan Herd.</figcaption></figure>",
"pub_date": "2024-08-29T08:05:07-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-10-13T12:35:54.806231-05:00",
"post_type": "Micro",
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"title": "Broken",
"slug": "broken",
"content_html": "<p>Imagine what it would feel like to achieve the position of utmost authority and recognition on your planet and then reward yourself by making sure there wasn't one single person <em>anywhere</em> that didn't know you were a total ass.</p>\n<p>He is a golem existing only on the energy of his own self loathing.</p>",
"pub_date": "2024-08-28T20:07:02-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-09-04T12:53:19.565478-05:00",
"post_type": "Micro",
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},
{
"title": "Updating my reading list",
"slug": "updating-my-reading-list",
"content_html": "<p>I've begun the process of back-filling my reading list <a href=\"https://danjewett.net/reading/\">here</a>.</p>\n<p>Oldest to newest. Going to take a while.</p>",
"pub_date": "2024-08-28T15:24:25-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-09-04T12:53:12.638735-05:00",
"post_type": "Micro",
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},
{
"title": "Tumbler -> Wordpress",
"slug": "tumbler-wordpress",
"content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/28/tumblr-to-move-its-half-a-billion-blogs-to-wordpress/\">Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress</a>.</p>\n<p>I think this is good news for the small web. Tumblr's blogging interface far surpasses WordPress in simplicity/ease of use.</p>\n<p>The WordPress admin site has become a nightmare. I'll definitely be tracking this.</p>",
"pub_date": "2024-08-28T15:07:00-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-09-04T12:53:08.329670-05:00",
"post_type": "Micro",
"featured_image": null
},
{
"title": "Ken Paxton",
"slug": "ken-paxton",
"content_html": "<p>Would someone in Texas law-enforcement please invite Ken Paxton to an extended stay away from other humans? He seems to be pleading for it.</p>",
"pub_date": "2024-08-27T18:04:05-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-09-04T12:53:02.122515-05:00",
"post_type": "Micro",
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{
"title": "Reading Section",
"slug": "reading-section",
"content_html": "<figure class=\"featured-image\"><img src=\"https://terrible-django.s3.amazonaws.com/img/post_images/library.jpg\" alt=\"Brightly lit palatial library. Location unknown.\" title=\"Reading Section\"><figcaption><p>Photo by <a href=\"https://unsplash.com/@deko_photo4\">Valdemaras D.</a></p></figcaption></figure><p>The new version of this site has been up for a while now with the Reading page remaining empty.</p>\n<p>My initial thought was to do a plain Markdown list of what I'm reading, what I've finished, what I thought, etc. It's inline with a basic approach of simplicity first.</p>\n<p>I've already moved my book list around a lot between Goodreads, StoryGraph, and now <a href=\"https://hardcover.app/\">Hardcover</a>. <a href=\"https://micro.blog\">Micro.blog</a> has a nice book tracking feature as well.</p>\n<p>So of course I've decided to <em>not</em> do that and to add my reading history to my own database. It does fit the approach of <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/POSSE\">POSSE</a>, but I don't get the benefit of simple Markdown portability.</p>\n<p>Still, I like the idea of having more display flexibility with the information...</p>",
"pub_date": "2024-08-27T11:43:43-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-10-01T23:09:36.183443-05:00",
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"title": "Reading Section",
"alt_text": "Brightly lit palatial library. Location unknown.",
"caption_text": "Photo by <a href=\"https://unsplash.com/@deko_photo4\">Valdemaras D.</a>",
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{
"title": "Chemtrails",
"slug": "chemtrails",
"content_html": "<p>Again with the chemtrails? RFK Jr. is supplying more toxic brain destroying pollutants than any number of poison jets ever could.</p>",
"pub_date": "2024-08-27T10:19:39-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-09-04T12:52:53.856854-05:00",
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"title": "Birds of Fire",
"slug": "birds-of-fire",
"content_html": "<p>For this morning's ear bath. </p>\n<p>Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire and Live at Yale in 1973. Formative for me.</p>\n<figure class=\"flex flex-col text-base text-center\"><img src=\"https://terrible-django.s3.amazonaws.com/img/post_images/birds_of_fire_EVRkUKp.jpg\" alt=\"Birds of Fire Album cover\" title=\"Birds of Fire\"/></figure>",
"pub_date": "2024-08-27T09:15:17-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-09-17T09:00:38.205839-05:00",
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"title": "Discover New Sites",
"slug": "discover-new-sites",
"content_html": "<p>This makes me even more happy about my <a href=\"https://kagi.com\">Kagi</a> subscription. There is a \"small web\" feature that works sort of like Stumble Upon. </p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"https://kagi.com/smallweb/\">Kagi Small Web</a> and you will land on a random blog post. If you like it you can take your usual \"I found something cool\" steps, or you can hit the next button to get another random post.</p>",
"pub_date": "2024-08-26T16:21:54-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-09-04T12:52:44.705976-05:00",
"post_type": "Micro",
"featured_image": null
},
{
"title": "East of Eden",
"slug": "east-of-eden",
"content_html": "",
"pub_date": "2024-08-25T18:14:23-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-09-04T12:52:40.602083-05:00",
"post_type": "First Paragraph",
"featured_image": null
},
{
"title": "Summer's End",
"slug": "summers-end",
"content_html": "<p>This is the last evening before classes begin for the '24-'25 school year at the University of Kansas here in Lawrence. This is only significant for me as a marker. I'm not associated with KU other than that my daughter Marilyn will be starting her senior year there.</p>\n<p>As markers go, the start of the Fall semester does have a somewhat melancholy weight to it. I don't experience Summer the same way I did when I was younger, but I still feel a tinge of loss at its passing. Vestiges of youthful freedom that defined that part of the year.</p>\n<p>It reached 100º here in Kansas today. It allows one to pretend that there is some Summer left even as our minds and bodies shift to cooler pursuits.</p>",
"pub_date": "2024-08-25T17:21:02-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-09-04T12:52:36.784097-05:00",
"post_type": "Micro",
"featured_image": null
},
{
"title": "indieweb.social",
"slug": "indiewebsocial",
"content_html": "<p>Wondering if anyone is home at the <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/\">indieweb.social</a> Mastodon instance. Been waiting over a week for account approval. One way or another.</p>",
"pub_date": "2024-08-25T14:59:28-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-09-04T12:52:33.226524-05:00",
"post_type": "Micro",
"featured_image": null
},
{
"title": "We Me",
"slug": "we-me",
"content_html": "<figure class=\"flex flex-col text-base text-center\"><img src=\"https://terrible-django.s3.amazonaws.com/img/post_images/we_me_uehxzEC.jpg\" alt=\"Large letters WE cast a shadow that spells ME. Kamala Harris is on the letters. Donald Trump is in the shadow.\" title=\"WeMe\"/><figcaption>High ground, low ground. - Steve Cousineau</figcaption></figure>",
"pub_date": "2024-08-25T10:30:57-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-09-17T08:57:41.218486-05:00",
"post_type": "Micro",
"featured_image": null
},
{
"title": "Nate Smith",
"slug": "nate-smith",
"content_html": "<figure class=\"flex flex-col text-base text-center\"><img src=\"https://terrible-django.s3.amazonaws.com/img/post_images/intense_nate_smith-1.jpg\" alt=\"Nate Smith at his drumset looking intense. Black and white photo.\" title=\"Nate Smith\"/><figcaption>Drummer Nate Smith</figcaption></figure>\n\n<p>Today's playlist is going to move in and out of music by <a href=\"https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Nate_Smith_%28musician%29\">Nate Smith</a>, Chris Potter, Dave Holland, and many of the musicians in that universe.</p>\n<p>Guaranteed fresh.</p>",
"pub_date": "2024-08-25T09:02:36-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-09-17T08:55:08.700233-05:00",
"post_type": "Micro",
"featured_image": null
},
{
"title": "Alt Text",
"slug": "alt-text",
"content_html": "<p>Ugh. Just realized I never created a field in the admin interface to supply alt text for featured images. 1st project for the day then.</p>",
"pub_date": "2024-08-24T06:59:41-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-09-04T12:52:19.284810-05:00",
"post_type": "Micro",
"featured_image": null
},
{
"title": "A Great Loss for the Jazz World",
"slug": "a-great-loss-for-the-jazz-world",
"content_html": "<figure class=\"flex flex-col text-base text-center\"><img src=\"https://terrible-django.s3.amazonaws.com/img/post_images/russell_malone.jpg\" alt=\"Russell Malone seated, playing his guitar.\" title=\"Russell Malone\"/><figcaption>Russell Malone (1963-2024)</figcaption></figure>\n\n<p>Thank you Russell Malone. Go easy.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.ghanacelebrities.com/2024/08/23/russell-malone-death-of-legendary-guitarist-aged-60-sparks-shock-grief/\">Loss of Russell Malone</a></p>",
"pub_date": "2024-08-24T06:44:44-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-09-17T08:53:21.201981-05:00",
"post_type": "Standard",
"featured_image": null
},
{
"title": "Louis Cole",
"slug": "louis-cole",
"content_html": "<p>I love everything about this, including the audacious/ambitious scope of it.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://louiscole.bandcamp.com/album/nothing\">Louis Cole - Nothing</a></p>\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/zs4tMyekKDQ?si=0cG4Im-6XwVADW1X\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen></iframe>",
"pub_date": "2024-08-23T06:25:14-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-09-04T12:52:08.114117-05:00",
"post_type": "Micro",
"featured_image": null
},
{
"title": "Early",
"slug": "early",
"content_html": "<p>Wide awake at 4:15am. Might as well get to it!</p>",
"pub_date": "2024-08-23T04:20:17-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-09-04T12:52:03.564060-05:00",
"post_type": "Micro",
"featured_image": null
},
{
"title": "Joe Biden",
"slug": "joe-biden",
"content_html": "<p>Well done Joe Biden. #dncspeech</p>",
"pub_date": "2024-08-20T08:59:22-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-09-04T12:51:59.498741-05:00",
"post_type": "Micro",
"featured_image": null
},
{
"title": "Samara Joy",
"slug": "samara-joy-micro",
"content_html": "<p>Samara Joy is a wonder. A fearless singer. Here she is owning Lush Life.</p>\n<iframe class=\"youtube-video\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/7_spA6FcOdw?si=9gFnZoBjQuw7NYau\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen></iframe>",
"pub_date": "2024-08-13T07:45:34-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-09-04T12:51:55.561041-05:00",
"post_type": "Micro",
"featured_image": null
},
{
"title": "Trump-Musk Interview",
"slug": "trump-musk-interview",
"content_html": "<p>The Donald Trump, Elon Musk interview. Why was an ambulance not called for these clearly deranged men?</p>",
"pub_date": "2024-08-13T07:36:42-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-09-04T12:51:46.258119-05:00",
"post_type": "Micro",
"featured_image": null
},
{
"title": "French Butter Crock",
"slug": "french-butter-crock",
"content_html": "<p>I love this thing. I'm probably the last person to find about these but I'll tell you what. Those French. First the Olympics and now this.</p>\n<video controls width=\"\">\n <source src=\"https://terrible-django.s3.amazonaws.com/video/butter_crock.webm\" />\n</video>\n\n<p>I consume a lot of butter. I keep it at room temperature (once I open it) and the cheap plastic butter dish I was using was just a mess.</p>\n<p>I love that I can pick it up and use a spoon, spatula, or knife to get exactly what I want without a mess.</p>\n<p>It's got a water line marker towards the bottom. You fill it to the line, squash a stick of butter in there and you're good to go.</p>\n<p>I know, I know. But things like this please me.</p>",
"pub_date": "2024-08-12T18:21:27-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-09-04T12:51:41.016879-05:00",
"post_type": "Standard",
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},
{
"title": "First Post on the New Site",
"slug": "first-post-on-the-new-site",
"content_html": "<figure class=\"featured-image\"><img src=\"https://terrible-django.s3.amazonaws.com/img/post_images/lella.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white (sepia) portrait photo of a young woman.\" title=\"Lella\"><figcaption><p>Lella, Brittany, 1948. Edouard Boubat.</p></figcaption></figure><p>Finally ready to fling the first post up on the new version of my website. I say fling because I have a tendency to be a bit too precious about posting and I’m going to try and be less reserved. I think I’ve set things up so that posting without titles will behave in my RSS feeds. The goal is to reduce friction.</p>\n<p>This post can get me started, and since I’m the only one who really cares about the old content, I can take my time backfilling it.</p>\n<p>The photo is one that came through my feed from <a href=\"https://www.tumblr.com/kafkasapartment\">Kafka's Apartment</a> Tumbler account. It sat on my desktop while I was building this new site, and I fell under it's spell. A beautiful but mysterious face.</p>",
"pub_date": "2024-08-10T19:24:44-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-10-01T22:19:08.267552-05:00",
"post_type": "Standard",
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"title": "Lella",
"alt_text": "Black and white (sepia) portrait photo of a young woman.",
"caption_text": "Lella, Brittany, 1948. Edouard Boubat.",
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}
},
{
"title": "Small Believer - Anna Tivel",
"slug": "small-believer-anna-tivel",
"content_html": "<p>Marking my birthday by getting back on my rowing machine for the first time in a long while. Listening to <a href=\"https://annativel.bandcamp.com/album/living-thing\">Anna Tivel</a>.</p>\n<p><img alt=\"Album cover for Small Believer. Black with Anna Tivel's face in half shadow.\" src=\"https://terrible-django.s3.amazonaws.com/img/post_images/anna-tivel.jpg\" /></p>",
"pub_date": "2024-08-02T18:25:00-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-09-04T12:51:32.676178-05:00",
"post_type": "Micro",
"featured_image": null
},
{
"title": "Rocky Balboa",
"slug": "rocky-balboa",
"content_html": "<p>\"Yeah, I got heart, but I ain't got no locker, do I Mick?\"</p>\n<p>—Rocky Balboa</p>",
"pub_date": "2023-08-05T14:36:46-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-10-14T08:51:04.916286-05:00",
"post_type": "Quote",
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},
{
"title": "Birthday Tribute",
"slug": "birthday-tribute",
"content_html": "<p>I made this video for my dad in celebration of his 90th birthday back in April. I look like I've been at sea for months.</p>\n<figure >\n <video controls=\"\" src=\"https://terrible-django.s3.amazonaws.com/video/dads_birthday.mp4\"></video>\n <figcaption class=\"text-center mt-2 text-lg\">Talking to my dad on video. April 2023</figcaption>\n</figure>",
"pub_date": "2023-07-15T21:51:52-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-10-13T23:27:34.464080-05:00",
"post_type": "Standard",
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},
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"title": "Dirty Word",
"slug": "dirty-word",
"content_html": "<figure class=\"featured-image\"><img src=\"https://terrible-django.s3.amazonaws.com/img/post_images/bikes_for_sharing.jpg\" alt=\"Row of colorful rental bikes extends in a curve into the distance.\" title=\"Bikes for Sharing\"><figcaption><p>You don't always have to have your own.</p></figcaption></figure><p>Scream about losing your liberty and freedom. Fling the words communism and socialism into decontextualized rants about the benefits of capitalism.</p>\n<p>We know what word really scares you. Your night terror word. A word that everyone understands.</p>\n<p>Sharing.</p>",
"pub_date": "2023-07-14T14:40:43-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-10-01T22:19:54.754744-05:00",
"post_type": "Standard",
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"caption_text": "You don't always have to have your own.",
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"title": "Hardware",
"slug": "hardware",
"content_html": "<figure class=\"flex flex-col text-base text-center\"><img src=\"https://terrible-django.s3.amazonaws.com/img/post_images/hardware.jpg\" alt=\"Three young female rowers wearing their medals.\" title=\"Hardware\"/><figcaption>Julia Isbell, Morgan Phelps, and Shreyaa Brahmachari with their gold medals.</figcaption></figure>\n\n<p>It was a very good morning for the KU Crew! A clean sweep at the Stars & Stripes USRowing Central Masters Regional in Oklahoma City.</p>\n<p>I'm late in posting this, but back on June 24th, these three ladies and their faculty advisor Steven Maynard-Moody, won all of their events at the Stars & Stripes USRowing Central Masters Regional in Oklahoma City.</p>\n<p>Congratulations to these KU Crew rowers! Way to represent!</p>\n<p>Results are <a href=\"https://kansascrew.com/results-stars-and-stripes-usrowing-central-masters-regional/\">here</a>.</p>",
"pub_date": "2023-07-12T14:47:16-05:00",
"mod_date": "2024-09-17T08:36:17.034682-05:00",
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