Notebook

If you follow me on micro.blog you know I’ve been watching mostly old TV shows as of late.

I met Eric Meyer at An Event Apart Chicago years and years ago.

Hollie wrote about thoughts on whether to continue blogging or not: I have talked before about the Instagram account I have and don’t use, that I keep to stay connected to a old friends.

Took the opportunity this evening to also listen to another album I bought recently, this time off of eBay, Lola Albright’s 1959 record Dreamsville.

Time Out - The Dave Brubeck Quartet Needed a break from all of the…stuff…so figured I’d throw on the Dave Brubeck record Time Out that I had bough a couple of months ago on vinyl from Acoustic Sounds while I was making dinner.

September 27th, 2013 September 27th, 2013 September 27th, 2011

… because Gemini is making shit up just like “conservatives” on X do.

…with hilarity.

I was going through a box of old stuff recently and came across these.

First a rant: the instructions for setting up Day One for access by Claude is missing something important: how to actually set up the MCP server 😂 The whole of their instruction as of this blog post is: In your AI assistant (for example, Claude Desktop or…

Wow.

As I do on occasion I wiped my phone last night and started fresh.

I keep trying other blogging platforms and keep ending up here.

(reposting here this post I did back in July.

I took these photos back in December of 2021.

Loved this bit from Cal Newport writing about Wendell Berry: We live in a world increasingly defined by numbness and conveniences, largely mediated through digital technology.

Loved this spot for NFL Kickoff Wednesday from NBC Sports: Loved the original, which was played at some point while I was watching college football on Saturday 😂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?

🏈 🥳 My Fighting Illini are 1-0 after the season opener and debut of the newly-upgraded Gies Memorial Stadium with the biggest screen in college football.

Pardon the move but I'm moving all of my stuff back under my name domain, jkratz.me.

Manton Reece linked to this post by Marco Arment and this bit stood out for me: And I can’t help but feel that maybe we were better off before we knew everyone’s hot takes on everything.

The about page of this blog talks about detaching from drama, and starting from a better headspace.

I never understood college football, until I understood college football.

Today would have been my mom's 91st birthday.