Vance Maverick
@vancemaverick.bsky.social
Computer programmer and composer in San Francisco
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Yeah, I’m not of one mind on this. Probably there was a way to arrange that work and the researchers’ shifts so nobody would have to perpetually burn midnight oil
November 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Yeah, I’m not of one mind on this. Probably there was a way to arrange that work and the researchers’ shifts so nobody would have to perpetually burn midnight oil
Hits a little different when the grind saves lives as well as making the company rich
November 22, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Hits a little different when the grind saves lives as well as making the company rich
But why did you have Mario Lemieux muted in the first place?
November 22, 2025 at 4:29 AM
But why did you have Mario Lemieux muted in the first place?
Sounds nicer than “renege”?
November 22, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Sounds nicer than “renege”?
Yes, if we widen out the time range, I’d include Howl (and a couple other things). But then that brings in Ashbery, Plath, Olson, Spicer, O’Hara and many others. Robert Hayden is more interesting than most Beats
November 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Yes, if we widen out the time range, I’d include Howl (and a couple other things). But then that brings in Ashbery, Plath, Olson, Spicer, O’Hara and many others. Robert Hayden is more interesting than most Beats
I’m not sure what sort of tier rankings we’re talking about. But even among his close contemporaries, limited to Americans, I prefer Marianne Moore, not to mention Stein/Pound/Eliot (yes, editing the last two ruthlessly)
November 22, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I’m not sure what sort of tier rankings we’re talking about. But even among his close contemporaries, limited to Americans, I prefer Marianne Moore, not to mention Stein/Pound/Eliot (yes, editing the last two ruthlessly)
There were real dangers but he seems to have skated past them
November 21, 2025 at 11:42 PM
There were real dangers but he seems to have skated past them
Makes sense, in my own line of work, business quarters have been very crude bins of work and planning
November 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Makes sense, in my own line of work, business quarters have been very crude bins of work and planning
The peroration is a vision of un-alienated labor and human development. But if we take the final question seriously, it qualifies the skepticism of the opening -- was he really in a position to distinguish the teacher from her habit, the children from their tasks, himself from his office?
November 21, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The peroration is a vision of un-alienated labor and human development. But if we take the final question seriously, it qualifies the skepticism of the opening -- was he really in a position to distinguish the teacher from her habit, the children from their tasks, himself from his office?
The last stanza is the best known, and rightly so. But reading it now, I'm struck by how it reflects back.
In the first stanza, Yeats visits a classroom, and skeptically observes the teaching sister, the dutiful children, and himself inhabiting his role as politician. ...
In the first stanza, Yeats visits a classroom, and skeptically observes the teaching sister, the dutiful children, and himself inhabiting his role as politician. ...
November 21, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The last stanza is the best known, and rightly so. But reading it now, I'm struck by how it reflects back.
In the first stanza, Yeats visits a classroom, and skeptically observes the teaching sister, the dutiful children, and himself inhabiting his role as politician. ...
In the first stanza, Yeats visits a classroom, and skeptically observes the teaching sister, the dutiful children, and himself inhabiting his role as politician. ...
Writing music in a notation program that’s to be played by live instruments, it’s very useful to have playback, so I can catch errors in the notes. But if the playback is very “realistic”, it can fool me into relying on it as a prediction of the sound, rather than using my aural imagination
November 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Writing music in a notation program that’s to be played by live instruments, it’s very useful to have playback, so I can catch errors in the notes. But if the playback is very “realistic”, it can fool me into relying on it as a prediction of the sound, rather than using my aural imagination
This may be tricky to phrase, but — which sense of “quarter” are we erasing here? Football?
November 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This may be tricky to phrase, but — which sense of “quarter” are we erasing here? Football?
I keep being surprised by finding some of the poems OK in their way, then I go back to reading other better ones and dismissing him as an irritant
November 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I keep being surprised by finding some of the poems OK in their way, then I go back to reading other better ones and dismissing him as an irritant
A full 10% of my Bluesky fees? Or earnings?
November 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
A full 10% of my Bluesky fees? Or earnings?
Also “in a class of its own”
November 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Also “in a class of its own”
Is it crow-sworn or crows-worn?
November 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Is it crow-sworn or crows-worn?
Wow, I’ve never seen anything like this. The compositions aren’t unfamiliar, but the line and shading is new to me.
(Next: a reconstruction of the polychrome consisting of solid areas of fully saturated color, like paint by numbers ;-))
(Next: a reconstruction of the polychrome consisting of solid areas of fully saturated color, like paint by numbers ;-))
November 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Wow, I’ve never seen anything like this. The compositions aren’t unfamiliar, but the line and shading is new to me.
(Next: a reconstruction of the polychrome consisting of solid areas of fully saturated color, like paint by numbers ;-))
(Next: a reconstruction of the polychrome consisting of solid areas of fully saturated color, like paint by numbers ;-))
I want to read the title as “Jupiter and me”, but something tells me that’s not right
November 21, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I want to read the title as “Jupiter and me”, but something tells me that’s not right
With an unfortunate shadow…or something
November 21, 2025 at 4:12 AM
With an unfortunate shadow…or something
Are the hammers…taking root?…in the field of two quilts? I have the feeling this may be an Artwork
November 21, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Are the hammers…taking root?…in the field of two quilts? I have the feeling this may be an Artwork
I’ll tell my cousin who loves prime pairs…but he may be too old to have the song stuck in his aural memory
November 21, 2025 at 3:35 AM
I’ll tell my cousin who loves prime pairs…but he may be too old to have the song stuck in his aural memory
etymonline finds the link unclear, rejecting the idea that it refers to burning at the stake
November 21, 2025 at 2:55 AM
etymonline finds the link unclear, rejecting the idea that it refers to burning at the stake