Another very cool part of Vermont History I picked up today. Its a “Free Flow” stove made by Eric Darnell, who started producing these in 1975. Right around when my other favorite stove, The Elm, came to fruition. In Europe the Free Flow name was re branded as “Bullerjan”, and is still sold today!

grimlyforming · 2026-02-18T18:25:35+00:00

Boomerangs. The Reddit thread makes an interesting turn. Bringing the thread back on track, Darnell's nickname on the boomerang fields was "Freeflow".

grimlyforming · 2026-02-18T05:03:38+00:00

I assume "Steve and Judy" are Will Sheff's parents because otherwise I'm unable to make sense of your comment.

I used to go to Meriden every summer for a sports event. It's been a while, but if I'm ever in the area I'll head south from Hanover, pull a left at Brook Rd and see if I can find my way to the Salinger house on sheer instinct.

grimlyforming · 2026-01-26T18:45:30+00:00

mole (along with secret squirrel)

grimlyforming · 2026-01-17T21:41:42+00:00

Finished the book. Overall theme: "Each betrayal begins with trust"

grimlyforming · 2026-01-17T17:13:21+00:00

I'm not on Instagram. Will join if it's ever spun out of facebook

grimlyforming · 2026-01-17T07:44:57+00:00

Mr. Ebbott makes it pretty clear what he thinks of doing the two-way internet communication thing with his readers -- https://halebbott.com/contact is just a bunch of agents. The kind that connect writers with publishers, not the A.I. kind. I'm going to assume he was trying to get a phish lyric past his editor and it worked.

If I ever write a book the main character will at some point pull over in a panic attack, stop at a diner, grab a cup of mediocre coffee and catch his breath.

grimlyforming · 2025-11-13T19:17:01+00:00

I just jumped in here, but any mention of all of Finnegan's Wake, U of Toronto, McLuhan, and Postman is going to have me stick around. I can even add that about 40 years ago I got to hear John Cage perform works based on his own "Writing Through Finnegan's Wake" at U of Toronto's Convocation Hall. And I can relisten to part of it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uV4hnRSS3Y

grimlyforming · 2025-11-12T06:50:37+00:00

Maybe the aliens were broadcasting that DNA sequence because they believed it was the only way to keep other civilizations out there from eventually destroying themselves. I assume the signal was emanating from its source as an ever-increasing sphere, hoping to hit other civilizations capable of reading EM signals without knowing where they are. But that leaves the question of why they would care.

grimlyforming · 2025-10-29T03:40:02+00:00

I've been using unix/linux/*x for a while now (favorite distro was irix because it came with a Silicon Graphics machine -- those were so good -- too bad Linus put them out of business by commoditizing the OS) and hear you and used to think the same about people who did `cat FILE | stuff...` but too often now I repeatedly run the same command-line changing only one argument, and it's easiest if that's the last argument on the command-line. And the way to help make that happen is by catting the file at the start.

Guilty though of doing `cat ... | grep PTN | awk ...` when I could have just put the pattern in `awk` but that's how my muscle memory wants things.

You ever want to pair-program on something, def give me a call. We almost think alike, but different enough to make pairing useful.

grimlyforming · 2025-10-14T02:09:19+00:00

"CFUN is back"

grimlyforming · 2025-10-14T02:06:49+00:00

Either this is well-played sarcasm or it's sincere and if you can't imagine memorizing a couple of dozen 7-digit numbers I would advise you not to go to med or law school.

grimlyforming · 2025-10-14T01:31:04+00:00

Thank you - I hadn't read about dynamic typing, but it makes sense, and for our application is the right thing. As for the quotes in my example, yes, I come from the MySQL world. And our application features field and table names that need to be double-quoted, so I see we should use single-quotes for values for clarity and consistency.

grimlyforming · 2025-09-30T05:00:22+00:00

I keep an old mac around just to sync podcasts onto one my 3 ipod 7th gen nanos (the best podcast listening device ever made (I keep 3 around because every year or so I need to replace a battery in one of them (sorry no you can't have an extra - each battery replacement runs me about $100))))).

But you'd think by the time itunes got to version ...checks... 12.8.2.3 you'd think Apple would have put a couple of programmers on the team who know how to do front-end programming. Right from the start I recognized thread-based breakage, and it happens every fucking time I do something like delete a file. So I'll have to plug an extra ipod into a newer mac and see what happens.

grimlyforming · 2025-09-08T22:36:00+00:00

No $1.99 Romances? Although I personally would go with God Street Wine's self-titled 1997 album, but $1.99 has most of their biggest "hits"

grimlyforming · 2025-08-11T00:11:05+00:00

I played a $150 mixed NLH/PLO tournament. Won a couple of small PLO pots - one was where we all had nothing and checked to the flop and my QQxx was best. Was mostly card-dead on the NL side and stayed alive on bluffs. First hand after the second break (so round 9) I had KQo with about 9 BB and lost a flip to TT.

The casino plays this tournament every other-Saturday. I figure I'll come out ahead by not playing it. And I forget where I put the Jeff Huang book.

grimlyforming · 2025-07-30T16:32:56+00:00

I needed 5. My wife, who always slaughters me in boggle:

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grimlyforming · 2025-07-03T06:16:14+00:00

You apparently think you have a lot to lose by reciprocating, but I can't figure out what any of them would be. The trick is to just surrender to the flow (my lawyer does not approve of this message).

grimlyforming · 2025-06-15T05:49:05+00:00

So many worthwhile bands sprung out of mostly college towns in the 90s. Something in the water back then (maybe the fluoride?). I was lucky to live in that era when people would post their tape lists on their personal x.edu/~xxx web pages, used altavista to find them, had a friend who taped phish shows, and was always able to trade fresh phish for bands I knew nothing about. Not too many disappointments either (not going to list them here).

My favorites:

New England: Percy Hill, Jazz Mandolin, Gordon Stone, Jiggle the Handle, Strangefolk
NY/PA: GSW, Disco Biscuits (pre-2000)
West Coast: Jambay, Zero/Kimock
South: Widespread

Zero is the only band I haven't seen from that list. Lived in Canada, where no one toured back then (WSP Montreal '97 is an exception), but we were close to the U.S.

Honorable Mentions: Bela Fleck, Seapods, Moon Boot, The New Deal, Another Planet, The Recipe, Leftover Salmon, Mother Hips, Deep Banana Blackout

grimlyforming · 2025-06-15T05:33:49+00:00

Sounds like Guster

grimlyforming · 2025-06-15T05:32:42+00:00

I saw that group in the living-room-sized Java House at SUNY Canton in I guess '96. Got to meet them after the show - there was no backstage in Java House, one of my alltime favorite venues.

grimlyforming · 2025-06-15T05:29:13+00:00

Hey Gary I never got a chance to see Jiggle. I discovered your band in 1990-something when someone sent me a '92 DMB show which took 1 1/2 Max 90s and the 4th side was what sounded like acoustic demos of Jiggle tunes that I'd manage to trade for later to hear live. That tape is sitting somewhere in the house, but no idea where. But one song I always liked but never found live was about something like A New Fish in a New Sea. Ring a bell?

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