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My favorite writing implement these days is a black Milwaukee Inkzall ultra fine pen, bought in 4 packs at Home Depot.

I have three primary things I write on, mostly todos for home yard or office, groceries and hardware or tools to buy, and bands and songs to listen to, and the occasional song lyric.

The first is a mini clipboard made from a 3" x 4" piece of cedar shingle and a mini binder clip holding a 4x6 craft paper card folded in half, giving me four sides to write on. On the back side I keep a one-year calendar printed on standard letter paper and folded down to fit where I keep track of my band gigs.

The next one is a standard wire-bound 4x6 note book, mostly for work todos using sort of a bullet-journaling type of progress system.

The third at this point is a regular letter sized clipboard holding scrap one-side-blank printer paper, mostly for meetings.

Then I frequently take pictures of any of these pages so I have a dated copy on my phone.

They also all get added to with typical 3x3 sticky notes in mostly neon colors.

Finally I also do lots of writing in Obsidian, notes in source files with Sublime Text, and sometimes even the StickyNotes Windows app.

My philosophy about this over the last few years is that its better to write something down anywhere on whatever system, even on multiple systems, rather than to try to adhere to one format all the time.


Simone Giertz had a different approach, she built a bench for her and her dog with stairs so it could come and go as it wanted to.

I built a chair for dogs that always want to sit next to you (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYqz1F6eAVU)


According to the CSS of the page, the font is "IBM VGA 9x16".

No idea about the color scheme but it's nice.

Unrelated to any of this, this font reminds of an old Turbo Pascal program I wrote years ago (decades now) to extract a VGA font from the computer's ROM and use the character bitmaps in my own graphics programs. Nice memory I would not have had if not for your question, so thank you!


Kovcheg is very nice if you like a cappella.

I clicked because it had an interesting design and thought it would be metal! XD

But its a Russian men's singing group and they're very good.


A complementary resource for learning about tube amps is the YouTube channel Fazio Electric. Colleen Fazio does a nice job of repairing old amps and explaining various aspects of their construction, history, and significance. Plus she has a very calming voice and is probably one of the loveliest amp repair technicians out there.

https://www.youtube.com/@FazioElectric



It's the German version!


I found a couple fun ones near the ones you posted:

https://radio.garden/visit/ris-orangis/QP41kyYR Volubilis Radio, Ris-Orangis France

seems to play some later 60ish stuff

groovy theme, trombone solo

string section, horn section, rock instruments, sitar, harpsichord, quite a setup!

no vocals so far on the last couple of tracks, spy movie theme song stuff

https://radio.garden/visit/yamoussoukro/2hK0VL6B Radio MEDIA+CI Yamoussoukro 90.2 FM Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire

african rhythms, african and french lyrics, mellower than some of the dance beat stations

nice guitars and vocals

lots of fun bouncing around all of the neighboring stations!


It was not obvious to me that I needed to click the New button first. I clicked around everywhere else and tried typing and no go. Then after clicking New and getting a text area, it made sense and I said "well of course".

So maybe not too many other people had this problem, but perhaps the top line could say "Click New, then just write." =)

And/or start the page off with a note that describes the basic process:

"click new, write, and click Publish to finish the note, then click Save to save it to index.html on your system"

When I went back to edit a note, Publish didn't work for me.

Trying this in Vivaldi, I didn't try on another browser yet.


Thank you very much for your trial and suggestions. I will add more detailed usage instructions to the page. After editing, please remember to click the "Publish" button again.


Third sentence needs some correction:

"MonsterWriter assists students write exceptional academic papers"

should be

"MonsterWriter assists students to write exceptional academic papers"

or "helps students write..."


They also seem to like wine drinkers who haven't had sex well enough too! Sample size one.


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