booknotefinder

Almost got scammed by something like this when our dishwasher broke last year. Found on Google Maps a listing for “[locality] Appliance Repair”, in a small shopping center storefront nearby. Called the number and sounded like I had reached a large call center, with the sound of other people talking and typing in the background, so this was the first red flag (the storefront on the map would have been this small little place). They wanted a credit card number in advance, for which they’d charge $75 or something as a deposit, also unusual for this kind of business around here. Halfway through giving them my number my spidey sense reached a tipping point and I hung up.

Double checking the map later and looking at Street View, the storefront was conveniently obscured by a tree.

Kali Malone’s “The Sacrificial Code” is my favorite musical find of the last year, and is entirely on pipe organ. Very mysterious and meditative.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bpZqFa0Qiro

For a midcentury, modal, classical bent, I love the music of Rayner Brown, who was a church organist in Pasadena. Recordings are rare but worth it to track down. There are a few good examples on YouTube; here’s one:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xL8p-MuwzDY

In that same vein, Leo Sowerby: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9O55UTNhHk4

In a used copy of William Kent’s Data and Reality, I found a 3x5” index card with a handwritten note in blue highlighter. On one side, “It’s who you know, not what you can do.” On the back, “Listen to your fucking conscience.” I always wonder what the story was there. It didn’t feel like a note to self; perhaps a warning for young programmers?