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mdlbearNot a great week. It starts with my mother's 105th birthday -- she died a little before her 100th -- and ends with my 50th wedding anniversary -- the last one Colleen was alive for was our 45th.
The New Year's Eve/Day Zoom filksing was a high point -- I sang 9 songs. It went on for almost another day after I left. R was online too, so I got to hear him sing a little; we decided that this could count as our holiday video chat if we didn't get arouond to an official one. OTOH because I don't plan well and don't multitask at all, there were undoubtedly a number of things that should have been done before year's end that weren't.
In the category of things that ought to be done soon, see this Post by @rahaeli.bsky.social — Bluesky " I strongly suspect, from all these signals, that Sberbank is preparing to either sell the outside-Russia part of LJ if they can find a buyer, or shut it down if they can't. " -- so back up everything you care about from LJ to DW, if you haven't already, or import it all into DW. I did that several years ago.
As for links... Maduro 'captured and flown out' of Venezuela, Trump says -- it's been suggested that Venezuela should return the favor. How We Came To Know Earth | Quanta Magazine's special issue on climate, including A Biography of Earth Across the Age of Animals.
Notes & links: 1228Su Mom's birthday @ library The Library at Galloway Ridge & Scientists Make Material That Can Morph Into Anything With the Pull of a String @ Historic Lick Observatory closes to public following significant wind damage Lick Observatory " Early on Thursday, Dec. 25, severe winds gusting up to 114 miles per hour tore loose half of the shutter on the 140-year old 36-inch Great Refractor dome. No one was injured. The multi-ton shutter section fell outward onto the roof of the Great Hall, crushing several structural beams. The Great Refractor telescope was not damaged during the incident ... Employees wrapped the telescope in plastic to protect it from rain. [...] “This was a frightening moment for our staff,” said Matthew Shetrone, UCO Deputy Director. “They sheltered together through the storm, and when it finally broke, everyone was safe, but the spiritual core of our observatory had been damaged. What followed was a remarkable response by staff to protect the telescope and stabilize the site.” " @ Why Pantone's Color of the Year Matters - YouTube ... and it's _white_! WTF? " QOTD: (me, elsenet) Apropos feeling old. Today would have been my mom's 105th birthday -- she died a little before her hundredth. My 50th wedding anniversary will be a week from yesterday; it's the fifth I'll be spending without Colleen. Our oldest kid turned 40 in July. " * tried going out with the Roamate. Total fail. The overspeed sensor went off three times after only a few feet of pushing. Three times. The R brake sensor then caused the "please unlock parking brake" error; applied the recommended fix, but that only lasted a few seconds. @ TIL the Large Magellanic Cloud is a spiral galaxy! @ Britain’s Leaders Are Hiding From AMOC Disaster - ZNetwork @ Doctor Who | Gallifrey Stands - YouTube fan edit 1229Mo @ Wagner, Overture to Tannhäuser (pipe organ) - Sarah Palmer - YouTube * walk: 10:41 DSB804, .75km, 2hp, 21min, 28mm, 1240st, * guitar: Eyes Like the Morning % noticed that it was written for Valentine's Day in 1990, so Colleen would have been pregnant with Amethyst at that point. Don't remember whether we knew then. *sigh* o 11-14 or whenever kf/hx work session * guitar. Study Cubiko site * SL: chili crisp, lime pickle @ The Best Beginner CNC Router? Full Enclosure, Compact Size - Genmitsu Cubiko Full Review - YouTube 1230Tu % woke up with Ticia next to my head, and Bronx lying across my legs. took a while to get out of bed. @ 22 tech luminaries we lost in 2025 – Computerworld @ Top 5 real-world AI security threats revealed in 2025 | CSO Online @ React2Shell: Anatomy of a max-severity flaw that sent shockwaves through the web * 11-14 or whenever kf/hx work session * collect/enter business data from N (in discord) and me * guitar: eyes * 12:15 leave for 13:00 psych Parnassus with C. Ramspek *- remember to ask for new prescription for bupropion -> decided to continue without it until next month. then maybe go to 150 or 300mg/day *- talked about asking for help, and about travel. -> discuss travel to US (before 13 maart) with housemates. @ Complexity Theory’s 50-Year Journey to the Limits of Knowledge | Quanta Magazine @ How We Came To Know Earth | Quanta Magazine climate A Biography of Earth Across the Age of Animals * load drugs -> move B6 to morning. 1231We New Year's Eve @ New Year's Eve * walk: to first bridge. Turned back because ice. There's a warning. not stupid. @ omg.lol is the Internet We Need Right Now · brennan.day * 10am (1am Pacific) 24-hour NYE filk circle starts 14:40 Millennium's Dawn 15:00 Julian of Norwich (Bells of Norwich) 15:37 Stuff That Dreams are Made Of 16:15 Eyes Like the Morning . hx work session -> NYE Filksing. % pm R ankle has been hurting. skin seems stretched and easily scratched. -> hydrocortizone ointment helped. 2026 ==== 0101Th Public Domain Day 2026 @ Public Domain Day|Wikipedia @ European Public Domain Day – Celebrating accessible & reusable works @ Public Domain Day 2026 | Duke University School of Law @ What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2026? — The Public Domain Review @ 2026 in public domain @ Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature - Blog - Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover @ Last and First Men * hx work session * 8:30ish Tuned back in to the filksing in time to hear R singing one of my songs 10:57 Get Up and Go 11:35 Windward 13:10 World Inside the Crystal 13:30 When I Go 13:45 Ship of Stone - 13:52 : Sometime in the middle of the last session -- 1300ish? -- BOTH left-hand USB ports stopped working. WTF? Finished with my Bose headphones and their mic. Will reboot -> ... and that appears to have fixed it. But WTAF? * walk: 16:04 DSB804 .75km, 10hp, 18mm, 21min, 1200st, @ 400 years later, astronomers finally understand Saturn's rings - Big Think @ Zippy535: Safety Sign Generator 0102Fr @ The First Rust Linux Kernel CVE Just Happened: Why It’s Actually Good News % This morning I woke up to the sound of sleet hitting the windows. " QOTD: (me) just lay me down in my cozy bed / with a purring cat at my feet and head " diana 🏳️⚧️🦋🌱: Alt text: Two panel meme captioned, "dog people on a winter morning" showing a heavy snow with a person dutifully walking their dog for a place to empty themselves, versus a caption, "cat people on a winter morning" with a hooman snuggled up with her cozy black cat under the warm heavy blankets @ Song for Sunday: Forty Five Years posted 2021-01-03. -> % tears. % Somebody sang it in the NYE filksing and I nearly lost it then. DID lose it today. @ Why You Should Swap Scrolling Social Media for an ‘Analog Bag’ | Jessica Stillman @ An Orbital House of Cards: Frequent Megaconstellation Close Conjunctions via Megaconstellations May Be Just 2 Days Away From Causing a Kessler Syndrome * check AX -> payment not needed. Can almost certainly pay off AX Pt this month : 14:33 it sleeted heavily last night, and we're getting more of it right now. @ The Open Printer Is a Raspberry Pi Zero W-Powered, Fully-Open, Highly-Flexible Inkjet Printer - Hackster.io @ Pluralistic: The Post-American Internet (01 Jan 2026) – Cory Doctorow @ archangelbeth | If you're still on LJ, read this thread. Post by @rahaeli.bsky.social — Bluesky " I strongly suspect, from all these signals, that Sberbank is preparing to either sell the outside-Russia part of LJ if they can find a buyer, or shut it down if they can't. " 0103Sa 50th Anniversary : lots of white stuff on the ground when I woke up. -> snow. < 1cm, but snow. 09:10 now actively showing again. * 8ish N's ferry scheduled to dock -> 10:10 back * 9:30? D" @ Missing for 200 Years, the Galapagos Rail Reappears Following Floreana Island Restoration (ysabetwordsmith | Wildlife) @ US strikes Venezuela and says its leader, Maduro, has been captured and flown out of the country WHAT THE ACTUAL FLAMING FUCK??!!?! Maduro 'captured and flown out' of Venezuela, Trump says – DW – 01/03/2026 @ Microsoft is Ruining GitHub. From the tool developers loved to the platform developers tolerate | by Brevis | Dec, 2025 | Stackademic @ NASA Ignites New Golden Age of Exploration, Innovation in 2025 - NASA * posted mdlbear | River: Remembering the FlowerCat: 50th Anniversary @ The why and how of backing up your Mastodon data kensanata/mastodon-archive: Archive your statuses, favorites and media using the Mastodon API (i.e. login required)