“the only genuine way to practice futurism is to put it off for later” -mid paragraph pith from fernández

intrusive thought: location, market based returns on capital

reading a business book about strategy that describes DEC’s downfall as a failure to focus on a single coherent strategy amongst 1) selling computers (boxes) 2) silicon fab (chips) or 3) consulting (solutions) and with hindsight I think we can all agree that it was 1a) selling colorful computers that looked really cool*

13 years living in SF and 3 years into only ever sitting outside at places to eat and/or drink and I still under-dress and then sit facing the winer sun as if it ever helps

I don’t know many Verlaine stories but this one on Pushing Ahead of the Dame about Bowie’s cover of “Kingdom Come” on Scary Monsters has stuck with me since it was posted (there’s a similar story about Jimmy Page in the early 80s spending most of an invite on wah pedal battery fussing and not really laying anything down): everybody has off days.

R I P Tom Verlaine https://web.archive.org/web/20230128223440/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/28/arts/music/tom-verlaine-dead.html

lol at this weird 😘 vehicle the everloving wife made with jr this morning

I can fix “the mastodon community”

gm2u 😘

a Jacobin essay about how MILF Manor is really about abolition of the family