2025-08-17

Today’s been a casual Sunday. A little vault maintenance for the site and assembling a new iteration of my Emacs config. My brain’s split between keeping the site content in Obsidian, migrating it all to Emacs + emacs-easy-hugo, and / or focusing enough to write my own PKM to manage everything. I can’t make myself commit to any of it, so I’ll keep puttering here. The end result is a cleaner and less Hugo-specific collection of source files.

Updated Follow so it’s easier for folks to find a specific RSS feed.

Michael Bolton knows the score

Hackers.town

Rocky Horror Picture show turned 50

Why has Rocky Horror endured for so long? “The music, first of all, is up there, in my biased opinion, with the greatest soundtracks of all time,” Linus O’Brien, director of Strange Journey and Richard O’Brien’s son, told Ars. “I think maybe it doesn’t get recognized as such because on the surface, it just seems like a bit of fluff. But if the songs were only half as good, we wouldn’t be talking about Rocky today. It would be a very small B-movie that we’d laugh at or something.”

Celebrating 50 years of The Rocky Horror Picture Show - Ars Technica

via PresGas Words

how’d you do I
see you met my
faithful handyman
he’s just a little brought down because
when you knocked
he was fighting with his medicare plan

don’t get strung out
by the way i look
don’t judge a book by it’s cover
i’m a little old man by the light of day
but by night still one hell of a—MY HIPS

Me being slightly silly with the news:

Speaking of old

The first commercial Compact Disc was created 43 years ago, today

By June 1980, the CD audio Red Book standard was finalized. Abba’s The Visitors entered production in Aug 1982, though wouldn’t hit retail on its new fangled format until March 1983. Meanwhile, the first CD album released in the U.S. is thought to be Bruce Springsteen’s Born In The U.S.A., released in September 1984.

I miss physical media sufficiently that I’m thinking it’s time for a music library again.