Lew Perin

@wrenpile
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Also known as @babelcarp
I’ve withdrawn from social media, for now at least. But if you want to
contact me, my email address is in my profile.
Not sure about public awareness, but the Wikipedia page says "UTF-8 was first officially presented at the USENIX conference in San Diego, from January 25 to 29, 1993."

Books rescued from Brooklyn Heights stoops (cont.): catalogue from 1980 MoMA Joseph Cornell show.

I don’t think I want to keep it forever, so @ me if you want to take possession after a while.

In my childhood I lived not far from Cornell without knowing it. I’m not sure if that prepared me for living next door to Alice Neel unknowingly as an adult.

Someone has been stenciling “THE RiCH KiLLD NYC” on utility poles in Dumbo.

They sure picked the right neighborhood!

#nyc #gentrification

Et in Arcadia subway: poster inside a NYC subway train.

So I was reading this fascinating article about puppy play enthusiasts

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/26/style/pup-play.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

in the NY Times app, and what ad do they serve me? “Adorable Puppies for Sale”.

Graffito near the Brooklyn end of the Manhattan Bridge.
Bhaskar Sunkara, the editor of _Jacobin_, is a lot more flexible than you might think. And Isaac Chotiner is a great interviewer: https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-editor-of-jacobin-on-the-evolution-of-american-socialism-bhaskar-sunkara
I just wacky-parsed SFTP as STFU. Time to go home?
This just in: I passed by that tree today, and it’s alive.