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Change of Command is this week, which means I get my 4th boss in three years (FML) so I decided I'd fabricobble the command gift. The outgoing skipper is a Navy diver who has a penchant for clapping to build morale. So I decided that I needed to work all that into the gift. So the rough motif is a replica Navy diving bell mounted to a plaque with our command logo and major project logos engraved into brass coins. but the kicker is that the helmet sits on an LED base that lights up and yes, can be controlled by a Clapper.

Do pizza ovens count?

Agreed. After listening to that, I had to listen to this. Of course, today these lyrics would have gotten them canceled. 😎

We should go back to this point in time.

Alan Alda is a national treasure. He has a podcast called Clear+Vivid where he talks to interesting people. It's great. And it's a nice diversion from everything being political.

Ad Hoc / AI Mexican Street Corn / Esquites / Fridge Food "Toasted" wraps. Via:

I seem to be on KEXP algorithm now. Intense looping, but I like it.

Reliving 90s warnings about reliving the 70s from Mike Watt’s Ball-Hog Or Tugboat?

People were naysaying Wing ... So he dropped this: DnB!

Not many weeks I feel we're further away from WWIII, but that great North Korean destroyer launch (aka "the beached whale") last week did it. Ouch. korea.mp4

Thankful by Natalie Cole (1977) https://album.link/wmxqjwcnt0mcj Example: I didn't know this part of her career. I found her in the late 80s and listened to the late 90s. I have missed a lot. Amazing release in the middle of disco area that is so full of soul and great production.

So intense...yet so cathartic...

Love the Magazine posts, thanks. Never got to see them live, I'm sure I would have loved that. But DID get to see Devoto with his band Luxuria....and they opened for The Fall! Incredible show!

Did you wear the chef's hat?

I feel like it was important for him to reconnect to the core sitting-in-a-log-cabin-being-sad energy.

This With a new friend, "Mochi" She even got on well with Joanne But She had to leave with her parents to go to Truckee for the weekend. It was nice to meet you Mochi!

All this deferred resignation stuff has meant the departure of a few key staff members, one in particular I've worked with for nearly 15 years and deserved something more than an Irish goodbye. So I made him a little something for his retirement yesterday. That's the blank walnut, engraved/machined with the cnc machine. Finish applied, awaiting infill bits. Finished project. The middle bit is an original survey boundary marker for the island that I rescued from a demo project. It's likely way more than 100 years old. I thought he deserved to take a little piece of the place with him even if it's a little tarnished and scarred. I prefer things that way actually, probably because I resemble the description.

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The cats broke the glass lamp in our entryway, so I needed a non-glass replacement. Similar to a design I made a few years ago, but smaller and with some refinements.

Saw this, made me think of you people: That speaker placement at the end, though. (cringe)

RIP Rick Derringer, best known for that one song we all can recall instantly. Credit to Bill Szymczyk, the producer, who turned that shit up to "11" in the studio, making it such an earworm. If you doubt me, check out the Edgar Winter version of the same song which is ...fine, but a pale imitation of the later Derringer only version. Also, while we're on the subject, Absolutely gratuitous 70s video of their hit from 10 years earlier. EDIT: I should add that Rick produced the first SIX albums by Weird Al, a fact which by itself should elevate him to legendary status.

RIP Marcel Ophuls, Myth-Shattering Filmmaker https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/movies/marcel-ophuls-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KE8.i6wo.kaPz3fKqzuJW&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare (Gift article) https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250526-oscar-winning-french-documentary-filmmaker-marcel-ophuls