No dancing today.
A fair-use supercut of every stroke from Tiger Woods at the 2019 Masters, in order:
Upper left - Thursday
Upper right - Friday
Lower left - Saturday
Lower right - Saturday
"picture unrelated"
I wish portmanteau was a portmanteau.
Love this photo credit / caption.
Three Brief Experiments
EVEN THOUGH THEY WEREN'T LISTENING AND WAITING IT COULD HAVE BEEN SOMETHING LUCKY THERE SOMETHING ELSE WHERE IT APPEARS HE'S LOST IT HE'S LOST IT WAY RIGHT BUT WE ALL KNEW BETTER
REMEMBER REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE RIGHT THERE YOU WERE SOMETHING SOMETHING ELSE NOT A CLOUD IN THE SKY SOME CLOUDS PASSING BY PASSING QUIETLY OUT OF THE LAST PART OF THE STORY
AT THIS MOMENT AT THE TOP OF THE HILL AT THE END OF THE DAY YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU
Mike Murphys know what’s up. Idealized perfection of our memories in leiu of “reality.”
Sure, every lens distorts, but digital culture (which is all culture, now) has pushed the influenced into a race for internalized, private likes, smoothing the bumps and blemishes (and beach crowds) of rough-hewn personal histories into a commercially-contrived product of the past.
And for an audience of one?
"My favorite bit is an inspired mountain-out-of-a-molehill joke about how Apple manipulates you into giving up personal data by offering these choices when you try to download an app..."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/arts/television/john-early-now-more-than-ever.html
eclipse lookin good right now from tattoine
"Helms closed the gap by tying Galifianakis to his party's presidential nominee George McGovern and with the late-campaign slogan "Jesse Helms: He's One of Us," which some perceived as a reference to Galifianakis's Greek heritage."
Just a reminder to all parents out there that it’s never too early to start the delicate, often-uncomfortable conversation with your child about when to adopt the Dvorak keyboard layout.
"your bones already asterisks, / your chipmunk glance a schwa."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid_central_vowel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Young_(poet)
The speed with which an LLM can recommend JS for the console that tricks a cluttered and nearly unusable site like genius.com into presenting only the essential info is still mind-blowing.
Love this bit about the cultural pervasiveness of a new literalism, from Namwali Serpell:
"The point is not to be lifelike or fact-based but familiar and formulaic—in a word, predictable. Artists and audiences sometimes defend this legibility as democratic, a way to reach everyone. It is, in fact, condescending. Forget the degradation of art into content. Content has been demoted to concept. And concept has become a banner ad.
Saying the quiet part out loud has given way to a general loudness. This is as true in our cultural life as it is in our political life, which feels like a badly written finale, so in your face are the Ponzi schemes, Nazi salutes, and tech-bro cant of our latest overlords. That sense of unmistakable catastrophe may be why we keep returning to predigested cultural comfort food."
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/critics-notebook/the-new-literalism-plaguing-todays-biggest-movies or https://archive.is/0GNkR
I appreciate this more than words can tell.
Installation by Tim Etchells, in Athens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onassis_Stegi
A long time ago I started wondering how many possible combinations of letters and numbers there could be in the 11-character ID in a YouTube url, and it took me until today to definitively find out. A few years ago I programatically generated a batch of my own to see if they'd land on an unsuspecting video, and was surprised that they didn't.
Now I know why; it's a 1-in-37 billion chance.
https://chatgpt.com/share/68876eac-653c-8001-a6c5-53bc38f3ed04
Similarly, every tweet that's ever been tweeted has an ID in its url that's simpler than YouTube's because it relies on the time-distance between the millisecond it was posted, and the millisecond that twitter turned-on the feature, in 2010. It's still in use, and you can mathematically derive the date/time of the post from the ID itself, without having to ping an API or scrape the UI.
Twitter's ID system can still successfully generate unique IDs at over 4,000 tweets per millisecond, but breaks after 4,096.
No audio, but still, years later, maybe the most ridiculous sports thing I've ever seen.
Fun small moment in "Running on Empty" (1988), Judd Hirsch, Martha Plimpton and River Phoenix dancing to "Fire & Rain" on the radio while celebrating mom's bday, while lil' bro air-guitars in the kitchen.
Heard a verified human on a podcast (a pro-podcaster!) pronounce “ratatouille” with a hard-L (two hard Ls!) this morning, which was tasty.
I wondered what it would look like if I could listen and browse through a recent (and growing) catalog of performances in a way that felt intuitive and maybe a little bit elegant, so I built this for Cameron Winter's solo shows, mostly in churches.
If prestige is your thing, try Carnegie Hall: https://cameron-winter-solo.vercel.app/?date=20251211
If sound quality's important, 1st Unitarian in Philly sounds great: https://cameron-winter-solo.vercel.app/?date=20250307
(Made on a desktop for other desktops, though mobile works ok. Github public repo here.)