New coffee shop in town. Coco’s. Alex Gooch almond croissant and americano ☕️
Location check in 🗺 — Coco’s, Aberdare ☕️
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Some fantastic wildlife images here:
Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award winner bbc.co.uk
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.
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.
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 😬🏏
Location check in 🗺 — Mud Dock Cafe, Bristol. Bristol Beer Factory Independence Pale Ale plus a Mexican bean burger 🍔🍺
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Travelling to Bristol to help my son move flat. Cricket on the radio 🚘🏏
🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm:
Radiohead (25 plays)
Philip Selway (19)
Claude Debussy (18)
Mitropoulos, NYPO (13)
Thom Yorke (12)
In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50, 2022 - ★★★★
Watched on Friday February 2, 2024. 🎵
Experimenting with the Beluga.social app 🐳
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.
From ESPN CricInfo 🔗🏏
Neither Rehan nor Bashir was born when Anderson made his Test debut at Lord's in May 2003, while his own Test cap number - 613 - is a full 100 caps shy of the 713 cap that Bashir will receive before the start of play on Friday. At the age of 41, Anderson is about to enter his 22nd year as an international cricketer, but Stokes had no qualms about bringing him back into the fray.
HT @CricketCaptain
Denis Johnson 💬
John Donne 💬
