When I redesigned my blog (10 years ago?), I defined a p selector for non-indented first paragraph. For each new post I had to remember to add a code to get the result. But this week I learned how to use ‘p + p’ in my stylesheet. So basic. Duh.
Early visit to the Carrboro Farmers Market to get a variety of chiles for my annual late-summer hot sauce canning. Now drinking coffee and watching soccer before heading out for yard work and a search for box turtles (big rains yesterday).
The U.S. opened an embassy in Vanuatu this year (when I was a Peace Corps Volunteer there the nearest embassy was in Fiji). And now this cool story about the FBI returning delicate artifacts.
Wondering if a North Carolina meetup of Micro.blog users is possible. Would be fun to share a meal with @dwalbert @amerpie@social.lol @kimberlyhirsh and others. I’d even host here in Chapel Hill.
A trill close and loud
pileated woodpecker
high in the white oak
Will soon attempt an update to my bio/resume page, currently at antonzuiker.com. Searching for creative, graphical ways to show my career journey. I’ve long wanted to use the steppers component of Mustard UI, but with some icons and photos. Other ways?
Platt laughed at the question, because the instrument was brand new. It had come from the Pre-War Guitars Co., a Hillsborough-based luthier that makes new guitars that look and sound decades old. Another North Carolina musician, Joe Newberry, calls them “The new old guitars of the future.”
Wish I knew how to play the guitar.
Early morning run to the airport to drop Anna, who is off for a year with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Sacramento, California. Proud of her, excited to watch our oldest child make her way in the world with a commitment to service and community.
David Remnick | Notes from the Underground
A very informative profile of Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza. This paragraph toward the end was both masterful and astoundingly sad.
What was next? “We got our orders, and we are ready to fight and diminish Hamas and exterminate them wherever they are,” Hiram said. “Exterminate,” in reference to a small territory crowded with civilians who had nowhere to go, was as jolting as “Einsatzgruppen.”
I highly recommend reading the full piece, especially to understand the Einsatzgruppen reference.
An unexpected benefit of purchasing a turntable for the house last year is old records as gifts. My wife gave me U2’s Wide Awake in America (also Dylan and Elvis Costello) for Christmas. Yesterday Erin’s sister gave us Cat Stevens’s Tea for the Tillerman.
Beautiful evening for UNC men’s soccer vs Campbell University at Dorrance Field.
Getting my haircut in Durham today and a guy wearing a Cleveland Guardians shirt was standing nearby. Serendipity, as 28 years ago I was upstairs in Great Lakes Brewing Company for a rehearsal dinner. Erin and I were married the next day. We celebrate with dinner in Durham tonight.
When the rains lessened this morning, I walked down the soggy hill to check on the creek. On the way up I passed this box turtle. She will be eating worms for days to come.
Tropical storm Debby has been dumping rain on us since about 10 last night with most of the morning ahead sure to be the same. 🌧️
Colum McCann | 50 Years Ago, the World Trade Center Was Home to the Art Crime of the Century
His imaginative act catches in my throat and reveals a truth that is often obscured or degraded: that we can confront, and even triumph over, the seemingly impossible.
Rep. Marcy Kaptur paid tribute to Erin’s aunt, Peggy Murray of Sandusky, Ohio, on the floor of the House of Representative.
Ordered and received a Raspberry Pi 5. I want to try setting up Pi-hole to block ads across the home network. Realize I might be able to use the Pi 3 that’s been unused. A weekend project, perhaps, one way to push my limits and challenge my aging brain. Then maybe a NAS, too.
Took my daughter to see the Heavy Heavy at Cat’s Cradle. One of the best shows I’ve been to. They were so good.
I finally finished reading this excellent long feature by George Packer in the Atlantic: Phoenix Is a Vision of America’s Future. This is just one of his sentences that caught, and kept, my attention:
Our tolerance of inequality is bottomless, but sunshine and sprawl have a way of hiding it.
A note to myself to look into why my Textpattern blog only shows the headline after I publish a post from MarsEdit; I have to go into Textpattern to hit the update button for the body to show up on zuiker.com. Too tired now after writing a long post to figure it out. Maybe tonight.