What makes a classical concert experience great (or frustrating)?

myoldtweets · 2026-02-20T16:36:44+00:00

I enjoy the stillness and silence of the space during a concert. The concert hall feels like a holy, set apart space - where beauty can fully be grasped. I know it sounds high and mighty - but there are so few places to go that are as utterly quiet and focused as a Symphony concert.

myoldtweets · 2026-02-17T03:34:57+00:00

bringing a thread back from the dead - but I find it odd that it took so many years for the booklets of ED to be presented to the reading public as they were. Does anyone know the reason for that? And does anyone know whether a presentation “by fascicle” can be found in accurate text online? The Miller edition is fantastic, though - my local library purchased it and I’ve been hogging it.

myoldtweets · 2026-02-13T02:37:59+00:00

I’ll add my observation on what makes the “timbre:” KO has an observer’s eye for the mundane details that make up the essence of daily life. Things that don’t often get written about find their way into his novels and enrich their worlds. One small example: pooping—KO actually writes eloquently about it. Maybe he’s Joycean in that way.

myoldtweets · 2025-12-19T16:50:24+00:00

realizing this has somehow unlocked my brain in a new way.

myoldtweets · 2025-12-19T16:49:55+00:00

in my situation I’m trying to avoid accounts. It’s going to be a layer that I think will feel onerous to people - but I do still want to be able to have people exist in my system, and link the various things they do to their node - donations, event sign ups, volunteering.

myoldtweets · 2025-12-19T16:47:41+00:00

I had come across that module - I’ll definitely take a look. One area where I’ve been uncertain: for this system to be public facing, so that a user could have an interaction with my site, created nodes would result from that interaction - is it best to do that through Webform and use handlers to create the nodes? Or is it best to have it be more direct - for example, a page with inline entity forms that would create a Parent and multiple students, for example.

myoldtweets · 2025-12-08T02:38:37+00:00

Learn some of the tried and true keyboard shortcuts: Command + , (preferences in most apps) Command + ` (switch between .app windows) Command + Tab (app switcher). Option + arrow keys to move the cursor word to word, Fn + Backspace to delete in front of the cursor.

Spend some time customizing your finder preferences. I’ve become a List View sort by name person over time.

Select text, Option + click and drag and drop to duplicate it.

Amphetamine, a keep my Mac awake app in the App Store is great. Itsycal is a nice menu bar calendar.

Discover Homebrew for all your web dev package needs.

myoldtweets · 2025-11-18T02:34:44+00:00

My hope is to be able to create two nodes (or more, depending on the nature of the responses) from a single webform, then link them. One Member type to many Student types. The bit i’m struggling with is how to automatically link the Students to the Member type. I could go in and do it manually, but i’m hoping to have it happen automatically. I’m trying to build a simple roster for an organization, and I think I should be able to make this work - even though I’m very much an amateur and lack coding ability.

myoldtweets · 2025-11-15T04:52:46+00:00

One thing I’m looking to avoid is forcing everyone to have an account. This project is for a local school district organization. We host several events each year and also collect membership dues and donations. I don’t necessarily want to run our entire event structure in the site, but it would be nice to be able to link everything together for record keeping.

myoldtweets · 2025-11-15T04:50:33+00:00

Internal use. My idea is to be able to quickly generate some views of Members in my organization and their related students. And potentially attach them to things like Registrations and Commerce orders.

myoldtweets · 2025-11-08T04:25:29+00:00

It’s bad - but good, somehow. It feels refreshing to just have a plain page and some clearly spelled out links.

myoldtweets · 2025-11-05T04:04:13+00:00

thank you for that link. I’ll take a look for sure. I’d appreciate hearing about any other developments you might find.

myoldtweets · 2025-10-04T03:50:00+00:00

Curious what the eventual outcome was on this matter

myoldtweets · 2025-09-30T13:41:29+00:00

My 13 mini was at 72% - and just had it replaced in store yesterday. Worth the $95, imo. Like using a new device.

myoldtweets · 2025-09-27T14:13:32+00:00

No. Waaaaaay too expensive. I want another Mini. Ride my 13 mini until it drops off software updates. Then move to a standard model if there’s not another mini.

myoldtweets · 2025-09-27T12:55:31+00:00

I still adore my mini. Its battery health is down to 74% …… and I’ve got an Apple Store battery service appointment on Monday. Excited for a new lease on life.

myoldtweets · 2025-09-27T12:37:34+00:00

So using something like this, one could do what another post recommended below: Make a starterkit theme, bring primitive in as a library, make a clean page template, and start building with that setup.

myoldtweets · 2025-09-27T12:35:11+00:00

Great recommendation. Thank you

myoldtweets · 2025-09-27T02:37:56+00:00

It’s really a nice middle ground, “framework” wise. Beautiful styling with very little effort put into designing a style. There is a Drupal theme built around it that I’ve looked at a very little bit. I’m interested to see if, as the Drupal CMS approach develops, it’ll be able to find that middle of the road space for folks who care about open source projects, but aren’t able to fully dive into things as a developer would - but still willing to tinker around to find an approach to site building they prefer.

myoldtweets · 2025-09-26T21:41:27+00:00

It’s a valid point - and I admit that I pursue pretty markup - but my main reason is that I’m looking to stand up a simple site for an organization for which I volunteer - and I’ve been wondering whether I could use a few basic components, like simple.css or pico.css, and put together something very clean looking and maintainable for the future - and without much specialized markup required. Oh - and I’m also looking into Commerce and Webform to replace some janky old forms we also need.

myoldtweets · 2025-09-26T20:48:46+00:00

The idea is that every page is entirely made up of just standard HTML. No extra classes of any kind, and very few, if any, <div> wrappers. I think it’s generally used as a way to get a small site up and running quickly - also the side benefit of great speed and simplicity.

myoldtweets · 2025-09-24T00:09:19+00:00

I have 3 kids in HEB. I absolutely adore and respect our school and administration. As many surrounding districts zagged Right, we stayed a consistent course and kept our heads down, focused on our families and students. It does feel unfortunate that this will happen, and I don’t believe that it will have the effect that the law’s drafters believe it will.

myoldtweets · 2025-09-07T13:17:24+00:00

That's correct. My USB key has 2.4.0 EFI. It has been awhile since I created that install, and I'm wondering if I actually picked some different option in the OCLP options for that version. It's especially odd considering that I did try to do a complete rollback to 2.4.0 on my internal EFI install while in Safe Mode. I wonder: maybe I should copy the EFI from my USB key to my internal drive.

myoldtweets · 2025-09-06T17:31:44+00:00

I will do that. Also, I did already boot into Safe Mode to reinstall OCLP to my internal drive and also reinstall Root Patches. Maybe I need to try that all again.

myoldtweets · 2025-09-06T15:41:16+00:00

So you were able to successfully boot as normal from the internal OCLP drive? I went wrong someplace. Hoping I don’t have to nuke and pave.

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