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With most of the construction on the e-mando now complete, it’s time to concentrate on the tailpiece and bridge and getting the mandolin set-up. And that’s exactly what I look at in this video!And just in case you’ve been wondering……..here’s the latest Standard. It’s rosewood body has been fully bound in cocobolo and the next step is fit the neck.

During the third Arbuckle trial, in early April 1922, the prosecution called a surprise witness to the stand, Lillian Blake, a San Francisco photographer who claimed to have taken a single photograph of Virginia Rappe in September 1914. She testified that Rappe had spent about thirty minutes in her Geary Street studio. Her purpose was to rebut the testimony of a defense witness, Helen Whitehurst, who claimed that Rappe attended …

Macintosh computers and Mac OS turn 40 this year, and the media tributes are starting already. The Upgrade podcast linked here asked a few Mac-media luminaries for their picks in a personal Mac retrospective. I did something like this when Steve Jobs died, but that was more than a decade ago, so I figure I’ll play along with their topics: First Mac owned: the Mac LC, when I went to …

What do the most effective people do to increase the velocity of their teams? There are several roles people take on teams, that make their teams move faster. I describe one of these roles today, and how you might learn from them. Role #4: The Nowist The Nowist moves everything towards the present. For a Nowist, every action either makes things move faster, or makes them move slower, and they …

I’m trying to write more, but lately my fire has been replaced by noise. My most toxic trait is one I work really hard not to project on anyone, either in terms of judgment or expectation: that suffering contains a virtue in itself, and that one must submit to some small degree of suffering in order to achieve what one truly desires. The German word “leiden” means to suffer; Leidenschaft, …

Katharine Jenkins has artfully stitched together a radically pluralist account of human social kinds using materials drawn from recent work in analytic feminist metaphysics. If the reader is interested in an overview of recent developments in social ontology, Jenkins’ book would be a good place to start. In addition, Jenkins identifies and defines two novel kinds of ontological wrongs, namely ontic injustice and ontic oppression, a species of ontic injustice. …

David García Goñi released a brand new version of Elektroid, a sample and MIDI device manager for devices by Elektron, Arturia, Eventide, Moog, and Novation. New features in this version: Audio recording Initial editing of samples Auto sampler Search on selected filesystems Possibility to only display a local file system (the ‘Show Remote’ toggle in the hamburger menu) CLI audio format converters The project started out as a FOSS alternative …

We all know how the internet works—lots of “hot takes,” polarizing opinions, trolling, and ignorance. Recently, everyone has opinions on AI and LLMs/GenAI in particular. I won’t focus here on “gold rush” influencers, bad grifters, people who build their business … Continue reading →

This is a blog post about something that’s been hiding in plain sight on the SFO Museum Aviation Collection website for over a month now: The ability to save collection objects to a personal “shoebox”. If that sounds like a simple bookmarking system limited to items in the SFO Museum collection that’s because it is. For now. The shoebox and the introduction of user accounts are the first steps, the …

Do you get frustrated when you have to throw out fruits and vegetables that have gone bad?Have lots of kitchen scraps but can't be bothered to compost them due to possible smell, rodents, HOA rules, or time commitments?Welcome to "blendposting". That's my made up name for a technique I "invented" for handling kitchen scraps or wasted fruits and vegetables.It's really easy to do, will help your garden or flowerbed immensely, …

The layers in Martha Coolidge's hybrid documentary "Not a Pretty Picture" are potent. The film deals with rape- not only that of the filmmaker herself in 1962, but the actress portraying her (a wonderful Michele Manenti) at that age is also a survivor of the same trauma. We watch as the film intercuts between Coolidge's fictionalized re-telling of the event as well as the deconstruction of the emotions swirling around …

The Tidö party leaders. Photograph by Tom Samuelsson - Eget arbete, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=128410949 Marcus Larsson, with the think tank Balans, has recently published an audit that shows how elected politicians in Stockholm are simultaneously (!) employed by lobbyist firms - the core business idea of which is to influence politicians. Society's capital mania has trickled down to the young via social media and influencers. 'An entire generation of …

Storm Isha is considerably more whooshy than Storm Arwen was. Very very scary. The strongest winds I have ever experienced...

On August 2014 I made one of the most difficult choices of my life: I left my home country, my family, my friends and everything I knew to move to the United States. I arrived in Florida, and while Florida still speaks a lot of Spanish for a US State (not in a bad way, I’m not complaining! It made my life easier) it still took a bit of me …

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