Done last week (20171202Su - 09Sa)
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mdlbearI wrote a poem! Inspired by The Sciku Project, I figured I could maybe write a CSaiku:
P equals NP?
A Turing award awaits
A proof or disproof.
Of course csAIku is another possible reading, and I may branch out into ITanka at some point.
The big thing this week was the Patreon debacle. I may have more to say in a separate post, so for now I'll just refer you to This post by siderea, who has been writing a series of them, for the details.
tldr: Patreon is changing their fee structure, in part, because the batching of pledge payments from one patron to multiple creators and the use of Patreon balance to pay pledges without processing an external payment requires holding funds in a balance that can then be redistributed and makes them look like a money transmitter money services business, which makes them subject to additional regulation...It would seem that Patreon is another example of a business that was too good to be true, founded by idealists whose solution to the problems that stopped other people from doing what they did was... to not know about those problems and not actually have a solution for them.
I think they could have done it a lot better, taking fees out of the creator's payment so that patrons pay the amount they pledged. Whether they could also batch payments by doing them all one day/month is an open question.
The real solution, I think, is going to be a distributed system, with payments going direct from each patron to each creator, keeping track of pledged amounts via an app of some sort, and a centralized website (linked to the app) that manages campaigns -- basically everything Patreon does except handle money. As I said, more later hopefully.
I was fairly productive, going out to the garage, bringing in CDs, and shelving them in the tower. Probably cleared 3-4 boxes. There are still quite a few missing, notably all but one of Joan Baez. So there's at least one box I haven't found.
We have a new caregiver (V) for Colleen. M" wasn't really working out; she talked non-stop, didn't think independently, and we didn't trust her driving. It worked out well for her, too; she was commuting from off-island, and had another client who wanted more time. We have V two days / week: Monday and Wednesday, so we've shifted my teaching back to those days.
Quite a few things didn't get done.
Recent reading: a book titled 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10. Really.
This book is unusual in its focus on a single line of code, an extremely concise BASIC program that is simply called 10 PRINT throughout. Studies of individual, unique works abound in the humanities. Roland Barthes s S/Z, Samuel Beckett s Proust, Rudolf Arnheim s Genesis of a Painting: Picasso s Guernica, Stuart Hall et al. s Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of the Sony Walkman, and Michel Foucault s Ceci n est pas une pipe all exemplify the sort of close readings that deepen our understanding of cultural production, cultural phenomena, and the Western cultural tradition.
Recommended even if you don't know a damned thing about programming.
1202Su
* Up 5:54; W=200.6;
* Trying it with the happy light. Not really compatible with cats, but if it dissuades
them from walking across the desk they may (eventually) stop jumping up on the
keyboard. Should really put a box next to the desk again.
@ Make Your Own Headless Guitar Tuners! (Preston tuners)
Eric Olds Klein Guitar Project Part 2 lots of good info on that site.
Railgun redux? (from a wikipedia dive from bouzouki)
@ Cluetrain at Fifteen | Linux Journal
@ Hack and / - Migrate to a New Hard Drive | Linux Journal find and cpio
find ./ -xdev -print0 | cpio -pa0V /mnt/sdb1
* 15min: another two bag of CDs; clears a box.
% shelving CDs turns out to be bad for my back.
* lateish lunch at Charmer's with Colleen; drive afterward
* SL: tomatoes, basil, beef (round roast, ground), chicken, pizza dough, shredded
mozzerella, mushrooms, sliced olives, pepperoni, rye bread, salad greens, cucumbers,
{orange, -ginger-} marmalade, juices, 2 whole milk, 12 spanakopita; loperamide
% 5pm. Still lethargic.
* Sunday: fish, baked potatoes
& rode with N while she picked up the kids.
1204Mo
* up 6am; W=199.2;
* g reports ice on the deck - will have to be careful driving.
@ Google logo: 50 years of kids coding
blocks - very cute. I spent a while solving it.
~ NO BREAKFAST :P - probable labwork. had 2 gummi bears without thinking. Grumph.
* leave by 8:30. 8:15 might be better
~ 9:15am Freeland Clinic (arrive 15-20min early; bring medicare card)
-> actually, it was next week. Got cards scanned; added UNW to records to get.
* visit library; -breakfast at WiFire-; pick up summer sausage on the way back
also almonds and dark chocolate
@ Stephen M. Bear's answer to Will software as a service lead to the closure of
inhouse it departments? - Quora some good arguments on my part, I think. Worth
working up into an essay.
& very productive rummaging session in the garage with N -- she was looking
mainly for a box of her writing, but we ended up taking up four banker's boxes, two
large bags, and two under-bed plastic bins (which ended up in the MBR bathroom closet)
* 15min: Another trip out to the garage: some books (which had to be moved to shift
boxes off another couple of CD boxes) and CDs.
@ 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
a book riffing off the line of code given above.
" This book is unusual in its focus on a single line of code, an extremely concise
BASIC program that is simply called 10 PRINT throughout. Studies of
individual, unique works abound in the humanities. Roland Barthes s S/Z,
Samuel Beckett s Proust, Rudolf Arnheim s Genesis of a Painting: Picasso s
Guernica, Stuart Hall et al. s Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of the Sony
Walkman, and Michel Foucault s Ceci n est pas une pipe all exemplify the
sort of close readings that deepen our understanding of cultural production,
cultural phenomena, and the Western cultural tradition. "
* Monday: Burgundy beef; salad
: C told M' that we'd found another caregiver. Worked out well, since she had another
client who wanted an extra day on Thursday. Colleen is amazingly good at that kind of
thing. Maybe I should have her contact therapists?
* 15min: dishes
1205Tu
* up 6am; W=200.6;
* teaching Tuesday and Wednesday this week
* pay AMEX - mostly C's hearing aids
* pointed j at this week's Google Doodle
@ What is kids coding and what languages can they use? | Metro News
Twine / An open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories
-> can't bookmark or navigate using the back button, so not all that useful.
Alice Tell Stories. Build Games. Learn to Program.
Blockly | Google Developers
@ A Beginner s Guide To Ruby - HackHands
@ MIT App Inventor | Explore MIT App Inventor
* Tuesday: Zabar's
@ IFDB: The Interactive Fiction Database - IF and Text Adventures
@ TiddlyWiki a non-linear personal web notebook
(via Twine, which is related in that it's a self-contained app-in-a-file, although
Twine has external tools as well; not sure TW does.)
* Music: a little noodling, then put on Wake the Dead
% my right knee has been twinging all evening. Just what I need. Kneed? :P
1206We
* up 5:30ish; W=200.4;
* Helped N get her massage equipment out of the garage for an appointment with a client
* 10am: volunteers Skip and Pat from SWAH came to pick up cardboard for recycling.
* 10am: j's math DBA
* 11:00 (C's new caregiver) Vivian (henceforth mostly V) arrives.
-> spent time showing her around while j was working on the first part of a math test.
@ Extracting a file or a folder from a git repository with full git history
dotfiles/git-import at master · CNG/dotfiles
* Wednesday: chicken stir-fry with rice (swapped from Thursday)
@ (comment on) ysabetwordsmith | Cracking Code reference for:
" The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is
about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English
has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their
pockets for new vocabulary. "
-- James Nicoll in <1990May15.155309.8892@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
1207Th
* up 6:45; W=199.6;
@ finished Humon Comics
* shopping: more boboli, cheese stick and lactaid for g, B12, pantsu, kibble, gin
@ Emotional Intelligence Toolkit
% includes a meditation sequence that *requires* talking about it to someone almost
immediately afterward. Probably not happening, then. It's called Ride
the Wild Horse: A Meditation for Remaining Mindful Even When Fearful"
... but I don't think that's my problem. And would anyone here be interested in
listening? Possibly, but I'm not sure I'm up for finding out, or for dealing with
the follow-up if not.
@ Everything Is Awful and I m Not Okay: questions to ask before giving up (alatefeline)
* Thursday: home-made pizzas (swapped from Wednesday)
@ crowdfunding | Patreon fee structure changes surchargfe added to patron's pledge,
rather than coming out of the recipient's payment.
Patreon: An apology and an alert [The Mad Filkentist]
@ Stripe the complete toolkit for internet business
looks good for a small business, but they won't support a "Money transmitter", which
is part of why Gratipay folded. See
revise model · Issue #192 · gratipay/inside.gratipay.com for why this probably
isn't a problem for the Patreon business model. It probably is a problem for
LibraPay; wonder how they get around that. Note: they use MANGOPAY, which looks like a win; they do
crowdfunding. But it's EU-only (for the entities it supports) and doesn't take AMEX.
The EU limitation might not be a problem for a crowdfunding org registered in the EU.
@ Patreon Changes - What They Are, What You Can Do Great list of alternatives to
Patreon.
@ New Research Suggests Social Issues are Down to Neurotypicals more than Autistics
Intersectional Neurodiversity (gingicat)
Autism and the Pathology Paradigm
Throw Away the Master s Tools: Liberating Ourselves from the Pathology Paradigm
" This is why an essential early step in the neurodiversity movement was the coining
of the term neurotypical. Neurotypical is to Autistic as straight is to gay. The
existence of the word neurotypical makes it possible to have conversations about
topics like neurotypical privilege. Neurotypical is a word that allows us to talk
about members of the dominant neurological group without implicitly reinforcing that
group s privileged position (and our own marginalization) by referring to them as
normal. "
1208Fr
* Up 5:30ish; W=202.8;
@ siderea | [me, Patreon] Patreon Problems
@ Donate | Molly Beans - A life in Development patreon alternatives
MakerSupport
Ko-fi - A Buy Me a Coffee Button for Your Content
Why Patreon is Getting Fees Wrong Simon from Ko-fi.com Medium
@ Thrinacia: The CrowdFunding Infrastructure
" Powering CrowdFunding Websites, Applications and Campaigns. Create CrowdFunding
Platform or Start CrowdFunding Campaign. Build or Create Next Generation of
CrowdFunding or Fundraising Services and Products. Start, Build and Deploy
CrowdFunding Applications and Web Sites Quickly via Proven and Scalable Turn Key
Software as a Service CrowdFunding Solution "
* j's school: finish math test
& take j to swimming lesson; missed Goss Lake in the fog on the way back and continued
on into Langley. Lone Lake was a lot farther than I remembered -- it's off Saratoga,
not E. Harbor -- but it was there.
: blasted DSL modem had to be power-cycled again.
* found the problems with weather - ansiweather wants country code, not state. xmobar
is apparently hardcoded to weather.noaa.gov; that functionality has moved to
weather.gov. Aliasing it in /etc/hosts didn't help. so bottom-bars -w works, but
bottom-mobars doesn't.
* 15min: 3 loads of laundry so far. Somehow the back bathroom had acquired two
packages of garbage bags, and the kitchen had none. Fixed that, too.
* 15min: 3 more bags of CDs. Hopefully the box I'm emptying now is the last CDs from
the towers; I'm pretty sure there are scattered ones left from N+G's suite, and
probably a lot in Rosie
@ Pretty Terrible | Funny Money, Patreon Style
Pretty Terrible | Links Roundup 12/08/17
@ The Sonny Bono Memorial Collection fights copyright creep.
Sonny Bono Memorial Collection : Internet Archive
" We believe the works in this collection are eligible for free public access under 17
U.S.C. Section 108(h) which allows for non-profit libraries and archives to
reproduce, distribute, display and publicly perform a work if it meets the criteria
of: a published work in the last twenty years of copyright, and after conducting a
reasonable investigation, no commercial exploitation or copy at a reasonable price
could be found. "
* 15min: Cleared the rest of the CD box mentioned above. Looked in the large box
sitting on the small fridge, and found the missing 16" wire shelf brackets! Plus a
couple of odd ones, a bookend, etc. And a couple of power strips; brought one in.
@ 10 Ways to Enhance Your Emotional Intelligence | Psychology Today
Not clear most of them will help; the article seems to assume that one can accurately
map between bodily sensations and emotions, and that's where I have the most trouble
-> (Sa) their definition of EQ appears to be roughly equivalent to being able to
control one's intense emotions. Um, ... yeah:
" When we can tolerate and constructively manage any emotion including feelings of
sadness, anger, or fear we are said to be emotionally intelligent. "
% depressed. Possibly triggered by argument with C, which started when I tried to
correct her when she was updating insurance information (which, as far as I can tell,
didn't really need to be updated; she was just remembering things wrong). Which
worries me a lot, actually.
% trainwreck: continuing worry about the remodel. Minimum of $70K and that's if
nothing goes sideways along the way.
~ Friday: meatballs (Swedish TV dinner for N; mixed Greek/Italian pizza for me and C)
* 15min: more shelving. There's still a box missing -- only one or two by Baez out.
% Dinner helped. So does Music for Cats, which is very soothing.
% 8ish eyes watering. Can't tell whether I'm sad or just sleepy.
% 9:30 very sleepy. Too early to go to bed
* down 10ish
1209Sa
* up 4:59; W=202.8; shower
@ Snowdrift Wiki - Other Crowdfunding / Fundraising Services (siderea)
Overview of crowdfunding alternatives, from a FLO point of view. Slightly out of date
kittyspace.org/gettheshowon.pdf a few more leads.
@ SirCmpwn/fosspay: Donation collection for FOSS groups and individuals (snowdrift)
open-source, self-hosted. Stripe on the backend; requires Python3 and PostgreSQL
@ My theory: Patreon doesn't want to be a money services business (siderea) cf Gratipay
" tldr: Patreon is changing their fee structure, in part, because the batching of
pledge payments from one patron to multiple creators and the use of Patreon balance
to pay pledges without processing an external payment requires holding funds in a
balance that can then be redistributed and makes them look like a money transmitter
money services business, which makes them subject to additional regulation. "
" It would seem that Patreon is another example of a business that was too good to be
true, founded by idealists whose solution to the problems that stopped other people
from doing what they did was... to not know about those problems and not actually
have a solution for them. "
@ Better than Patreon / Audrey Eschright (linked from previous)
-> MoonClerk | Recurring Payments and One Time Payments Online Uses Stripe
Monthly fee of $15 for low-volume users plus processing fees, so requires having
patrons to cover it.
@ siderea | [Patreon] The Fourteen Twenty-Nine Hypothesis
Patreon loses money on patrons who spend less than $14.29/month.
& somehow I just deleted my main Chrome window, which was full of tabs. In some ways
this is probably a Good Thing. -> well, that was interesting. Apparently "reopen
closed tab" is able to reopen multiple tabs closed at the same time.
* 15min: cut down one of my few remaining 1x12s to 3' for use in the shelves next to
the couch, for oversized books. There are, clearly, far more oversized books than will
fit, but that's a solvable problem.
* 15min: determined that the 16x18 wire shelves can in fact be used in Colleen's
corner, though whether that would work (because wire) is still unresolved.
@ Home | The Sciku Project (Science)
I should write some, or maybe ITanka (5/7/5/7/7) and CSaiku
example of the latter: P equals NP? / A Turing award awaits / A proof or disproof.
-> wikipedia dive off of Tanka
see also: Haiku in English
-> see also Tanka: Poetic Form | Academy of American Poets
x 9am-8pm Friday Afternoon Tea Grand Opening Day!
4228 Stone Way N, Seattle, Washington 98105
~ Saturday: -scrounge; Friday Afternoon Tea Grand Opening-_pasta with red sauce_
& Nice evening with all four of us (me, C, N, and G) in the living room listening to
music.
1202Su-1208Sa Menu
* Sunday: fish, baked potatoes
* Monday: Burgundy beef; salad
* Tuesday: Zabar's
* Wednesday: chicken stir-fry with rice (swapped from Thursday)
* Thursday: home-made pizzas (swapped from Wednesday)
~ Friday: meatballs (Swedish TV dinner for N; mixed Greek/Italian pizza for me and C)
~ Saturday: -scrounge; Friday Afternoon Tea Grand Opening-_pasta with red sauce_
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Date: 2017-12-10 08:29 pm (UTC)2) I've introduced my daughter to the kid programming language Scratch Jr. She's 6, she doesn't do anything fancy with it yet, but she knows how to move characters around and make them say things.
3) Google Chrome often has groups of closed windows in the history as one item - I've re-opened lost windows from there before.
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Date: 2017-12-10 10:30 pm (UTC)I'm introducing my 11-year-old nephew, whom we're homeschooling, by way of Scheme; may switch to Ruby or Python once the going gets steep there. He's used Scratch at school.
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Date: 2017-12-13 09:15 pm (UTC)I wish. Fact is, I tend to procrastinate to the point where I miss deadlines and wind up with a huge pile of paperwork, overdue bills, and missed opportunities. It makes me very annoyed at myself, but apparently that's not sufficient to get me to do anything.
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Date: 2017-12-14 01:53 am (UTC)Inspired by your csAIku
Date: 2017-12-15 07:18 am (UTC)"Cannot roll it back;
No transaction is active."
Head on desk, I weep.
Re: Inspired by your csAIku
Date: 2017-12-16 01:05 am (UTC)