Sundog semioticrobotic is getting engaged! Congratulations and all the best to him and Amy.
Semioticrobotic's lifelog - see 2025-01-12!
My wife and I celebrated our 17th wedding anniversary last year. This is a length of time that I genuinely struggle to process the reality of. It doesn't feel like it could possibly have been this long. 17 years is not an awful lot less than half the time I've been alive, and that seems unreal. I don't think this feeling has anything to do with what it's been like to be married all this time at all. Rather, it's the fact that it highlights that everything that happened before we met, highschool and my entire time as an undergraduate student, experiences which still feel at least somewhat "foundational" to me in terms of who I am, are in fact, by now, a relatively small and relatively distant parts of my life. "Objects in temporal mirror are further than they appear", so to speak. Guess I'm just old. Insert obligatory Pink Floyd "Time" quotation here...
Zaibatsu old timer yargo is on a quest to free up time and lighten his mind by using Gopher and friends and a weekly printed newspaper as his only source of news until the end of February at least. He's calling it GOWNPONIE, for the Gopher-Or-Weekly-News-Paper-Only News Ingestion Experiment. Where on Earth did he get the idea to use such a ridiculous name?
Yargo's GOWNPONIE announcement
I wrote a few years back about how I myself used to refrain from ingesting news on purpose on principle, but how the Ukraine war finally jolted me out of this. I even admitted that I didn't really hate it:
My 2023-08-26 post "Talking about the weather", wherein I discussed news
I am still reading the news daily but have to admit its hold over me is weakening. I grant that this is unusual timing, perhaps, as a lot of people are probably paying closer attention than ever to watch the United States' descent into, well, I'm not even sure what. I don't think I'm going to tune out entirely any time soon, but maybe I should also make a concerted effort to check in less often.
Meanwhile, Republic sundog spring has announced "On Foot Standard 1" (of N?), a 100 day walking goal:
spring's On Foot Standard 1 announcement
One million steps in one hundred days is ten thousand steps per day. I've certainly done that many steps in a day before, even twice that many and I think occasionally even as many as thirty thousand. But on an average day I'm not even close to that, though in my defence on an average day I will cycle to and from work, so I'm hardly inactive. My wife and I do a standard walk most weekend days, through the forest near our house and along a river, which is about six and a half thousand.
Soviet sundog durtal has embarked upon an ambitious self-study course with a long term goal for the end of 2027 to be able to reimplement ed (the standard editor, if you haven't heard) and the Zim wiki in multiple programming languages:
durtal's plans at the beginning of a new year
As somebody who has only just started fruitfully experimenting with planning goals on a timescale of one year, I can only be impressed at the amount of dedication involved in planning so far in advance! It's something I might give some thought to, I guess, if I manage to keep the yearly planning thing up for a little longer, and especially if in doing so I end up having a much clearer plate with time for new undertakings. I'm cautiously optimistic that state might arrive sooner rather than later. The release of VF-1 1.0.0 in December has proven energising. I'm expecting to do releases of AV-98 and Agena by the end of this month (it'll be Agena's first actual official release). February will be devoted to Molly Brown and Shizaru. VF-1, AV-98, Molly Brown and Shizaru constitute, in my head, my "big four" projects. Molly is the only one still hosted at Tildegit, due to a large number of open Issues that I wanna close before bringing it to Sourcehut with everything else, something I had intended to manage next year. Then March is OFFLFIRSOCH, which I genuinely can't wait for. By April the weather will be nice enough that I'll be wanting to spend most of my free time outdoors and not computering, but I'll pick things up again in the winter, after ROOPHLOCH. I kind of hope that maybe by the end of the year, VF-1, Molly and Shizaru will be more or less declared "feature complete" and just maintained against bugs and bit rot going forward. VF-1 is essentially already there, there is one tiny itch I've had for years I want to try scratching, i fit works I'll do another release and that'll be that, forever.