A Chris

@ckatkinson.bsky.social

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A dad who's into music, bikes, math, and computers. Living in Madison, WI.

Marisa Anderson playing a tele shaped guitar alone on stage
Instruments on stage bathed in blue light. Waiting for a jazz fusion extravaganza.
Future Islands on stage. Cool red and white pillars of light
A screenshot of the MISSION ACCOMPLISHED banner that Dubya famously stood in front of when the mission in Iraq was very much not complete crudely altered in MS Paint to say VERY COMPLETE
Cover of Joe Farrell's penny arcade. Blurry motorcycle moving to the right
Pink and green streaks in the sky
Red light. Tenor sax left, Bass VI center, drummer left. Also dented keg and baseball bat.
Screenshot showing that a bus is arriving 3 minutes early.
Two jack o lanterns. One has a typical pumkin face. The other has the numerals 6 and 7 carved in.
The Bad Plus performing on stage bathed in blue light
A physical copy of the album referenced above
4-piece band playing on stage at UW. Left to right: piano, trumpet, electric bass, drums. Not pictured: audio moire patterns.
Old yellow Ford truck with an "IMPEACH NIXON" sign in the back window.
Bumble bee on purple and yellow flowers
Green bodied bee on purple flowers
Said musicians playing (organ, drums, guitar) in a colorfully lit jazz club
Pamphlet of hotel amenities. Includes guitar loans!
Skyscrapers of Chicago surrounding the river in day.
Single shoe on the sidewalk
Pictures of computer monitor. It says: "Bangkok quiz" "What is the capital of Thailand?"
Sun, setting over lake Tahoe. Purple mountains.
Gauss wearing a bonnet.
My hand holding 11 raspberries varying in shade from red to purple. Not pictured: their delicious flavor.
A view of Cincinnati
The setup. Lots of percussion instruments scattered around on the floor around where the artists will play. Toy pianos, flutes, soprano saxophone also visible. Also, electronic toothbrushes.
Cover of "Signs preceding the end of the world" by Yuri Herrera, translated by Lisa Dillman
Ladder mounted hose spraying onto the roof of a house.
Flowers picked from my garden of plants that I didn't plant.
TRUMP SHITS PANTS sticker on pole
Sticker on airplane seat that says "Literature only"
The performance described above. GZ left on piano and synth. AG right on drums.
Jazz trio on stage bathed in purple light.
Herbie Hancock piloting his synthesizer bubble on the cover of his album "Thrust"
Image indicating tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings
Desert art. 28 foot tall sculpture of a person's head. Two pairs of hands are on either side.
Cover of a love supreme by John Coltrane.
Dyson vacuum cleaner with Ryobi battery.
Mid century modern church with organist playing.
Image of the cover of Matthew Halsall's "An ever changing view"
On frozen lake mendota. Expanse of snow. Faint ski tracks.
A suburban backyard, covered in snow. Two kids doing kid stuff in the snow.
Geordie greep playing in Madison
Chris's record collection (and a few of Lisa's). If you actually wanted detail from this alt text, message me and I can help you. Maybe.
Fancy scallops and carrots
The Wisconsin state capitol building barely visible on the horizon viewed over a prairie meadow
Red telecaster
Close up screenshot of a map of the part of Minnesota that's clearly in Canada (ie the Northwest Angle).
1960s Harmony Monterey arch top guitar.
Cover of Jean luc pointy's "imaginary voices". Image of the man himself playing violin.
Basher playing (a tenor saxophone player is center stage. Drummer behind him to the right. Synth player off to the left. Bathed in bluish light). Not pictured because I didn't capture audio: jazz intensifying.
Banner in the sky that says what I said it says in the parent tweet.
Screenshot of set list from the day described above. I'm sorry, but I don't feel like transcribing it all into an alt text. Look up his set from 8/31/2008 if you care. If you really really care, DM me and I'll help you out. I support alt text, but I have my limits :)
Screenshot of thumbs up reacts to thumbs up reacts in a text message thread.
Cartoon drawing of a mountainous landscape. A hand drops a ball that rolls through a valley into an eventual local minimum where it rests. There is quite a bit of text explaining what this has to do with John Hopfield's associative memory something or other. For more details, fire up your screen reader and take a look at this pdf (which I hope works with your screen reader in the chance that someone is actually following my directions): https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2024/10/fig3_fy_en_24.pdf
Didn't Graduate Texts in Mathematics "Introduction to That Thing - But only for people who already know it"