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mdlbearNot a very productive week. Last Sunday's planned Hanukkah party was pushed off to this week due to illness (everyone's okay now), which also scrubbed the cats' vet visit. Which would have been problematic anyway because of the snow. Which also made me put off my usual weekend trip to Whidbey, and I put off Molly's service visit because it had been double-booked too close to the vet visit. Fortunately I had acquired presents last week, and the delays gave me time to wrap them. So...
I've been having a lot of trouble getting out of bed -- not sure whether that's because I've been waking up in the middle of the night or because I've been waking up with cats lying on my hands. Or because of depression. Possibly all three. I always have trouble identifying my emotions. Falling asleep sitting up reading, without my CPAP mask, probably also has something to do with it.
Waking up at 7:04 Friday sent me off on a minor rabbit-hole around memorable numbers. Probably ought to make a post about that.
Quote of the week: "The acid test for any two competing socioeconomic systems is which side needs to build a wall to keep people from escaping? That’s the bad one!" -- Elon Musk on Twitter, about the same time he was suppressing tweets about Mastodon, Facebook, and Instagram. Right.
Anyway, whichever winter holiday you're celebrating, have a good one. And if you're trying hard to ignore all of them, NASA has posted a huge collection of history e-Books, audio, etc. for you to hide in. I particularly recommend Earth As Art and Earth at Night.
Notes & links: 1218Su & awake 3:55; S=4:38; hip/lower back pain p~=4 -> acetaminophen, heat * up 7:30; S=6:09, p=4; bilateral hip pain, (some)exercises @ People who skipped their COVID vaccine are at higher risk of traffic accidents, according to a new study * before leaving RE turn down heat, turn off fireplace, run dishwasher, check locks * make the usual Heifer donation for N * stop by TJ and get half-moon (black+white) cookies for N : It started -snowing- _sleeting_ as I was bringing in the last of the boxes from Molly : The pretty folding cane that used to be C's is a couple of inches too long for me, but unlike the other one it can be shortened with a hacksaw. : Text from Bill Pierre Chevy with a service reminder and a number to call to reschedule -> got some kind of weird robot; can't tell if it's broken or just badly designed @ Twitter bans posting of handles and links to Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon & more @ Small caps font generator, ᴛɪɴʏ capital letters - 𝙁𝙎𝙮𝙢𝙗𝙤𝙡𝙨 (solarbird | working around twitter linkbans) : N has given all the cats lovely fuzzy cat-beds. @ The World-Famous Actor Charlotte Cushman Returns to the Limelight | Smithsonian " The Rise and Fall, and Rise Again, of America’s First Celebrity—a Woman Who Loved Other Women " 1219Mo * (E') litter boxen & awake 12:30?; 3:30ish: S=3:30; 4:30; first and last segments with no mask * up 7am; S=5?; exercises : Ticia spent a lot of the night and morning lying on the new cat bed (present from N) & take N to ER (Northwest) Threw Sable into a sling bag, which was a mistake bcause there's no power brick. :P * 9:30 E' coming 9:30 for pre-party touch-up * call Bill Pierre to cancel: 206-376-7700 * bring N her headphones (over-the-ear); brown leather med kit pick up a laptop charger. For some weird reason there wasn't one in my backpack. -> that will want to be fixed soon. Next trip to RE, if not before. @ Mastodon users embrace columnist's funny error about a fictitious "John Mastodon" * guitar: bad guys, wheelin', river, @ John Barleycorn Deconstructed - YouTube : afternoon-evening it's snowing @ Video Lectures | Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | MIT OpenCourseWare (2005) 1220Tu & awake 2:30ish; no mask; * up 6:15; S=3:37, S~=6 total; : Snow -- 1-2 inches expected (Winter storm warning on Whidbey, advisory in Seattle) @ ysabetwordsmith | Magic is like ... large list of different magical systems @ READ: The full summary of the committee’s report | AP News Trump referral: What laws the Jan. 6 panel says were broken | AP News Jan. 6 panel urges ethics review for McCarthy, GOP lawmakers | AP News Donald Trump should face criminal insurrection charges, Capitol riot panel recommends @ Opinion | The war on ‘Happy Holidays’ isn’t about Christmas - The Washington Post it's a war on inclusivity @ Made from Truth and Lies: Better failure for social media portability " So social media sites are always trying to optimize their mistreatment of users, mistreating them (and thus profiting from them) right up to the point where they are ready to switch, but without actually pushing them over the edge. " Elon Musk on Twitter: "The acid test for any two competing socioeconomic systems is which side needs to build a wall to keep people from escaping? That’s the bad one!" what goes around, comes around. : I've started getting spam notifications from Birdland @ Block Protocol – an open standard for data-driven blocks The Block Protocol for WordPress Plugin Progress on the Block Protocol – Joel on Software @ Winter storm, blizzards to disrupt holiday travel this week across U.S. - WaPo " The Weather Service office serving Buffalo is calling it a “once in a generation” storm system. " -- meaning we may start getting them every few years from now on How to prepare yourself, your home and your vehicle for extreme cold - WaPo 20 smartphone tips for weathering natural disasters - The Washington Post @ What is a bomb cyclone? An atmospheric scientist explains " It becomes a bomb when its central pressure decreases very quickly – by at least 24 millibars in 24 hours. " x 2:30 bloodwork for the cats -> rescheduled for 0309Th @ The 5 Best Reusable Face Masks of 2022 | Reviews by Wirecutter @ solarbird | ActivityPub is going to take over the world. @ Lecture 1A: Overview and Introduction to Lisp - YouTube 1986 talks about computer science as magic. WitC was written in 1985. Of course, we could both have gotten that idea from the same place, and it wouldn't surprise me if we had. see also: Welcome to the SICP [Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs] Web Site Magic, spells, ... the law of names -- all in the first lecture. * check to see whether there's a hacksaw here. -> Bring one down from RE if not. 1221We Solstice * litter boxen * up 6:30; S=8:07, W=196.4; : 1:48pm Winter Solstice @ Winter Solstice, Camelot Station, by John M. Ford | Thinking Too Much WOW! * 15min: finish loading dishwasher (started yesterday) -> run @ IndieWeb (via WP Tavern - WordPress.com Launches Newsletter Product -- which also looks interesting " The IndieWeb is a community of independent & personal websites connected by simple standards, based on the principles of: owning your domain & using it as your primary identity, publishing on your own site (optionally syndicating elsewhere), and owning your data. " more: IndieWeb @ Your Twitter “Go Bag” | Chris Aldrich @ Indieweb.Social possible mastodon instance @ Mark Zuckerberg Is Going To Kill His Company One can hope @ IndieWebCamps create tools for a new Internet. (2014) @ IndieWeb – WordPress plugin @ OAuth for the Open Web • Aaron Parecki @ Cassie Evans's Blog * call Chewy about cancelled autoship order -> went through when the rep re-posted it call answered immediately by a real human. Nice. @ FPB 78, COCHISE - Berthon International amazing; $6.5M * 7pm mushroom stroganoff for me and G : one of the cats apparently peed outside the box; since I put the bedside litter box on the bed to change it, the top layer of my bedding got wet. Fortunately that's the scooter cape, which is waterproof. But still. Washed it with damp paper towels and hung it up to dry. Needs a pass with spray cleaner, but I don't have any at RS * load drugs 1222Th x 7:30 - Bronx, Brooklyn, Cricket -- teeth cleaning -> rescheduled for 0314Tu & Awake 3:30ish; * up 8:30; S=7:39; exercises @ life happens - IndieWeb good stuff @ Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media see above, also dr @ Woodpecker CI (via forgejo.org) " ... is a simple CI engine with great extensibility. " @ Chat Freely with Matrix. | Join Matrix! Matrix (protocol) Open source Discord alternative * see if I have one of the larger bed pads down at RS -> yes 1223Fr * litter boxen (closet -- the one by the bed didn't seem to need it) & awake 4:05; S=5:04; pretty unstable going to the bathroom. probably normal, certainly not unusual for me, but a little more than usual . % worrying about the house and my (lack of a) will. Need to work on that. down 4:45 * up 6:50; S=7:04, p=3-4; exercises % the sleep time started to send me down a rabbit hole of memorable numbers. Post? : black ice everywhere, including the ramp to the Lair, the path, and the front porch @ Billionaires Are A Security Threat | WIRED " Git was explicitly engineered to remain outside the reach of bad actors no matter how much money they have, and to propagate that powerful property into all the code it touches. It’s not just that Git is free and open. It was designed in a way that means it can never be anything else. " @ Keybase encrypted git, storage, chat, ... typical TOS. Recently sold to Zoom. 250GB. proprietary server. cf Open source the server components of Keybase · Issue #24105 · keybase/client see also: Keybase - Wikipedia @ History e-Books | NASA Large collection of free eBooks. links to audio, etc. @ Glaswegian who 'invented' chicken tikka masala dies - BBC News : 2:50 drizzling slightly but there's still ice on the outer edge of the porch winter storm warning in effect until 7pm @ Buttplug Sex Toy Control Project cross-platform @ Lecture 2A: Higher-order Procedures good explanation of fixed-point combinator Lecture 7A: Metacircular Evaluator, Part 1 - YouTube EVAL/APPLY ~ next trip to RE today or not; back Sa evening or Su am. -> not * guitar: just a little random noodling : Still slippery -- put on cleats 1224Sa & Awake 3:45ish; no mask; down 5ish * Up 6:15ish; S=1:45; : raining. Still a lot of slick spots where snow got compacted into ice. @ Rod Hilton: "Simple example of…" why automakers shouldn't advertise on Birdland " Last night Ford tweeted about their 2023 Bronco Sport. As of right now, their Tweet has 36.2K views, but the account has 1.4M followers. 2.5% of their audience saw it. At the same time, Tesla tweeted about their Model Y. As of now, 24.3M views on their tweet, 18.8M followers. 129% of their audience. " (solarbird | Tesla vs. all other car companies on Twitter) @ access_fandom | Whether, why, and how to use Whisper to transcribe speech Speech-to-text with Whisper: How I Use It & Why | Cogito, Ergo Sumana Introducing Whisper @ Danny O'Brien's Oblomovka » Blog Archive » On Stable Diffusion " A 4.2GiB file isn’t a heist of every single artwork on the Internet, and those who think it is are the ones undervaluing their own contributions and creativity. It’s an amazing summary of what we know about art, and everyone should be able to use it to learn, grow, and create. " @ snipe on Twitter: "FWIW, here's what I told my employees re: the LastPass breach. Feel free to re-use without attribution. Hope it helps. What a mess." @ LastPass says hackers stole customers’ password vaults | TechCrunch * guitar: For Amy, Bad Guys % 4:30 drifty % so there's a question of _why_ I'm watching the SICP lectures. There's hardly anything there that I don't know. I think it may be useful in case I ever want to teach LISP to someone. Or (more likely) write a blog post about it. : The last of the transfers has happened at Raymond James, completing the process of spliting up my parents' trusts between me and Al. @ “That’s Gilgamesh’d Up”: Recreating the Music of Ancient Sumer | The Core Blog The Epic Of Gilgamesh In Sumerian - YouTube @ 7 Things That Might Make You Choose a Raspberry Pi Alternative The 5 best Raspberry Pi alternatives of 2022 | ZDNET
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Date: 2022-12-26 10:25 am (UTC)We celebrated around the time of the Solstice, so a quiet Christmas Day here.
Boxing Day is going to be spent moving my mum from LastPass to Bitwarden.
Yingle Yule!
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Date: 2022-12-27 04:39 am (UTC)