iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What's the story with the very wide curb cut that’s roughly in front of the now-former Nü Café? It seems too wide to be a conventional crosswalk, and it points *toward* Rossmore St, not the sidewalks along Rossmore. My best guess is that this is a bus stop, but I haven't noticed signage for one yet.

120

Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

The new #Apple feature for Photos to detect concerts seems useful. If only it worked. Alas. It either detects an event or it doesn’t, but we’re not currently allowed to edit or delete whatever it decides to add as an annotation. Lord, give me the confidence of a mediocre AI engine.

141

Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Yeah, it’s ridiculous. Started in June as one sign, then another. For a week or so, it was “Berry” vs “Orange Cat”. Then, more started appearing. A lot more. I haven’t been by in a couple weeks, but as of mid-July, there were 32 signs, and I understand that the number has kept climbing since then.

120

Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

My favorite thing about iVim for iPadOS, aside of course from the obvious joy in having `vi` on an iPad, is that fact that `:sh` works, and gives you a reasonably functional shell environment, including both Python & SSH! It’s not a “proper” Terminal, but it works! github.com/terrychou/iVim

020

Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I’m thirty years late on this, but I watched Wong Kar-Wai’s “Chungking Express” for the first time this week, and the more I think about it, the more convinced I am that the scene where Tony Leung puts a coin in a jukebox might be the coolest shot in cinema history. It’s in the top ten list, anyway.

120

Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Been on a Kurosawa kick lately. “Stray Dogs” was released & set in 1949, about 75 years ago. “Yojimbo”, released 1961, was set in ~1860. So the “contemporary” detective movies are ~as far in our past as (some of) the samurai movies were in Kurosawa’s past. 1850 to 1950 was a huge leap forward!

100

Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Turns out, if you’ve had a long weekend and don’t have the tuits to do the midnight marathon bike ride this year, you can just head straight to the finish line and pretend you did all 26.2 miles.

011

Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

In 1996, I was lucky enough to see the first show of the Ramones final tour. Last night, I saw the first show of the final Gang of Four tour. In both cases, I’m kicking myself that I didn’t see these bands sooner. But I’m really glad to have had the chance to have seen them at all. So great!

100

Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

…and so, the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution has arrived. A lot of things happened on this day in 1775, but I want to draw attention to a man from my neighborhood: ❝ON THIS HILLSIDE, JAMES MILLER, MINUTE MAN, AGED 65, WAS SLAIN BY THE BRITISH, APRIL 19, 1775. “I AM TOO OLD TO RUN.”❞

020

Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

…and so, 250 years later, a few hundred of us just retraced the Midnight Ride, and the spark of the American Revolution.

130

Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

This, the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s midnight ride, is an excellent day to ride out to Concord and warn folks that defense against tyranny is every generation’s duty.

130

Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Jon King & Hugo Burnham of Gang of Four, being interviewed by Jim Sullivan at Harvard Book Store. I am so looking forward to the Go4 show this weekend.

121

Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I’ve loved this band since “Young Team” came out, but somehow I’ve never managed to see them before last night. So very much worth the ~30 year wait…

100

Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Boston’s “Hands Off” protest, April 2025. The republic itself may be under assault, but the people are rising to the occasion.

050

Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I’m lying, of course, the show was last night and it was fantastic. I’ve seen REM twice, and this band twice, and this band was more fun. Also, this was a supergroup, with members of Wilco, Superchunk, Bob Mould Band, Sunny Day Real Estate, et al. And the frontman’s an actual supervillain!

020

Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

#waitingfor Michael Shannon & Jason Narducy (and Jon Wurster & John Stirratt…) covering R.E.M.’s “Reconstruction of the Fables”. And, of course, #beingjen.

120

Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

On March 5, 1775, 255 years ago today, the first five patriots were slain for America in the Boston Massacre: • Samuel Gray • Samuel Maverick • James Caldwell • Crispus Attucks • Patrick Carr A quarter of a millennium is a good run for any country, I guess, but all things end. Time to start anew?

294

Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The final Wu-Tang Clan tour is happening. Tickets are expensive, of course, but fortunately, financing options are available. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhUn...

010

Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Another annoying “aren’t there more important things going on right now?” record listening post. • Miles Davis, “Kind of Blue” (1959) • Television, “Marquee Moon” (1977) • Sleater-Kinney, “Dig Me Out” (1997) • Shellac, “To All Trains” (2024)

010

Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s face in this photo speaks for the whole world. Source: www.npr.org/2025/02/20/g...

060

Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

That was great! They played “Roadrunner”, “Louie Louie”, and a snippet of the Beatles “I Feel Fine”. And the exit music was Fugazi. (Or and a bunch of his songs, White Stripes, Raconteurs, a “Seven Nation Army” crowd singalong…)

020

Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

#waitingfor Jack White and, of course, #beingjen. (And this being Roadrunner, the PA system just played the Modern Lovers. ❣️)

140

Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Captain America: Brave New World, plot synopsis: A deranged red president under the control of a guy fixated on green stuff tries to start a war with America’s allies before, thwarted by a coalition of Black, Latino, & Jewish activists, settles on just destroying the White House and a bunch of DC.

130

Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Exactly. And going while it’s red, and the intersection is clear, is safer than waiting for the cars behind you to start moving. (Basically: the Idaho Stop.) Separately: found the Reddit comment where I wrote up a summary of the grant bill language: www.reddit.com/r/Somerville...

110

Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Yeah, these were “cheap”, but the average price seemed to be around $30 (double what I used to pay for CDs), and some were $50 or more. Yeesh. I notice that some, like the Peter Gabriel ones, include Bandcamp download codes. 👍 Being able to stream the album takes some of the bite out of the price.

120

Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

“I’m now one of those annoying record snobs” month continues.

240

Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I’m not really a “beach” person, but for some reason this is saved in my photo archive, so I’m going with it.

010

Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Yep! Got that when it came out, and was finally got a chance to listen to it today. :-) (I already had the Minor Threat discography CD, and the “Flex Your Head” & “State of the Union” compilation CDs, so those cover a lot of the same material, but still…)

020

Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Recently got a record player, for the first time since I was a kid, which means now I need records. Naturally, the first order of business was to get the Fugazi catalog from @dischord.bsky.social. Surely a federal coup is enough motivation to finally bring this band back together, right?

2140

Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Yes, Dave, they have the weird Kit-Kats.

030

Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Finally visited the new Davis Square HMart. Was not disappointed in their inventory.

1171

Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

All this talk about sportsball gets me thinking it’s a great night to rewatch the best sports movie ever made.

241

Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

#waitingfor the generative Brian Eno documentary and, of course, #beingjen (Actually this is a lie, a group of us watched it last night, and it was fascinating and I want to see it again.)

030

Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

That generally seems to be on the right track to me, yes. The 1899 one is curious though. There don’t seem to be any 1896-1989 specimens, so that’s weird; there seem to be year-gaps in 1884 & 1886, but no multi-year gaps. It could be a “1896” typo, but if so it would be the only one that year. Odd.

110

Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

And then there’s the one from 1863, but I think it’s a cast iron typo, because why would it be a full seven years older than any other specimen? Implausible. That and there’s one from “187”, but that seems to be a typo, too. And there’s a couple of undated ones, which are presumably more typos.

110

Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

…so you dispute the 1899 one? ;-) www.google.com/maps/d/viewe...

110

Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

The Jesus Lizard are the reason why rock & roll was invented.

050

Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

#waitingfor Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown” and, of course, #beingjen.

130

Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Nathan Hale regretted having but one life to give for his country. I, on the other hand, regret that I had but one Twitter account to abandon, and that I already did so years ago.

020