Day at the races
Brett g Porter
Beautiful day to walk to the river and watch some boats. Instagram photo 1 Instagram photo 2 Instagram photo 3 Instagram photo 4 View original post on Instagram
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Deadmau5 @ FIFA Fan Festival
Brett g Porter
Back in college, I only remember having two conversations with the head of the jazz piano department. One was after a big band piece of mine had been played, and he looked at me and said “Interesting,” and I’m still not sure whether thanks or an apology were called for. The other one was about...
Bridge anniversary walk
Brett g Porter
Enjoying a walk almost back to New Jersey from our new adopted country of Philadelphia. I’m not sure whether that’s the real Ben Franklin or not. Sign pointing to the bridge entrance I don’t know any of these people Lightning & Kite sculpture at the base of the bridge; original concept by...
Linear arrays.
Brett g Porter
Linear arrays. As seen in the neighborhood tonight. philly fwc2026 Instagram photo 1 Instagram photo 2 Instagram photo 3 View original post on Instagram View Change History
Brazil v Morocco.
Brett g Porter
Brazil v Morocco. At the Philly Fan Festival. The city is for you to use. Instagram photo 1 Instagram photo 2 Instagram photo 3 View original post on Instagram View Change History
Oh Tokyo.
Brett g Porter
Oh kimono, kimono, kimono Tokyo’s the town that I love the best East may be East, and West may be West Forget about the twain, it’ll drive you insane And teach you things you never knew before. Street, road, telephone pole and text. Street, cloud, road, telephone pole, buildings and text....
Last full day in Japan.
Brett g Porter
Signboard and text that says ‘M H ND R70K540 1K/-OKA 2K540 ARTISAN’. Signboard, hat shop and text that says ‘YOSHIDA & COMPANY PORTER TOKYO-JAPAN JAPAN TOKYO Japan. Tan-fhee Tan-heeShep Sthap L’. Bridge, buildings and text. Service vehicle, trailer, truck and text. Club sandwich, cutlet...
Today’s schedule: extra glossy.
Brett g Porter
Today’s schedule: extra glossy. Text that says ‘10:50am 11:20am 休憩とネットワーキング Break & Networking FPGA-Based Alias-Free Oscillator: FPGAベースのエイ！ FPGA 50MHz駆動の波形生成とfbi ΔΣ DACの実装 DACの ΔΣ DAC Implementation 50MHz Wa 岡安啓幸/ 岡安啓幸/Akiyuki Akiyuki Okayasu 12:20pm 12:2 Opm MIDI 2.0- 出荷準備完了 備完了 2.0 Brett g...
Annual Report
Brett g Porter
So: A year ago today, we bought this rowhouse in Philadelphia’s Brewerytown neighborhood. No Parking! Previously: First 90 Days Six Month Report It took me a long time to put a name on how many people reacted when we announced the plan to move here, but the overwhelming response boiled down...
Goodbye Scarlet
Brett g Porter
Yesterday we said goodbye to Scarlet Q Canine Porter, faithful companion since we met in 2011. Scarlet, on a beautiful day at Natirar Park, 2020 When she came to live with us, I worked at home while everyone else in the family went off to their various schools. Because of that, I’ve spent more...
The Thought That Counts
Brett g Porter
Xmas eve 1985, Radio Shack, Syracuse, NY (Mattydale, for the locals—the one right where the original Zebb’s was). Battery of the Month Club Membership Card. Tres exclusive. I’m home from college, picking up a few dollars working while I’m there. It’s just infinitesimally before closing time, the...
Renovations (part 1)
Brett g Porter
When we were getting ready to buy this new house earlier in the year, we promised each other to not repeat one big mistake we had made in our previous house: we waited far longer than we should have to make some important updates to the place. We bought that house in 1996, in 2003 did a major...
Six Month Report
Brett g Porter
Following up on my report posted after our First 90 Days here. As I walk around town lately I’ve been thinking a lot lately about Robert Ashley’s video opera “Perfect Lives”. There’s a bit1 where he compares children to the roots of a tree, ’n their beauty To our eyes is in their gnarledness...
Saturday Walk Photo Dump
Brett g Porter
It was a beautiful day yesterday–a break between two heatwaves, so we walked down to the river and wandered a bit. There was a photo shoot of a huge multi-ethnic wedding party, but I only took pics of scary faces at the skatepark. Surprised fellow Glowing yellow eyes Red eyes on dark blue All...
PosseTool
Brett g Porter
Assumed Audience IndieWeb bloggers, software developers One of my goals when redoing my personal site was to reduce my reliance on corporate silos taking ownership of what I write. I spent some time this weekend writing a quick tool to automate posting links to my site from those silos. I’ve...
Blinking 12:00
Brett g Porter
Editing and re-posting a twitter thread here from a few weeks ago for posterity. I keep seeing this tweet bounce around and feel like I finally need to pull rank here. Eric Alper’s tweet about clock radios Maybe your parents had this model. My dad designed this clock radio. …the first part of...