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Took a walk around the neighborhood and tried to get some work done on my
Django rewrite. Mostly dealing with a hangover.
I received an email from someone looking for some of the illustrations from
Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea Trilogy illustrated by Ruth Robbins. I had shared an
excerpt of the centerfold map of Earthsea that I had vectorized on my blog
about a year ago. Absolutely glad to share the illustrations, still just
finding it weird that random people on the internet are finding my website.
Read a quaint post about a castle restoration in Scotland. Makes me never want
to renovate but really respect those who take on the challenge!
Messed around with some Cloudflare settings today to see if I can actually
figure out caching. It can't be that hard, right? Picked up Space Dandy again.
While it feels like a farce on Cowboy Bebop or Trava, it's still enjoyable. My
Dwarf Fortress was destroyed by the undead
The custom wax seal I made was accepted by the company I'm getting it made at
without any revisions. Pretty cool! I hope it turns out. Started a couple blog
posts. Hopefully getting into a rhythm.
Spent much of the day watching livestreams. It's been a pretty kooky day for
the US government. Still trying to get some blog posts together. Censoring my
old cringeworthy writing is quite the chore.
What did ancient people think the future would be like? I'm familiar with the
visions of the future from the turn of the 20th century and later but would
love to know what ancient and medieval visions of the future were. I wonder if
there's any art or literature depicting that. Sold some bitcoin, talked to my
parents today.
In Montgomery station. Considering what the future holds for this city. Will
there ever be a commute again? Will I be telling my children about the
beforetimes where people crowded onto subways and streets or will I talk about
those many months where the City was a ghost town? What will be the new normal
a decade from now? Which period will be strange?
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While reading of the Island of Glubbdubdrib in Gulliver's Travels, I imagined
it as a fun setting for an RPG:
the party disembarks from their ship and follows a cobblestone path through a
lush garden with neat hedges and trimmed trees. Along the way they encounter
a standing corpse. It's attired as a gardener, mouth agape, missing an arm and
trying to use their remaining arm and chest to get the hedge trimmer to close
on a branch. If the party talks to them, they say that they have been summoned
from the dead for 24 hours by the necromancer who rules the land. When asked by
the party how they like the arrangement, they say through a disintegrating jaw
that it isn't so bad. Their nerves have all died so they feel no pain and it's
curious to see how the world has changed since they were last awoken. The one
downside being their body decays in the grave so they never get any prettier.
Seeing as the party is headed toward the castle, they ask the party to wish
his/her greatgrandnephew the necromancer well.
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Finally got my automated Tumblr photo posting moved over to the box that has
all the photos I've archived. Even without the new additions, I'd apparently
been able to fill the post queue into June.
Took a whack at cleaning up trash around my neighborhood. Got about four
shopping bags worth. Mostly food containers, empty booze bottles, and
christmas wrapping. Fingers are hurting from trying to tidy up my blog post
on my 2015-2018 note-taking endeavors.
Sidetracked today by my parents calling for tech support. When I heard my
mother was doing some hellish text entry gig just to pass the time I decided
to employ here helping me with my archiving work instead. Hopefully she enjoys
it.
Got the archive posting regularly to mastodon and my RTL-SDR sending ADS-B
reports to flightradar24 from a daemon process. And to round out the chores
section I removed the last remaining non-free SSL certificate from my web
services. Thanks for reminding me I needed to find a better provider,
Namecheap. That email claiming an SSL cert is normally $200 was a real riot.
I finally died hard enough in Dwarf Fortress that I've been able to take a
break. I tried to get into nethack but it feels like I'm forcing it. Back to
actually developing things. Maybe I'll practice on some vcv rack at some
point.
Sort of sold my chemical engineer friend on Pagerduty for handling operator
to engineer interactions at the plant. It seems like it would work surprisingly
well assuming they can get security to sign off. Wax seal came in the mail and
it looks dope! Finally my mom sent my Nokia N900 to me so I can once again have
a mobile notepad.
Damn hot in Oakland for January. Especially during quarantine there is nothing
worth staying here for. Starting the Outer Worlds. Note to self:
proton-ge worked great [HTTPS]
Sat down to watch The Diary of Tortov Roddle which I cannot recommend enough.
It has the soft surrealism that makes for a really cozy show and the music
which plays between waltzes and little piano ditties couldn't be more fitting.
Finding Django to be very easy to mock up a site with.
After inheriting a character in Crusader Kings III that decided to make a
botched murder attempt on his half brother right before ascending to the
throne, I took a night walk through downtown Oakland. I was just getting to an
enjoyable part of the audiobook of Waste Tide when my headphones ran out of
battery. Whoever decided to stop putting 3.5mm jacks on phones needs to be put
in the stocks. I tried to take some neat photos of Chinatown.
Decided today would be the day I'd buy a Valve Index as well as get a Digital
Audio Tape (DAT) player. Why not pile more shit into this tiny apartment? I
plan on taking a trip to Urban Ore this weekend as well. The bug is back. It
was a rainy day this evening so I took another walk downtown to catch some
puddles.
Made a trip up to Berkeley today to #1 get a couple rolls of quarters for
laundry and #2 to see if there would be anything good at Urban Ore. The day
was cool so I was able to take my walk from downtown Berkeley to Ashby without
ruining the Farmers Market Cheese I picked up. I continued Waste Tide which has
the most hackneyed female character. But I digress. I found a couple CDs at
Urban Ore and learned about the
Heading back to BART, I stopped by the Berkeley Flea Market which had a lovely
jazz jam band called TBD. I bought a large lot of photos.
The storm that was supposed to hit Oakland yesterday didn't seem to be much
more than a breeze and a wee bit of rain. Cozy enough for some tea and a bit
of Redwall.
Mad rainy today. Perhaps a decent time to cozy up and get archive box set up
on my NAS. Space Dandy "A World With No Sadness, Baby" is a phenomenal piece of
work. "I'm going to Boobies, you can take this funeral and shove it!" After a
nice walk in a rainstorm, I found the answer to my running archive box as root
issue was to just force the LOGNAME in my environment.
The digital audio tape deck I bid on while intoxicated came in the mail. While
it powers on, it doesn't seem to respond to button pushes aside from returning
a little click. I've reached out to the local music shop for help. Why must old
electronics be so hard? As a solution for ArchiveBox hitting a _sqlite import
error, installing databases/py-sqlite3.
In light of the ability for Reddit to make hedge funds shit themselves, its
worth noting that spite is the strongest tool wielded by man. Meanwhile I got
archivebox up and running finally. Local repair shops have told me the DAT
repair is a lost cause.
I learned the important argument `BATCH=yes` for freebsd ports installs. I
don't care to configure every dependency of ffmpeg, truly. More and more folks
I know are moving out of the area. One day it will be me.
Took a short trip to Anthony Chabot Regional Park at noon. After a little hike
along the ridge we settled into a grotto unfortunately close to the road and
trail but otherwise cozy. It's always a nice day when you can be out with the
redwoods. Back home, I tried by hand at a watercolor painting. There is
considerable distance between where my aptitude currently lies and where I
wish it was.
I was searching all this time for the FreeBSD ports install of chromium and
here it was installed as chrome. Took a walk down to Lake Merritt this
afternoon. Realizing that I much prefer the city after 10pm when no one is
around. I joined TildeRadio's Trivia session for the first time. It was the
first time I've done live trivia since lockdown. Would highly recommend