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📸 Learning how to focus. Volunteer poppy in my patio’s planter.
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🎶 Rediscovering an old album heavily listened to in my teenage trumpet playing days. Maynard “Freak Chops” Ferguson.
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How inflammation in the body may explain depression in the brain.
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Yes, you can train for sex.
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Don’t Let a Bird’s Feathers Fool You
The darker side of birds.
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🎶 Apple Music's
🎶 Apple Music released its “Top 100 Greatest Albums" this week, which has some interesting choices and some puzzling omissions. I imported it into Spotify if you want to explore there.Â
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🎶 Will the Circle Be Unbroken
🎶 If you like “Down From the Mountain,” the DA Pennebaker concert documentary about the soundtrack to “O Brother Where Art Thou?”, you might like the early 70s equivalent: a bunch of young musicians teaming up with old bluegrass and country stars to record a set of standards: Will the Circle Be Unbroken.
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Links Between Depression and Inflammation
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The myth of "woke" indoctrination at American universities
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Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds
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📸 🍔 Sometimes you just want a burger and a beer on a sunny day
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🤓 Git refresher
Readme later
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Evidence in the People v Donald Trump
Wherein I just learned that the submitted evidence is publicly available (as it should be). My inner historian is happy to see the primary sources.
Courtroom transcripts are also available after the fact.
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🎶 Keith Jarrett: Beyond the Koln Concert
After a glorious sunny afternoon blasting Keith Jarrett’s Koln Concert around the house, to mark the end of a major work deliverable, I realized I didn’t know anything else of his solo piano work. I do have his collaboration with Gary Burton around here somewhere.
His solo work? There’s a lot. So I did what any modern learner does. Google found a gem: Doug Martin’s eponymously named article, Where to start with Keith Jarrett. He does a nice job of giving the reader a path through Jarrett’s works, with links to albums on Spotify and even a custom playlist of KJ’s shorter works. (Many of his recordings fill one side of an LP per track, so shorter pieces are a gentler intro).
Thanks, Doug!
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LEGO Retro Radio: Fun for alternative universe Chris
This Retro Radio from LEGO, like their typewriter, looks really cute. I’m not in a stage in my life to start up with LEGO (time, space, other hobbies, cat, etc) but if I were already in that zone, this would be a must-build.
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🎶 Bach for Breakfast
Still loving a random classical CD I bought at Starbucks a million yrs ago: Bach for Breakfast. A great, quiet, soundtrack for work.
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Bob Marley's 'Legend' Turns 40
In the 80s, a lovely introduction to Bob and to reggae for a lot of people; by the 90s the fraternities got a hold of it and blasted it out every window.
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The new 13" iPad Air is the model I would have bought if it existed when I bought my iPad Pro. Big enough to legibly display sheet music, but without Pro features I really don’t need.
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Falling asleep in the backseat of Dad's car with the game on AM radio
Northwoods Baseball Sleep Radio is a full-length fake baseball game. There is no yelling, no loud commercials, no weird volume spikes. Fans call it "baseball radio ASMR”.Â
It is the perfect podcast for sleeping or relaxing, if you're into that kind of thing.Â
Available wherever you get your podcasts.
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Where to start with Bach
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It's really hot in Asia right now
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Advice to college protestors
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