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Jan 26 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Kate Bush, "Night of the Swallow".

The Dreaming was the first album I heard from Bush. It is stunning. I mean, every take, it is stunning.
Bush is one of the greatest "I may in fact be hopelessly insane" singers of all time, but whackos are a dime-a-dozen, what's astonishing about her work is how she works to give you the *grounding* you need to hear the insanity.
She's triple-great. A great singer, a great writer, a great producer.

Pro-Tip: Listen to her work on serious equipment, cuz she always filled all the frequencies.

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Jan 27
True story: Eighteen or so years ago, I had a gig rolling code at an engineering company. We were writing a windows app using Microsoft Foundation Classes to drive a TTY interface to a box of various radio hardware junk.
I was gigged in by a guy I'd taught a c;ass (in MFC) to, because he liked that I knew my shit, and he loved that I spoke openly about joy, right in the classroom. right in front of God and everybody.
G amd I got along great. We were both heavy smokers and committed drinkers and hardcore software geeks. We spent many an evening after work, just hanging out, talking about geekery, smoking cigarettes, and drinking like fools.
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Jan 26
Here's Chet Baker & Gerry Mulligan, "My Funny Valentine".

Mulligan was just enough older than Baker, & more successful, to tune him up and get his mind right. The Baker/Mulligan takes are pretty much all impressive.

It's a quartet, w/Carson Smith one-stringing bass, and Bunker pitchin' in little snare-brushes. But we speak of the two.
Chet was on a rail to death, and it was astonishing that he lasted as long as he did. He might have made of west coast cool a movement, but he really just made of it a symbol, and the east coast -- Miles, the incomparable Miles -- trampled that idea.
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Jan 22
Either 1) the horse is sick, or 2) the water is sick, or 3) they're both fine and the horse just isn't thirsty.

Two pro-tips:

a) It's not usually #3.
b) #1 and #2 often co-present, cuz drinking sick water will make a horse sick.
Give that #1 & #2 -- co- or singly-presenting, are so vastly much more common, I'm always startled when people seem so confident that they're in a #3 situation.
It's always, how do I get these horses to drink this water. It's never, what might be making my horse sick, or what is it about this water that a healthy horse won't drink it?
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Jan 22
Mulling over a little Oxygen Not Included for tonight and tomorrow. Not sure, but I'mo start it and see how I feel. Seed: V-SNDST-C-66913931-0 Classic, Survival. An Oxygen Not Included Scre...
Some concepts for this one: I'm gonna repeat the deluxe-hab-unit thing, but will start with a very small crummy hab-unit, and only upgrade when I'm really ready. I'm gonna go oxygenate-everything instead of atmos-everywhere. I decided to try *not* using a dedicated researcher.
Finally, most importantly, I'm gonna try to stall on identifying a final "central spine" location until I'm ready to really commit to its final location, i.e. by getting near space above and oil below. I'm gonna make the tentative spine *very* wide.
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Jan 21
Another VBS.

Led Zeppelin, "Over the Hills and Far Away".

For my generation, of course, this is a second-tier overplay -- "Stairway" is the most overplayed song of all time -- but if you can manage to hear it the first time. If you can just come to it fresh. This is stunning.
Do you know what I should like to know? I should like to know what Armstrong would have made of it. I should like to know whether he'd've put it on one of his tapes with his commentary.
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Jan 16
On the cover of Hofstadter's famous _Godel, Escher, and Bach_, there's a photo of an artifact he made, called a "trip-let". The trip-let, when lit from three different angles, produces shadows that spell out "G", "E", and "B".

Let's talk about software design. A photo of two "trip-lets", cubes of wood, casting
Before we dig in: I love to think & talk about geekery, but it's comfort food, not my most important story. Take a break, enjoy this thread, but please stay in the larger game with me, which isn't changing code, it's changing the world.

Black Lives Matter.
I was recently asked to prepare some content around the topic of software design. There are a lot of ideas out there about "good" software design and "bad", and about rules or the lack thereof. It's a rich topic, a lifetime game.
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