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mdlbearA good week for Sanders supporters. Last Sunday we went to the Bernie Sanders rally at Key Arena, and yesterday was the Democratic caucuses. (There was another rally Friday evening that G and N went to, but I didn't.) As you probably know, Bernie won big in all three of Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii yesterday.
The rally was amazing. He's an electrifying speaker, with a message that resonates deeply with this old radical's values. We need him in the White House.
This was the first time I've been in a caucus, and despite the reference in Alice it wasn't dry at all. Mostly fun, with some boring bits and too much standing.
Inspired by the Functional Programming Principles in Scala course that our team's reading group is taking, I have branched out into Haskell and started to set up xmonad, the tiling window manager that rocks. The main reason for that is the way it handles multiple monitors, which looks like a great match for the way I use my work laptop, always switching between stand-alone at meetings, and plugged into multiple monitors on my desktop.
Still trying to wrap my head around monads and category theory in functional programming. Multiple Wikipedia dives on that one.
Notes & links:0320Su Vernal Equinox * up 5:45ish; W=197; laundry @ How a blog post changed my life - Reclaiming Your Future introversion -> The Introverts Guide to Travel (via How to Have a Social Life with a Depressed or Anxious Friend. | elephant journal) (more from ysabetwordsmith | Poem: "Who Rekindle the Inner Spirit") @ Open Whisper Systems >> Home (N and G) What is Signal Desktop? How can I sign up? – Support * leave about noon for rally -> amazing. Bernie's speach didn't come until about 5:30, but it was electrifying. It was, however, very loud, and there was a lot of waiting and a lot of stairs. Fortunately for her, Colleen had decided to stay home. But a once-in-a-lifetime experience; I'm glad I went. ~ pick up buspirone at Walgreens 0321Mo * up 6:15; W=197; laundry * Kat and Alex borrowing van * paycheck for G' @ How to Not F#&k Up a Caprese Salad | Serious Eats f(G) @ Animation software used by Studio Ghibli is going open source | The Verge -> Digital Video | Home | toonz.com * Guitar noodling; working on Ship of Stone with the kids (g wanted to learn it) 0322Tu * Up 6:14; W=198.4; laundry, dishes @ Reasons why I will not be replying to your argument ← Rachael Acks @ Religion Is Dying In America And Republicans Are To Blame @ Landmark Study Shows Remarkable Growth of Non-Religious Americans Churches love to play the “ethics” card, arguing that religion — their religion — makes you a better person. That’s obviously not true when it’s the people without religion who are most strongly in support of marriage equality (and civil rights and bodily autonomy and sex education and science and do-you-get-the-idea-yet?). * Tried hakimel/reveal.js: The HTML Presentation Framework - easy! git clone git@github.com:hakimel/reveal.js.git google-chrome reveal.js/index.html du -sh . -> 11M, so not totally lightweight, but you could share it with only slight modifications to the slide file. 0323We * up 5:50; W=197.6; laundry 0324Th * up 06:00; W=197; @ Refrigerated Food and Power Outages: When to Save and When to Throw Out | FoodSafety.gov (WSB) * 3pm Anita Brown * Got back in time to catch up with work's team event around half way through, and score two glasses of free gin. And some good conversation. Go me? Ok, go me. & Made my walking goal for the day, thanks to gthe above two items -- over 11K steps so far. And it didn't suck psychologically, which is *great* as well as being unusual. 0325Fr * Up 4:45; W=197; laundry, dishes @ Belize Healthcare Internet * Printed caucus registration forms for me and Colleen % left my glasses at home. My mind is going. Or something. & installed chromium-browser on cygnus in case I want to use a chrome-like browser on xmonad, which is a tiling WM. Otherwise chrome would restart at whatever size it was left at. Could set up separate profiles, but chromium's easier. @ Pandoc - About pandoc Can be used to make self-contained HTML out of reveal.js or slidy slides. Etc. apparently can do epub but not mobi. Can make slideshows out of markdown. @ jgm/gitit: A wiki using HAppS, pandoc, and git 0326Sa Caucus * up 4:30ish; W=196.2; laundry, dishes * 9:30 caucus - a bit of a scramble getting everyone out on time, but good. * We were there for a little over three hours. Everyone in the family spoke except for C. In the end, the district went 80/20 for Sanders. * Stopped at Safeway on the way home for shrimp louie fixings, coke. Deposited checks. (not all, but the big ones) % 2:30 sleepy. * reading up on xmonad. The main reason I want it is for work -- it handles a variable number of monitors by putting a workspace on each. That makes it ideal for something that might or might not be connected to the monitors on my desk. Besides, Haskell is an interesting (pure functional) language. -> hmm. xnest might be a way of running gnome in an xmonad workspace. : Well over $20K in mortgage interest and related costs. Probably almost enough to put my taxes in the black all by itself. (well, no. less than half way :P I'm screwed.) & 5ish spent about an hour folding cardboard and re-sorting trash. G' simply has no notion of how to organize. I know she tries hard. I still hurt. Bath tonight. And hopefully sleeping in. I've had at most 10 hours of sleep in the last two days. : network manager in xmonad: trayer & nm-applet Also gnome-keyring stalonetray is another possibility for a system tray. or Docker (wmdocker in ubuntu) or Openbox Dock (pretty) == wmdocker? @ Obtaining a beautiful, usable xmonad configuration – vicfryzel.com @ NetworkManager * Swapped batteries on Colleen's power chair. @ This is the Xmonad Tutorial for Beginning Beginners
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Date: 2016-03-27 07:14 pm (UTC)Bernie Sanders. Great ideas until you run out of other people's money.