Garrett Wollman
@gwollman.bsky.social
@garrett_wollman from the Bad Place
@wollman@mastodon.social
I make the network go, and stop, and go again at @csail.mit.edu. Usually located somewhere in eastern Massachusetts.
Not actually a colander full of beans. He/him (or they/them).
@wollman@mastodon.social
I make the network go, and stop, and go again at @csail.mit.edu. Usually located somewhere in eastern Massachusetts.
Not actually a colander full of beans. He/him (or they/them).
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16? I spent half of the year in Finland so I wasn't even aware of most of the albums released that year (most of the music I remember from '88, like HYSTERIA, was released in '87) but retrospectively, I nominate:
November 17, 2025 at 3:36 AM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16? I spent half of the year in Finland so I wasn't even aware of most of the albums released that year (most of the music I remember from '88, like HYSTERIA, was released in '87) but retrospectively, I nominate:
So many reference books that it's hard to imagine the market for today. I have maybe a tenth of that, and most of mine are still at least two decades old. One of them is forty years old!
November 12, 2025 at 3:18 AM
So many reference books that it's hard to imagine the market for today. I have maybe a tenth of that, and most of mine are still at least two decades old. One of them is forty years old!
Can you guess what these are? Hint: Luisa Weiss
November 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Can you guess what these are? Hint: Luisa Weiss
Apparently, at least in this font, the only difference between an en dash and a minus sign is that the minus sign has slightly more padding around it, whereas the en dash snugs right up against whatever is adjacent to it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Apparently, at least in this font, the only difference between an en dash and a minus sign is that the minus sign has slightly more padding around it, whereas the en dash snugs right up against whatever is adjacent to it.
Ah, yes, I even had a Trello card for it (with about five paragraphs of notes copied off a series of post-its)... Since Atlassian really started screwing with the Trello UI I switch boards a lot less and apparently haven't looked at this one in more than a year.
November 9, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Ah, yes, I even had a Trello card for it (with about five paragraphs of notes copied off a series of post-its)... Since Atlassian really started screwing with the Trello UI I switch boards a lot less and apparently haven't looked at this one in more than a year.
Made "Knerken", a cardamom-flavored cookie from Luisa Weiss' CLASSIC GERMAN BAKING. Right now they don't look so appealing (and might be slightly off on the aspect ratio) but we'll see how they taste. Brown butter is the only other flavor.
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Made "Knerken", a cardamom-flavored cookie from Luisa Weiss' CLASSIC GERMAN BAKING. Right now they don't look so appealing (and might be slightly off on the aspect ratio) but we'll see how they taste. Brown butter is the only other flavor.
Oh, also: wind power, fuckers!
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Oh, also: wind power, fuckers!
Some nights it's the simple things…
Homemade 6-oz beefburger on a toasted Calise sourdough bulkie roll with steamed broccoli on an Iittala "Taika" dinner plate. @bsky.app's image posting UI is still broken with respect to rotation so it might also be 90° from upright, won't know until I post it.
Homemade 6-oz beefburger on a toasted Calise sourdough bulkie roll with steamed broccoli on an Iittala "Taika" dinner plate. @bsky.app's image posting UI is still broken with respect to rotation so it might also be 90° from upright, won't know until I post it.
November 4, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Some nights it's the simple things…
Homemade 6-oz beefburger on a toasted Calise sourdough bulkie roll with steamed broccoli on an Iittala "Taika" dinner plate. @bsky.app's image posting UI is still broken with respect to rotation so it might also be 90° from upright, won't know until I post it.
Homemade 6-oz beefburger on a toasted Calise sourdough bulkie roll with steamed broccoli on an Iittala "Taika" dinner plate. @bsky.app's image posting UI is still broken with respect to rotation so it might also be 90° from upright, won't know until I post it.
My contribution to the "perfect album" discourse: released in 1999 (but a compilation of material from two earlier independent albums plus two newly recorded songs) after the band had already gone their separate ways:
November 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
My contribution to the "perfect album" discourse: released in 1999 (but a compilation of material from two earlier independent albums plus two newly recorded songs) after the band had already gone their separate ways:
Really don't think our plane is flying on its side here…
October 28, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Really don't think our plane is flying on its side here…
Hmmm, maybe you should have updated that template before rolling it out to customers, eh, Zoom?
October 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Hmmm, maybe you should have updated that template before rolling it out to customers, eh, Zoom?
Chocolate Five-Spice Flourless Cake. Doesn't look like anything special but it will be a few hours before it's depanned and plated.
October 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Chocolate Five-Spice Flourless Cake. Doesn't look like anything special but it will be a few hours before it's depanned and plated.
Seems like "duck" isn't really the greatest analogy for this time of year with the ramps so steep on both sides. "(Bactrian) camel curve", anyone?
October 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Seems like "duck" isn't really the greatest analogy for this time of year with the ramps so steep on both sides. "(Bactrian) camel curve", anyone?
What's your sign?
September 28, 2025 at 2:50 AM
What's your sign?
Ok, definitely learning today that my not very old yeast had not really survived the summer. Today's bread dough, with brand new yeast, looks to have proofed like it should. Lesson: store yeast in sealed bag in freezer from now on.
September 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Ok, definitely learning today that my not very old yeast had not really survived the summer. Today's bread dough, with brand new yeast, looks to have proofed like it should. Lesson: store yeast in sealed bag in freezer from now on.
January for a winter sports watcher:
September 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
January for a winter sports watcher:
Today's baking project: double chocolate cookies, the original recipe from Joanne Chang's first cookbook FLOUR, before she reformulated it to use rye flour (and also less complicated mise). Lots of chocolate, plenty of sugar, only a little bit of flour so it really needs to set before portioning.
September 21, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Today's baking project: double chocolate cookies, the original recipe from Joanne Chang's first cookbook FLOUR, before she reformulated it to use rye flour (and also less complicated mise). Lots of chocolate, plenty of sugar, only a little bit of flour so it really needs to set before portioning.
Interesting forecast error today:
September 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Interesting forecast error today:
And food! (Well ok I can't see *your* feed in particular but lots of foodposting is definitely going on )
September 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
And food! (Well ok I can't see *your* feed in particular but lots of foodposting is definitely going on )
OK, so granted, it's a Dutch company (or will be once the spin-off from Unilever is completed) -- but do these people know where anything in North America actually is? #MapCrimes
September 10, 2025 at 3:14 AM
OK, so granted, it's a Dutch company (or will be once the spin-off from Unilever is completed) -- but do these people know where anything in North America actually is? #MapCrimes
Not the way we do it here!
September 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Not the way we do it here!
This bit (from the Wikipedia article about a Boston-area car dealer) is a bit shocking for those who have only experienced the present US party system:
![Fuller was expected to run as an independent in the 1974 Massachusetts gubernatorial election. He had hired a campaign staff and opened a campaign headquarters. However, on March 29, 1974, he suddenly announced his withdrawal from the race. He later revealed that he had left the race after a masked gunman jumped into Fuller's car and threatened his life and the lives of his wife and children.[25] In the 1978 gubernatorial election, Fuller backed conservative Democrat Edward J. King over liberal Republican Francis W. Hatch Jr. and served as co-chairman of Republicans for Ed King with Lloyd B. Waring.[26]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xsn3rowc6qrmxujaoo5bvenx/bafkreie4ql4rxtc54ebe3f6sbhlqc6y3fq2asysi4j5e5z6trcmzzjw5ye@jpeg)
September 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This bit (from the Wikipedia article about a Boston-area car dealer) is a bit shocking for those who have only experienced the present US party system:
Yeah, absolutely no way I'm going to manage any of these in the 24 hours I have left… In theory all of these would have been trivial for me ten years ago (100 km is well under two days' commute!) but not so much any more.
August 30, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Yeah, absolutely no way I'm going to manage any of these in the 24 hours I have left… In theory all of these would have been trivial for me ten years ago (100 km is well under two days' commute!) but not so much any more.