“The #19 Bricks” by Thomas Typewriter – a new illustration
https://thomastypewriter.art/2026/06/01/the-19-bricks-by-thomas-typewriter-a-new-illustration/
“Laby Rinses #012” by Thomas Typewriter – a new painting
https://thomastypewriter.art/2026/05/18/laby-rinses-012-by-thomas-typewriter-a-new-painting/
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 1, ch. 9 (1.9), “Of Liars [Des Menteurs]” (1572) [tr. Cohen (1958)]
More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
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Particularly dangerous are old men who retain the memory of past events, but do not remember how often they have repeated them. I have known some very amusing tales to become most tiresome when told by some gentlemen whose whole audience has been sated with them a hundred times. [Sur…
I have been finding time to work on this art piece I wanted to make from earlier. Wouldn't you know it, but it fits perfectly in my bathroom.... as if I measured it beforehand ;)
As I listened to the "Rocks Off" song it was inspired by, I was thinking how that song is about a word Ted Gioia taught me- "Anhedonia" or the absence of enjoyment in an activity pursued for pleasure.
Nevvertheless, I am halfway done its other half... the Sunny side. I want to make a copy of it with a mirror in the middle... and I want to link them over the interwebs so that when one is on, the other is off. I think I might be able to do this with esp32s and "cloudflare workers" and not have to use little RPI boards an cloudflare tunnels.
I dream of the moon being in NYC and the sun being in Seattle and them turning each other on an off.
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