Black to Comm

Live from Detroit 7. 23

A decade's worth of data,

Nine hundred and ninety two road miles,

One person,

Five seconds of decision.

Downtown Detroit studio kitchen and desk view — Jul 15 at 23:22

This has been a fun exercise in over plumbed long winded button pressing, going home now

Jul 15 at 23:27

iPhone screen showing Lo Max calling a minute to 11:00 — Jul 15 at 23:21

Thanks for tuning in

Jul 15 at 15:01

Haha there's a bug in my script, I guess we'll never know

Jul 15 at 15:01

Alright making the call now

Jul 15 at 14:59

I have to clear the room I'm in by 11:15, so at 11:00 I am going to make a call and hang up to force the script to answer me as definitely as possible where to go next

Jul 15 at 14:57

That's what I'm seeing, so I'm hoping it went smoothly for others as well

Jul 15 at 14:54

If all went well you should be seeing instead of the poster for the show a live data stream

Jul 15 at 14:54

Go time

Jul 15 at 14:53

Once I take the safety off, netcat will exit, the blocking script will wake up and have the system send an SMS with the words "Go time" via the Shortcuts app

Jul 15 at 14:53

Alright, first step, safety off

Jul 15 at 14:52

Playgrounds.app screenshot showing mock safety switch is on — Jul 15 at 14:52

At 10:50 I also scheduled a crontab to start broadcasting my personal archive over WebSockets from an external hard disk attached to a Raspberry Pi

Jul 15 at 14:51

I will take the safety off and let netcat have it

Jul 15 at 14:50

I have an iOS mock app in Playground with a safety switch

Jul 15 at 14:49

I have also started a blocking script that is going to exit as soon as netcat receives an HTTP request

Jul 15 at 14:49

Terminal.app screenshot showing netcat started by calling 'make block' — Jul 15 at 14:48

I am first going to tell netcat to listen on port 1234

Jul 15 at 14:47

I am narrating this via SMS

Jul 15 at 14:47

And have set up a mechanism to help with that

Jul 15 at 14:46

I am trying to decide where to go next

Jul 15 at 14:46

I have driven the many miles from New Orleans up the blues and music highways, through Mississippi and Tennessee and past Kentucky and Ohio to Detroit, Michigan

Jul 15 at 14:46

Alright, here we go

Jul 15 at 14:44

5'

Jul 15 at 14:40

This show is about to start

Jul 15 at 14:40

Shrine of Old St. Mary's MAINTENANCE FUND donation slip signed Aki — Jul 15 at 14:39

Ann Arbor's cloud painted Water Tower seen from Plymouth Rd near the US-23 interchange — Jul 14 at 10:52

Electric manhole cover — Jul 14 at 10:34

MUSIC IS THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE OF MANKIND H. W. Longfellow sidewalk inscription in Scherrmerhorn Symphony Center's plaza — Jul 14 at 10:05

View of downtown Nashville from the John Siegenthaler Pedestrian Bridge — Jul 14 at 10:00

Looking up towards the morning sky from between the concrete pillars of Nashville's Parthenon — Jul 13 at 16:27

Lit up Hernando do Soto Bridge seen from Mud Island — Jul 13 at 12:21

Loaded barge seen from behind the trees of Greenbelt Park at dusk — Jul 13 at 05:55

Looking down between legs at fallen YIELD traffic sign — Jul 13 at 02:37

Looking up at rusty and possibly defunct surveillance camera near the US 49 and US 61 intersection — Jul 13 at 00:47

The Robert Johnson's CROSSROADS tribute sign — Jul 12 at 22:19

Decomposing LOSS ROADS? Clarksdale store sign — Jul 12 at 22:18

BIG BOY stove in Vicksburg's Civil War Museum — Jul 12 at 16:57

The empty and long unused Natchez cinema Ritz — Jul 12 at 15:54

Looking upriver from Bluff Park — Jul 12 at 15:35

Natchez, antebellum capital of the world

The Natchez-Vidalia bridge looking south from next to the boat ramp on a rainy day — Jul 12 at 15:01

Nortbound US 61, the Blues Highway, blue road sign — Jul 12 at 11:00

CRUISING THE BIG EASY painted on side of flakey steel container parked across from mast-arm traffic light and surveillance camera — Jul 12 at 05:08

Half empty cargo ship seen from Woldenberg Park ferrying the Mississippi — Jul 12 at 00:48

Red traffic light adorned in Mardi Gras throws — Jul 11 at 22:42

Contre-jour little boy surveying traffic from on top of telecoms cabinet holding on to neighboring signpost for balance and looked on by mother — Jul 11 at 15:34

NOLA man sleeping curbside on Magazine St. — Jul 11 at 14:39

Zzzzzzz

Left pointing one way sign made to read TONEKWAY and featuring a ruby tinted sunglass wearing Guy Fieri sticker at the tip — Jul 11 at 14:12

NOLA's Garden District Camp St. name tile — Jul 11 at 13:59

Rockaway Beach looking east towards Silver Point — Jul 11 at 13:56

Feet wet!

Late night Turtle Cove south facing view Throgs Neck Bridge in the distance — Jul 11 at 08:36

NYPA Randall's Island distant evening view on the way to Orchard Beach — Jul 11 at 08:35

Lit up 4th of July Coney Island's Thunderbolt and Astroland and Wonder Wheel looking back from the beach — Jul 11 at 00:38

Early hour cycling up towards Greenpoint lady in the middle of the road plus horse riding warning sign — Jul 11 at 00:37

Late 4th of July slow cycling down misty Prospect Park on the way to Coney Island — Jul 9 at 23:18

What am I missing? KH sitting ITP summer campers down for a farewell pic — Jul 9 at 23:17

Jersey City Hudson River Waterfront Walkway Downtown Manhattan One World Trade Center 45th birthday snap — Jul 9 at 23:15

Coney Island couple's 4th of July beachside midnight near embrace — Jul 5 at 15:22

Whitehall bound Staten Island Ferry seen from the Governors Island Ferry, the Statue of Liberty in the distance — Jul 3 at 04:06

Governors Island Soissons Landing welcome sign — Jun 30 at 19:03

Cycling along Roosevelt Avenue towards Woodside under the 7 train tracks — Jun 19 at 00:39

Lower Manhattan seen from the Hudson River Waterfront Walkway — Jun 18 at 18:56

Brooklyn's new WELCOME sign seen from Pier 15 as the Canadian widlfire smoke plumes begin to clear — Jun 18 at 18:53

Sunset view of Manhattan from behind the Calvary Cemetery — Jun 17 at 03:09

Testing

Corona Park's Unisphere looking south — Jun 13 at 14:20