Winemaking update: We bottled our first vintage of red wine! We’ve learned a lot over the last year, and I give the experience five stars (plus the wine tastes great). Now we’re looking forward to getting 2021 grapes this fall!
Winemaking update: We bottled our first vintage of red wine! We’ve learned a lot over the last year, and I give the experience five stars (plus the wine tastes great). Now we’re looking forward to getting 2021 grapes this fall!
A very rare edition of Shakespeare (thx @JeffreyShoulson)
Old maps digitally transformed into 360° virtual panoramas, like this c. 1902 circular bird’s-eye map of Mt. Washington made into a VR view from the summit
Just got tickets for the real summer blockbuster, James Turrell: Into the Light at Mass MoCA. Can’t wait.
“Flip It Open,” new model for opening access to books from Cambridge: 1) initial retail period, w/ hardcover/ebooks priced normally; 2) once the press makes £8000…3) open ebook and new paperback w/ a shout-out page to those who bought the book in phase #1
Even without the mythology, I think we can agree that the achilles is a very poorly designed body part
Belle’s look is how we all feel about the heat
Apple Notes should reinvigorate the web by making it easy to publish notes to a personal website.
“The Ebook Turns 50” — Project Gutenberg was founded fifty years ago, and until 2009 it remained the largest distributor of ebooks. (I think you can figure out the largest distributor of ebooks since then.)
This puppy in a backpack is currently touring our campus with prospective students, 14/10 would write letter of recommendation
Today’s hike
Bottled our second batch of Chardonnay made from Washington grapes. Got all fancy with this one, using yeast from Côtes du Rhône and forgoing fining to see what it will taste like au naturale.
Belle meeting my sister’s dogs for the first time, after a very long pandemic wait
Not sure I’ve ever been this soaking wet, but the @USWNT game against Mexico has been great fun so far even with the heavy rain, 2-0 USA at the half
New from @DPLA/LYRASIS: “The Palace Project is a new library-centered platform for digital content and services that will allow libraries to purchase, organize, and deliver ebooks and other digital content to their patrons while protecting patron privacy.”
Looks like I’ve hiked right into an old Star Trek episode
Very strong 1983 vibes here
Well done, sunset
How do you add umami to PowerPoint
Just had my last Covid test on campus. I think it’s my 67th test, thankfully all negative. Big kudos to the @Northeastern testing center team and the many students who helped make it run so smoothly.
The names of the judges at the Westminster Dog Show are just so good—they surpass what any novelist could dream up: The Honorable James G. Phinizy, Ms. Bonnie P. Threlfall, Mr. Harold “Red” Tatro, III
Feeling very judged by the dog for watching the French Open
% ./library-robot –engage-summer-mode –balloons=YES
One of the great spots in Boston in the summer
Great post by @TenuredRadical about doing historical research in a digital age, and how it has turned every historian into an amateur archivist, trying to bring order to the giant mass of digitized documents they collect and scan/photograph themselves.