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dfphil @dfphil.bsky.social · 20h

Tonight’s drink is the Bijou. Equal parts gin, sweet vermouth, and green chartreuse and a dash of orange bitters. It’s tasty but overbalanced on the chartreuse side

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dfphil @dfphil.bsky.social · 2d

The Harvey Milk terminal at SFO has a micro-museum whose exhibit yesterday was on Women of Afrofuturism. Note the Alice Coltrane discs in the image along with Octavia Butler and Nettrice Gaskins.

dfphil @dfphil.bsky.social · 2d

That photo is from the Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek. My brother is on the board there and gave me a bit of a tour

www.ruthbancroftgarden.org

Welcome to the Ruth Bancroft Garden & Nursery

A world-renowned 3.5-acre garden, housing a collection of succulents, both unique and beloved, as well as drought-tolerant plants from around the world.

www.ruthbancroftgarden.org

dfphil @dfphil.bsky.social · 2d

I’m back from a trip to CA. It’s weird going from 80 degree weather to 35 degree weather.

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dfphil @dfphil.bsky.social · 2d

Alice Coltrane! This is nominally a review of the exhibit at the Hammer Museum in LA that closed 6 months ago but it is really an opportunity to wax poetic about her music. I’m going to listen to Ptah the El Daoud

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

The Spiritual Jazz of Alice Coltrane | Adam Shatz

Alice Coltrane reinvented her adoptive Hinduism by interweaving it with the music of the Black church.

www.nybooks.com

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dfphil @dfphil.bsky.social · 2d

I was going to merely say “without congress declaring war” but I will take yours

dfphil @dfphil.bsky.social · 5d

All I know about the Haitian revolution I learned from @mikeduncan.bsky.social but this fits

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dfphil @dfphil.bsky.social · 5d

I’d rather the US treated other countries well and mispronounced their names than pronouncing names correctly and mistreating them but I definitely hear you on some specific names.
I’d also love to know a little history of the idea of pronouncing foreign names more like locals would than not

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Carla Miriam Levy @carlamiriam.bsky.social · 8d

@dfphil.bsky.social and I once went to a restaurant that prided itself on its wine pairings. We asked the server for his recommendation based on what we ordered and he said, “Well, halibut just *screams* Chardonnay.”

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8d

do you ever have things that someone has said to you that live forever in your head (non-serious edition)? some older boomer hippie guy said “hahmmus gives you fahts” to me 26 years ago at a free fridge and i think of it every fucking single time i buy hummus to this day.

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dfphil @dfphil.bsky.social · 9d

I had to read “meow fundamental” three times to figure out the typo but with a cat sleeping next to me, I enjoyed the puzzle

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dfphil @dfphil.bsky.social · 11d

That felt surprising to someone (me) who had grown up after the US draft had ended

dfphil @dfphil.bsky.social · 11d

In the 90’s (might still be true today but I don’t know) West Germans had to serve in the military or do public service. A student I worked with had trained as a medic for his time and as the build up to the Gulf War happened he got notices that if casualties came to Europe he might get called up

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dfphil @dfphil.bsky.social · 11d

I would have been so bad at retails as an 18 year old. I would have grown a lot from the experience but I am sure I would have been insufferable the entire year

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dfphil @dfphil.bsky.social · 12d

Tonight’s cocktail with @carlamiriam.bsky.social is the Alaska thanks to the Mixel app: 1.5 oz gin, 0.5 oz yellow chartreuse and orange bitters. It’s nice but it has a simple taste. We might try it with old tom gin or perhaps with some Maraschino Liqueur. Good enough to experiment!

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dfphil @dfphil.bsky.social · 13d

Tonight’s drink is the Greta Garbo: rum, maraschino, lime, simple syrup and a rinse of absinthe. Next time I make this: less simple syrup more maraschino but it’s yummy

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Carla Miriam Levy @carlamiriam.bsky.social · 15d

Unusual drink. Wouldn’t want it too often, but I liked it. The drink also has an absinthe rinse (I used Pernod because I was out of absinthe)

dfphil @dfphil.bsky.social · 15d

Via Robb Report we made the Growing Old with 2 oz Cynar, 1 oz rye, 1 pinch of salt, and 5 lemon peels in the mixing glass plus one expressed on the glass. Very different and tasty.

youtu.be/fd0Tkmqthq4?...

How to Make a Growing Old, the Rule-Breaking Cocktail That Negroni Fans Will Love

YouTube video by Robb Report

youtu.be

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dfphil @dfphil.bsky.social · 15d

Via Robb Report we made the Growing Old with 2 oz Cynar, 1 oz rye, 1 pinch of salt, and 5 lemon peels in the mixing glass plus one expressed on the glass. Very different and tasty.

youtu.be/fd0Tkmqthq4?...

How to Make a Growing Old, the Rule-Breaking Cocktail That Negroni Fans Will Love

YouTube video by Robb Report

youtu.be

dfphil @dfphil.bsky.social · 16d

I was listening to @natedimeo.bsky.social on the Memory Palace episode 133 “Antidisestablishmentarianism” when I couldn’t sleep this morning. Nate’s voice is so soothing. The crux of this story was not helping me sleep. I waited until I was awake to finish. Go listen to Nate. His stories are amazing

dfphil @dfphil.bsky.social · 16d

I was on Great Barrington (MA) yesterday. Here’s a little color. The Berkshires are definitely in peak color now. Peep some leaves!

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dfphil @dfphil.bsky.social · 17d

Driving by it looked even bigger and noisier than this

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ahconway.bsky.social @ahconway.bsky.social · 17d

#nokings Great Barrington

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dfphil @dfphil.bsky.social · 23d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

Diamond dropped on floor

www.thorlabs.com/newgrouppage...

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dfphil @dfphil.bsky.social · 25d

Whitefish salad is yummy but beware that it can be made with way too much mayonnaise even at otherwise reputable bagel places

dfphil @dfphil.bsky.social · 25d

Do you really want to debug an LLM’s regex? (How does that line go? You have a problem and you think a regex will solve it. Now you have two problems.)

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dfphil @dfphil.bsky.social · 27d

Billerica

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 27d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?