The St. Petersburg City Council voted to approve 12 legally binding agreements governing construction and funding for a new Tampa Bay Rays stadium and a surrounding redevelopment called the Historic Gas Plant District.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/st-petersburg/2024/07/18/rays-stadium-vote-results-city-council-stream/

Overheard: deadline-driven development

Nope. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/39816781/mlb-2024-new-ballpark-food

The photo series took inspiration from the photographs of life in the trenches during WWI.
https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/news/i-shot-photos-with-a-108-year-old-camera-lens-to-commemorate-the-soldiers-of-wwi

Last fall, an unemployed guy named Julian Joseph used LazyApply to apply for nearly 1,000 jobs while he slept. He landed around 20 interviews from 5,000 submissions. https://www.wired.com/story/this-ai-bot-fills-out-job-applications-for-you-while-you-sleep

I've been cooking this week from the Easy German Cookbook: a basic meatloaf and gravy, and grilled pork chops that were marinated for 24 hours. Comfort food at its finest, and budget-friendly, too. https://amzn.to/4cM2s6i

The Objects of Our Life: Steve’s talk at the 1983 International Design Conference in Aspen

Best thing I've read all week, for a whole bunch of reasons.

In the talk, Steve predicts that, by 1986, sales of the PC would exceed sales of cars, and that in the following ten years, people would be spending more time with a PC than in a car. These were absurd claims for the early 1980s.

https://stevejobsarchive.com/exhibits/objects-of-our-life

What if we could find a germ that broke down our plastic waste into tiny building blocks that could be reassembled and recycled again and again, allowing us never to produce another ounce of new plastic again? That’s the dream that scientists are now pursuing, using bacteria, fungi and more that can, functionally, “eat” plastic. https://pgsignal.com/2024/04/08/natures-recyclers-can-bacteria-and-fungi-win-the-war-on-plastic

The DAK catalog archive
"You might fantasize about owning one of these items. You might dream about how your life will change with it in your home. And you’ll be blown away by the price. But really, it’s all because of the copy." https://cabel.com/2023/11/06/dak-and-the-golden-age-of-gadget-catalogs/

Lukather: We were sold on: “It’s going to be the new Star Wars.” https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/the-unlikely-story-of-totos-soundtrack-for-david-lynchs-infamous-dune-adaptation/

I just watched From Time to Time on Prime Video. The movie has quite a cast, including many Downton Abbey actors. You had me at Maggie Smith!

The story spans a family's experiences in an old house across two time periods, 1944 and 1809. A ghost story in reverse, sort of.

It's a sweet mystery/time travel story. Fairly predictable, but in a nice way. It'd be a good choice for a night when your brain is tired, and you don't want to work too hard.

https://amzn.to/3y4V7jf

The untold story of a world-renowned architect, an obsessive librarian, and a $5,500 house that never was.
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/frank-lloyd-wright-edith-carlson-untold-story/

This might be useful if I had an L-shaped cat. https://amzn.to/3Wa4hD7

Songs you didn't know were inspired by literature
Worth reading the comments, for a change, which add some songs the article missed.
https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2016/may/20/10-songs-inspired-by-literature

Sound on, folks! https://defrag98.com

Researchers at the University of Washington conducted a three-month autoethnographic study — drawing on their own experiences as people with and without disabilities — to test AI tools’ utility for accessibility. Though researchers found cases in which the tools were helpful, they also found significant problems with AI tools in most use cases." https://www.washington.edu/news/2023/11/02/ai-accessibility-chatgpt-midjourney-ableist/

I needed to hear Kevin Kline singing "Pirate King."

I'm sure you need it too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH4IuO55U9I

“My one-on-one meetings go like this,” Jackson tells me:
Manager: “How is everything?”
Jackson: “Pretty good.”
Manager: “Cool! …Well, these meetings just get shorter and shorter, don’t they?"

(by me in 2016) https://www.oreilly.com/content/3-reasons-to-stop-hating-one-on-one-meetings/

Historic England is on the hunt for ghost signs -- those beautifully faded painted signs advertising businesses and products of the past. https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/features/ghost-signs/