Freshly tilled garden beds

I’m definitely not in gardening shape but getting there real fast.

A Blessing of Tears album cover

A Blessing of Tears is my favorite of Robert Fripp’s Soundscapes albums. It’s difficult to believe it’s now over 30(!) years old.

An Ovation 1867 having its strings and battery changed on a couch.

Morning activity

Remember that after the Bears won Super Bowl XX we had the Challenger disaster. If we need a Chicago sports franchise to win a title to avoid national trauma then the Bulls and Blackhawks have better records.

Seattle Guitar Circle + Travis Metcalf - Wayward Music Series Seattle Guitar Circle culminates a weekend intensive retreat with a performance featuring the ensemble and special guests, with ambient support from our friend and collaborator Travis Metcalf. Seattl...

in a rare (for bluesky) moment of self-promotion, this is happening at the end of the month with @seattlecircle.bsky.social, as well as @curtgolden.bsky.social, @risingspiral.com, and a few other folks. we'd love to see you there!

Lunchtime LPs: drummer Tony Williams was born 80 years ago today so I'm listening to Miles Davis's Filles de Kilimanjaro from 1968 with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Chick Corea and Dave Holland. Also Charles Lloyd's Of Course Of Course with Gabor Szabo and Ron Carter from 1965 #jazzsky

The last of the fresh garden tomatoes. I usually like to stretch these into December. But not this year.

A cloudy sky over a tree-lined yard space

A view from the office door morning of 10/24 as the storm rolled in.

Things are not as bad as they seem.
They are worse than that.
They are also better than that.

-Guitar Craft aphorism

Some good work happening here: www.registerguard.com/story/news/l...

“What work can we do to fix this broken world? We can go outside and be together.”

Related: When people get together with music, something happens.

Build what Siri should be instavm.io/blog/buildin...

Jed Hoyer and Marcus Stroman’s agent are both looking at their phones every couple of minutes to see who’s gonna call the other first.

This

Inxs - listen like thieves album cover

Late shift listening hour

They did get Galactus right.

A night at the park

Deer at the end of a path

Neighborhood walk

Everything around LLMs is still magical and wishful thinking Everything around LLMs is still magical and wishful thinking

“It's a non-deterministic statistical machine. When it works, it may feel like magic. But it's neither magic nor is it engineering.

The whole discourse around LLMs assumes it's strictly one of the two.

And here we are.”

dmitriid.com/everything-a...

Let The Power Fall One can work within any structure

When I first read this 30 odd years ago, I thought it was clever. At 48 I marvel at the insight and utility of these words, and that someone at the age of 34 had written them.

www.dgmlive.com/in-depth/let...

#RobertFripp

Been doing that for decades over here.

The Gap Through Which We Praise the Machine My current theory of agentic programming: people are amazing at adapting the tools they're given and totally underestimate the extent to which they do it, and the amount of skill we build doing that i...

Oh hey, an actual good article on codegen AI: ferd.ca/the-gap-thro...

An Architecture of Participation for AI?

"NLWeb is fully compatible with MCP and offers existing websites a simple mechanism to add AI search and other services to an existing web frontend. We put together our demo AI search for O’Reilly in a few days. We’ll be rolling it out to the public soon." @timoreilly.bsky.social bit.ly/4jlmIOY

Dude… after only 7 minutes? 🙂

The Radical Politics of Joy by Roger Berkowitz

“Joy is not escapism. It is an act of refusal: a refusal to let despair be the final word.”

medium.com/amor-mundi/t...

What???

Killer whales spotted in Oregon rivers as sightings rise along coast (photos) Transient killer whales — including a calf — were spotted swimming out of the Yaquina River. Photographer Jaklyn Larsen has already documented three sightings this year, including the well-known lone male T051, also known as Roswell.

Transient killer whales — including a calf — were spotted swimming out of the Yaquina River. Photographer Jaklyn Larsen has already documented three sightings this year, including the well-known lone male T051, also known as Roswell.

Guitars resting on a table and couch

An alpine hill town with a partly cloudy sky

A Venetian canal at night

A canal in Burano opening to the sea under a cloudy sky. The canal is lined on both sides with colorful houses.

Plugging back in after two weeks in Italy. The first was spent preparing for and playing in the Orchestra of Crafty Guitarists performance in Castione d. Presolana. The second week: four full days exploring the Venetian lagoon.

A man ahead of his time.