Jack-o'-lanterns
Tomatoes
Beets
Planter-box
Phlox
Independence-day
Full Moon
Nasturtiums
Elliott Bay
Butler Green Farms
I volunteered at Butler Green Farms, planting salad greens and sunflowers, and doing a bit of weeding.
Mt. Rainier
More Kale Volunteers
Kale Volunteers
Chervil
Meadowdale Beach Park
Whidbey Island
Mount Baker
Lock This Way
Seattle and Mount Rainier
Pumpkin
Microsoft Antitrust Suit
On September 26, KUOW's local "All Things Considered" host Kim Malcolm and reporter Monica Nickelsburg discussed the lawsuit against Amazon filed by the Federal Trade Commision. During the segment, Malcolm asked Nickelsburg about previous anti-trust cases, including a 1998 case brought by the Department of Justice against Microsoft.
Microsoft lost in federal court, but, according to
Nickelsburg, they successfully appealed the decision.
That is incorrect.
Phlox
Memorial Day Parade
Merrimack River
Chauncy Lake
Tropical Plants
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Botanic Garden Outdoor Garden
U.S. Botanic Garden
John F. Kennedy Memorial
Fountain
Desert Collection
Conservatory Courtyard
U.S. Botanic Garden
Birds
Arlington National Cemetary
Arlington House
Arlington Memorial Amphitheater
Herb Garden
Neon Fish
Fern Valley
Dogwood Collection
Gotelli Conifer Collection
Butterflies
Black Cherry
Asian Collection
U.S. National Arboretum
Castle
Capital Hill (neighborhood)
Potomoc River
Georgetown
Georgetown University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
United States Capital
Supreme Court
Library of Congress
White House
Washington Monument
Lincoln Memorial
Volunteer Kale Transplants
I transplanted a bit more than fifty volunteer kale seedlings from the garden into disposable containers.
Volunteer Kale Starts
I found scores of kale volunteer starts in the ground near my garden plot. And when I saw them, I recalled that last year, I had several kale plants flower. At the time, I let them be, harvesting the flowers to garnish salads and other dishes. Obviously, some of the flowers went to seed, landing nearby.
Raccoon
Mortar
Snow
Whidbey Island
Congress Park
City Park
City Park
Lily Pads
Clinton-Mukilteo Ferry
Mukilteo-Clinton Ferry
Phlox
Nasturtiums
Citrus Soda
Ingredients
- 7 oranges
- 1 lemons
- 1 limes
- 6 cups water
- 1.5 cups sugar
- 1 tsp. ginger
White Daikons With Ginger
Ingredients
- white daikon radishes
- ginger root
- currant leaves
- brine
Birds
I woke up early in the morning to a cacophony of bird calls. These recordings were made in various parts of my neighborhood with a Zoom H4N handheld recorder. (I don’t have a lot of experience with the recorder, so unfortunately there’s a bit of noise here and there.)
Radishes
Peppers
Pak Choi
Green Beans
Frisee
Chamomile
Beets
Basil
Yellow Beets With Ginger
Ingredients
- yellow beets
- ginger root
- brine
Red Beets With Ginger
Ingredients
- red beets
- ginger root
- brine
Cortido
Ingredients
- cabbage
- carrots
- dried pepper
- red-veined sorrel
- fresh oregano
- salt
Celery Root
Ingredients
- celery root
- ginger
- brine
Asparagus
Ingredients
- asparagus
- fresh ginger
- brine
Turnips
Thyme
Spinach
Red Lettuce
Radishes
Pearl Onions
Pak Choi
Oregano
Marjoram
Mache
Leeks
Kohlrabi
Green Beans
Frisee
frisée trays sitting in planter box with snap pea sprouts behind
Dill
Cucumbers
Cranberry Beans
Cilantro
Chives
Chervil
Big Jim Peppers
Beets
Basil
Thyme
Spinach
Snap Peas in Planter Box 3
Snap Peas in Planter Box 2
Red Lettuce
Mystery Plant
Marjoram
Lincoln Shelling Peas
Chervil
Beets
Alaska Bush Peas in Rectangle Plastic Pot
Alaska Bush Peas in Clay Pot
Alaska Bush Peas Pot 2
Alaska Bush Peas Pot 1
“Place Call[ed] Africa” by Junior Byles
If I had to pick one reggae artist who most deserves more attention then (s)he has received, it would probably be Junior Byles. He was gifted with a beautiful voice and an ability to convey a lot of emotion with it. Which he did, on some deadly serious songs like “Beat Down Babylon,” “Demonstration,” and “Fade Away.” Even a love song like “Curly Locks” has as a subtext a plea against discrimination.
Most of Byles's early work — indeed, much of his finest output — was produced by Perry, and it deserves a wider audience.
The two met in the late 1960s when they were employed by music executive Joe Gibbs, Byles as lead singer of the Versatiles, Perry as Gibbs' house producer. When Byles decided to start a solo career, in 1970, he turned to a now independent Perry to help him.
Snow
Time Zones
Responding to a question about Vladimir Putin at a press conference, Joe Biden claimed that Russia has 8 time zones.
That's ridiculous.
We have four in this country, right? Do you know how many time zones they have?
Do not, you know...lie.
.aiff
Something I learned today:
A 5th generation ipod will sync songs in .aiff format.
It will let the user select those songs and
press the play button.
But it won’t actually play the songs.
For that, you gotta use a different format.
(I went with .m4a.)
“Return of Django” by The Upsetters
Early in Lee Perry's career as an independent producer, he recorded a slew of instrumentals credited to his house band, The Upsetters. For song titles, Perry took inspiration from Spaghetti Westerns. Like many reggae artists, he loved that film genre. A quick glance at his output includes
- “High Plains Drifter”
- “Dig Your Grave”
- “Big John Wayne”
- “The Man With No Name”
- “Amigo”
Let's add to that list “Return of Django,” my favorite of the late 60s/early 70s Perry instrumentals.
Icicles
Deer
Note: file size is 11.3 or 8.5 MB, depending on which format your browser supports.
Note: file size is 6.1 MB or 261 kB, depending on which format your browser supports.
Sunrise2
Sunrise
Morning
Sauerkraut With Swiss Chard Stalks
Ingredients
- cabbage
- Swiss chard stalks
- salt
Sauerkraut With Swiss Chard Stalks (bis)
Ingredients
- cabbage
- Swiss chard stalks
- salt
“A Wah Dat” by Junior Dread
I don't know much about Junior Dread outside of the two toasting records he made for producer Lee Perry. One is a solid outing over a dub mix of the Heptones' “Sufferer's Time.” The other is “A Wah Dat,” cut on an otherwise unused rhythm (or, if it was used elsewhere, I'm unaware). Both are sufferer's tunes, so-called because they express the plight of suffering people. But “A Wah Dat” is, for me, the better of the two.
The lyrics are a first-hand account of desperation and mounting financial trouble during the Christmas season:
Christmas a come And me soon get a next son And that's no fun yuh! No no no no no no
Cortido
Ingredients
- cabbage
- carrots
- onion
- espellette pepper
- salt
Purple Salad Turnips with Ginger
Ingredients
- purple salad turnips
- green cabbage leaves
- yellow mustard seed
- brine
Carrots and Celery Root
Ingredients
- carrots
- celery root
- yellow mustard seed
- green cabbage leaves
- brine
White Daikons with Ginger
Ingredients
- white daikon radishes
- ginger root
- brine
Watermelon Radishes
Ingredients
- red daikon radishes
- ginger root
- brine
Red Beets With Garlic, Ginger, and Peppercorns
Ingredients
- red beets
- garlic
- ginger root
- peppercorns
- brine
Red Beets With Stalks
Ingredients
- red beets
- red beet stalks
- ginger root
- brine
Purple and White Daikons
Ingredients
- daikon radishes
- ginger root
- brine
Purple Daikons with Ginger
Ingredients
- purple daikon radishes
- ginger root
- brine
Giardiniera Relish
Ingredients
- broccoli
- broccoli stem
- cauliflower
- garlic
- sweet pepper amount
- orange carrots
- yellow carrots
- padron pepper
- celery
- fresh turmeric
- yellow onion
- pink salad turnip
- red daikon radish
- salt
- water
- cabbage leaves
Red Daikons With Ginger
Ingredients
- red daikon radishes
- ginger root
- brine
Giardiniera
Ingredients
- broccoli
- cauliflower
- garlic
- sweet pepper
- orange carrots
- yellow carrots
- padron pepper
- celery leaves
- sweet pepper
- red torpedo onion
- fresh turmeric
- yellow onion
R.I.P.R. Robbie Shakespeare
I just heard that reggae bass player Robbie Shakespeare — half of Sly and Robbie — passed away. Rest in peace. And rhythm!
(I hope NPR does a better job eulogizing him than they did U-Roy, Bunny Wailer, and Lee Perry.)
Giardiniera
Ingredients
- broccoli
- cauliflower
- garlic
- sweet pepper amount
- orange carrots
- yellow carrots
- padron pepper
- celery leaves
- sweet pepper
- red torpedo onion
- fresh turmeric
- yellow onion
Giardiniera
Ingredients
- broccoli
- cauliflower
- garlic
- sweet pepper
- orange carrots
- yellow carrots
- espelette pepper
- celery
- baby red onion
- fresh turmeric
“People Funny Boy”
In 1968, reggae pioneer Lee “Scratch” Perry launched his first record label, Upset Records, with the single “People Funny Boy.” The title might seem odd, but try this: mentally insert a comma so that it reads “People Funny, Boy.” It's a complaint, as in “boy, people are funny.” And who was Perry complaining about? His former employer, Joel Gibson, AKA Joe Gibbs.
Working for Joe Gibbs
Two years earlier, Perry had begun working for Gibbs, ostensibly a music producer. In reality, Gibbs was not a music producer, but an executive producer — he financed the operation. Perry was the music producer. He scouted talent, supervised sessions, arranged and wrote songs, and promoted records that appeared on Gibbs' Amalgamated and Pressure Beat labels.
Yellow Patty Pan Squash
Ingredients
- 1 yellow patty pan squash
- 1 padron pepper
- brine
Hakurei Turnips
Ingredients
- hakurei turnips
- ginger
- currant leaf
- brine
Green Patty Pan Squash
Ingredients
- 1 green patty pan squash
- 1 padron pepper
- brine
Giardiniera
Ingredients
- cauliflower
- garlic
- gypsy pepper
- orange carrots
- padron pepper
- pink celery
- red bell pepper
- red torpedo onion
- yellow onion
Giardiniera (bis)
Ingredients
- cauliflower
- garlic
- gypsy pepper
- orange carrots
- padron pepper
- pink celery
- red bell pepper
- red torpedo onion
- yellow onion
- currant leaf
“Rightful Ruler” by U-Roy and Peter Tosh
In 1969, Lee Perry produced one of the first ever deejay records, “Rightful Ruler” by U-Roy and Peter Tosh. And as I wrote in my list of recommended U-Roy records, it is a remarkable record.
First, recording a deejay artist on a reused rhythm track was a novel idea at the time. Second, the rhythm track, originally used for a song called “Selassie,” was substantially changed for U-Roy's cut. Most early deejay records use an instrumental mix of a record as the backing track, replacing vocals with deejay rhymes. For “Rightful Ruler,” Perry did much more:
Lee Perry Recommendations
Reggae and dub pioneer Lee “Scratch” Perry passed away in August of this year. Perry is my single favorite musical artist. I'd have a hard time counting the number of albums and singles I own that feature him as a vocalist, producer, or mixer. Since I have so much of his music, I've decided to write about songs or albums he recorded that I think you should hear.
Another NPR Obit, Another Factchecking Fail
Readers of this website — by my best guess, all two of you! — will note that I have twice criticized NPR for errors in obituary/remembrance pieces for reggae artists, first for deejay U-Roy and a second time for singer Bunny Wailer. Well, I'm at it again. This time, the subject is my single favorite musical artist, Lee “Scratch” Perry.
Orange Carrots With Ginger
Ingredients
- carrots
- ginger
- brine
Carrots With Ginger and Oregano
Ingredients
- carrots
- ginger
- oregano
- brine
French Breakfast Radishes With Ginger
Ingredients
- French Breakfast radishes
- ginger
- brine
Carrots With Ginger
Ingredients
- carrots
- ginger
- brine
Birds
I woke up early this morning and recorded this audio at my open window.
Red Radishes With Ginger and Black Mustard Seed
Ingredients
- red radishes
- ginger root
- black mustard seed
- brine
Carrots With Ginger and Black Mustard Seed
Ingredients
- carrots
- ginger
- black mustard seed
- brine
Carrots With Black Mustard and Dill Seed
Ingredients
- carrots
- dill seed
- black mustard seed
- brine
Peas-box-3
peas 3rd planter box (northern-most)
Adding Microformats to SVG
Using SVG in web pages offers many advantages:
- SVG file sizes are usually small compared to bitmapped graphics
- it adapts well to different screen resolutions and display dimensions
- it can be styled with CSS
- it can be scripted
- SVG
<text>elements can be indexed by search engines
To that list, we can add one more: the ability to add microformats to embedded SVG elements.
Cucumber
Pepper
NPR Pays Homage to Bunny Wailer, but Shortchanges His Early Career
NPR's afternoon news program All Things Considered aired a remembrance of Neville Livingston, known to reggae fans as Bunny Wailer, who passed away
Bunny was one of the founding members of The Wailers, whence came his adopted last name. He wasn't as well known as his bandmates Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, but NPR nevertheless felt he deserved recognition for his contributions to the group. Yet the piece largely passed over those contributions, making it seem like he was only a backup singer until he went solo.
That is a misconception that I'd like to correct.
“Wake the Town”
A couple of days ago, I chided NPR's “Here and Now” program for choosing a less-than-stellar record to excerpt in their U-Roy obituary. After hearing the piece, I compiled a short list of U-Roy recordings from my collection that, in my humble opionion, would have been better examples of his work. And certainly worth listening to even if you're not producing an on-air tribute to the deejay originator.
U-Roy Obituaries Fact Check
First, a note of gratitude to NPR for devoting (at least) two on-air segments and one website story to Jamaican deejay U-Roy, who passed away .
U-Roy got his start in the Kingston dancehall scene in the early 1960s. At the time, sound system deejays typically worked with just one turntable, so the music stopped whenever they changed records. To fill the gap, deejays chatted and rhymed, exhorting patrons to join the dance or telling them what record they were about to play. They began to add their patter in the middle of songs, cleverly interacting with the recording as if the singers and players were with the deejay, performing live. Then came dub music, where sound engineers created remixes with most of the vocals removed. Dub provided almost unlimited space to rhyme, or toast, over the record. It wasn't long before deejays were making their own records, commiting their witty boasts and rhymes to vinyl.
U-roy
NPR just botched a tribute to the late reggae artist U-Roy by playing a musical excerpt that featured the voice of Peter Tosh. Oops.
Sledding
Thanks for the video, Lara!
“extensionless” urls with 11ty
Lots of web software is configured to create and serve
web files/pages with an .html extension/suffix.
That includes
11ty,
which by default creates an index.html for each
content template. It includes
Browsersync
— the hot-reload server invoked when you run
npx @11ty/eleventy --serve — which
determines the Content-Type response header based
on the output file's extension. And it includes
Apache HTTP server, which,
like Browsersync, uses the extension to map a file
to a Content-Type header.
And yet, even if your software defaults to .html, it
is not mandatory for the web.
There is no requirement that certain characters be
attached to your web page
urls.
In this article,
I'll explain how to make
clean urls
with Apache, Browsersync, and 11ty.
microformats food menu idea
This is a rough sketch for a food menu microformat that I first suggested on the microformats irc channel in late . Following that suggestion, I added several ideas to a newly created wiki page devoted to menu brainstorming. I then decided to try out some of those ideas by marking up web pages with food menus, which meant I had to come with names for the root menu and its properties. The proposal in this article is a result of that effort.
clash of the id attributes in svg
CSS-Tricks has an article about
duplicate titles and id attributes in svg.
The article discusses the problems that might arise when
an author is relying on title elements and id
attributes for
ARIA
accessibility. But there's another, more fundamental
problem if you insert
svg
code directly in an html document and end up with
with duplicate id attributes. A problem that could
bork how the browser renders the svg.
Tags
I got tags working on this site.
add syndication microformat with 11ty
If you publish an article in more than place —
for example on your website and on a community blog
‐ you may want to inform readers and search engines
about the other copy. One way to do that is by adding a
rel=syndication
link element in the article's head.
Another is with the u-syndication property from the
microformats h-entry
vocabulary.
Building off of "add syndication links with 11ty", this article shows how you can add syndication anchor links to pages and article/post lists using 11ty and nunjucks.
add syndication links with 11ty
Suppose you publish an article in more than place —
for example on
medium
and on your own website. If you want to alert
readers about the other copy, you can do so with a
rel=syndication
link element.
Here's how you can add syndication links to your pages using
11ty and
nunjucks.
11ty nunjucks front matter parsing
11ty lets web authors add a tag to a page in the front matter:
---
tags: cat
---
Or several tags:
---
tags:
- cat
- dog
---
Either way, 11ty will include that page in a collection of articles tagged 'cat'.
I wanted to be able to process my own front matter variables the same way, using either format.
Microblog
I just created a personal twitter-like microblog.
microblog with eleventy
I use
11ty
to publish
articles
like this one, but I also want to be able publish status
updates, sort of like my own Twitter feed. Like a Twitter
feed, I want each update to include a date and time when I
wrote it.
Unlike a twitter feed, I don't want each post
to have a permanent url. Instead, I want to show the most
recent updates on my
home page,
and I want to bump off the oldest status update every
time I add a new one.
This article explains how I did it.
We Beg Your Pardon America
Ever heard Gil Scott-Heron's spoken word piece about Gerald Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon? It's called "We Beg Your Pardon America (Pardon Our Analysis)" (from the album The First Minute of a New Day). Here's an excerpt:
We beg your pardon, America. We beg your pardon because the pardon you gave this time was not yours to give.
svg photo
, I added a picture of me to the site:
microformats logo in svg format
microformats include pattern idea
The current
microformats include pattern
offers two methods — using <object> or <a> — to include in a microformat
element parts of a document that are outside of that microformats element's
DOM tree. Both patterns have problems, and have not been widely adopted.
Also, the include pattern has not been updated for
microformats 2.