Orange Crate Art at fifteen
Orange Crate Art turns fifteen today. It’s applying for a learner’s permit tomorrow. Wish us luck.
Orange Crate Art
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Authorities on diamonds.”
Go64
“Go64 identifies the apps on your Mac that are still 32-bit so you can plan to update or replace them in the near future.”
A turntable recommendation
If you want to have a record player on at night, or at any other time, I would like to recommend the Audio-Technica AT-LP120-USB turntable.
Ben Leddy hosts The Rewind
“Let’s Read Zoom Mail!”
Chicago decades
The CMOS Shop Talk blog considers names for decades.
Word of the day: fuliginous
It’s a word I immediately associate with David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest.
WTC 2008
I‘ve pretty much kept September 11, 2001 at a distance today. But tonight I’ve been thinking about a visit to the World Trade Center and St. Paul’s Chapel that Elaine and I and made with friends in 2008.
WTF’s chief meteorologist at work
The Washington Post reports that the directive to rewrite the weather came from the chief meteorologist himself.
Word of the day: dandy roll
The name Dandyroll Washbasin comes from Bill Griffith’s imagination and knowledge of papermaking.
A September 11 mural
By Eduardo Kobra.
Robert Frank (1924–2019)
I think of Frank’s The Americans (1959) as the photographic analogue of William Carlos Williams’s Spring and All (1923).
Bob and Ray’s House of Toast
Buttered on the far side or the near side.
A toast tip
“Do not place buttered breads in the toaster, as this could create a fire hazard.”
A toast tip
“Before toasting bagels, slice each bagel into two equal halves.”
Wilbur Ross at work
The New York Times reports that Wilbur Ross threatened to fire NOAA employees after a tweet contradicted the presidential assertion that Hurricane Dorian might hit Alabama.
Hotel-room interviews
Inside Higher Ed reports that an academic tradition is fading.
Domestic comedy
“Yes, and.”
No deal
Donald Trump’s fixation on making deals, great deals, betrays a mindset that has no room for the deep truth of what it means to be human. Because to be human is, finally, to lose. Every hand is a losing hand; every life, a losing proposition.
“Multiple shade options”
Our new toaster (Cuisinart) has “multiple shade options.” Or as plain-speaking people might say, it toasts light and dark.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Unsettling?” Yes, indeed.
An Alabama song
WTF’s chief meteorologist: “Alabama was going to be hit very hard, along with Georgia.” So I thought of a song, Charley Patton’s “Going to Move to Alabama.”
Word of the day: loiter
With a special guest star: litter.
Ben Leddy hosts The Rewind
The latest episode of WGBH’s YouTube series.
“The jokes of the Tartars and the salads of the Inca”
From Esi Edugyan’s novel Washington Black.
Helping the Bahamas
The New York Times has a list of organizations accepting donations.
More maps
I don’t know how to read spaghetti plots, but I know that I don’t know how, and I know that there are people who do.
The Alabama loop
Hurricane Dorian has always been at war with Alabama.
Beginning to draw
Washington Black draws upon slave narratives, the Bildungsroman, magical realism, Charles Dickens, Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison to create a story of self-discovery, of scientific discovery, of friendship and the limits of friendship.
Long-distance access codes
it’s still possible, when necessary, to make a one-off landline call with an access code.