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I'm mostly @w8emv@a2mi.social or emv on systems.
This is for Ann Arbor related stuff.
Encore Records on N Fourth Ave (near the People's Food Coop) was busy on Record Store Day!
Also, WCBN-FM 88.3 Ann Arbor is spinning all vinyl records for 48 hrs for the VINYLTHON WEEKEND
music makes the world go round
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Unicycle spotted heading uphill on Bird Road, no small hill that
Full auditorium for Poems for the People, celebration of 32 years of public school teaching by poet Jeff Kass
Bicycle Film Festival returns to Ann Arbor with a curated screening of short films that celebrate the bicycle. Hosted by Bicycle Alliance of Washtenaw and co-sponsored by the Downtown Development Authority and Walk Bike Washtenaw, Bicycle Film Festival Ann Arbor presents a new international short film program.
Saturday, April 18 at 7:00 PM
Michigan Theater
Ann Arbor Michigan
Bike every park progress: 101/162 parks visited. That puts me 3 weeks ahead of last year's pace when I visited 142/162.
Weather cool but pleasant and sunny, a good day to be out.
Of note, Hansen Nature Area on the city's west side is up for renaming, due to a recognition that a racially restrictive covenant was added by the Hansen family to the property.
WEMU story on park renaming:
Peony report: buds at 8% bloom as of 2026-05-21
https://mbgna.umich.edu/whats-bloom-peony-garden
website noted in the Ann Arbor Observer's weekly "a2view" newsletter
My strategy at the moment to make sure that #Arborwiki gets some attention on a regular basis:
1. Subscribe to the Ann Arbor Observer's "a2view" newsletter
2. Read it weekly when it comes out
3. Write a paragraph that condenses an already condensed view of what's happening
4. Fill out the hyperlinks that emerge
The change log at @arborwiki_changes@a2mi.social give a play by play.
Also:
Michigan Daily: "A2 Outlook"
WEMU weekly roundup.
"Your Ann Arbor News This Week" from MLive.
if I could do more.
2005 calling, phoning in some music
This "Complete Guide to the iPod Shuffle" is very handy if your junk box includes an iPod Shuffle (First edition). I must have loaded this particular device with tunes from much later though
I'm ready for a shuffle interface for all my applications. Reading email and don't know which message to answer next? Hit shuffle. Looking for someone to ask a question of but don't know who to call? Shuffle in your address book.
Tigers-Mets in extras.
