I am BARRY HESS

Amazon Mechanical Turk is shutting down soon.

In the back of my mind I’ve always wanted to do some sort of goofy Amazon Mechanical Turk project.

An astounding performance by Cory Wong, Joshua Redman, and more: Reply by email

A friend let me know about Olly’s recent blog post.

We went to Boston the first week of August.

Parking a vehicle for a concert at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, is quite a challenge.

It’s been a hot minute.

This past week was filled with July 4th, a lovely visit from family, and lots of music.

We have collectively been recovering from a physically and emotionally draining two weeks of marching band.

The past two weeks have been full of marching band.

A significant portion of the population in the USA still thinks of Reaganomics as certified fact rather than a largely discredited theory.

It’s our 26th anniversary today.

The biggest event of the past week?

Sometimes the national anthem at high school track meets can be a bit painful to listen to, but we were fortunate to hear a fantastic one by a high school junior this week.

Why am I thinking about dipping back into Mastodon and Bluesky?

Spent this morning at Minnebar.

This is a fun brainstorm about snail mail sign-ups.

Since building Pika I’ve wanted to incorporate a “now and then” sort of now page with dynamic history.

Did you know that the Apple HomePod can recognize alarms in your home and alert you about them?

It’s a weird state to be in with my work feeling like a vocation.

I did a telehealth call this week about some third-party blood test results.

Short, and late, rendition of Friday this week as I’m traveling.

If you are even a mild St.

Ava is traveling and shared this from the Victoria and Albert Museum: A lengthy, imperfect article on how much Minnesota mattered this winter.

I learned about Johnny.Decimal from Pika blogger Michael Borland.