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They page through the minutiae in the “Notes and Appendices to the U.S. Budget,” sifting the “Detailed Budget Estimates by Agency” section until they come up with something like the Department of the Interior’s Helium Fund. In the natur #budget #resources #water #people #minutiae

Tying Up Loose Ends

I am working on a crocheted blanket which will have one hundred and twenty-eight motifs joined together when it is finished. The pattern is stretching my capabilities a little, but so far I have been able to figure it out.

Image from Mary Maxim Tear Drop Throw pattern

Today I realized that, while I enjoy making each motif, I don’t much like the final step which is to weave in the loose ends at the back. Each time the pattern changes colour, I fasten off one yarn and join in another. When I have completed each motif, I have six ends of yarn to tie up and weave in.

I wonder why I don’t take pleasure in this part of the process. It may be because it requires close attention to the threads I am weaving into. Or, it may be cause I have to use a needle instead of a hook. Or, it may be because I have to put the needle down and pick up the scissors each time I cut off an end. Or, it may be because I can’t watch TV and do this at the same time.

Once I started wondering about all this, I thought about the expression “tying up loose ends” and how many uses we have for it. It can be applied to finishing a project, mending or ending a relationship, or attending to details of any kind.

There are all sorts of loose ends that we should tie up and they could be material, legal, or emotional. This month I have tied up loose ends in submitting my tax return, sending condolence cards to bereaved family members, signing condo sale legal documents, packing up items to take to the thrift store, and finishing the reading of a couple of books.

My sister-in-law’s son is currently taking care a lot of the legal and official minutiae that must be attended to with respect to his grandfather’s death. That involves a lot of loose ends, and I am very glad he has taken on that role. I know it is a long process and beset with red tape of many kinds.

Those are the kind of loose ends that no-one likes to think about because they are more nit-picky and frustrating to tie up than the yarn ends on the backs of crochet motifs. They carry an extra burden in that they are fraught with emotions and memories, which makes the process even harder. Added to that, legal language, government rules, and documentation requirements make it a difficult endeavour.

Once the ends are all tied up, though, the feeling of satisfaction is profound. It’s done, and it feels right. From then on, we can choose to only look at the good side. The loose ends are nicely tucked away.

#bereavement #crochet #minutiae #motif #twoSides #yarn

http://africanpaper.com/2025/02/08/minutiae-soloalbum-von-ted-byrnes/
#tedbyrne #minutìae #tape #drums #percussion #unpocofria #unpocofría

“How do we know any damned thing? Chaos is our language; our own eccentric rhythms are unsynchronized to Cosmos—with a mildewed ear for the brassy cacophony of imaginary menageries dissonant to each other; and it all ends drooling over minutiae to discover oneself.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/01/21/how-do-we-know-any-damned-thing-chaos-is-our-language-our-own-eccentric-rhythms-are-unsynchronized-to-cosmos-with-a-mildewed-ear-for-the-brassy-cacophony-of-imaginary-menageries-dissonant/

#all #any #AustinOsmanSpare #book #brassyCacophony #chaos #cosmos #damnedThing #discover #dissonant #drooling #eachOther #eccentricRhythms #ends #how #imaginaryMenageries #know #language #mildewedEar #minutiae #oneself #ourOwn #quote #TheLogomachyOfZos #unsynchronized

Hermetic quote Spare The Logomachy of Zos how know any damned thing chaos language eccentric rhythms unsynchronized cosmos mildewed ear brassy cacophony imaginary menageries dissonant drooling discover

A quotation from Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George:

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Never get a reputation for a small perfection, if you are trying for fame in a loftier area; the world can only judge by generals, and it sees that those who pay considerable attention to minutiæ, seldom have their minds occupied with great…
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/bulwer-lytton-edward-george/69447/

#quote #quotes #quotation #capability #details #fame #focus #greatworks #greatness #littlethings #minutiae #perfection #reputation #trifle #trivia

Discovering the minutiae of backend systems https://triangleagency.co.uk/discovering-the-minutiae-of-backend-systems/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #TheTriangleAgencyNews #backend #Discovering #minutiae

@jenwingate ok this is exactly me RN #accurate #comics #mirror #minutiae #notparticularlyrelaxedaboutthings

Is anyone else using the #minutiae app?
I know I am late to the party, but I love the rules and structure around this project which makes me feel I am more likely to participate in it.

With a "do X every day" thing that involves a creative act, my perfectionist brain takes over. Selfie a day makes me worry about making it the *best* selfie I could take that day. Same with one second of video a day. Minutiae removes this from my control & gives me permission to be less-than-perfect.

‘Anti-Social’ Photo App Challenges What Social Media Should Be

Minutiaecoins itself as the "anti-social" social app. It challenges conventional design by restricting users to just one minute of usage per day and anonymizes shares in an attempt to encourage users to "embrace the boring and mundane."

Four years ago, the "Anti-Social" photo project "Minutiae" was released through the Apple App Store. Since then, it has amassed a modest 25,000 downloads, which may not seem like a lot but is still impressive given the original art project's budget was just $10,000 and featured no outside investment.

The concept of the app further adds to that impressive statistic.

Minutiae encourages its users to shirk overly complicated, scripted, planned "influencer" images that have come to dominate the social media landscape through a unique design. The app will randomly send subscribers an alarm to remind them to record whatever happens to be around them at that particular moment, and they are encouraged to do so regardless of how "boring" that might be.

The randomized alarm is sent to every user at the same time (regardless of time zone), meaning most of the photos on the app are captured around the world at that same moment. Once the participants have taken their photos, they are then allotted just sixty seconds to browse their own chronological timeline or that of a random stranger they have been matched with. Once the minute is up, the app shuts down and users have to wait until the next random alarm to be able to use the app again.

The anti-social app keeps everything anonymous with the focus on the "moment" in time. It is so dedicated to this cause that users cannot "follow" or subscribe to another user's feed. As strange as this sounds, the founders have said that this process is itself is a work of art.

"Our thesis is not that social media is 'bad,' just that it ends up making us look at the world, and documenting our experiences, in a very particular way," the founders said when the application originally launched. "Through our use of Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, etc., we are in the continuous process (often unconsciously) of refining filters that determine how we capture our lives… Minutiae frees us from this pressure to perform since you no longer have the option to choose what you are documenting—connections are singular and random."

The company says it further "frees" its user base by the one-minute per day restriction of use which is a wildly different business model from the mainstream market. The app is meant to capture unscripted, uncurated, unfiltered moments in everyday life.

"Moments we don't fully value until they're gone," says co-creator Martin Adolfsson.

Some users have reported using the app as a creative stimulus during the lockdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic, since they were often stuck in the very same space for so long, thus keeping them quite motivated to capture something new.

Since the application only lets you use it for a minute a day, to "complete" a full cycle on the app takes 1,440 days of use (just about four years). Therefore, at the time of publication around 40 percent of the original subscribers are finishing their first cycle. According to the company, this retention rate is "a level that most tech companies could only dream about."

As users finish their cycle, Minutiae provides them with a way to view the evolution of their life over the last few years. While many (if not most) of the photos appear boring, they will inevitably hold a lot of personal value to the creator and that is what the project and app are all about.

Once the cycle is complete, users can get a complete download of their photo archive that they can also print in a limited edition book. According to the company website, they are limiting these books to just 100 people, and apparently, there are not many left.

The Minutiae app is available for $14.99 on the Apple App Store.

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