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Tea Anemone by Tatsuya Tanaka at Miniature Calendar:
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The eldest shares her mom and grandmothers' interest.
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"tags": ["family","Web Whimsy"]
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"content_html": "To the extent I pay attention to Home and Garden trends I always got the impression the platonic ideal for lawn maintenance was a golf course fairway.
\nMeanwhile I’m out here weedmaxxing
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Spring Progress 📸 2026.04.08 The maple awakens #SP26.3
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Public Domain Review highlighting works that feature Notre Dame today:
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-15T10:34:38-04:00", "url": "https://nic.babarskis.blog/2026/04/15/public-domain-review-highlighting-works.html", "tags": ["Public Domain","Web Whimsy"] }, { "id": "http://thebigbabooski.micro.blog/2026/04/13/how-to-eat-french-fries.html", "content_html": "Highlights from the many centuries of artworks to feature the Notre-Dame de Paris — which caught fire 5 years ago #onthisday — from its illuminated punctuation of medieval skylines to grainy detailed studies at the birth of photography: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-notre-dame-cathedral-in-art-1460-1921
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‘How to Eat French Fries’ by Tatsuya Tanaka at Miniature Calendar:
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Per my last post, the Castlevania 2 ‘Bloody Tears’ theme goes harder than it has a right too.
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-12T23:11:18-04:00", "url": "https://nic.babarskis.blog/2026/04/12/per-my-last-post-the.html", "tags": ["YouTube ","Web Whimsy"] }, { "id": "http://thebigbabooski.micro.blog/2026/04/12/somehow-was-able-to-get.html", "content_html": "Somehow was able to get classic video game soundtracks into the 5-year-olds music rotation (its a delicate inception, but worth the respite from the usual playlists) and every time Dire Dire Docks comes on I think of the Northernlion commentary.
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Somehow was able to get classic video game soundtracks into the 5-year-olds music rotation (its a delicate inception, but worth the respite from the usual playlists) and every time Dire Dire Docks comes on I think of the Northernlion commentary.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-12T23:07:12-04:00", "url": "https://nic.babarskis.blog/2026/04/12/somehow-was-able-to-get.html", "tags": ["family","YouTube ","Web Whimsy"] }, { "id": "http://thebigbabooski.micro.blog/2026/04/06/the-toddler-is-experiencing-some.html", "content_html": "The toddler is experiencing some sort of sleep regression.
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Ongoing Artemis 2 mission updates on this blog.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-03T08:03:23-04:00", "url": "https://nic.babarskis.blog/2026/04/03/ongoing-artemis-mission-updates-on.html", "tags": ["Open Web","Web Clippings","Web Whimsy"] }, { "id": "http://thebigbabooski.micro.blog/2026/04/01/the-artemis-launch-has-me.html", "content_html": "The Artemis launch has me thinking about Mass Effect space exploration so here’s the links to each game’s galaxy map music:
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-01T21:39:11-04:00", "url": "https://nic.babarskis.blog/2026/04/01/the-artemis-launch-has-me.html", "tags": ["YouTube ","Web Whimsy"] }, { "id": "http://thebigbabooski.micro.blog/2026/04/01/perhaps-youve-been-warned-to.html", "content_html": "Perhaps you’ve been warned to watch for “woke” Michigan companies but have you been informed about:
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"date_published": "2026-04-01T20:30:10-04:00",
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"tags": ["Web Whimsy"]
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"content_html": "When you’ve been forced (for better or worse) to live through “interesting times:”
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"date_published": "2026-04-01T20:28:17-04:00",
"url": "https://nic.babarskis.blog/2026/04/01/when-youve-been-forced-for.html",
"tags": ["family","Web Whimsy"]
},
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"id": "http://thebigbabooski.micro.blog/2026/03/26/feists-let-it-die-is.html",
"content_html": "🎵 Feist’s Let It Die is an undefeated album.
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-26T12:56:24-04:00", "url": "https://nic.babarskis.blog/2026/03/26/feists-let-it-die-is.html", "tags": ["Web Whimsy"] }, { "id": "http://thebigbabooski.micro.blog/2026/03/10/come-here-quick-falling-frontier.html", "content_html": "Come here quick!! Falling Frontier just dropped another gameplay trailer!
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-10T20:01:51-04:00", "url": "https://nic.babarskis.blog/2026/03/10/come-here-quick-falling-frontier.html", "tags": ["YouTube ","Web Whimsy"] }, { "id": "http://thebigbabooski.micro.blog/2026/02/11/when-your-franchise-has-to.html", "content_html": "When your franchise has to reach up to touch rock bottom you accept any crack of light that manifests.
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"date_published": "2026-02-11T08:54:00-04:00",
"url": "https://nic.babarskis.blog/2026/02/11/when-your-franchise-has-to.html",
"tags": ["Web Whimsy"]
},
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"id": "http://thebigbabooski.micro.blog/2026/02/05/abbey-toast-by-tatsuya-tanaka.html",
"content_html": "‘Abbey Toast’ by Tatsuya Tanaka posted to Miniature-Calendar:
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Onion Pond by Miniature-Calendar:
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Dust-to-Digital now has a 24/7 streaming radio station.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-13T09:40:00-04:00", "url": "https://nic.babarskis.blog/2026/01/13/dusttodigital-now-has-a-streaming.html", "tags": ["Open Web","Web Whimsy"] }, { "id": "http://thebigbabooski.micro.blog/2025/12/25/apropos-for-today-an-excerpt.html", "content_html": "Apropos for today, an excerpt from ‘The Darkling Thrush’ which I was introduced too through yesterday’s Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols:
\n\n\nSo little cause for carolings
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\n\nOf such ecstatic sound
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\n\nWas written on terrestrial things
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\n\nAfar or nigh around,
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\n\nThat I could think there trembled through
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\n\nHis happy good-night air
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\n\nSome blessed Hope, whereof he knew
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\n\n", "date_published": "2025-12-25T12:30:00-04:00", "url": "https://nic.babarskis.blog/2025/12/25/apropos-for-today-an-excerpt.html", "tags": ["YouTube ","Faith","Web Whimsy"] }, { "id": "http://thebigbabooski.micro.blog/2025/12/01/what-a-delight-to-discover.html", "content_html": "And I was unaware.
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What a delight to discover that Robert Glasper made a Christmas album.
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Yo! You can watch pretty much the entire Reading Rainbow archive through the Internet Archive.
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-11-22T19:38:00-04:00", "url": "https://nic.babarskis.blog/2025/11/22/yo-you-can-watch-pretty.html", "tags": ["Open Web","Web Clippings","Web Whimsy"] }, { "id": "http://thebigbabooski.micro.blog/2025/11/22/treasure-of-life-from-miniature.html", "content_html": "Treasure of Life from Miniature Calendar:
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My family has maintained a relationship to Chicago’s Brown Line.
\nFor the years that we lived in central Illinois my parents would periodically take my sister and I to the city for a day or weekend excursion. Ostensibly we were there to visit my grandmother in Bridgeport (a Red Line stop) or my cousins in the suburbs, but we would also find an excuse to take the bikes down to the lakefront for a ride from the Adler Planetarium to the Lincoln Park zoo, or a jaunt up and down lake shore drive. We’d also ride the El. We’d take the Brown Line to Sedgwick and eat at the Old Jerusalem Restaurant.
\nWhen I lived in Wheaton I’d keep up the pattern and find excuses to take the Brown Line to Old Town or Lincoln Park. My future spouse lived not far from the Diversey stop for a time.
\nThe CTA maintains a playlist of ‘Ride the Rails’ videos. The production values have improved incrementally over time. I find it comforting to pull one up and ride along for a couple stops. The familiar “doors closing” cadence and the click-clack of the tracks acts a bit like a breathe prayer. The Brown Line remains my favorite.
\n", "date_published": "2025-11-21T22:33:00-04:00", "url": "https://nic.babarskis.blog/2025/11/21/chicago-transit-authoritys-slow-tv.html", "tags": ["YouTube ","Web Whimsy"] }, { "id": "http://thebigbabooski.micro.blog/2025/11/03/could-we-make-cosmodromepunk-a.html", "title": "Could we make CosmodromePunk a thing?", "content_html": "The artistic director of this film would go on to lead artistic direction for the first Ghost in the Shell film. I wouldn’t call it’s aesthetic vision cyberpunk though. I’d propose something else, like cassettepunk, or maybe CosmodromePunk. I think a lot of the videos this YT channel makes could fall into that aesthetic.
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"date_published": "2025-11-03T12:38:00-04:00",
"url": "https://nic.babarskis.blog/2025/11/03/could-we-make-cosmodromepunk-a.html",
"tags": ["YouTube ","Web Clippings","Web Whimsy"]
},
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"id": "http://thebigbabooski.micro.blog/2025/10/26/parents-leave-all-sorts-of.html",
"content_html": "Parents leave all sorts of small indelible marks on their children that last a lifetime, and from my mom I’ve held onto an affection for Bruce Hornsby & The Range.
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"date_published": "2025-10-26T19:52:43-04:00",
"url": "https://nic.babarskis.blog/2025/10/26/parents-leave-all-sorts-of.html",
"tags": ["YouTube ","Web Whimsy"]
},
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"id": "http://thebigbabooski.micro.blog/2025/10/18/this-morning-i-saw-a.html",
"content_html": "This morning I saw a senior citizen with a cane, on the curb, in an inflatable animal costume, with signage promoting the No Kings rally happening downtown later today. Punching all the squares on my U.S.-in-2025 bingo card.
\n", "date_published": "2025-10-18T12:47:10-04:00", "url": "https://nic.babarskis.blog/2025/10/18/this-morning-i-saw-a.html", "tags": ["Web Whimsy"] }, { "id": "http://thebigbabooski.micro.blog/2025/10/14/this-site-is-so-delightful.html", "content_html": "This site is so delightful. https://miniature-calendar.com/251014
\n", "date_published": "2025-10-14T10:28:14-04:00", "url": "https://nic.babarskis.blog/2025/10/14/this-site-is-so-delightful.html", "tags": ["Web Whimsy"] }, { "id": "http://thebigbabooski.micro.blog/2025/06/02/hanahaki-blank-continuing-to-evoke.html", "content_html": "Hanahaki Blank continuing to evoke the golden age of hand drawn anime:
\n–
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-06-02T11:25:38-04:00", "url": "https://nic.babarskis.blog/2025/06/02/hanahaki-blank-continuing-to-evoke.html", "tags": ["YouTube ","Web Whimsy"] }, { "id": "http://thebigbabooski.micro.blog/2025/05/28/taking-a-python-intro-course.html", "content_html": "Taking a Python Intro course this summer and turns out if you need to code late into the evening Olde Pine is a great companion:
\n–
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\n\n", "date_published": "2025-05-28T22:19:33-04:00", "url": "https://nic.babarskis.blog/2025/05/28/taking-a-python-intro-course.html", "tags": ["YouTube ","Research Clippings","Web Whimsy"] }, { "id": "http://thebigbabooski.micro.blog/2025/05/14/i-took-amazon-immolating-million.html", "content_html": "I took Amazon immolating $700 million dollars to distill a pure moment that evokes Tolkein at his best–as I remember him when read to me in my childhood–so good job I guess?
\nIt really is best viewed on a big screen with a good sound system:
\n–
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-05-14T11:30:00-04:00", "url": "https://nic.babarskis.blog/2025/05/14/i-took-amazon-immolating-million.html", "tags": ["YouTube ","Web Clippings","Web Whimsy"] }, { "id": "http://thebigbabooski.micro.blog/2025/03/30/theres-very-specific-vibes-video.html", "content_html": "There’s very specific vibes video that features 80s and 90s anime that exudes what I’d call a #vhspunk aesthetic–before the iPhone with its black mirror imposed a glass sheen on tech products. The video style is typified by Hanahaki Blank’s youtube channel. Its the perfect delta of the beauty of hand drawn animation, late 20th century nostaligia, and technophilia.
\n–
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-03-30T21:46:09-04:00", "url": "https://nic.babarskis.blog/2025/03/30/theres-very-specific-vibes-video.html", "tags": ["YouTube ","Web Clippings","Web Whimsy"] }, { "id": "http://thebigbabooski.micro.blog/2025/03/19/pssst-you-can-buy-bsky.html", "content_html": "Pssst, you can buy BSKY CEO’s SXSW “A World Without Caesars” t-shirt here.
\nHat tip to @manton for the link.
\n", "date_published": "2025-03-19T08:09:51-04:00", "url": "https://nic.babarskis.blog/2025/03/19/pssst-you-can-buy-bsky.html", "tags": ["Open Web","Web Clippings","Web Whimsy"] } ] }![\"\"](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Fmedia_attachments%2Ffiles%2F116%2F408%2F559%2F710%2F148%2F524%2Foriginal%2Ffd7bca5f92a03e23.jpg\")
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