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mdlbearIt's been a week. Starting with my son's fortieth birthday, and ending with the fourth anniversary of Colleen's death. I started writing a "state of the Bear" post last Sunday, and will either finish it today or tomorrow, or give up on it. But productive.
I went out for a walk four days this week -- the longest was about a
kilometer, and the shortest was 650m. I practiced every day,
which I haven't done for a long time. And, at N's suggestion, I
started a work log, to keep track of what I've done for our business.
I'll write it up separately, of course, but it's been remarkably
effective. See under Monday for the start, but it's all been moved out of
Dog/to.do to different file and workspace, which will mostly
not find its way into this log, although pieces might.
It also shows how appallingly lazy I've been for the last six months.
Not really surprising -- I've been retired for eight years, and I've allowed myself to get out of shape in a great many ways. It's probably too late to get back to where I was a decade ago, but I'll do what I can.
And of course, the best-laid plans... Friday N and I started putting together a piece of patio furniture, and wore ourselves out completely. And yesterday was Colleen's day and I actually got more done than I expected. Weekends are for catching up.
As for links, AI coding tools make developers slower, study finds • The Register. As I've often said, HTML Is Publishing, Not Code
And this is flat-out amazing: Hundreds of robots move Shanghai city block - YouTube
Notes & links: 0706Su Chaos (40); * sift litter boxen & awake 3:30ish, up til 5 * up 7ish; ; Dutch * drugs: first am 7:04; rest am 08:23; coffee; pm 21:00ish * walk: 08:44; ccw around Simon Vesteijkstraat loop: 650m; 15mm, 1hp, ~1200st; +cane @ andrewducker | Interesting Links for 05-07-2025 Hundreds of robots move Shanghai city block - YouTube You will own nothing and be happy (Stop Killing Games) | Jeff Geerling * stage cardboard out to storage room * keyboard: aded my Shure earbuds to the keyboard, played a couple of tentative chords % 18:00 noticedd that I hadn't had anything to eat since 11ish. I think. * singing: Desolation Row * 22:00 set out cardboard for pickup tomorrow * order Age and Treachery T-shirt for Chaos 0707Mo * litter boxen (N") & awake 3:30ish * up 7ish; ; Dutch, exercise * drugs: first am 7:45; rest am 8:30ish?; 2*coffee; pm * HSX add expenses: you have to edit the draft and that brings up the "add to expenses" button. Should have entered more expenses before submitting. ~1h * make delta.nl account. Can't link until tomorrow because I wasn't paying attention (or possibly got confused moving my calendar items for the week) @ Defying physics: This rare crystal cools itself using pure magnetism (ysabetwordsmith) * am bring in cardboard recycling bin * 11am HSX -stand-up- check in w\ N -> this goes in hsx/work.do from now on *- already spent about a half-hour on bookkeeping -~ set up some physical folders and track down paper. *- set up interim time log, or at least see if I can find an app *- music - at least 30m from now on * 13:00 HSX work time * HSX set up time logging, ->users/hsx/work.do for now : RIP: Quentin Long has died % I appear to be hungry. ~ guitar: Lock Keeper, only got hung up on Bm and never recovered. ~ telecom: create a DELTA account for MyDELTA from 8 July 2025 -> oops - but making it one day early doesn't seem to have done any damage : The metal struts in my big grey backpack are, in fact, removable - velcro at the top of the pocket, in back underneath where the straps attach. I did a little damage before figuring that out. But anyway. % I appear to be in full curl-up-and-hide mode and have no idea why * load drugs * bring up kibble 0708Tu * sift litter boxen & awake 3:30ish * up 7ish; ; Dutch * drugs: first am 7:05; rest am 08:43; pm 21ish % major screw-up loading drugs -- put most of the pm drugs in the rest am container -> pretty easily fixed except that I have an extra batch of pm drugs. fixable. * link DELTA account to old Caiway account. Same account# Welcomecaiway | DELTA Fiber Nederland BV * walk: 08:24 parking lot at end of Meno TerBrakStraad; .87km, 9hp, 19mm, 1775st % L. knee complaining @ The Python Script I Built That Accidentally Went Viral | by Maria Ali | Jul, 2025 automatically renames files in Downloads using AI @ The Job Market Just Died (And Nobody Told You) | by Mr Tony Momoh | Jul, 2025 @ HTML Is Publishing, Not Code | ITNEXT % 17:17 feeling kind of out of it. Possibly not enough to eat. * sl: tape measure, kibble bin * guitar: Bm, Wheein', Ship of Stone, & order 2TB SSD for Framework. less than half the price FW wants because Prime Day % debating whether to change my address in the Carleton alumni directory. Currently LC o apply for UK electronic travel authorization (see 1129Fr) Apply for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA) - GOV.UK 0709We * sift litter boxen & awake 5:30ish * up 6ish; ; Dutch * drugs: first am 6ish; rest am 7ish; 2*coffee; pm 19:35 * walk: 7ish; second bridge N. 3hp, 13mm, 1160st, .76km; (includes doubling back from the corner of Meno Ter Braakstraat to get my phone) @ Rejected by Museums Around the World, This New Art Exhibition Explores the Historical Roots of the Term 'Homosexual' @ Irregular Webcomic! #1420 (Maxwell's Equations) @ Is Gmail Silently Sabotaging You. I thought I was going crazy. But no —… @ The Funniest, Most Brutally Honest Comments Ever Left in Source Code @ Starting today, Gemini AI will access your WhatsApp and more. Learn how to disable it on Android. | Tuta @ Are humans destined to evolve into crabs? | Aeon Essays " The human tendency to seek efficiency by offloading work onto systems – our so-called laziness – has made us dependent on large, risk-averse institutions, such as states and global financial markets. And here we start to see the risks of undergoing a process of carcinisation: crabs are great recyclers, but lousy innovators. " -- possibly more amusing than enlightening. Damned if I know. & order 2TB SSD for the Framework laptop, which has not yet arrived. Prime day sale. * guitar: 30m October Country, Keep the Dream Alive, River, Ship of Stone, * keyboard: 30m of struggling to remember anything at all about reading music; failing 0710Th * sift litter boxen & awake 3:30ish? * up 6:30ish?; ; * drugs: first am 7ish; rest am 08:16; coffee; pm 20:20 * walk: N to turnaround; 2hp, 22mm, 20min, 1688st, 1km * 09:00ish N" - boxes into storage. Mostly N and N"; I just kibbitzed @ Google can now read your WhatsApp messages, here's how to stop it - Neowin @ pprevos/emacs-writing-studio Emacs configuration for authors who research, write and publish articles, books and websites. complicated, but may be useful Write Articles, Websites and Books with Emacs Writing Studio * workday 145min $ €12.10 to inwx.com from USB via PayPal s@t for schildhaven.nl * 18:00 Eurofilk singing: Paper Wings (request), Paper Pings, Stuff that Dreams are Made Of : my Framework 12 will be shipping soon - they just charged my card 0711Fr * sift litter boxen & awake 3:30ish * up 5:50ish; W=89.9; Dutch * drugs: first am 6:04; rest am 07:21; pm 19:31 * walk: far end of Simon Vestdijkstraat loop. 08ish; 3hp, .6km, 14mm, 803st @ The Arithmetic of Emergency. A personal accounting of climate… | by Gael MacLean " What we are passing down is not just damaged land and depleted aquifers and uninsurable houses. What we are passing down is a way of seeing — or not seeing — that allows us to argue about everything except the arithmetic of emergency. " @ Boeing work instructions inadequate for years before blowout, NTSB finds * laundry (started 9ish) @ Resources - Disabled By Society free graphics, podcast, policy papers “The disabled population is the world’s largest minority that anyone can become a part of at any time.” * put together the frame for the swinging papasan chair, with N. Damned thing required flexing to make it line up; the last screw got cross-threaded, and will probably fail early. So it goes. % 20:24 suddenly feeling _very_ flaky. * pick up laundry ~ maybe try to finish state-of-the-bear post 0712Sa Colleen (4) * sift litter boxen & awake 3ish * up 7ish?? in bed with the cats for a longish time * drugs: first am 7:45; rest am 08:42; pm 20:30ish Had Bronx in my lap but he bit me when I tried to update this file. * walk: walk: far end of Simon Vestdijkstraat loop. 16mm, 2hp, 1055st started feeling unstable, so turned around. Barely made it, I think. Several stops * noon: Colleen's candle, toast, memories. post Remembering the FlowerCat: Four years after. @ Here’s how I’m stopping AI-generated comments dead in their tracks with a poisoned watermark. | by Jim the AI Whisperer | The Generator | Jul, 2025 | Medium How employers are setting traps to spot AI-generated job applications and trip them up | by Jim the AI Whisperer | The Generator | Medium @ posted: mdlbear | River: Remembering the FlowerCat: Four years after @ AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds | Reuters AI coding tools make developers slower, study finds • The Register @ EU explains how to do AI without breaking the law • The Register : New Zoom just dropped. Obnoxious. * singing: Eyes Like the Morning, Lily et. al. -- for Colleen @ What To Do When You See ICE in Your Neighborhood ~ Take Colleen's candle upstairs and put in the tub (if N doesn't) (N did)
Activity
Date: 2025-07-19 06:56 pm (UTC)I watched this with my parents older friends.
2020 was very bad for me, close to fatal.
Amazon turned out to be a godsend of all things.
First, it generated an income higher than unemployment.
Id been hunkered down in the basement for a year looking for work, somehow losing weight rather than gaining it.
I took the Amazon job to finance my search for a cemetery plot, BTW.
I walked into a job where there was tons I could see needed doing and my crew was standing there waiting for the next truck to come in.
Id ask the PA, "Hey! Can I go do X while waiting for the truck?"
They'd let me and next thing I knew I was doing 15 miles in a 5hr shift.
During my first month at Amazon, my depression eased considerably.
I later learned that LOTS of physical exercise has been proven to improve depression.
It has worked to the extent that Im actually afraid to leave Amazon.
Im trying to figure out how to keep Amazon and do a day gig in Davis.
It should be "interesting" in the Asian sense.
What Im getting to is that, I read your posts about depression.
I am, convinced that my dad survived that series of mini strokes due to his hiking, gardening on a 30 degree slope, and international folk dance.
When Mom was no longer verbal due to alzheimers,
at her medical appointments they would ask what her sport was.
It took a while to realize that the answer was "shes a dancer".
Their response was "Ah THAT explains her vitals"
Being in the NL, a place where bikes are considered almost holy, is cycling an option for you?
I believe that physical exercise would help you in many ways, including the depression and even on the oncology.
By the way, you, Ross & Rick Moen are the latest in my circle of contacts who are all dealing with the same medical predicament.
Im still trying to wrestle with the Medicare sign up process but Im recognizing symptoms, and Im probably in the same hot water as you guys.
Can I get an email for Chaos/Sidney/{latest name} ?
Im lighting a virtual candle for you.
Re: Activity
Date: 2025-07-19 07:11 pm (UTC)Thanks! I'm sufficiently unsure of my balance that I agree with N's assessment that I shouldn't be trying to ride a bike at this point. I'm considering a trike, though, and I'm trying to get my walking back. I'm walking a bit over a kilometer every day now, up from "around the block" not too long ago.
Chaos is going by Riley now, but his email is still kdsavitzky@gmail.com
==steve