PNAU's 1999-ish album Sambanova exists in several different versions. I've had a longtime quest to acquire the three major versions of the album, because they each contain different material, confusingly named, thanks to rights issues and questionable remastering choices by Warner Music. If you're interested in this rabbit hole of how the album changed between releases, see Pnau's Sambanova was re-released, but is there a difference? for an in-depth sonic analysis.
Years ago, in a previous job, a good coworkerfriend and I had a couple of beers and jokingly wrote a list of what it's like to onboard into a new team in the tech industry. While it was originally intended to be funny, I now suspect it's the truest thing I'll ever write. Rather than preserving it in a Dropbox file, I'm going to fling it out to the wilds of the internet:
While working on an upcoming quilt, Proxima, I needed a break. I'd been looking at the Plaid-Ish Scrap Quilt tutorial for some time, after seeing a member of my sewing group make it, and I thought the squares and simple shapes would be a break from the fiddly foundation pieces of Proxima.
The shoemaker's children are, invariably, barefoot - and Noah had lived with a quilter for for years without ever getting a quilt of his own. I thought of it as a belated wedding present, of sorts, so I opted to do a different variation on a double wedding ring quilt. Unusual marriages deserve unusual quilts, after all.
I responded to a question on Facebook with a much longer answer than the person was likely expecting, but I think it's worth reposting: Where is a good place to get credible news? Seems like all we see, hear, or read is conflicting.
Me, just now, after realizing I'd spent nearly twenty minutes hammering out an answer: "I really should capture this and post it on my own website." So here we are! Suggestions welcome.
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Oh, hey, a topic I feel strongly about. First up, my answer about general news.
