Cam Larios @sculpin@mastodon.social
#mefite, crank, gardener, Seattle resident. Sometimes I make terrible musical instruments. Also sculpin@oulipo.social.
Chatted with an acquaintance. "So, what are you up to this summer?"
"Well, I just pulled the trigger and bought five tons of rocks. And now I have no budget to hire anybody, so I guess moving rocks is what I'm doing for a while."
"Wow! What else?"
Lady, it's five tons of rocks. I move rocks now. It's what I do.
"Sometimes There Is Nothing Wrong With Letting A Child Drown" -- http://www.academia.edu/16680684/Sometimes_There_is_Nothing_Wrong_with_Letting_a_Child_Drown_Analysis_2015_
ObSalad: When I was into yoga, somebody asked me what the best kind of yoga was. The best kind of yoga is the yoga you actually do.
Along those lines, this is the chopped salad I actually make: two or three hearts of romaine (they're cheap at Costco), a quarter of a red cabbage, a quarter of a green cabbage, and a few handfuls of julienned carrot. Top that at serving time with something crunchy and preferably a little salty or fried -- sunflower seeds, fried wonton strips, etc.
Every time I make a salad at home, I think of @richardgoodness 's IF "Zest". Every time. What kind of a jerk orders a salad?! Oh, damn, the jerk c'est moi.
"Take Five" sung by Carnatic vocalist Chandana Bala Kalyan.
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I think I might have just stumbled into writing a waltz in D minor, but it sounds just barely familiar enough that I'm not sure I didn't pick it up somewhere.
I made a little electromagnet just for fun, and now I keep puttering around making excuses to turn it on and magnetize things.
Twice a month, I create knitting stitch patterns using words as a basis. The words are suggested by my Patreon supporters and selected with an RNG.
The word I used this time was "myth": I encoded the letters as numbers, then charted the numbers on a grid, then worked out how to turn one of the results into knitted lace.
https://gannetdesigns.com/2018/05/07/myth-a-free-lace-knitting-stitch-pattern/
I also publish one of the results as a chart for any craft that uses them.
https://gannetdesigns.com/2018/05/15/myth-a-free-needlework-chart-for-any-craft/
Getting over the flu and am sadly out of books. Tamora Pierce novels were hitting the flu-recovery spot for a while. Recommendations?
Is there a book focused instance?
I picked up a cookbook to scan that was a memorial. Each page was a recipe that someone cooked for him or that he made for people, and a different photo of him with friends and family on each page.
it's not glossy or fancy, clearly knocked out with little notice at the kinko's color copier. But it's full of love and memories and goddamn i want this for when it's my time.
I'm still over the moon about this sorta-newgrassy Scandinavian folk/trad stuff. Whoever Lompa is, he must really adore driving his tractor, because this is one of the happiest tunes I've heard in years. https://sverfolk.bandcamp.com/track/lompa-k-yre-traktor
An amazing collab: avant-garde Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq and Damien Abraham of hardcore band Fucked Up cover Iron Maiden's "Run for the Hills" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=610qI7EuJ9c (via @nataliezed@twitter.com)
Both artists are former Polaris Prize winners—Fucked Up in 2009, Tagaq in 2014. I've thought for a long time that they should do a thing together!
We adopted this cat, Hank, a few months ago and believed what everybody at the cat adoption center said about his temperament. So laid back, they said. So easily contented.
Perfect, we thought. We did not stop to consider how maybe all the pain patches he had at the time might have been affecting him.
This little guy. He's very sweet and very confident, but I think he might drive me mad. We had a little talk about how it's okay for a cat to be a little more aloof, but I don't think it took.
Went to see Nordic Fiddlers Bloc tonight, not knowing what to expect. Damn. That is the tightest band I've ever seen live. These three folk fiddlers were tight like the JBs. Here they are with Natalie Haas, and you can get a sense of some of those bravura unison arpeggios they were doing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKbq5IvUZk0
Started using spray chalk to directly sketch out the layout for new garden beds in the front yard. Thinking about skipping all that shoveling forever in favor of just having a great place to draw huge shapes with spray chalk.
Apparently this situation is also upsetting the cat, who is trying to outshout the noise. I'm considering giving up and admitting that I've been driven out of my home.
