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CM Harrington
@octothorpe.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy
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I am something that you will never comprehend.
#UX #Prince #otters #funk #soul #lgbt #OldHead

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Suuuure… ‘Sullek28 at gmail’. I’ll get right on that.
Bullshit iMessage scam text.
December 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Oooh…

The Bang and Olufsen flagship Beolab 90, now comes in Bisexual!

https://darko.audio/2025/12/bang-olufsens-beolab-90-gets-two-new-limited-edition-finishes/
Photo of the two new Beolab 90s, a very large sculptural speaker, with a cluster of drivers, including a gigantic bass module on the bottom. One is in black, without the driver covers. The other has the covers on the bass module in a scintillating polychromic blurple and magenta.
December 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Snow day!

Rather New Englandy, really.
Photo of a small 2-way street, in the beautiful post-snow period where all the trees and grass are enrobed in fluffy white snow, before it turns to slush, and crud from traffic. There’s a strong contrast between the double-yellow line, the deep black road, and white snow on the thin tree branches.
December 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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I got an email from Alamo Drafthouse telling me I could pre-order a 12” Godzilla head popcorn bucket.

NGL, I’m now low-key peeved all food doesn’t get presented in a Godzilla head.
A product shot of the aforementioned Godzilla head, a Toho-era head with articulated jaw. Inside the King of Monsters’ open mouth is a bunch of popcorn. Next to the head is the box: a black box with spot gloss patterns, and Godzilla written in red in english and japanese.
December 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Kwality
Cropped ios screenshot of the starbucks app, showing an interstitial beg for ratings. The standard ios dialog says ‘Do you love the Starbucks App?’ But then the buttons have no labels, so the choices are entirely blank.
December 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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It’s telling that Star Trek: Dawson’s Creek showed 3 minute clip that was action-packed red alert situation with only adults, but all the key art shows students in, well, Dawson’s Creek poses.
Key art poster for Starfleet Academy, which shows a bunch of ‘teenagers’ of different species and genders all lying on their backs on an autumn lawn all over each other as if they’re all in one giant weird quasi romantic relationship.
December 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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#nowplaying

Son Volt: Trace.

One of the best albums of the 90s. I have this on CD, but it’s nice to have on vinyl. Doesn’t sound too different. The album doesn’t seem to have a provenance diagram, so it’s possible this was a DDA or a DAA or something.

This […]

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My now playing prop with Son Volt’s Trace on it. The band name is in the upper right corner in all caps, condensed font, but letterspaced wide. ‘Trace’ is in much smaller letters in red, below and to the left. The photo is that of a side-pickup vocal microphone of a type I should recognise but I’m going blind, lying on its side, presumably on a table. Behind it may be a console, but it’s in shadow and difficult to discern. Overall there is a bit of a mysterious melancholy silence to the image.
December 7, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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I remember this from childhood.
A fake book cover parodying “are you there God, it’s me Margaret”, except it reads “are you there, godzilla? it’s me, Margaret. The illustration shows a young girl looking out the window of her room to see Godzilla.
December 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Pipe and slippers… and Frank.

In the Wee Small Hours, the recent Tone Poet reissue/remaster.

#nowplaying
#FrankSinatra
The current mess of my Now Playing setup (I swear I’ll clean this up before the end of the year). Atop a translucent white LP crate box is my LP prop and in it is Frank Sinatra’s ‘In the Wee Small Hours’ LP. It shows a painting(?) of a young Frank leaning against the corner of a building, facing toward the title, smoking a cigarette. Over his shoulder is a blue quiet street scene. A lamp post is visible in the midground, and additional street lamps can be seen in the distance. The painting has an abstract dreamy quality about it which gives the viewer the notion of longing, and sadness. Frank’ expression is contemplative.
December 2, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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Weird mutant strawberry!

It kinda looks as if two fused together.
A dark red strawberry that looks as though it has melted. The bottom is flat, and it is spread out in all directions. The green top stem area is subsumed by the ‘shoulders’. Indeed, it looks not totally unlike a toothless mouth eating a tuft of grass, half sticking out. That’s a bit weird and kinda creepy.
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Cute little sticker from my semi-local indie record shop, Johnny’s Records in Darien, CT.
Sticker on a varnished craft paper bag. The sticker shows a red and blue circle with a Grateful Dead ‘steal your face’ skull, with the centre bit the Johnny’s Records logo of a checkered VW bug. The text reads ‘Gratefully Johnny’s’
November 29, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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The Brak Friday haul from Johnny’s (my semi-local indie shop).

Jazz Dispensary: Green Bullets
Charlie Brown Christmas (it’s a pop up gatefold! Cute!)
Sonny Rollins plus 4
Colman Hawkins and Confrières
Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (Original song list)
The […]

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Haul photo of my RSD black friday picks. List in the toot. Additional swag of a slipmat, patch, and CD by an unknown to me artist ‘Nick Dupuy’.
November 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Black Friday? No…

BRAK FRIDAY!
November 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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So, lemme understand. Is it the content that matters, or is it all about cool visual effects we can do?

Because making important information blurry as fuck doesn’t seem to be ‘content first’.
Cropped screenshot of the tab view in iOS safari. The top area well below the dynamic island blurs out the titles of the tabs, making the effective content area smaller than the perceived content area. This makes it so I am able to see LESS of my content than I would if the blur wasn’t there.
November 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Siri is still dumber than a box of rocks.
iOS screenshot with a Siri prompt and response. The response does not match the question at all. I asked who designed the eMate, and Siri transcribed it correctly (although as E mate), but came back with a response about the ENIAC computer.
November 25, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Gorgonzola mashed potatoes experiment is a success! Only 80,000 calories per teaspoon.

Not quite Robuchon style (I lile a bit of texture), but huge amounts of salt, pepper, butter, heavy cream, and gorgonzola cheese.

The secret is to bake not boil them, to […]

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A white glass dish filled with creamy white mashed potatoes. Specs of black pepper can be seen in them.
November 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Alex Guarnaschelli: Iron Chef, GoaT…

AND #prince FAM!

…and also some quick veggie ideas for thanksgiving.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU4R4AngtoU
Alex cooking peas in a pan. She uses a ceramic coffee mug with a drawing of Prince to pour olive oil into the pan.
November 17, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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#nowplaying Sade: Diamond Life, 1st Japanese pressing.

Used japanese albums are almost always pristine amd good quality. This is no exception. I have another copy from the boxed set a few years ago. I think this one sounds better. Larger soundstage. Those […]

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My Now Playing prop with Sade’s Diamond Life in it. It’s the japanese pressing, so it has the obi in pink over the left side. The album itself is black with SADE written in large, all caps, ultra-condensed sans-serif type atop a cinemascope aspect ratio of Sade Adu herself in cool grey and black duotone on the bottom 40% of the cover. The title is under the photo, both of which are occluded by the obi. Other relevant things in the photo background are the turntable playing the album.
November 15, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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#nowplaying

ZZ Top: Eliminator, Rhino hifi edition 180g 33 1/3 rpm.l AAA.

A huge departure from their earlier albums, but also their largest commercial success, leveraging now classic videos on MTV.

First listen. Disc is quiet, flat. Every Rhino hifi title […]

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My Now Playing album prop with ZZ Top’s Eliminator. Thr album has the ZZ Top logo at the centre top with the stylised Zs going the full width of the album. Below is an artist (coloured chalk??) rendering the famous ZZ Top car, a red 33 Ford coup hot rod, straight on, with the headlights beaming out and upward, on a black background. The title ‘Eliminator’ is at the middle bottom in thin all-caps italic.
November 15, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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@pgor Soooo… a little digging. The M series macs have an NVRAM, not a PRAM, so it's a little different. Macworld mentions forcing a reset of the NVRAM using the terminal command "nvram -c", but that gives me a not permitted error, even with sudo!

The future sucks.
nvram error: nvram: Error clearing firmware variable fmm-computer-name: (iokit/common) not permitted
November 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Obligatory sticker shot!
A green tweed sportcoat with a red, white, and blue ‘I voted’ sticker on the lapel, draped over an Eames plywood chair.
November 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Voted!!
Me, masked, in front of a small plastic sandwich board sign that says ‘District 9 Vote here (Vote aqui)’ with an arrow pointing left.
November 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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@markarayner
November 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Swans!
Two swans, glowing from the low afternoon sun, are preening on a platform on a pond.
October 31, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Now Playing on System 4 while I’m in the kitchen: Cory Weeds Meets Jerry Weldon
Cropped screenshot of the aforementioned album cover from the Tidal iOS app. I am streaming it to my ‘System 4’. The cover has full body shots of Weeds on the left and Weldon on the right with the title running down the middle.
October 25, 2025 at 2:16 AM