Author Archives: skierpage

About skierpage

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

demise of the open web, yet again

Posted on 2023-12-09 by skierpage

More handwringing over how the web has gotten worse. There have always been lots of The Web is Dead articles – here’s one from 2010!, but Denny Vrandečić mentioned more recent ones in a great Facebook post, including Why the … Continue reading →

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eco: no recycling needed if you never buy

Posted on 2023-11-12 by skierpage

Hey cunning linguists, what’s the German word for “Fear of buying something new because that would still leave you with the old thing that kind of works as well and it’s not eco to just throw it out so you … Continue reading →

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music: “new” Beatles songs will never end

Posted on 2023-11-10 by skierpage

“Now and Then” is sweet and has a good backstory, but this is not the last Beatles song. 2024: Sean Lennon finds a tape of his dad whistling a fragmentary tune and muttering a few lines. The remaining Beatles and … Continue reading →

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music: more Cory Wong live greatness, Mark Lettieri!

Posted on 2023-11-05 by skierpage

The Fearless Flyers Live in Europe joins the triumvirate, the Holy Trinity of low-volume mostly instrumental handheld-camera concert videos: CORY WONG // LIVE IN MPLS // 9 FEB 2019, Vulfpeck Live at Madison Square Garden, and now this. Hmm, what … Continue reading →

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music: 10cc of near greatness

Posted on 2023-09-29 by skierpage

Someone said something that reminded me of a lyric, turns out it was from a 10cc song. They’re still famous for “I’m Not in Love,” a song so immaculately crafted that I unwillingly succumbed to its overwraught bathos (pathos? mythos?). … Continue reading →

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web: how to read blocked web articles

Posted on 2023-09-29 by skierpage

It’s an arms race to read articles that fade out under a “Please subscribe” overlay. In Firefox, try: I feel bad doing this, and a little less bad for running uBlock Origin to disable ads. I subscribe to the Guardian, … Continue reading →

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Nuala, 2007-2023

Posted on 2023-08-17 by skierpage

The original title… For years in my mind this obituary was titled “Angry lesbian bitch.” Shortly after we adopted Nuala, a group of teenage boys stayed with us and learned that if you lightly poked her, she would make a … Continue reading →

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YouTube jokes

Posted on 2023-07-08 by skierpage

Concrete science A science YouTuber made an entertaining informative video “Explaining concrete while getting buried in it,” and found that he would rise out of the concrete slurry. Which prompted this carefully-researched anecdote: skierpage9:39 “I did not expect to be … Continue reading →

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software: fixing scanned photos in GIMP

Posted on 2023-07-04 by skierpage

I received boxes full of old family pictures that were cropped with the old selection tool of “Physical scissors”. Here are my notes on how I scanned them and neatened them up. Scanning Arrange multiple pictures on all-in-one printer’s scanner … Continue reading →

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music: more “Slave to the Rhythm” with Stephen Lipson

Posted on 2023-06-11 by skierpage

Continuing on from Trevor Horn gigantism… I watched “Songs That Changed Music: Grace Jones – Slave To The Rhythm – with Stephen Lipson” from the article by Produce Like a Pro. He’s credited as co-writer and performer on lead guitar, … Continue reading →

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