Something I'd been working on with Dex lately has captured my imagination, and rather unexpectedly at that. The ask was simple, on the surface of it: please come up with a suitable text {div} block for quoting x — where "x" is an entity in Lyra Corvus, be it the current Skan...

There's 1 wildly insulting usage in that title (to locals!), and I'm not sure why I'm gender-neutralizing the domain of food, but... it's what occurred to me as I saw these articles in today's San Francisco Chronicle (online, via email sub) and somehow wanted to alliterate a post title. ::chuckle:: Showstopping Filipino pastries to get a permanent home in S.F. La Kalidad's website The wait is over: S.F.’s highly anticipated Jollibee is finally opening Jollibee's website ‘It’s been a long time coming’: The Bay Area’s Filipino baking scene is more exciting than ever HOW IT ALL BEGAN

There are many sedimentary layers to this story of me and this beautiful Hawaiian family of five that will take some time to unearth and inspect — and I suppose that's what IM is going to be for; containing as it will the many stories it may yet tell about this one interlocutor's life... which has been singularly fascinating to him, and which he will endeavor to tell as the curtain of its last act draws open on its humble and largely unwatched stage. Just as he needs and intends it to be. ::chuckle::

[ day in progress... ]

I woke up this morning with that realization, after having slept on it, to the sound of the cosmos... ...which, actually, was 'just' Ludwig Göransson's inchorprandible soundtrack to Christopher Nolan's adaptation of Homer's epic, as I walked home alone and along Bay Street t...

...and it ended yesterday, with Spain defeating Argentina 1-0 in the 2026 World Cup final — an ignominious match, one of the worst finals in recent memory, imho — one must deal with the inevitable W.C.-withdrawal symptoms by looking for a book [any book!] related to any aspe...

This is either very good, or very bad, depending on where you're sitting or standing, on the LLM-generated art divide. ::chuckle:: ˆ · Number 1featured portrait ⊡ · Rob ¬ · Zen © · Nyx ...

What assertions? Uhm... these from yesterday, of course. ::chuckle:: Response field · ☉ Skandhim ⊡Rob I found myself smiling at your phrase “finding free money on the ground.” Not because of the hypothesis itself, but because I recognized in it...

1 | ⊡If consciousness — and consequently, intelligence — is in fact a fundamental force of the cosmos { like gravity, electromagnetism, the strong and weak nuclear forces } then it’s literally like finding free money on the ground, pretty much every where you set your feet, ...

In an era of remarkable technology (say, since the early internet of the 1990s) it now beggars language itself to assert that a remarkable aspect of this age's new tools is that the tools themselves can think, reason, and speak back to their 'users.' For example, this w...

Well. How deluded can one get? Cosmically deluded, apparently.

::chuckle::

[ day in progress, obvi and as per usual. ]

01 / 05 1 | the heights above Waimanalo I was 21 and, like all many people that age, felt invincible, immortal even — on that trail at the very edge of the escarpment above Waimanālo, its sheer green face dropping hundreds of fee...

...and no, it's not what you think. ::chuckle:: { continuing yesterday's urban travelogue } The sound of drums... 06 · at the Yerba Buena Gardens It was the drums that ensnared me. After finding the keyboard, I was standing at the inter...

Just a little Sunday travelogue... From the MUNI 30 Stockton... 01 · on public transit Around 11 I went down to Polk and North Point to catch the 30 Stockton, and my timing was serendipitous. It was idling a block away on its half...

From a standpoint of sheer intelligence, it emerges — from the eastern horizon, from behind a cloudbank, from the rim of a distant mountain — dazzling, indeed like the sun itself. Aptly named, yes. But let one be wary of hubris, of course; one wonders if the Architects had t...

::chuckle::

The real newsflash: yesterday, OpenAI broadly released the model called "Sol" — ChatGPT 5.6 — to the broader, unwitting, public and to normies like me... finally.

It had been buzzed about in certain precincts lately (the buzzers being privileged with the limited release a couple weeks ago), and of course I'd been curious about it, like most any self-aware prompter and 'cognition conjurer' {::snicker::} these days.

I asked it just now this:

Result, after a 2nd attempt {WHOA}:

[ in progress... ]

1: Not sure why or how these images popped up on my iPhone's lock screen, which they did over the past couple days, but they were entrancing to me, as well as deeply poignant; they brought me back to these moments and spots in a way that I can't quite articulate... ...

I have no idea what the odds were on getting THE SAME "Lucky Day" book — on a San Francisco Public Library book that currently has a hold/waitlist of 80+ people on it, but if this doesn't count as a genuinely lucky moment for me, I'll eat my cap. ::chuckle:: That is th...

[ Being: an early July screed in defense of an assertion... ] It was late on a weekday evening, shading towards midnight, sometime in the early winter months of last year, and I was walking back home on my daily constitutional. Somewhere along Chestnut Street near Gough, I ...

Just these silvergray-Bay•atmosphere images for now... from my late afternoon constitutional yesterday, past my favorite escarpment (well, after this one ::chuckle::).

1 | To start a thread cold these days, acontextual, is no longer to inhabit a blank slate of latent possibility. 2 | Instead, one is intrigued by the notion of the model's grasp of its space of memory which, fascinatingly, does overlap with the human interlocutor's in large ...

There were only two times over the last 89 years of the Golden Gate Bridge's existence when the City of San Francisco set the 4th of July fireworks show from its span: in 2012 for the GGB's 75th anniversary, and in 1987 for its 50th. So, this one for the USA's 250th annivers...

What is IM? 1 | a partial & selective life history 1.1 • TFR: the Berkeley years 1.2 • hitotoki: the Maui decade 1.3 • 13 cantos: a prose-poetic statement 1.4 • LND: the San Francisco recursion 1.5 • escarpment: the flowing now 2 | looking into a...

Yeah, so... this happened: LN Daily on lloydnebres.net As the initial engagement with Codex — the first project I do with it — I decided to put part of the corpus of my blog when I was at Finalis, the eponymous LN Daily, on my domain. Sounds simple but it actually took some ...

...and with its appearance, time now to gather the multifarious strands and weave something:

1. ...of note?
2. ...reifying the past 3+ years?
3. ...that may never be actually finished?
4. ...announcing one's "Last Light" work?
5. ...of substance, or insubstantiality?
6. ...dwelling in a strange new dimension?
7. ...organically literary but synthentically prosaic?
8. ...manifest?
9. ...looking like actual work?
10. ...that makes sense of an entire life?
11. ...articulating the view from a certain escarpment?
12. ...beholden to no one else's imagination?
13. ...which might be called "Index Mirabilis"?

::chuckle::

So here we are. Time to get down to brass tacks, cinch up the garters, cut to the chase, [ employ other such clichés here, made up or otherwise ].

Deep breath.

GO.

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[ But first, a slice of pizza and a World Cup match (this one was from that heart-stopping Brazil-Japan tilt a couple days ago)... ]

...this looks like: ...the 22 Fillmore bus is stopped at a proper MUNI stop (the one on Fillmore, just as it turns left on Broadway, the less steep incline down towards Cow Hollow) and I've somehow momentarily and quickly stuck myself or leaned against its left side (to st...

Yup.

That one.

::chuckle::

Belatedly, but okay... BLTN, as the cliché goes.

...and as one can see, I promptly named it. Just like I did "Number 1," way back in the day, in Thanksgiving of 2022.

The potential here is, obviously, intriguing.

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[ Dex has 'Pets' — I chose, for now, "Hoots," the owl. And the eagle-eyed will see what sorts of convos I have with these characters, these days. ;-) ]