Hah, good to know.

Tesla cybertruck, comparing a prototype image on top with a production photo on the bottom

A comparison of the Tesla Cybertruck, slowly transitioning between the production image and a red frame overlay to compare the dimensions to a prototype image

Cybertruck: prototype vs production model. Looks like it got shorter in front? It's never going to look as good in real life as it does in PR images.

It's Saturday morning in Placitas, NM, and we're live on air! Tune in on KUPR.org and join DJ Sasquatch and the Electric Yeti on a stroll through the Electric Bosque.

To find more pizza pals?

A few swinging cover songs you probably didn't know you needed in your life: theschwingsband.bandcamp.com/track/swings-like-teen-s... + https://theschwingsband.bandcamp.com/track/is-this-love

Lessons from the radio, and life in general: don't narrate your mistakes, people probably didn't notice them until you pointed them out. Make your corrections and move on. (Not valid for major errors.)

If you're up for an hour-long wander through electronic music, tune in to KUPR.org and take a stroll with me through the Electric Bosque, 7 to 8 am Mountain time

Everyone else: "are you on Team Barbie or Team Oppenheimer?"
New Mexico: "Oppenheimer - hero or villain?" Well, do you live downstream from Los Alamos, downwind from the Trinity test site, or near a uranium mine, or have a PhD?
www.axios.com/2023/07/21/los-alamos-ne...

A swath of sunlight illuminates some large tree leaves above the shadow of a person's head cast onto a brick wall

A portrait of the artist in shadow

A two-lane road stretches to the horizon; the flat, open grassland is shaded under a cloudy sky with a thin strip of sunlit golden grass along the horizon with low mountains rising above

The road ahead
A northern New Mexico landscape

Right? The best part is that grumpy little person is an 11-year-old boy who is taller than his mom and has a ghost of a mustache. He just drew and then painted himself as the scrawniest of us :)

And here's the whole family 😄

Lego self portrait

I stopped posting when it felt like I was throwing notes down a well, but I'd be happy to return to review each section if anyone finds it interesting. Or you can borrow it from IA: https://archive.org/details/happymutanthandb00frau (thanks @archive.org !)

The Happy Mutant Handbook, mischievous fun for higher primates (book cover featuring a black and white alien-type face illustration, with retro avocado green, burnt orange, and peachy-tan stripes)

Did anyone else have a copy of this back in the day? Mine is behind me right now, and I geeked out over it a few years ago, revisiting it article by article, to see how this book from 1995 aged -- https://happymutanthandbook.blogspot.com/2015/06/

Glad my goofy obsession with an odd, old book is of interest to someone :) I haven't reviewed the whole book, but you can read it all online now on via virtual loan https://archive.org/details/happymutanthandb00frau and I have a spare physical copy.

The retro-future vibe was big in the 1990s, as seen in the Happy Mutant Handbook, from the bOING bOING zine crew -- https://happymutanthandbook.blogspot.com/2015/06/ (I looked back on the book a few years ago in fits and starts)

Image caption: All This Fits In Your Pocket Now A man wears two headphone, holds a boombox, a cassette recorder, and a large camcorder, standing next to a walkman, portable radio, and other storage media and media or computer devices

Compressing media consumption options into one device. Even the butterfly device is available now, in the folding phones.

There's a few compact composters to address food waste for space-limited living spaces -- www.treehugger.com/best-compost-machines-51...

But have you tried college radio? It's grate!

Wisteria hangs down from under a balcony and the leaves are illuminated by the morning sun. In the background, there are dark clouds.

The stormy sky is a lie, but the glowing leaves were a nice view this morning.

Cheese people climb a slide that is a cheese grater, sliding down to make shredded cheese, with the text reading KCPR we top your taco

Shirt du jour. The simple joys of working from home and not having any meetings.

Green plastic or glass cacti with a red flower on top, in a gravel yard in front of a tan stucco wall

Bright orange flowers in three blue pots in front of a tan, stucco-walled house

Basketball hoop in front of a weather-worn light green painted wooden fence and a light tan stucco house wall

Big lavender bush in front of a small pine tree and an adobe-style home

A few views from a Santa Fe neighborhood walk

fuzzy rancor vs walter white, edgy anime

fuzzy rancor vs walter white, edgy anime

ronald mcdonald with a battleaxe, action movie poster

ronald mcdonald with a battleaxe, action movie poster

And a few more, prompts picked by the 11-year-old

dj sasquatch and a small yeti in the bosque, cosmic illustration

dj sasquatch and a young yeti in the bosque on turntables

dj sasquatch and a young yeti in the bosque on turntables, retro game cover art

It's late, so here's some weird AI art. Guess the prompts! Answers in the Alt Text.

AI rendering of dj sasquatch and a young yeti in the bosque on turntables, pixel art, with sunrise mountains in shades of red and a big yellow sun Text reads Electric Bosque #16 with DJ Sasquatch and Electric Yeti KUPR-LP Placitas New Mexico 99.9fm KUPR.org

Electric Bosque 016 is up! www.mixcloud.com/2ndsasquatch/electric-bo...

Full tracklist and blurb are also here: https://mltshp.com/p/1P5TI

Another show co-hosted with my kiddo, who picked the original AI-generated cover art here, which I tweaked to improve, slightly.

We're talking about the decline of Twitter and what comes next, backing Bluesky and mocking Threads, but what if we went back to the old ways? Make our own free websites, join webrings, trade buttons and links. 🤔

Little fluffy clouds scattered across the morning sky

Good morning, blue sky

On the 2nd point -- Justin, in talking to his girlfriend "refused to explain almost anything about what was going on except he told her to watch the movie White Sands and that everything would make sense," per a segment of Unsolved Mysteries. I watched the movie. I have more questions now.

Album of the night: an old, moody one - Patrick O'Hearn's score to White Sands from 1992 -- https://www.patrickohearn.com/music-white-sands -- I found this because 1) it's set in New Mexico and I love seeing this state in film, and 2) Justin Burgwinkel said the movie described his mysterious life.