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mdlbear It's been a long, strange, trip week, but I'm
surviving it. It could have been much worse. Let's get that part out of
the way first.
I had a doctor's appointment Monday, to discuss my lab results from the previous week. One of those meetings that really should have been an email. Along the way there's a tram station where they're doing some work, so one has to detour; they've laid down sheets of plywood to go across the tracks, and the grassy embankment on the south side. Meaning that on the way home it's up a rather steep slope. Steep enough for (scooter)Gizmo to flip over backwards. I landed flat on my back.
Fortunately I was wearing Colleen's scooter cape and my fuzzy hat. I could easily have gotten a head or back injury, but apparently I didn't. What I did do, apparently, was pull some of my upper abdominal muscles. It didn't hurt much, until I went to bed. Then came the painful spasms. So I went back Tuesday -- you can't just walk in to urgent care here; you have to go through your GP. I went by Uber this time. So I got an EKG to confirm that my pain was not cardiac-related, and told that the only pain-killer safe for me at my age was paracetamol, which I was already taking. Now, six days later, it's mostly better.
Wednesday was noteworthy for not one, but two high-priority security problems. Hopefully you haven't been putting off those updates. I spent lots of time on Wednesday installing updates and keeping an eye on DreamHost's status page.
Meanwhile, N and G took off Thursday for New York City, to visit her father and stepmother, and Columbus, Ohio, for OVFF. So I'm borrowing N's cat, Brooklyn. Or he's borrowing me; you never know with cats. He's an absolute darling.
Linkies:
- 'Hyperland' — A 1990 BBC Documentary by Douglas Adams Predicting the Web -- more on Monday.
- If you don't want to use "Anthropocene", maybe you'd prefer "Plasticene".
- HOIST THE GUILLOTINE (OFFICIAL VIDEO) could easily have been chosen for this week's s4s but wasn't. Maybe after the midterms?
Notes & links: 1018Su @ The Last Stationery Shop in France Keeping a 400-Year-Old Tradition Alive|Nat Geo Our Savoir-Faire – Papier Royal " Pendulum stamping is a printing technique that uses a balance-beam press, in which the swinging arm is rotated to generate intense, localized pressure from the engraved die onto the support, striking it (whether it is thick paper, cardboard, or leather) to imprint a sharp, precise design. " @ Rising carbon dioxide levels could change the bread we eat (ysabetwordsmith) & help N assemble a small elliptical-like (ellipsoidal?) exercise machine. @ MapQuest Will Now Show You Where Flock Cameras Are In Your Neighborhood (?) & Trainwreck: very good conversation with N mostly about providing for my kids. There are some reasons to be optimistic even if things fall apart there. % (added later) moving was the best thing for me, but probably not for the kids @ “Here I Gather All the Friends”: Machiavelli and the Emergence of the Private Study -- The Public Domain Review - which is also very encouraging in its way = hx work session * get ActivityPub plugin mostly working on GS as @fedi@www.goingsideways.blog redirects to the home page in a browser, but shows the profile from Mastodon. * Dutch * load drugs * set alarm for GP 1019Mo & check balances to make sure AX had been paid, because I wasn't sure. It had. * walk: 8:33 DSB804: .64km, 8hp, 12mm, 12min, 110st, @ Farewell to the Leap second * leave 12:30 for 13:00 GP appointment ~- neither my lab results nor this appointment are on mijngezonheid.nl. WTF? $ pulled out €200 on the way back. % there's a detour across the tram tracks. Plywood ramp. Steep. On the way back I fell over backwards; landed flat on my (middle) back. It also knocked the battery out of the scooter because it apparently wasn't completely locked. Fortunately got it back in and got back home. ? debating urgent care. & in a bit of good timing, the woman next door (#20) was out so I asked for her phone# @ Seattle’s community news blogs cover neighborhood quirks and nuances | Sea-Times @ 'Hyperland' — A 1990 BBC Documentary by Douglas Adams Predicting the Web (C') " Hyperland is a prescient 1990 BBC television documentary written by and starring Douglas Adams, about a non-linear dream featuring a software agent named Tom, played by fellow Doctor Who alum Tom Baker, that foreshadows the World Wide Web and modern AI assistants. " Hyperland (1990) : BBC : Internet Archive % 22:10 sneezing hurts like heck. = hx work session * Dutch % lots of pain around ?sternum; pinged G; I was about ready to go to the ER but didn't get an answer soon enough. Finally found a sleeping position--side--that worked 1020Tu @ International Sloth Day 2026: 20 October 2026 | Awareness Days(ysabetwordsmith) Ysabet has three sub-categories under how to celebrate: Modern Sloths, Extinct Sloths, and "Take It Slow" <- call GP for urgent care -> lack of success with phone in the morning -> 11:45 tried phone with N, who found a translation app; they're at lunch now. -> 11:54 tried pratmetdedoktor app. will get answer within 3h, it claims -> got through finally. Option 3 and stay on the line. *- fall on scootmobile yesterday ~13:30; landed on back; didn't hurt much at the time *- pain and muscle spasms when lying down -> paracetamol 1g at 09:50. Should have had some around 2pm. * pickup at 15:50 for 16:15 GP -> no sign of cardiac problems or broken ribs; just muscular. -> paracetamol. Looked at my other meds and that's all he wanted to prescribe. -> should be somewhat better in a few days, better in a week or two. Right. @ Locomotor kinematics and head stabilization in rolling snakes: Current Biology @ Suspected second-generation planet solves Hubble cold case | ESA/Hubble @ The five stages of CIPA " The most engaged, most valuable customers are often the same people who’ve taken the most deliberate steps to make themselves less measurable by conventional ad tech, which means that if you’re an advertiser that is optimizing purely for trackability, you may be underweighting your best customers. " = hx work session * Dutch * 19:00 - 20:30 (10am-11:30 PST) Healing Center Passages support grp - 1st, 3rd Tu 1021We @ Plastic is becoming part of coral beaches in a disturbing new way Welcome to the "Plasticene" A Plasticene Lexicon - ScienceDirect; The Plasticene: Time and rocks @ The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs - Ars " The compromised eMudhra keys were defective at a level that’s challenging the imagination of many of the engineers studying the incident. A normal size for a NIST P-384 elliptic curve cryptography private key contains roughly 384 bits of entropy, a size allowing almost 2384, or a number with 116 digits, different possibilities. The private key sizes of the compromised keys ranged from 3 to 8 bits. Astonishingly, the private keys were 4, 56, 66, 115, 155, 156, 230, 237. " @ PHP warns it plans to release 2 emergency patches imminently - Ars Technica The PHP Foundation: The PHP security team is giving advance notice of an upcoming security release scheduled for Wednesday, 21 October 2026 at 14:00 UTC, addresses two critical vulnerabilities, both rated CVSSv4 9.2. = 7am PDT Upcoming Critical PHP Security Release - PHP: News Archive - 2026 -> posted: mdlbear | Public Service Announcement: Update PHP at 1400UTC TODAY! * SL: Platinum Preppy black, mg scale @ No One Painted Moonlight Like Him - YouTube John Atkinson Grimshaw & With G's help, created Jumbo account and placed order, to arrive Monday 16:00 - 18:00 -> can be modified until Sunday. = hx work session * Dutch 1022Th @ PHP Releases Emergency Patches for PHP2Shell Flaws Threatening Millions of Web Servers @ Mozilla | 2083449 - eMudhra: Private key compromise of Intermediate Certificates @ Cats And Their Owners Seem to Share A Weird, Hormonal Connection : ScienceAlert @ HOIST THE GUILLOTINE (OFFICIAL VIDEO) - YouTube s4s? 【Kasane Teto】likujo【SynthV Cover】 - YouTube in TOKI PONA! @ Montparnasse derailment - Wikipedia relevant to #trainwreck @ Platinum Preppy: A Comprehensive Guide arrived. Crystal, XF nib, black : scale arrived. A typical pinch of salt weighed 115mg @ What night is van Gogh’s ‘The Starry Night’? New analysis says it’s in July. = hx work session * check on websites. fixed releases are PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, and 8.2.35. & updated users in .ssh/config on unSable; uploaded authorized-keys where needed ... but the PHP you see via ssh is not necessarily the one in use by WP. -> tools > site-health > info -> 20:23: n-r.com 8.3.36; gs.blog 8.3.36; newtricks 8.5.12 - so everything's safe. x Dutch 1023Fr @ PHP2Shell - Wikipedia PHP Security Vulnerability: Protections Are In Place - The official PHP security updates have been applied across the entirety of our network. | DreamHost * walk: 9:29 Jan Greshoffplantsoen 1: .28km, 3hp, 12mm, 9min, 710st * FEED CAT! * wash duvet cover and top sheet so D" can re-install duvet : It seems the R channel on my old Bose headphones is kaput. Growf! = hx work session * Dutch 1024Sa United Nations Day @ United Nations Day - Wiki United Nations Day | UN.org @ (via don_marti_feed | Links for 23 Oct 2026) Fingerprints are the new cookies -> Cover Your Tracks|EFF The Desi Gulab: A Tale of Three Roses – RosaPedia Colleen would have loved this @ xkcd: Vulnerability @ US extreme weather survivors are a growing group – now they want to be a political force | Texas | The Guardian (ysabetwordsmith) -> Extreme Weather Survivors | Support Extreme Weather Resilience @ What Is Gridification? The Hidden Shift in Recorded Music " If you gridify a performance, or tune a vocal, you are not enhancing your positionality. You are erasing the history of your body and your place in time. What reaches the listener is not your voice. It is a machine-perfect representation of something, though it is hard to say of what. It is certainly not a person living in time and place. " Recording Production Certification and Public Registry | Musical Form Institute @ ‘It’s part of our history’: can the menú del día survive Spain’s changing eating habits? | Spain | The Guardian @ Inburgering with Dutch News: the great cycle path squeeze - DutchNews.nl " The motorised wheelchair or scootmobiel is possibly the most dangerous vehicle on the cycle path. According to statistics agency CBS, the traffic death rate among mobility scooter riders is over six times that of motorbike riders and over 20 times that of cyclists. " @ NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Enters Final Commissioning Phase - NASA Science * done! How to Put On a Duvet Cover: 3 Easy Ways (Even Solo) 16:00ish. CA Roll method @ ‘I take silly very seriously’ – one sculptor’s credo | Psyche Videos = hx work session & ssh nova; apt remove --purge firefox # browsers aren't needed on servers @ post Songs for Saturday: Vintage Filk * Dutch
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Date: 2026-10-25 04:03 pm (UTC)Very true, and Brooklyn is fond of both. A real sweetie.
That's a lot of stuff!
Date: 2026-10-25 08:27 pm (UTC)I'm so glad to hear you weren't seriously injured.
I'm lucky my 1-and-only fall over backwards was 30 years ago, when I was more flexible.
Unfortunately, your excellent bike path infrastructure can be exploited by many EVs these days. The disdain for Scootmobiel in that article practically glows from orbit.