wajobu
@wajobu.bsky.social
Architecture by day. Music by night.
Quiet noise here: https://youtube.com/@wajobu?si=owjqQkzrAP2C73xZ
Very occasional music reviews at: https://wajobu.com/
All photos by me, unless noted otherwise.
Quiet noise here: https://youtube.com/@wajobu?si=owjqQkzrAP2C73xZ
Very occasional music reviews at: https://wajobu.com/
All photos by me, unless noted otherwise.
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@wajobu.bsky.social
· Dec 7
1922 Indianapolis 500 Thread #Indy500 🧵
In May 1922 my grandfather accompanied his friend and race driver Ralph Mulford to the Indy 500 where Mulford raced. Mulford had to drop out at lap 150, while he was in 3rd place, due to a broken valve.
Ralph Mulford and his oilman in the pits May 29, 1922
In May 1922 my grandfather accompanied his friend and race driver Ralph Mulford to the Indy 500 where Mulford raced. Mulford had to drop out at lap 150, while he was in 3rd place, due to a broken valve.
Ralph Mulford and his oilman in the pits May 29, 1922
Dot com companies all denied a forthcoming bubble, then the industry collapsed in early 2000, and with it thousands of companies, over 50% of the industry then.
Record sales, a strong financial forecast, and CEO Jensen Huang’s impassioned arguments on his company's earnings call weren’t enough to push Nvidia shares back to their October high. www.wired.com/story/nvidia...
Nvidia CEO Dismisses Concerns of an AI Bubble. Investors Remain Skeptical
Record sales, a strong financial forecast, and CEO Jensen Huang’s impassioned arguments on his company's earnings call weren’t enough to push Nvidia shares back to their October high.
www.wired.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Dot com companies all denied a forthcoming bubble, then the industry collapsed in early 2000, and with it thousands of companies, over 50% of the industry then.
Good morning from the woods…
November 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Good morning from the woods…
Roedelius archive recordings ‘90.’ These 4 discs are really wonderful.
November 13, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Roedelius archive recordings ‘90.’ These 4 discs are really wonderful.
Long before his terrible comments on race, I worked with Dr Watson on some buildings at CSHL. He had a tremendous sense of curiosity, and he surrounded himself with very smart hard working researchers. It’s criminal that Rosalind Franklin never got her due. This article is a great piece.
This is a really remarkable piece of writing and in its particulars it describes so, so many people
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Long before his terrible comments on race, I worked with Dr Watson on some buildings at CSHL. He had a tremendous sense of curiosity, and he surrounded himself with very smart hard working researchers. It’s criminal that Rosalind Franklin never got her due. This article is a great piece.
We had a hard freeze a few days ago. I was able to rescue a big batch of nasturtium seeds for next Spring. Remarkably, we had a warm day yesterday, and the surviving nasturtium flowers were still being visited by honey bees.
November 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
We had a hard freeze a few days ago. I was able to rescue a big batch of nasturtium seeds for next Spring. Remarkably, we had a warm day yesterday, and the surviving nasturtium flowers were still being visited by honey bees.
And just like that we've gone from a killing frost (decimating the garden and flowers) to mid 60s F. I had to change out of my felt lined shirt and pants. It's like late Spring outside.
Crazy!
Crazy!
November 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
And just like that we've gone from a killing frost (decimating the garden and flowers) to mid 60s F. I had to change out of my felt lined shirt and pants. It's like late Spring outside.
Crazy!
Crazy!
Remember the dot com bubble?
I do.
This AI BS is vaporware: Uses unbelievable amounts of electricity and yields unpredictable and dangerous results.
All I ever want to do with current software is turn that AI crap off.
Think people, don't let computers think for you.
I do.
This AI BS is vaporware: Uses unbelievable amounts of electricity and yields unpredictable and dangerous results.
All I ever want to do with current software is turn that AI crap off.
Think people, don't let computers think for you.
ICYMI: Microsoft’s charge “implies a more than $12 billion quarterly loss at OpenAI, said Firoz Valliji, an analyst at Bernstein.”
That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
November 8, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Remember the dot com bubble?
I do.
This AI BS is vaporware: Uses unbelievable amounts of electricity and yields unpredictable and dangerous results.
All I ever want to do with current software is turn that AI crap off.
Think people, don't let computers think for you.
I do.
This AI BS is vaporware: Uses unbelievable amounts of electricity and yields unpredictable and dangerous results.
All I ever want to do with current software is turn that AI crap off.
Think people, don't let computers think for you.
Hello friends,
Here's a little video I put together a few years ago, in the glen of northern Pennsylvania, where there are countless waterfalls. I did the music in my little studio with analog machines.
youtu.be/rzHYfyEkF_w?...
Here's a little video I put together a few years ago, in the glen of northern Pennsylvania, where there are countless waterfalls. I did the music in my little studio with analog machines.
youtu.be/rzHYfyEkF_w?...
In The Glen
YouTube video by wajobu
youtu.be
November 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Hello friends,
Here's a little video I put together a few years ago, in the glen of northern Pennsylvania, where there are countless waterfalls. I did the music in my little studio with analog machines.
youtu.be/rzHYfyEkF_w?...
Here's a little video I put together a few years ago, in the glen of northern Pennsylvania, where there are countless waterfalls. I did the music in my little studio with analog machines.
youtu.be/rzHYfyEkF_w?...
Post a film you have seen more than 7 times with a GIF
November 2, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Post a film you have seen more than 7 times with a GIF
The AI bubble is gonna burst and it isn’t going to be pretty for those taken in by it—same with crypto. Meanwhile, regular electric customers will get screwed too.
October 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The AI bubble is gonna burst and it isn’t going to be pretty for those taken in by it—same with crypto. Meanwhile, regular electric customers will get screwed too.
He was wandering aimlessly in Japan. Shitler is losing his shit.
The president had a MRI but won't say why.
He had bruises on his hands but wouldn't say why.
He just had an 'annual medical' even though he already had his annual medical.
He got shot in the ear but has never released the medical records relating to it.
How is any of this ok?
He had bruises on his hands but wouldn't say why.
He just had an 'annual medical' even though he already had his annual medical.
He got shot in the ear but has never released the medical records relating to it.
How is any of this ok?
October 29, 2025 at 12:04 AM
He was wandering aimlessly in Japan. Shitler is losing his shit.
@darthbluesky.bsky.social Saturn has a potato!
Every time I see this image i just gawp at it. An icy space potato whose gravity shepherds the tiny particles in Saturn's F Ring and you can see its shadow, cast by a sun a billion kilometers away.
Prometheus - From Gordan Ugarković (ugordan.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/8FBbLN
October 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
@darthbluesky.bsky.social Saturn has a potato!
Nothing has changed since the days of The Great War and Siegfried Sassoon.
Fentanyl and coke are the new “weapons of mass destruction” lie. It’s Iraq all over again, folks. It’s always about controlling the oil.
October 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Nothing has changed since the days of The Great War and Siegfried Sassoon.
This morning in the woods…
October 27, 2025 at 12:48 AM
This morning in the woods…
We saw a great concert last night with the @stevehacketthq.bsky.social band, playing new solo work, some favorites from the 1970s and 80s, highlights from The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway and something special from Foxtrot.
October 15, 2025 at 11:17 AM
We saw a great concert last night with the @stevehacketthq.bsky.social band, playing new solo work, some favorites from the 1970s and 80s, highlights from The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway and something special from Foxtrot.
What was that I said about Bari Weiss having less “journalism” integrity than would fit in a dollhouse thimble?
Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.
October 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
What was that I said about Bari Weiss having less “journalism” integrity than would fit in a dollhouse thimble?
Bari Weiss is a right wing propaganda shill. Edward R Morrow and Walter Cronkite are rolling over in their graves. Bari's integrity and "journalism" cred wouldn't fill a dollhouse thimble.
Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss
The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.
www.theatlantic.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Bari Weiss is a right wing propaganda shill. Edward R Morrow and Walter Cronkite are rolling over in their graves. Bari's integrity and "journalism" cred wouldn't fill a dollhouse thimble.
Gold is now at $4,088 an ounce.
Something is seriously wrong with the foundation of the US economy that so many investors are running to gold as a hedge.
Gold was $250 an ounce in 2000.
Something is seriously wrong with the foundation of the US economy that so many investors are running to gold as a hedge.
Gold was $250 an ounce in 2000.
October 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Gold is now at $4,088 an ounce.
Something is seriously wrong with the foundation of the US economy that so many investors are running to gold as a hedge.
Gold was $250 an ounce in 2000.
Something is seriously wrong with the foundation of the US economy that so many investors are running to gold as a hedge.
Gold was $250 an ounce in 2000.
Blustery rainy day here in ol' New England...
a picture of winnie the pooh and piglet with the words happy winds day
ALT: a picture of winnie the pooh and piglet with the words happy winds day
media.tenor.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Blustery rainy day here in ol' New England...
I’ve listened to Nick Drake since early 1970s, probably have most of his recordings, even some of his mother Molly’s songs. When I heard this collection of pre-Five Leaves demos and archival history was coming, it was an instant purchase. The interviews about this collection sounded fascinating.
October 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I’ve listened to Nick Drake since early 1970s, probably have most of his recordings, even some of his mother Molly’s songs. When I heard this collection of pre-Five Leaves demos and archival history was coming, it was an instant purchase. The interviews about this collection sounded fascinating.
In case anyone hasn't noticed, US Gold is up to almost $3,900 and ounce. This (like other things) isn't normal.
September 30, 2025 at 10:06 PM
In case anyone hasn't noticed, US Gold is up to almost $3,900 and ounce. This (like other things) isn't normal.
Moshu-pup!
We only rate dogs. This is very clearly a red panda. We've had just about enough of your tomfoolery. Please only send dogs. Thank you… 12/10 (IG: __joyjoa)
September 24, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Moshu-pup!
RYAN FITZGERALD GOING FULL KEANU REEVES MY GOODNESS
September 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM