justing.net

Hi!

Welcome to the home page of Justin Garofoli.

I’ve been posting stuff at this domain since 2005.

Bio: Let me know via email if you actually want a short bio here.

Recent Updates

• 24NOV14THU

  — A Library of Dictionaries in Notes.

• 24NOV11MON

  — Week Notes No. 29 in Notes.

• 24NOV04MON

  — Week Notes No. 28 in Notes.

• 24NOV04MON

  — New to me Facts and Ideas in October 2024 in Notes.

• 24OCT28MON

  — Week Notes No. 27 in Notes.

• 24OCT21MON

  — Week Notes No. 26 in Notes.

• 24OCT14MON

  — Week Notes No. 25 in Notes.

• 24OCT09WED

  — New to me Facts and Ideas in September 2024 in Notes.

• 24OCT02WED

  — What I’m up to this week in Now.

• 24SEP29SUN

  — Week Notes No. 24 in Notes.

See the archive for the rest.

Contents

These are just in alphabetical order. And the list is growing.

• About. See also below if you don’t want to click. (rss)
• Bioregionalism. Area Nature. (rss)
• Blogroll. Blogs I follow. (opml, view)
• Culinaria. Food and Cooking. Coming soon. (rss)
• Field Recordings. Binaural audio, experience a place with sound. (rss)
• Ideas. Maybe someday. (rss)
• Interesting Links. Interesting and relevant to me, at least. (rss)
• Notes. Notes for me. I won’t call it a blog, but you could read it that way. (rss)
• Now. What am I doing nowadays. (rss)
• Photos. Photostream. (rss)
• Postcards. Concise notes plus an image. (rss)
• Queries. Lazy web searches. Email me if you know anything. (rss)
• Reading. Not exclusive to text. (rss)
• Site Updates. Significant site changes. (rss)
• TIL. Today I Learned. (rss)
• Webcrumbs. Annotated bookmarks. (rss tbd)

A feed for everything: rss.¹ If you don’t want to use a feed reader there are other options.² You can always refresh the page ☺.

About

Updated: 24MAR30SAT , dedicated rss.

What You Will Find Here

I’m keeping this site mostly as a record of my hobbies and activities. My interests and curiosities are recorded here. Some of the things you’ll find:

• Field recording. I like long ambience recordings, Slow TV document style. There aren’t enough of these, so I make them myself.
• Photography. I mostly pursue this in a documentary fashion, but we’ll see where it goes.
• Food and Cooking. I enjoy cooking, but this isn’t a food blog. I’m just capturing a record of the things I enjoyed for reference later.
• Questions and ideas about human society.
• Inquiry into the Northern California bioregion. I’m curious about where I live.
• Notes on things I’ve read. Sometimes tech news of the day, sometimes other things.
• Facts and ideas that I’ve found fascinating. Usually in the sciences and maybe economics or anthropology (whatever that means).

Philosophy

The idea that a blog is very long and complex search query for interesting people and stuff, Henrik’s idea, seems like a fine one to me. I’ll try it. So if anything you see here sounds interesting or you know something related, go ahead and send me an email. There’s a link right on the page, whichever page you happen to be on. Don’t be shy.

Lately I’ve been using the site as a public commonplace book; I write about things so I will remember them. I like Austin’s take on how to operate them: capture raw material in a buffer and add it later where it fits. You are welcome to look around. Feel free to contact me, I’d love to hear from you.

Also you will notice that there is no effort here to make this site into some kind of brand. Humans are more complex than a brand, and if I wanted this to be a brand, I’d make it into some special project. I was already thinking about making this sort of remark, after reading Odell’s book about ‘How to do nothing.’ And the inspiration was again reinforced by this post. So I’ve added the comment and commit to just being a messy old non-brand focused human here on this site.

Contact

You can contact me at justin@garofo.li. Note that this is a new email address, but most of the old ones still work.

You can also reach me at @justing@sciencemastodon.com on Mastodon, and @jgaro.bsky.social @justing.net on BlueSky.