over here for me it’s coffee, KCRW, and making food
14.03.2026 20:19
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over here for me it’s coffee, KCRW, and making food
Article about whale fall ecosystems. Amazed at how one whale carcass "can be equivalent to several thousand years' worth of marine snow – and its bounty can feed a whole ecosystem for decades." Awed by the array of life persisting at the depths where they sink to rest.
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
CW: gore & sarcasm
I am GRUMPY this morning and I won't make apologies for it.
That said, here is one of my favorite webcomics:
pbfcomics.com/comics/anoth...
Post 3 good things, none of which are the cessation of a negative.
1. Returning birds
2. Tiramisu
3. A good night's sleep
1. Sharing the couch with my spouse to watch a fun TV show
2. A hot mug of medium roast coffee before sunrise while I read a poem
3. 70 degrees F and sunny in the late afternoon shade of our backyard with music on the radio
Ugh 😞 so sorry
Each time they quote the Dow on NPR, I just remember how as a kid I always heard it as the "Tao Industrial Average".
#homophone
Three dark green poblano peppers are on a cooling rack after being roasted in the oven.
TIL that ancho chiles are overripe and dried out poblanos. I am making a quick mole tonight and am trying to fast-track these peppers to the proper status for the recipe.
"Silicon Valley’s Gini coefficient... is 83. Inequality in Silicon Valley, therefore, is markedly higher than the most unequal countries in the world... Most developmental economists… would tell you that 83 on the Gini is unstable – the conditions for revolt"
www.almanacnews.com/regional-pol...
kind of reminds me of Paul Lansky's "Night Traffic"
Music made of infrasound recorded in Amherst, MA. Infrasound fills the air and arrives from miles away as a result of ocean currents, glacier flow, storms, wildfires, volcanoes, "and other geophysical and anthropogenic sources from across the planet".
brianhouse.bandcamp.com/album/everyd...
We are *so* close in our grandpa vocational genealogy! I've got preacher and aircraft mechanic.
This morning an Oregon junco landed on the hood of my car while I was at a stoplight and looked at me through the windshield. It was pretty cool, that's all.
#birds
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Dark-e...
Be more productive without more pay!
L.A. based Cambodian rock band Dengue Fever is playing through my headphones today. Just learned of them this morning when I heard their song "Macho Purple Sunset" on the radio.
#music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO7X...
Past Lives
Maybe NPR in 2026 is to the Epstein Files what WP in 1972 was to Watergate.
I'll be reading this today instead of listening to the SOTU address.
www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...
A scarlet cardinal
darting among snowy trees
is winter’s jewel.
#haiku
"Maybe the companies behind LLMs like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Grok make it all-too-easy to believe that they’re the quickest, most painless solution to the terrifying work of thinking thoughts."
www.coyotemedia.org/how-coyote-a...
I just needed to read a story like this today. Biking in the woods is rad.
"We don’t think of ourselves as the lords of the property... We’re just here to steward it until we’re done, and then somebody else can. So sharing it is part of our ethic."
www.singletracks.com/mtb-trails/o...
Comments on the article are worth reading even if you don't live nearby just to have a glimpse at what a travesty this is 😭🔥
I’m lately enjoying the newest album by I’m With Her: “Wild and Clear and Blue”.
With 65% voter approval, the city spent $50 million on a wonderful school. Now, after only 6 years of being open, the school board voted to close it in order to save $14 million.
The cost to families that benefit from the school is immeasurable. Infuriating.
www.almanacnews.com/education/20...
The Swale at Oak Knoll School
The swale
of rocks and grass
is nestled by the gym
where rain spills off the roof until
it drains.
#poetry #cinquain #mpcsd
The kids are all right.
"I have sat by and watched my neighbors, my friends and strangers taken from our communities without due process, and I am done”
www.almanacnews.com/news/2026/01...
First song this morning that my favorite music show played on KCRW www.kcrw.com/shows/mornin...
"The No Kings Act is a first-of-its-kind legislation... that seeks to hold federal officers to the same standard as local and state officers by making them liable for legal action"
www.almanacnews.com/state/2026/0...
"it turned out the trees were unmemorable
and the government a trick of the light
and it was sorry, the ending, but it didn’t know what for"
#poetry
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
Start with ICE.
