A mere Christian, aspiring minimalist, inveterate notetaker, budget audiophile and paper airplane mechanic.
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Bandcamp Playlists
Bandcamp’s new playlist feature is limited and a bit of a disappointment.
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Pocket Closing
Mozilla made a surprise announcement today that they are closing the Pocket read-it-later service. With nothing but a bland, corporate statement to go on, I imagine users have a fair amount of confusion about the move. I was actually looking at the Pocket entry on the App Store earlier in the day to see if…
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Closed Off
My son watched the Spike Jonze movie Her a few days ago and remarked to me about how prescient some of the ideas were. I was thinking about how accurately Jonze (who also wrote the screenplay) predicted some of the aspects of generative AI and the role that it could play in our lives. The…
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Cultural Stasis
Perhaps the perfect film to exemplify a certain mid 80s aesthetic, Rocky IV contrasts with the flatness of contemporary culture.
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Do Not Pass Me Just To Slow Down
I worry about the kind of witness I will present if I’m too obvious about my faith.
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One of the reasons I chose Qobuz as my streaming music service was the ability to download tracks in a DRM-free format. About a year into my subscription, I finally purchased my first album. Frankie Rose – Seventeen Seconds. Burned a CD and it sounds fantastic.
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I’ve been trying for years to get my oldest son to embrace blogging. He’s an excellent writer and has unique perspectives. I bought him a Blot blog but he never used it. Now I find out he’s publishing on Substack. I feel betrayed.
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At The Apartment
Tennis released an at home live video with friends just as they embark on a tour to promote their final album.
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If I could internalize the words of Thoreau that, “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone,” then I probably wouldn’t have spent several days this week investigating cassette culture.
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Oh HEY, Hello
Why I went back to the HEY email service.