Occassional updates to the about page. 2026-03-14T09:44:52-07:00 https://www.justing.net/ Justin Garofoli justin@garofo.li Copyright © 2026 {"name"=>"Justin Garofoli", "name_short"=>"Justin G.", "email"=>"justin@garofo.li"}. All rights reserved. 2024-03-30T00:00:00-07:00 https://www.justing.net/about/2024/03/30/about-update

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<h3 id="what-you-will-find-here">What You Will Find Here</h3> <p>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:</p> <ul> <li>Field recording. I like long ambience recordings, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_television">Slow TV</a> document style. There aren’t enough of these, so I make them myself.</li> <li>Photography. I mostly pursue this in a documentary fashion, but we’ll see where it goes.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Questions and ideas about human society.</li> <li>Inquiry into the Northern California bioregion. I’m curious about where I live.</li> <li>Notes on things I’ve read. Sometimes tech news of the day, sometimes other things.</li> <li>Facts and ideas that I’ve found fascinating. Usually in the sciences and maybe economics or anthropology (whatever that means).</li> </ul> <h3 id="philosophy">Philosophy</h3> <p>The idea that a blog is very long and complex search query for interesting people and stuff, <a href="https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/search-query">Henrik’s idea</a>, 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.</p> <p>Lately I’ve been using the site as a public <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonplace_book">commonplace book</a>; I write about things so I will remember them. I like <a href="https://austinkleon.substack.com/p/inside-my-commonplace-diary">Austin’s</a> 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.</p> <p>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 <a href="https://minutestomidnight.co.uk/blog/de-brand/">this post</a>. So I’ve added the comment and commit to just being a messy old non-brand focused human here on this site.</p> <p class=email-reply>To Reply: <a href="mailto:justin@garofo.li?subject=Reply to the post 'About Updated' on justing.net&body=url: https://www.justing.nethttps://www.justing.net/about/2024/03/30/about-update.html">You can reply by email.</a></p> 2024-02-07T00:00:00-08:00 https://www.justing.net/about/2024/02/07/about-update

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<p>The idea that a blog is very long and complex search query for interesting people and stuff, <a href="https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/search-query">Henrik’s idea</a>, 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.</p> <p>Lately I’ve been using the site as a public <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonplace_book">commonplace book</a>; I write about things so I will remember them. You are welcome to look around. Feel free to contact me, I’d love to hear from you.</p> <p>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 <a href="https://minutestomidnight.co.uk/blog/de-brand/">this post</a>. So I’ve added the comment and commit to just being a messy old non-brand focused human here on this site.</p> <p class=email-reply>To Reply: <a href="mailto:justin@garofo.li?subject=Reply to the post 'About Updated' on justing.net&body=url: https://www.justing.nethttps://www.justing.net/about/2024/02/07/about-update.html">Comments by email are welcome.</a></p>