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GoingSideways: New York and Leiden
The latest post in GoingSideways.blog is New York and Leiden.
Naomi and M make it to New York. Things promptly go sideways...
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GoingSideways: Sweet Home Chicago
The latest post in GoingSideways.blog is Sweet Home Chicago.
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GoingSideways: In case you were wondering...
The latest post in GoingSideways.blog is In case you were wondering... (why the Chicago to New York post is late).
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GoingSideways: Colorado and the Midwest
The latest post in GoingSideways.blog is Colorado and the Midwest.
N and m ride the California from somewhere west of Denver to Chicago. With bonus playlist of train songs. How many do you recognize? What have we missed?
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GoingSideways: Oakland and the Zephyr
The latest post in GoingSideways.blog is Oakland and the Zephyr.
Next, Colorado and the Midwest.
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GoingSideways: The Coast Starlight
The latest post in GoingSideways.blog is The Coast Starlight.
Side note -- I rode that train from Oakland to Seattle 50-odd years ago. Beautiful route.
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GoingSideways: Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
The latest post in GoingSideways.blog is Who Knows Where the Time Goes?.
Yeah, I know, it's been a looooooooooooong time. We've all had other stuff to deal with. But N is going on a trip tomorrow -- across the country by train, then flying from New York to the Netherlands. So it's time to go sideways once again!
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Signal Boost: US South: Extreme Heat Warning
Boosting the signal for siderea | US SOUTH: ALERT: Extreme Wet-Bulb Temps Fri 6/30 [meteo, US]. Also NOAA's "severe weather warning"
Severe thunderstorms that may produce tornadoes, along with scattered severe gusts and large/damaging hail, and heavy rains will impact portions of the Great Lakes region southward into the Lower Mississippi River Valley. An oppressive and persistent heat dome will continue producing dangerous heat and humidity in Texas and spread into the lower Mississippi River Valley.
I think "dangerous heat and humidity" may be an understatement -- they're talking about wet-bulb globe temperatures in the 90's. This is not quite extreme as equal wet-bulb temperatures, which are measured in the shade, but it's still well into the potentially deadly range.
Be safe out there.
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Happy Birthday to Git, and a signal boost
The Git version-control system was released 18 years ago today, so it's old enough to vote in the US. (The most recent version, 2.40.0, was released this year on my birthday. But I digress.)
In related news, I'd like to join elf and ysabetwordsmith in boosting the signal for The Fujoshi Guide to Web Development by Essential Randomness, on Kickstarter.
The Fujoshi Guide to Web Development is a series of zines/books featuring anthropomorphized versions of programming languages and concepts (aka gijinka), each one engineered from the ground up to cater to transformational fandom's sensibilities and interests.
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elf summarizes
it as:
Problem: The corporate webosphere is all based on public feeds of identical-looking scrolling content. Fandom has mostly lost the habit of creating their own webspaces for purposes other than constant interaction. But most of the tutorials are horribly hostile to beginners, or to fandom purposes, or both.
Solution: Learn web development from hot anime guys in a dating sim. Well, not actually a dating sim. But it looks like a dating sim.
... and appropriately enough the first demo is about Git (personified as a hawt catboy). (My guess is that Git's persona was chosen so that they could personify GitHub as an octocat-boy.) I'm not in the target demographic, obviously, but I'm all for anything that promises to get fans and other outsiders hooked on web development and version control.
Signal Boost: Time to Leave
Signal boost for siderea | Move [US, pols, Patreon]. (Also noted by @catsittingstill.)
I don't know who in the US needs to hear this: it's time.
If you have a uterus, or love someone who does. If you're trans, or love someone who is – especially if they're a child. If you were married to someone of the same sex. If you are otherwise LGBQ, or your child is. If you are someone who provides medical care that is or is about to become criminalized.
Definitely, if you live in Florida. Probably, if you live in Texas. There's a whole bunch of other states that aren't looking too good either.
If you're one of those people living in one of those places in the US...
It's time to think about moving.
There's more -- go read the whole post. I'll wait.
My extended family includes people in all of the categories at risk. I have already advised my kids, including my trans son, to get their damned passports renewed. Washington (state) is still safe for the moment; all bets are off after 2024, and the US Supreme (kangaroo) Court is already makings things difficult. That will only get worse.
In addition to Florida and Texas, dangerous states include Idaho, Indiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee (all mentioned in comments on Siderea's post); there are others.
Note that the Nazis went after queers first. They didn't stop there. Good luck.
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GoingSideways: A Few Random Notes from Chance
The latest post in GoingSideways.blog is A Few Random Notes from Chance.
We said last week that If nothing else goes sideways, you’ll get a real post next Wednesday.. Well, the best-laid plans of mice and other vertebrates, and all that. Fortunately one of us is a crab. Who is feeling somewhat crabby...
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GoingSideways: Postcard from Florence, July 2022
The latest post in GoingSideways.blog is Postcard from Florence, July 2022. You're getting a postcard, a day late, because Naomi's been taking care of two sick kids and I spent yesterday as a zombie thanks to a COVID booster (Moderna, bivalent). Bivalent apparently means that it can kick my butt twice as hard.
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GoingSideways: Talking of Michelangelo
The latest post in GoingSideways.blog is Talking of Michelangelo. We resume coverage of the Italy trip in Florence, with a massage therapist's view of Michelangelo’s “David”.
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GoingSideways: Traveling With a Guitar
The latest post in GoingSideways.blog is Traveling With a Guitar. It's been hanging out on the sidelines since sometime in July, waiting for a day when the planned weekly post didn't get finished. That would be today, when two kids' first day of school and three cats' vet appointments collided somewhere along Aurora Avenue.
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GoingSideways: Desert Driving: Mesas and Mistakes
The latest post in GoingSideways.blog is Desert Driving: Mesas and Mistakes, wherein N and C reach Albuquerque, N flies home, and C takes the proverbial left turn.
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GoingSideways: Ay-yi-yi-yi, The Open Road is Home
The latest post in GoingSideways.blog is Ay-yi-yi-yi, The Open Road is Home.
We take a break from the Italy trip report to tell you about the road trip, which is finally happening even as we speak. I’m writing this from a Best Western in Barstow, California. If all goes as planned then we’ve got two more days till we get to Albuquerque...
It's immediately followed by a Bonus Post – Photos from the Monterey Bay Aquarium, because the Aquarium deserved a post all by itself. If were reading this blog before 2012, you'll know that it was a frequent weekend destination for me and my family while we were living in the Bay Area.
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GoingSideways: A Message From the Crab.
The latest post in GoingSideways.blog is A Message From the Crab., written by Chance, (short for Crab Who Takes Chances) because he was the only one who actually went to the beach at Sorrento.
So now you know why yesterday's post included a picture of the Crab Nebula.
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GoingSideways: St. Peter and St. Christopher
The latest post in GoingSideways.blog (following last week's out-of-order interruption) is St. Peter and St. Christopher, recounting N and j's visit to St Peter's Basilica in Rome, followed by a bit of an adventure getting back to their hotel.
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GoingSideways: United Breaks Passengers
The latest post in GoingSideways.blog is United Breaks Passengers.
We interrupt the saga of our Italian adventure to bring you the horrific story of what has been happening as we attempt to finish the trip. Next week, I'll be back to telling you all about St. Peter's Basilica and our adventures in the subways of Rome, but I had to stop for a while to tell you about this. Because it's the worst airport experience I've had in almost fifty years of frequent flying.
In the unlikely event that you didn't instantly recognize the reference in the title, or if you just want to refresh your memory, here are the video, the lyrics, and the Wikipedia article.
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GoingSideways: Another Country
The latest post in GoingSideways.blog is Another Country. The world's smallest country, as a matter of fact.
I'm not sure why this is coming out so late -- the GoingSideways post came out Tuesday. Well, better late... It's been a weird week.