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Return to Forever, Live from Jazzaldia San Sebastian, 2008.
A great live concert from a reunion of legends. Each of these guys was a noteworthy player in his own right. Return to Forever is one of the great jazz fusion projects. The whole discography is transformative.
I got to see Stanley Clarke live sometime around 2000. Incredible show and band.
Wes Montgomery, Live in '65.
Ahmad Jamal live in France, 1971.
Humongous Fungus β
In LibertyRPF's latest newsletter, he makes brief mention of the "Humongous fungus", an Armillaria ostoyae fungus that covers roughly 2,385 acres of Oregon forest, and weighs an estimated 35,000 tons.
When you read enough about mycology, you find some science fiction-level stuff:
Most of this giant fungus is underground as a network of mycelium and rhizomorphs, black or dark brown structures that are kind of like roots or shoelaces.
The mushrooms you might see on a hike in the forest are just temporary fruiting bodies, like apples on a tree. The real organism is this vast, interconnected web beneath the forest floor that slowly spreads by feeding on tree roots.
Why are we looking for aliens in space? They're already here on Earth.
The circle of the English language has a well-defined centre, but no discernible circumference.
We do not merely study the past: we inherit it, and inheritance brings with it not only the rights of ownership, but the duties of trusteeship. Things fought for & died for should not be idly squandered. For they are the property of others, who are not yet born.
Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.
Great interview with the author of one of my favorite books from the last several years, Joe Henrich. The WEIRDest People in the World is a fascinating look at the origins of human culture and the evolution of human psychology.
MF DOOM / Ghostface Killah - Angelz, 2004.
Firefly Aerospace became the first private company to land a spacecraft on the moon when Blue Ghost lunar lander touched down on the moon on March 2nd.
What an incredible achievement β and that 4K video from the lunar surface is just mesmerizing.
Roman ruins at SchΓΆnbrunn. Carl Moll, 1892.
Volos harbor at night. Volanakis Ξonstantinos.
"Topographic beauties straight from old geography books", @egeberkina.
The Fall of the Damned. Peter Paul Rubens, 1620.
Bell Labs Holmdel. From Severance season 2, episode 5.
Muse β Prompts for journaling β
Sometimes in a journaling session itβs hard to get yourself writing. You need a kickstart, an idea to latch onto and get your brain moving. I know I do when itβs 5:30am and I sit down to write.
So I built a simple tool for displaying journaling prompts called Muse. Itβs open source on GitHub. You can run it yourself and edit a single file to add or modify the prompts it uses.
This is the first entry in my mission to ship at least one small tool or product each month this year.
New York and Erie Railroad diagram, 1855.
The Headhunters perform βSlyβ, 1974.
Two phenomenal records to start a recording career.