Sam Bleckley

MERGE

merge.softwaregr.org I am in the 10:30 slot.

A line drawing of a head with the cranium hinged open, with eyeball, optic nerve, and brain visible

come to my talk it will be very safe and normal

sneak preview of slide 22

probably one of those weirdos who pours the milk first, and then the diamonds in on top

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Tall and broad and vicious and ugly
The beast towards Bethlehem goes slouching
And when it passes
Each one it passes goes "aaaaaugh!"
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Cont.

Continued; maybe less immediately successful, but learning things

A gold snow crocus surrounded by leaf litter

First crocus!

As Daddy Warbucks, or as Annie?

(Or, I guess, Sandy?)

I've just uploaded a 30+min youtube video about this trip to Colombia in 2023 - featuring this amazing blue weevil - and other beetles, bugs, and birds found during the trip: youtu.be/UUEdzRxucms

digital painting of a woman walking through a city street of unlikely proportions

First Night in the City

If someone builds a beautiful house around the 100-ton boulder that they couldn't remove from their plot

that doesn't mean you must *add* a boulder to your land in order to build a beautiful house

a) Many artists manage to transform their personal suffering into something else when they make art

b) Suffering is not required to make art, and many artists who suffered greatly would have made more art if they had suffered less

there is nothing contradictory, here

Thinkin' of that Teller quote, "Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect"

Some part of "years of practice," I think, is just the slow, constant re-realization that the work will improve even more when given even more time and attention

breaking bread together may make enemies into neighbors; but breaking babies together makes comrades

WOOOO!

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it means it's time to speak your timeless wisdom

blessed are the garbage-eaters

A small half finished pencil drawing; white swirls of acanthus leaves against black background. One inch by three inches.

Tryina learn how to design baroque-style scrollwork, a la engravings

(with rococo being the next stop)

Still missing some of the internal logic of the leaves, but progress!

Inspiration and motivation *start* projects, but you can't expect to keep the fire that hot for the duration of a large work. Long work gets done by habit; banked coals last through the night. Do you motivate and inspire yourself to brush your teeth or make coffee, or are they just part of your day?

Did some darning; this sweater has had a couple small holes for ages. There is satisfaction in fixing things after I ought to have but still long before they are catastrophic.

This is essentially @tshahan.bsky.social’s actual opinion

Why "almost surely not" when the few historical examples of refusal (Arkhipov, Petrov) *were* further down the chain?

(Not antagonistic; you're the expert, I just didn't expect that aside)

How to like everything more on the skill of enjoyment

This is excellent sashachapin.substack.com/p/how-to-lik..., and I needed it today.

Today I'm thinking about discernment

sambleckley.com/writing/disc...

Two Jack Wades in the background just having a lovely time talking about plants

Well, the pay is bad, but it takes them all to carry all this news

Migraine is more than a headache — a radical rethink offers hope to one billion people Drugs that can prevent or relieve migraine attacks are only effective for some people. Research is starting to untangle the reasons why.

My migraines are relatively tame; but I do remember the first time I saw a diagram like the "Migraine is Cyclical" one in this article. It was a revelation! The headache is just the tentpole of the event.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Today I'm thinking about trial by jury and efficiency: sambleckley.com/writing/the-...