Stephen @makingarecord@friend.camp

I went to Michael's and got some stickers for some of my gear to make things easier AND prettier. I re-labeled the patch banks with numbers (more useful than the default text labels), put markers on the two most useful function keys, and put a bird on my looper.

No place like (cardboard) home.

Today near our office in the Bronx, the city put up these big metal gates to close people out of these arches. Many people with no place to go used to take refuge there. The fact that they're doing this when it's about to get a lot colder is either a coincidence, or overt malice.

What a good kid.

Certainly the most surprising result of trying to purge my DVD collection is deciding to buy LOST season 6 so I can have the whole set.

We made it, y'all. Sweater weather.

Lots to CROW about at the park today!!!

Found a good birding spot next to an accordion player!

I guess only me and this egret decided to hang out in the rain today.

Update:

Lucky's hobbit hole.

Very nice and chill playlist, Spotify, thank you. (Also includes Air, Trentemoller, Boards of Canada, Burial, Bjork)

Central Park catbird pal.

I'm presenting at my first ever "academic conference" in November, and I am decidedly not an academic, but actually I think I wrote a pretty convincingly academic-sounding description for my talk!

Rooftop shandy.

This is absolutely the only upside of having "brands" on a social network.

Day two of trying to learn Arabic: I now know approximately three letters, four vowels, and no words.

I saw a frog. Plus, a man next to the duck pond was playing meme music on his saxophone. Baby Shark, Take On Me, Megalovania, etc.

Got a sunburn and a workout legal observing at Trans Day of Action today. Also I saw how great it is when people who often feel unsafe get to feel safe, but also how hard it is out here for so many people. Seriously honored to be a legal observer at these kinds of events.

@ranjit it's not great but I kinda like how its face turned out