Hi, I’m Chuck Grimmett.
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I haven’t tied much this winter, but the prospect of some rain and warmer weather melting the snow and ice has me hopeful for getting out on the water. Tied some peacock body little black stoneflies with CDC wings, and some glass bead dark sakasa kebari.
Planning to tie some BWO comparaduns and CDC midges next. Can you tell I’m eager for dry fly season? -
The Little Free Library I put up in 2024 is still doing great! The three of us walked over and each put in a couple books. Glad to see it was pretty full with good books.
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In some old outdoor writing I’ve noticed the phrase “the Red Gods” multiple times and wondered where it came from. I think it comes from Kipling’s The Feet of the Young Men.
While the poem draws me in with the lust for springtime adventure it stirs after a long, frozen winter, I can’t help but notice the romanticization and appropriation of indigenous spiritual practices. Probably best to leave that one in the old books.
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lol, Screen Time notification looks buggy this week. I was very concerned that I somehow spent an average of 6 hours a day on my phone, but there is no way I spent:
- 8 hours on DuckDuckGo search
- 6 hours on Wikipedia.com
- 4 hours on RanchoGordo.com (I mean, I like beans, but that is excessive)
- 4 hours on IMDB.com
I did visit those things, but Screen Time must still be recording when I close the browser. I spent 5 mins max on IMDB looking up a voice actor for Zootopia.
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The thermometer on the weather station out back read -4F when we got up this morning. The insulation work we did the last two years has been a huge help this winter, but it looks like the low single digits are about the limit, and our high efficiency gas boiler is struggling to keep up. Looking forward to some warmer weather, it has been a frigid winter.
On the bright side, the sustained snow has been nice to look at and play in, and we are hopeful that we’ll see fewer ticks this summer from the long periods of very low temps.
I see that the bird feeder is empty, I better go out and refill it.
Links I like
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Likes DEMON’S GAME by .
Rob Worthing just announced DEMON’S GAME: The Definitive Guide to Oni School Tenkara. Instant purchase for me. I can’t wait for this book to arrive.
The definitive guide to the tenkara fly fishing school of master angler, Masami “Tenkara no Oni” Sakakibara. Widely regarded as the best tenkara angler in the world, Masami revolutionized Japanese fly fishing with the use of ultralight rigs and elegant fly presentation, blending cast and drift into one seamless act. Presented for the first time in English, the Oni tenkara school includes everything the fly fisher needs to become an adaptive angler, ready to tackle any problem a trout stream might present. A comprehensive review of the physiology and behavior of trout, the water they live in, and the bugs they eat sets the stage for detailed lessons in fundamental and advanced casting, fly presentation, playing and landing fish, and more. Whether you enjoy tenkara or any other style of fly fishing, you will learn to trick more trout and have more fun fly fishing than ever before.
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Likes Century-Scale Storage by .
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Likes How are we preparing for the Long Web? by .
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Likes Practical Decentralization.
Paul Frazee on the differences between atproto, ActivityPub, and Nostr.
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Likes Ftrain.com – Paul Ford.
I don’t pop molly, I read Paul Ford
International bring back the blog postYeah, Ftrain is back on the tools again.
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Likes Unsung heroes: Flickr’s URLs scheme – Unsung by .
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“What concerns me most is the unintended consequence of these blocks. When libraries are blocked from archiving the web, the public loses access to history. Journalists lose tools for accountability. Researchers lose evidence. The web becomes more fragile and more fragmented, and history becomes easier to rewrite.”
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Likes Deep Blue by .
We coined a new term on the Oxide and Friends podcast last month (primary credit to Adam Leventhal) covering the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many software developers are feeling thanks to the encroachment of generative AI into their field of work.
We’re calling it Deep Blue.
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Likes Why is the sky blue?.
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Now that I’m a parent, I think about this quote multiple times a month:
Their mom has played the new EP for them a couple times. They’re like, “My favorite song is ‘Less Than’.” That’s sweet, but then I’m thinking, Don’t I say ‘fuck’ in that one? Same thing when they were at sound check: What song don’t I say ‘fuck’ in? I’ll tell you another thing I think about: I’m now thrust into adult events — school things with other parents, and just … You’re not really thinking about how lyrics that seemed cool at the time are going to register with parents at your kid’s school 20 years later.
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Lovely book cover designs from the last decade.
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From Brett Terpstra:
BlogBook
This is a new app I’m publishing as a complement to Marked 3. It generates a “Book” from WordPress, Micro.blog, or Ghost blogs. You can filter posts by author, categories, tags, date ranges, and more, then export a Markdown document (or collection of documents with an index file) which you can open in any Markdown editor. If you open it in Marked 3, special syntax like Table of Contents and page breaks will be rendered, and you can output to PDF, HTML, EPUB, and more.
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Likes Icebound and Down by .
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Likes A Brief History of Domains by .
A tour of domain milestones over the last forty years.
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Likes Inside an Artist’s Shopsmith Workshop by .
Some clever repurposing of old Shopsmith parts and neat ways to store accessories. I’m going to make some hanging holders for my sanding disks and speed reducer based on this.
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This project is aimed at creating a living syllabus, a community, and a framework for these ideas, one informed by a deep “historical sense” that ensures computing does not remain a “pop culture.” We must make computers work for people, guided by history and the humanities.
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Likes Maintaining the Bridges.
“A lot of the online things we’ve built are, like roads and bridges, now necessary — and figure out how we can publicly fund enough of them that important things without an obvious and direct profit motive can get done.”