mdlbear | Done Since 2024-12-01 (Reply)

I've actually been getting things done this week. Including tuning a few of my aliases and key bindings, tidying my desk (in the process of looking for some lost paperwork), and guitar and singing practice, which... well, let's just say it's about time. That doesn't mean I'm getting enough done, of course. We have a housekeeper (N") now, as of Monday, which helps, but most of the things that I need to be doing aren't things that a housekeeper can help with.

Some good rabbit-holes. Unfortunately many of those involve video or audio, and I have found that with headphones on I can't hear our (rather loud) doorbell. I am learning (with very mixed success) to schedule rabbit holes for times when no deliveries are expected. Meanwhile go have a look at Friday (Knuth) and Saturday (Strandbeests), for example.

Saturday, right at the end, you'll also find the poem that immediately came to mind after the recent unpleasantness in New York.

Notes & links:
1201Su * sift litter boxen, top up
& awake 7am alarm;
* up 7:15;
* abiraterone 7:30, coffee; rest of am drugs 8:30ish; coffee; pm drugs
@ Google app for iOS now adds Search links to third-party websites unless they
opt-out (solarbird | google’s latest fuckery: if you write online, read this)
Opt out from Page Annotation in Google App browser for iOS
Add a website property to Search Console
@ Sun's Magnetic Field Has Flipped. We Have Entered the Solar Maximum! - YouTube
* laundry. 18:13 Dryer says 3 hours, so should be done when I go upstairs toward bed
-> actually finished after about one hour, because a heat pump dryer is secretly a
dehumidifier under the hood.
* guitar: talking blues

1202Mo * sift litter boxen
& awake 3ish, 7am
* up 8am; ;
* abiraterone 8:05; coffee; rest of am drugs 9:05; 13:24 coffee; pm drugs 19:25
* 10am housekeeper (N")
@ Ensuring Hachyderm's Future: Improving Safety & Resilience through Strategic
Placement of Infrastructure | Hachyderm Community detailed and well-thought-out.
@ What Is the Future of the .io Domain? - The New Stack
@ Simon Tatham: "Grant me the ingenuity to work around the bugs I cannot fix;
the proactivity to fix the bugs I can;
and the sheer bloody-minded persistence to keep at it until _one_ of those damn things
happens, even if I have no idea which it will turn out to be.…" - Indieweb.Social
* 15min: teach to-do-insert-date how to handle a prefix arg.
M-- gets the old action (mmddWw at beginning of line), C-U inserts yyyy-mm-dd at
point. No prefix inserts mmdd, which is usually what you want.
* singing: Eyes; a little of Middle-Aged Bear -- wasn't coming together so decided to
work on details instead of pushing through
~ 18:30 tikka 200ml rice, 400 water. 2pkgs kip blokjes
* load drugs (required going up to fetch drugs)
* take up litter for tomorrow's change

1203Tu * change litter boxen
& awake 3ish
* up 7am; ;
% lots of hip pain this morning
: cats got out while I was cleaning up; had to go upstairs and rescue Bronx from behind
the gate. Wound up with way too much litter in the trash bag. May have to carry it
out on the scooter.
* abiraterone 7:05; coffee; rest of am drugs 8:15; coffee; pm drugs
@ Zoom drops the ‘video’ from its company name - The Verge
" Zoom is now an “AI-first work platform for human connection” " So much for privacy.
@ The Right Without Wrong
" The youthful, exuberant, and forward-looking conservatives of tomorrow have cranked
up the zealotry while abandoning even a nominal Christian commitment to compassion
and love of the victim, the neighbor, the immigrant, and the poor. "
* get N's travel schedule
* register at DFDF, request concert -> no; they;re by invitation only
@ London, The Unfinished City.: Blue Plaque: 'Danger Mouse'
@ The forgotten Edinburgh street found behind a hidden library door
@ Amazon and Google Must Keep Their Promises on Project Nimbus - EFF
" Project Nimbus provides advanced cloud and AI capabilities to the Israeli
government, tools that an increasing number of credible reports suggest are being
used to target civilians under pervasive surveillance in the Occupied Palestinian
Territories. "
* guitar: mostly Eyes... Millennium;s Dawn...
* 19:00 - 20:30 (10am-11:30 Pacific) Healing Center Passages support group
-> QV may need another verse
% attack of nausea after nearly inhaling some rice. Recurring problem. Recovered.

1204We * sift litter boxen
& awake 2:30; had Ticia in my lap part of the time trying to get back to sleep;
give up 3:20ish; down 4:30ish
* up 6:30ksh; ; Dutch,
* abiraterone 6:35; rest of am drugs 07:36; 2?coffee; pm drugs 7ish??
@ New website shows you how much Google AI can learn from your photos - Ars
@ Top Ten EFF Digital Security Resources for People Concerned About the Incoming Trump
Administration | Electronic Frontier Foundation
@ Why We Can’t Give You A Recommendation | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Secure Messaging? More Like A Secure Mess. | Electronic Frontier Foundation series
* 15min: install shower threshold in first-floor shower stall. Maybe should be higher
@ Five Steps To Resist The Coming Tyranny - by Malcolm Nance
* singing: * The River, For Amy, Ship of Stone, ... * Eyes Like the Morning,
Middle-Sized Bear, ... x October Country, Riverheart
# NOTE: o marks position in current line-up; ... is a break.
Tomorrow, work on a line-up that covers both proposed albums. Make songlists and
cycle through them. Consider DFDF
@ This Is The World's First Geared CVT
and It Will Blow Your Mind - Ratio Zero Transmission - YouTube irrational gears!
Now all we need are the Klein bottle tanks...
@ Knuth: Pipe Organ

1205Th * sift litter boxen
& awake 4ish
* up 7am; ; Dutch
* abiraterone 7:05; coffee; rest of am drugs 08:23; 11:33:c pm drugs 20:51
! bit of an emotional hit listening to the start of EC's ConChord 14 concert
@ Echo's Children — live at ConChord 14 (9/23/2000) - YouTube
@ Incredible Dancing & Videography in this Stunning Performance 💯🔥 - YouTube
@ rabbit hole - from ysabetwordsmith | Notes for "A Process of Emotional Repair" to nets and paracord
and from there kernmantle rope and knots. Mostly in W7a
* singing: middle-aged-bear, ..., stuff-that-dreaams-are-made-of.
% throat getting a bit scratchy. should have some chocolate or something.16:00
* Mary Ellen Carter -- I'll have to recover the guitar part :P ... that's better
@ Bluesky Has Predictable Growing Pains - SMOF News, vol 4, #14 - Petréa Mitchell

1206Fr * sift litter boxen, top up
@ Saint Nicholas Day-Wikipedia
Sinterklaas - Wikipedia
& awake 3:45ish
* up 7:15; ; ... Dutch, ..., kegels
* abiraterone 7:15; coffee; rest of am drugs 08:20ish; pm drugs 9ish
@ rabbit hole starting with Donald E. Knuth Lectures | Stanford Online 2017, and from there to
Surreal Numbers (writing the first book) - Numberphile - YouTube
... and deeper dives into tuning systems and the Book of Revelation ...15:45
* singing: windward, stolen-child,

1207Sa * sift litter boxen Pearl Harbor
& awake 4:30
* up 7:00; ; Dutch; 2*coffee
% digestive system unpleasantness possibly due to the tuna melt I had for breakfast
* abiraterone 7:20; rest of am drugs 09:15; pm drugs 20:34
@ National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day Attack on Pearl Harbor
@ NASA Rocket Engine Fireplace+ #YULELOG hashtag
@ Trans Continental Pipeline - Queer Relocation Nonprofit in Denver, Colorado
@ 12,419 Days Of Strandbeest Evolution - Veritasium - YouTube
Home - Strandbeest
Oerol - Strandbeest Zingt
Theo Jansen | Kunstmuseum Den Haag
: Moderate warning for wind: southwest 8 bft, which translates to 34-40kt
TIL: NL uses the Beaufort scale
for gale warnings. First time I've seen it used in an official capacity.
@ Concepts of Evil - Greenhaven: A Pagan Tradition
@ Factcheck: Why the recent ‘acceleration’ in global warming is what scientists expect
" this acceleration is broadly in line with projections from the latest generation of
climate models and the recent sixth assessment report (AR6) "
@ Internet Thirsts Over Pics of Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooting
" It’s not often you have people publicly offering an alleged murderer safe harbor in
their own homes as authorities look to bring them in, creating fan art about his act
of violence, and proclaiming him a folk hero. "
@ An Ethical Grook -- Piet Hein
I see
and I hear
and I speak no evil;
I carry
no malice
within my breast;
yet quite without
wishing
a man to the Devil
one may be
permitted
to hope for the best.
-- Piet Hein
" QOTD: N: The new sewing machine is named Folkie. It's an especially robust Singer. "
@ 1970's IBM vintage computer promotional film (original upload) IBM Mainframe, RAMAC
* guitar: october-country, concentrating on the tricky bits, like F E transitions.
riverheart, also working on the stuff I'm usually too busy singing to get right