Nina Ricci is a delight! Cohutta Song Fest CSF on FB
Kathy Reed & Lonesome Redwingon stage at the Cohutta Song Fest CSF on FB CSF on IG. The 2pm act didn’t make it so an extra long set
Listening to Jayron Weaver IG FB at the Cohutta Song Fest #livemusic
Some more shots of downtown at the Cohutta Song Fest. Cody Ray, John Benjamin Davis & Daniel Foster finished their share set with Ophelia by The Band, one of my favorite 🤩 tunes 🎶
Suns going down and the trains keep rolling through, but the music 🎶 keeps going. The fire 🔥 is nice. #CohuttaSongFest cohuttasongfest.com
It’s so very Southern that people aren’t yet packing into the Cohutta Song Fest 🎸🎤🎵because of high school football 🏈
In the Round with: Cody Ray, John Benjamin Davis & Daniel Foster (from Chattanooga or there abouts) at the Cohutta Song Fest. The music so far has been really well done. #livemusic
Anna Shilholster, John Buckner, Nick Stuard on stage at the Cohutta Song Fest #livemusic
I’m at the Cohutta (GA) Song Fest tonight. Lots of music. Instagram Waiting for the music to start but the pizza’s good.
In #emacs #orgmode. can one export headings and subheadings into separate org-export (maybe via org-mode-ox-odt) targets similar to how :tangle my-filename.el works on a babel source block? I have a monolithic org file I would like to automatically export subheadings into a bunch of different files
I have a hack that works extremely well: I read mostly bad reviews, specifically two-star ratings.
We all know that one- and five-star reviews are useless; those are just crackpots and bots. Three stars are for cowards, obviously; if you can’t be bothered to have a courageous opinion, I can’t be bothered to read it. And four stars are for liberal arts majors who had a three-star experience but grew up with grade inflation.
But a two-star review, that’s a thing of beauty. Somebody who goes through the trouble of logging into an app and typing full sentences on a keyboard to give a place exactly two stars has a story to tell. Most likely, they’re for-real mad but not so mad they forget that they live by a code. A person who selects the snake-eyes of ratings is seething about something but feels honor-bound to give credit where credit is due. That’s the stuff.
This is your reminder that…
Pundits are not Journalists. Op-ed is not news. Polls are propaganda. Anyone can be a “media outlet” or a “Journalist” on the Internet. Just because you read it does not make it true. Especially scrutinize things that confirm your theories and views. Trust but verify.
I am digging this song. I don’t think I’ve ever been eager for a Cure album, but I might be for this: The Cure Share New Song “A Fragile Thing”: Listen
Offered without comment: Trump’s rampant lies about FEMA’s Hurricane Helene response, briefly explained | Vox
This kind of article shouldn’t be needed, yet here we are: FEMA isn’t running out of money for hurricane relief because of migrants : NPR
I do not care for Green Day even a little bit and this album definitely is not for me, but I find this delightful: Green Day “demastered” their 1994 album Dookie into 15 “obsc…
At 3 Sister’s bluegrass festival in Chattanooga. Sister Sadie were great. Can’t wait to hear the other acts
I wonder why people buy Sonos kit.
Sonos today announced a series of new commitments that are meant to demonstrate the company’s “renewed focus” on software quality and customer experience. … Recent reports have suggested that Sonos employees raised an alarm prior to when the redesigned Sonos app launched in May. The app was an immediate disappointment to customers because it was riddled with bugs and missing many key Sonos features, and there was significant outcry over the downgrade. Sonos was not able to roll back the changes, and has spent 2024 trying to fix the app. – Juli Clover, MacRumors
I read that as Sonos being sad that they didn’t do what they should have done, sad if customers feel Sonos didn’t do the right thing in making their stuff work badly, and maybe following basic development protocols is the way for everyone to not be so sad. One of those protocols, in software and IT and networking and a bunch of other industries, is to be able to back out if it doesn’t go well. We called it “Last Known Good State” or something like that at one job.
I used to be all in on Sonos. My 1st disappointment was when I ordered my second pair of speakers & the day they arrived Audible was no longer available. Then the Play:5 was shipped with a bad wifi module. Support suggested I used ethernet (not practical for where it was placed) or ship it back for a credit for a future purchase. They didn’t even offer a replacement unit after the return period. Then my various Sonos speakers would lose their mind and stop working without a hard reset. Then Sonos threatened to brick some of the units I had.
Luckily I was leaving Japan at that point and the market there was hot for Sonos. Even with all of my warnings there was a bidding war for my kit. They were welcome to it. I swore I would never wade in to “smart” speakers again … and then in the pandemic I bought OG HomePods. As they die I’ll likely return to a simpler wired and Bluetooth (non-subscription, non-proprietary) setup.
And I feel I need to add this: if Sonos repeatedly treats its customers poorly as they’ve done for years, they’re unlikely to change. Maybe don’t buy their kit.
2nd day on air 📻 for the WUTC pledge drive! Tomorrow tune in to 88.1 at 7a, 2 & 5 to hear my dulcet tones🎙️ and call 423-425-4756 at 10 for the chance of me taking your pledge @wutc_88.1
Quick #Emacs-Mac Tip: to get railwaycat’s Mituharu 29.4 port in homebrew, try something like:
brew install emacs-mac --HEAD --with-unlimited-select --with-starter --with-native-comp --with-xwidgets --with-emacs-sexy-icon --with-dbus --with-glib --with-imagemagick --with-librsvg
brew services restart dbus # ← cuz I use DBus for some scripting; YMMV
If you brew info emacs-mac it will show you all of the options available for the install
At the #WUTC pledge drive, #Chattanooga public radio wutc.org/pledge
It’s my new job, y’all! I’ll be on air this week, behind the scenes the rest of the time.
Climate change isn’t to blame for where a hurricane touches down, or if it does at all. But Helene’s strength is a different kind of bad luck—a variety that we humans inadvertently engineered. Many of the hurricanes that do reach land these days are more intense because of oceans warmed by climate change. Decades ago, Helene might have become a medium-size storm—still destructive, but not a beast. This hurricane is a sign of America’s relentless hurricane seasons to come.
– The Atlantic (Gift Article): America’s Hurricane Luck Is Running Out H/t NextDraft
I am adamantly opposed to the conception of grind culture. I swear to god, if you 💯💯💯 me, I will consider it a hate crime, and will report you to my local self-governance group for a reparative harm process. … My point is more that glamorizing having a side hustle – or side hustles – and positing that said side hustles can lead you from financial precarity is dubious at best and problematic at worst.
Following Prot’s Emacs: commands in popup frames with ‘emacsclient’ made sense for me. Like irreal, I struggled with doing this but Prot’s approach _just works_™. 2 adjustments tho: full executable path needed for #emacsclient on #MacOS #KeyboardMaestro & the server config needed to change:
(use-package emacs
:ensure nil
:defer 1
:config
(if (and (fboundp 'server-running-p)
(not (server-running-p)))
(server-start))
)
Don’t know if this will help others. #Emacs is an app, a journey, AND a destination.
Uugh. I have to use wetransfer for work. Its website is … not for me. Great opportunity to use Safari’s “Hide Distracting Items” to blow away all the javascript & animations that only distract. So far, so good! Well, other than a momentary flicker when the site spins up a new image. 95% better!