Month: February 2024

Posted on February 6, 2024

Linkblog 🔗: John Cage: Organ playing 639-year-long piece changes chord 🎵

> The longest – and slowest – music composition in existence had a big day on Monday – it changed chord for the first time in two years.
> Crowds gathered at a church in Germany to witness the rare moment, which is part of an artistic feat by avant-garde composer, John Cage.
> The experimental piece, entitled As Slow as Possible, began in 2001.
Being played on a specially-built organ, it is not set to finish playing until the year 2640.

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Posted on February 5, 2024

'Every piece of filth that comes out of my mouth – that's mine': inside Curb Your Enthusiasm's final season ​​ 📺 🔗

> The most influential television comedy of the 21st century is coming to an end. Tonight, the first episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm’s 12th and final season will air, kicking off a 10-week run that will apparently wrap up Larry David’s revolutionary improvised sitcom with a definitive conclusion.

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Posted on February 5, 2024

Awake at 4:30am so of course I decide to get up to watch day 4 of the India v England second Test. England chasing 399 to win 😬🏏

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Posted on February 4, 2024

🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm:

Radiohead (25 plays)
Philip Selway (19)
Claude Debussy (18)
Mitropoulos, NYPO (13)
Thom Yorke (12)

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Posted on February 2, 2024

I’m still playing around with Beluga and I quite like the way it works.

I’m sharing my Beluga posts on AWS S3 storage at thedimpause.cloud. This is a url forwarding address because to achieve _anything_ in AWS requires me to do a vast amount of fumbling around until I find something that works. I’m not confident or familiar with using it and still haven’t found the energy to find a way to set up a custom domain yet 😞

I’ve got the JSON feed from my Beluga site importing into my Micro.blog hosted domain and the posts look OK. The main downside is that images do not get imported into the Micro.blog site but are still hosted externally on AWS. I don’t think there’s a way to change that at the moment.

I did notice today was that a link posted to Beluga ends up with a link preview card on the Beluga static site – example here. This card has an image from the linked page which then also gets imported into my Micro.blog site – as here. I do like this but the image that appears is not necessarily predictable – I could end up with some unexpected images on my blog and on the Micro.blog timeline 🫢

One downside of the set up seems to be that photos uploaded via Beluga are quite compressed and do not seem to have the quality I get when uploading to Micro.blog via Mimi, MarsEdit or the web client. Fine for screenshots or casual snaps but not if I really care about the final appearance of the photo.