mike.whybark.com

And oh yeah, finally stumbling my way through Vollmann’s Imperial, years late. Gotta pick up the current Harper’s for the second Fukushima piece.

It’s not holding my attention much, I suppose in common with or as inversion of The Ice Shirt. For whatever reason, I don’t share Bill’s fascination with extreme landscapes, so his stuff like this that dwells on the intolerable environment is just a slog. I can see the shimmering figure of this book as a Seven Dreams emissary but don’t think it’s characterized as such.

Tease for Ross’ “Picture.” Oh my god. Hell yes.

Spent Valentine’s Day at the Museum of Flight with v
Viv, who got to meet a personal hero.

We also took the dog to Westcrest dog park beforehand and stopped by the sainted Randy’s for lunch afterward as tradition requires. There was a huge, what, convention or something of PNW scale modelers at the Museum too and we enjoyed looking at the work.

A demo of using Google docs spreadsheets (I think) as a form backend. My impression is that this should remain valid given that the sparse help docs regarding providing custom CSS for Google forms imply this exact functionality.

I’m thinking about this because I keep running into limitations and issues with regard to entering exercise data records into a Google Sheet from the iPad.

I suppose this implies a rummage through the App Store for running log apps. Last time I did this things were shitty to awful, reflecting the closed-data storage model implied by app architecture and also the user-commodification requirement of any reasonably-funded app.

logged out here

logged out there

It’s 9 pm on February 12 and in the fifties. The birds and the plants think it’s spring.

Tonight after dinner I jollied Viv into an hour of Wii Rock Band Beatles, which may actually be the first time I did that since I bought it for her years ago.

We’ve been working through miscellaneous shows at dinner. Tonight was an episode from the first season of Space: 1999. Looks like there are sixty-odd total episodes, so at a rate of one a week it should be late fall by the time that winds up.

We’ve also been looking at Agent Carter (this season, not sure what network) and Wolf Hall (a too short six episodes, not set for PBS airing until April).

My gutter replacement went well and the cracked-foundation leak did not even in our recent biblical aerial riverine flood event. I still have to get the leak sealed and all but at least I can defer burning the two thousand dollars in the street until another astrologic milestone has whizzed by overhead.

Anyway. Time to fire this up again, maybe. Not that blogging about tv and home improvement is worthwhile (yeah yeah, there’s coyotes, dogs, adoption psychology, frail elders, blah blah fuckin blah). I think, maybe, I only post stuff online for some future me – god knows, I appreciate the archives here, because my memory is soft cheese on the way out. So maybe that merits a pixel or two, or not.

No updates for this day. Errors were encountered for mwhybark: (most likely their Tweets are private).

@poupou and how! – 01:09 AM GMT
@wasta do the lights flicker? because yeah – 01:13 AM GMT
RT: @eqe: “Ritual Magick as User Experience Design” jwz.org/​blog/​2015/​02/​c… pic.twitter.com/​Shz5vr4TNa – 01:15 AM GMT
prev RT attn to @poupou @arthurwyatt in particular with sidelong glance at @DanEngler – 01:17 AM GMT
@middleclasstool @gjcharlet Jeej. so it is, so it shall be. – 01:18 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt awwww – 01:21 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @poupou @DanEngler Antero! Holy crap, Art. I did a logo for Talking Raven back in the day. – 01:25 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @poupou @DanEngler waves arms in appropriately invocatory inclusivist motion – 01:25 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @poupou @DanEngler full-page, 256-bit screenies of 8-bit gifs. – 01:30 AM GMT
@mcgee_gorgo me too. interminable. – 01:31 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @poupou @DanEngler I have a printed case study of the Aeron chair site / CD launch – 01:32 AM GMT
@onthemedia some jerk on your show just said “I hesitate to say this” & then unhesitatingly said ISIS had a “certain punk rock appeal” – 02:14 AM GMT
@onthemedia fuck you, and fuck him. we’re done. it was a good twenty years. – 02:15 AM GMT
@DanEngler ah! we await! – 02:16 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @cloud64 oh i still have that – 02:17 AM GMT
@cloud64 I think he explained once when i added you or summat. CD era. – 02:18 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @cloud64 yes! I love that one. hacks are all there is, really. – 02:19 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @cloud64 i came into it from pre-wysiwig phototypesetting, and tables were nothing but metrical shims – 02:20 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt lead-based gifs – 03:21 AM GMT
RT: @julianahatfield: john mayer has the worst case of guitar face that i have ever seen in all my years of diagnosing rock problems and ailments – 07:24 PM GMT
@cstross by god if you don’t put Bob Howard through this too I’m writing a strongly worded letter to, uh, um, uh – 11:40 PM GMT

@poupou or, to summarize, “kids today!” ALSO KIDDING – 02:12 AM GMT
@poupou tests? try this, see if it works? i suppose. If it’s mostly not lethal or communicable, I guess I’m ok with it. – 02:17 AM GMT
@poupou i say mostly because i don’t get much worked up about drugs and booze even though that has obvious lethality – 02:17 AM GMT
@poupou yeah, I follow. – 02:18 AM GMT
@poupou not sure it’s so permanent! you could get, like, zippers for boobs. or at any rate the constraint is capital, not technology. – 02:23 AM GMT
@poupou which would tend to restrict to to a certain capital-intensive cohort – 02:23 AM GMT
big hero 6 or birdman? keaton wins out – 03:10 AM GMT
@poupou lol tempreassign.com – 03:10 AM GMT
RT: @billmon1: Solution to autism: Abolish Whole Foods –>pic.twitter.com/​HMfm7r9Yef#CorrelationIsNotCausation – 03:32 AM GMT
@naxuu twenty years ago, neither statement was true, and again twenty years before that – 03:33 AM GMT
@naxuu oh indeed /quavering off key delivery – 05:29 AM GMT
yow last minute switchup to Big Hero and HOLY SHIT – 05:36 AM GMT
@ardaniel good news – 05:40 AM GMT
@naxuu ew do not speak for them if you were not about in their radio heyday, oppressing the very air without end – 05:43 AM GMT
@naxuu the smooth, buttery fascist lies of 1978 schoolbus radio promise nothing but death and pain hegemonic – 05:46 AM GMT
@naxuu in this at least, honesty was taught – 05:46 AM GMT
@naxuu oh indeed. many and many’s them what don’t share the view. my mainstream seventies were terrifyingly awful. – 05:50 AM GMT
new personal rule: don’t use the word indeed, as I tend to overuse it – 05:53 AM GMT
@hell0jed different in many ways, but with similarities: are you acquainted with Acrosanti? Not a sculpture, but desert-based art community. – 07:23 AM GMT
@hell0jed pretty pie-in-the-sky, to be sure. but desert American utopianism for sure. – 07:24 AM GMT
@hell0jed appears in some movies, notably the terrible ‘Nightfall’, an adaptation of an Asimov short – 07:26 AM GMT
@praguepainter indeedDAMMIT – 08:23 AM GMT