Jim Willis

  • Just had the pleasure of playing this 1822 guitar.One of the first 6string instruments that could be called a “guitar.” http://bit.ly/8QfK2x

  • nice fingerpicking vid on RedBankGreen. Red Bank Blue by Dave Crowton of Red Bank: http://bit.ly/8c55V9

  • Times piece on getting rid of cable. Sounds very much like the Willis-house setup: http://bit.ly/73Sj9Q

  • Man, there’s a BIG difference between 66F and 68F. So much for that cost-savings measure. I’d need to buy fingerless gloves to type at 66F.

  • When a newspaper dies in America … a sense of place has failed: http://bit.ly/7YP0WX Great piece in Harper’s on newspapers.

  • Running errands by bicycle always feels more like a bike ride than a chore. Running errands by car always feels just like running errands.

  • RT @redbank: This Saturday have breakfast with St. Nick and support the Red Bank Primary School PTO (http://tinyurl.com/yzfq7dz)

  • Reason #107 to kill your television (and get your kids outside to run around): you get to sleep later! http://bit.ly/67mjZI

  • RT @redbankgreenman: FH cops threaten our reporter with arrest over chief’s car pix http://bit.ly/6VwCs4

  • Birthday present to myself: riding 50 miles with a headcold.

    Birthday present to myself: riding 50 miles with a headcold.

    Over the weekend I rode Bike NYC’s Twin Lights bike ride. The ride was noteable for a couple of reasons. First off, it was my first organized road ride since I got back into cycling last year….

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Reading Notes

  • Read: Manufactured Anxiety: How Self-Improvement Became a Self Destruct Sequence
    Who profits from our constant state of dissatisfaction? The answer, of course, is painfully obvious. Every industry that sells a solution to a problem you […]
  • Read: My Friends Aren’t Reading
    the shifts have been in place for awhile. A certain kind of book—say those reviewed in the NYRB—will become like opera, or theater, or ballet, […]
  • Read: Pema Chödrön’s Three Methods for Working with Chaos
    • No more struggle: “Whatever arises, train again and again in seeing it for what it is. The innermost essence of mind is without bias. […]
  • Read: Why Not Bluesky
    The real problem, in my mind, isn’t in the nature of this particular Venture-Capital operation. Because the whole raison-d’etre of Venture Capital is to make […]
  • Read: The Tech Coup
    . The EU invokes a mechanism called the precautionary principle in cases where an innovation, such as GMOs, has not yet been sufficiently researched for […]

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