Author Archives: skierpage

About skierpage

As you might guess, my site is mine. My Schema.org info is at .

web: let me link to a song, not a service!

Posted on 2024-09-19 by skierpage

I blog a lot about music. I want you to be able to play the songs I write about. You probably pay for a music streaming service that has millions of songs on it including the ones I discuss; you … Continue reading →

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software: preserving the pen-based computing past

Posted on 2024-09-11 by skierpage

I’m fortunate to have been a modest contributor to some some ground-breaking software that failed in the marketplace: the PenPoint operating system from GO Corporation, the NeWS network/extensible window system from Sun Microsystems, and the Shockwave interactive multimedia platform from … Continue reading →

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music: Phil Collins drums way Beyond the Lines

Posted on 2024-09-01 by skierpage

YouTube decided to feature a couple of overlong videos about the legendary drum fill in “In the Air Tonight.” (I’m not linking to them, because the same information is in its Wikipedia article, and just because YouTube pushes people to … Continue reading →

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eco: it’s not easy telling the gas company to shove it

Posted on 2024-08-27 by skierpage

We have electric radiant floor heating and electric domestic hot water (after an expensive failed Rube Goldberg attempt years ago at solar thermal tubes with air-water heat pump backup that I still need to blog about), and an excellent Mitsubishi … Continue reading →

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art: Jhane Barnes greatness

Posted on 2024-08-25 by skierpage

Jhane Barnes‘ legendary shirts are just too beautiful to hide in a closet. I need a glassed-in mobile of shifting shirts that move close and recede. Failing that, after I wear one I leave it out to catch my eye … Continue reading →

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skiing: RIP Dr. Ruth Westheimer, 1928-2024

Posted on 2024-07-14 by skierpage

RIP Dr. Ruth Westheimer, sex therapist and author! I was her ski instructor in 1999 when she came to Squaw Valley USA (now renamed Palisades Tahoe) age 70 for a celebrity ski “race.” The good ski instructors weren’t interested because … Continue reading →

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art: Charles Schulz and Christo

Posted on 2024-07-03 by skierpage

Charles Schulz is very much conventional decent middle-America (with a side of deep bitter existential distress underlying his Peanuts cartoons). Yet, as I learned on a return visit to his museum, it turns out “Sparky” was a big supporter of … Continue reading →

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software: sneaky “gnihctamsim” phishing

Posted on 2024-06-13 by skierpage

I got an e-mail asking for my bank details. From: Michael Doyle <ventas@farbiq.com.ar>To: undisclosed recipients:;Reply to: logistica.industrialparts@gmail.comSubject: Re: URGENT PROFORMA INVOICE Hello Dear, Greetings Our company has approved the attached purchase order. Please review the purchase order list, and return … Continue reading →

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music: Everyone Knows That, Radio Arabesque, other lostwave

Posted on 2024-06-07 by skierpage

Two commenters on this blog (here and here) randomly asked me about the song “Ulterior motives (everyone knows that)”. I though they were spammers, but it turns out there was a genuine Internet hunt for the song, forming its own … Continue reading →

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music: Brad Mehldau so smart so good

Posted on 2024-05-15 by skierpage

I love Brad Mehldau’s solo “Blackbird” the most of all the recent jazz versions, his album of Beatles is wonderful, his own work is all over the place (Jacob’s Ladder and Finding Gabriel are intense), and this interview is solid … Continue reading →

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