Sat Oct 10
The Mastodon instance on which I’m almost the only active user has been offline with a 503 for about 16 hours now. Given that “Opening Ivory” is the first thing I do after unlocking my phone, even before thinking what it is that I actually unlocked the phone for, this is a rather distressing state of affairs. Reply...
I gave my blog a temporary makeover for Halloween. I've been seeing several Bear bloggers giving their blog a revamp for Halloween and I've been inspired! I was only going to change the colors, but I ended up drawing a new avatar for myself, added a new font, restyling the NOTES page, and made a Halloween-themed...
For the second time, Firefox made a page that lets you rank the Interop 2027 features that you care about. Interop is an effort by multiple companies involved in shaping the web to make the platform more interoperable. This is your very low-effort option to contribute to the future of the platform we love, so please...
J'ai repris mes repères à Paris matériellement, mais tout reste très changeant. Voici un petit peu de ma vie dernièrement.
“Grief is a force of energy that cannot be controlled or predicted. It comes and goes on its own schedule. Grief does not obey your plans, or your wishes. Grief will do whatever it wants to you, whenever it wants to. In that regard, Grief has a lot in common with Love.” “All your sorrows have been wasted on you if...
A ceremonial game of Kemari, a game from the 7th Century similar to hacky sack, played in Heian era robes at Kyoto's Imperial Palace. 京都御所で、平安時代の装束を身にまとって行われる、7世紀に起源を持つハッキーサックに似た遊び「蹴鞠」の儀式。
Richmond Folk Festival I've lived in Virginia for 9 years, yet somehow last night was my first time at the festival. My bad. My very bad. In my defense, I think we are frequently camping when it hits town, as early fall is prime camping season. We were supposed to be camping this weekend, but real life got in the...
October 2026. Lydd-on-Sea. Kent. Only five new Kent entries to tick in the Beer Guide, but excitingly one of them is out near eerie Dungeness, and so famous it’s got it’s own marker on the OS map. I reckon we’d been in the Pilot twenty years ago before a family ride on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch light Railway,...
Thanks Itinera for letting me borrow your incredible music for my game intro. Idegen is followed by Kör. Demo at chipchirp.digital/rfl #rasdFastwalkerLeague #indiegamedev #fangames View on Bluesky
Sunday morning, listening to jazz again. I fell asleep accidentally, as is bound to happen these days, and woke up half past 5 with my lights off and blanket drawn to my chin. No idea when either of those happened. Some days I think I live with a benevolent ghost: myself in the ungodly hours, a version of me I'll...
A friend of mine the other day mentioned something about the chickenpox vaccine and shingles. That led me down memory lane. The chickenpox vaccine was approved for use in the United States in 1995. That is how kids these days are given immunity. Not today, nurse! Modified from public domain image uploaded by Oksmith...
10 Mystical | INDEX | 12 Toss Self-imposed constraint: Use the letters of the prompt word inside a 2-inch square to illustrate its meaning. Hongdian Black Forest fountain pen, EF, black ink on 120 gsm paper.
讀《一句頂一萬句》 《一句頂一萬句》是劉震雲的一部長篇小說。開頭差點沒能看下去，一下子講太多人物了，老楊、老馬、老裴⋯⋯不過耐心看下去，很快主綫就會變得清晰。整本書像是一出群像劇，講了很多人的故事、不同人的家長裡短、人情世故，有種在聴不同人的八卦的感覺，誰不喜歡吃瓜呢，就越看越有意思。 書分成了兩部分，出延津記和回延津記，前者主要講述楊百順的前半生，而後者主要關於牛愛國，他是楊百順的養女的後代。 楊百順的一生并不順，遇過不少人和挫折，最後還把疼愛的養女弄丟了(被拐賣了)，於是他也像傷心的老裴一樣想离開延津這個傷心地，一直走，直到走到一個心裡不再難受的地方。...
It's nice to enjoy little bits of randomness every now and then I caught a post by Robert Birming the other day on Bubbles about the idea of a random photo page (you can and should read his thing here) on blogs as a top level /page, and I loved it. Granted, I post photos alongside every one of my posts even if...
It's silly how much I love using the Pagecord web interface for writing. There's room for improvement I'm sure, but it's almost perfect for my needs right now.
Un Wichi-compañero del Wichi-server me ha preguntado en múltiples veces (2 veces sí la memoria no me falla) "¿cómo se lleva un blog?". En esta entrada explicaré cómo crear un blog con Blogger y cómo estructurar el contenido para publicarlo; no es muy difícil, sí ya has publicado en medios sociales es parecido, pero...
Last June, when I left Indiana after the first TEEM onground intensive that I attended, I thought ahead to our next gathering in October, where I anticipated autumnal shifts with still-warm days.I did not anticipate a hurricane affecting the weather that far inland. But here we are. I've changed travel plans, and...
Ceci est une note sans sujet. Quand il y a un sujet, l’attention de l’écrivain est concentré sur l’effort de dire avec un peu plus ou beaucoup des mots quel est le point de l’article. Ça c’est l’expansion d’une idée: voici le titre et voilà tout qui est relevant. L’écriture sans sujet est un processus d’exploration....
Yet another entertaining speedrunning video from Karl Jobst – this one about a recent new discovery in Quake: What was really fun about this one was the fact that the design of the level puts a splinter in player’s head – you see a bridge above on the left, and you just have to wonder: is it at all possible to,...
This is me coming back and hiding out in our bedroom as more Khmer family visits. These particular family units are not my favorite ones. I won’t do things that may involve them because of some things done to other people. It was particularly nasty twice and involved drinking. People that can’t control their baser...
It’s crazy that I have been interested in libraries of things for over a year, and obsessed with them since XYZ in Loro Piceno, but I have never actually researched it on the Internet. It is quite typical for me (be it because of my ADHD or not), that I get super captivated or even obsessed over a topic, but I never...
There’s a thing I love about my ThinkPad, beyond Linux or the keyboard or anything like that: it’s a fun computer. That is, I use it only for fun stuff. When I open it and am greeted with the blank i3 lock screen, I know that I’m embarking on a computing session that solely for my enjoyment rather than to grind...
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Bad ideas will consolidate if they circulate inside a group of people. Individuals will fear losing their membership in their group. An idea does not stand for itself. The identity of the person plays a big role in keeping a specific idea at the center. If you would overthink this idea from a neutral standpoint, you...
Como os comenté hace tiempo, estoy volviendo a estudiar y aunque intento hacerlo todo con papel y lápiz, es muy útil consultar infografías y esquemas en la pantalla grande del ordenador. En los momentos que estudio no quiero tener el salvapantalla activo porque es muy incómodo tener que ir desbloqueando cada x...
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I declared September as bullet journal month. How did I do? I would probably give myself a C minus. what would good have looked like? In retrospect I should’ve defined what good might have looked like with a month of bullet journalling. I suppose I was after some sort of epiphany, feeling more chilled, time for...