jon singer
@jonsinger.bsky.social
ADHD; food, cooking, calligraphy (fountain pens & ink), ceramics (porcelain & glazes), making and fixing things, etc.
helpful (i hope) hint about PictureThis: if you try it with two photos of the same plant (or sometimes even two different crops of a single photo) and it gives you different answers, there's a pretty good chance that both are incorrect.
April 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
helpful (i hope) hint about PictureThis: if you try it with two photos of the same plant (or sometimes even two different crops of a single photo) and it gives you different answers, there's a pretty good chance that both are incorrect.
wikipedia appears to concur, at least at first glance.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietes_...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietes_...
Dietes bicolor - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
April 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
wikipedia appears to concur, at least at first glance.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietes_...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietes_...
PictureThis, which is moderately trustworthy (but far from infallible) suggests _Dietes_bicolor_. that's a genus i'm not familiar with; gotta go look it up.
April 28, 2025 at 7:17 PM
PictureThis, which is moderately trustworthy (but far from infallible) suggests _Dietes_bicolor_. that's a genus i'm not familiar with; gotta go look it up.
off the top of my head, i want to say iris; but something seems a bit strange.
April 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
off the top of my head, i want to say iris; but something seems a bit strange.
thanks! i'm happy to share.
[i seem to be a classic tweak; if i want something and i don't find it, i usually try to make it. i often end up exploring the territory, partly out of "'satiable curtiosity", and partly from ADHD. inks; shaping pen nibs; translucent porcelain; fluorescent glazes....]
[i seem to be a classic tweak; if i want something and i don't find it, i usually try to make it. i often end up exploring the territory, partly out of "'satiable curtiosity", and partly from ADHD. inks; shaping pen nibs; translucent porcelain; fluorescent glazes....]
March 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
thanks! i'm happy to share.
[i seem to be a classic tweak; if i want something and i don't find it, i usually try to make it. i often end up exploring the territory, partly out of "'satiable curtiosity", and partly from ADHD. inks; shaping pen nibs; translucent porcelain; fluorescent glazes....]
[i seem to be a classic tweak; if i want something and i don't find it, i usually try to make it. i often end up exploring the territory, partly out of "'satiable curtiosity", and partly from ADHD. inks; shaping pen nibs; translucent porcelain; fluorescent glazes....]
good question. not yet. (until i came up with this mix i had only used mica flakes of typical size. i sought these out to change the character of the shimmer. the result is nice enough that i haven't been tempted to tweak it.)
March 30, 2025 at 7:31 AM
good question. not yet. (until i came up with this mix i had only used mica flakes of typical size. i sought these out to change the character of the shimmer. the result is nice enough that i haven't been tempted to tweak it.)
quick addition: i wrote that with a 2.4mm Pilot Parallel Pen. Parallel Pens are easy to unclog, which is helpful with the larger mica flakes.
March 30, 2025 at 7:11 AM
quick addition: i wrote that with a 2.4mm Pilot Parallel Pen. Parallel Pens are easy to unclog, which is helpful with the larger mica flakes.
it's roughly half and half Vinta 'Blue Blood' and Diamine 'Holly', to which i added a fair amount of Firedots '1848 Gold' mica flakes. a word of caution: 1848 Gold flakes are a lot larger than what is usually used for shimmer. i'd use smaller flakes if you want to put the ink in a regular pen.
March 30, 2025 at 3:37 AM
it's roughly half and half Vinta 'Blue Blood' and Diamine 'Holly', to which i added a fair amount of Firedots '1848 Gold' mica flakes. a word of caution: 1848 Gold flakes are a lot larger than what is usually used for shimmer. i'd use smaller flakes if you want to put the ink in a regular pen.
sociopaths (psychopaths?) of a feather stick together? (i think you're right, a bunch of them do want us dead.)
March 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM
sociopaths (psychopaths?) of a feather stick together? (i think you're right, a bunch of them do want us dead.)
i met Sabri a bunch of years ago, i think at Hinckley Pottery in DC. not sure he'd remember me. great to see him doing cool work now (!).
March 26, 2025 at 6:08 AM
i met Sabri a bunch of years ago, i think at Hinckley Pottery in DC. not sure he'd remember me. great to see him doing cool work now (!).
for some reason, i doubt that what you'd put in a newsletter would be uninteresting _or_ twaddle.
March 25, 2025 at 4:43 AM
for some reason, i doubt that what you'd put in a newsletter would be uninteresting _or_ twaddle.
additional Alt for anyone who wants or needs it:
Aubrey Beardsley
The Fin-de-Siecle Magician of Light and Darkness
Hiroshi Unno
Aubrey Beardsley
The Fin-de-Siecle Magician of Light and Darkness
Hiroshi Unno
March 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
additional Alt for anyone who wants or needs it:
Aubrey Beardsley
The Fin-de-Siecle Magician of Light and Darkness
Hiroshi Unno
Aubrey Beardsley
The Fin-de-Siecle Magician of Light and Darkness
Hiroshi Unno
_not_ to vote for someone else?
March 24, 2025 at 5:54 AM
_not_ to vote for someone else?
i am no use to you; i like all of those, and a couple dozen others as well. perhaps worse, i'm not averse to mixing. whatever you end up with, i hope and trust it will be pleasant.
March 24, 2025 at 3:46 AM
i am no use to you; i like all of those, and a couple dozen others as well. perhaps worse, i'm not averse to mixing. whatever you end up with, i hope and trust it will be pleasant.
something strange here. i get an unending roller instead of a photo, and the Alt text is "a woman with gray hair is sitting in and blinking"
any ideas?
any ideas?
March 23, 2025 at 6:52 AM
something strange here. i get an unending roller instead of a photo, and the Alt text is "a woman with gray hair is sitting in and blinking"
any ideas?
any ideas?
there are at least two silly jokes here. i think i shall leave them to the reader as a voluntary exercise, and just say that it looks very pleasant.
March 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
there are at least two silly jokes here. i think i shall leave them to the reader as a voluntary exercise, and just say that it looks very pleasant.
following; would like to know. (possible workaround: can you put the audio file on a webserver and publish a link to it?)
March 22, 2025 at 9:57 PM
following; would like to know. (possible workaround: can you put the audio file on a webserver and publish a link to it?)
on a related topic, there is also this:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Cerebromicrovascular mechanisms contributing to long COVID: implications for neurocognitive health - GeroScience
Long COVID (also known as post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection [PASC] or post-COVID syndrome) is characterized by persistent symptoms that extend beyond the acute phase of SARS-CoV-2 infection,...
link.springer.com
March 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
on a related topic, there is also this:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
bleah (!). hope this resolves soon and well.
March 22, 2025 at 3:31 AM
bleah (!). hope this resolves soon and well.
wait -- isn't life itself anti-entropic?
March 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
wait -- isn't life itself anti-entropic?
aaghghhh! what you said.
March 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
aaghghhh! what you said.
argh! at least you have progress.
March 21, 2025 at 5:26 AM
argh! at least you have progress.
ouch! not the goodness.
March 20, 2025 at 10:26 PM
ouch! not the goodness.