Russ and Grant! I love this video/interview. I wish it were a full hour! There are so few people (especially out here in NJ) that share Grant and Russ’ view of cycling or even try to understand it but, man, they are speaking my language.

I uploaded an image to a WordPress post using three different techniques, and you can see the way they appear in Mastodon in the image below using this really excellent and customizable/flexible plugin.  I’m trying to get the image to appear like it does when uploading to a Mastodon post using the native posting tool,…

A friend unexpectedly gifted me this the other night when we were rehearsing for an upcoming gig. I can not believe what a huge difference it makes in the sound/volume of my already very loud Martin D-18. It’s called a d-gard and is purpose built for the back of a Martin dreadnaught. I put some…

When you sit down to learn Norman Blake’s New Chance Blues and just keep clicking though on the jams: https://youtu.be/x4wIldrOSJE https://ift.tt/tqbuJ6R

Love the mix of drum machine and live drums on this track:

Man, I have got my music streaming dialed in using Marvis. Combining tracks from a bunch of playlists, applying some filters and sorting. Just saying.

This: Massive centralized platforms create problems for society. By posting to your own site, you control your content, distributing it more evenly across the web and minimizing the power of big tech companies. and Temporary, viral movements like #DeleteFacebook are not enough. We need something sustainable that permanently changes the narrative. Both from Manton Reece’s…

This quote from Illich shows up in more than one of L.M. Sacasas’ excellent newsletter, The Convivial Society: “A convivial society should be designed to allow all its members the most autonomous action by means of tools least controlled by others. People feel joy, as opposed to mere pleasure, to the extent that their activities…