 The automated weather radio voice drones about the advent of favorable northerly winds that never manifest, so we've resorted to doing short hops, weather permitting, between the safety of one inlet and the next whenever the storm catches its breath, often against tide, oftener against wind. We occupy the disquieting lulls of what feels more like trench warfare than passaging drowned in tea, blankets and the smell of paperbacks. We've been away for a bit now, it's been a long time since we've come across a town and resupplied, but there's always little tricks to keep eating fresh foods.
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I've had had on my mind R. W. Kimmerer's writing on the Grammar of Animacy, in which she says that 70% of words in Potawatomi are verbs, as opposed to English in which only 30% are. Through the lens of an animist language, the hill is less there, than there is occupied at being a hill. She puts it succinctly in "A bay is a noun only if water is dead".
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   @neauoire This isn't entirely incompatible with something I realised about the Spanish When translated to English, they match both "to make" and "to do." So far, so well known. But if you match those verbs to the English "to realise," as in "to realise a vision" then you get something a little deeper. Whether an action or a state of being, it has been (will be, would be, etc.) realised. I love the poetry of it.  @wim_v12e   People are so freaking nice, obviously the HN thread has lots of negativity in it, but out of it came a handful of folks who reached out to us wanting to send us their unused computers. Unfortunately, we can't make much use of Macbook as some of these won't boot at all without a working battery, which makes them awfully impractical for us. But in any case, it's nice to see. We're trying our honest best here, and it's exciting to see that it gets people thinking about this sort of things.  @neauoire Missed out on what happened but I hope you're doing well. Glad to see you're getting support. "There is very little real-estate of words of three syllables here, so you have to be sure that it's something that'll be used constantly, and-" @neauoire Je connais pas le band, c’est toujours le fun de la voir & de l’entendre mais j’aime mieux la production de Yelle 😶 We've just arrived in Shearwater. Tally Ho is docked right next to us, and it's a whole different thing to see it with our own eyes, let me tell you-
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  @neauoire I.... hadn't realized that boat was in the water yet, let alone that it was in Canada now. Just skimmed a couple YT vids from Leo's channel. Oh my goodness. What a beautiful work of art he (and the dozens/hundreds of helpers) rebuilt. Very cool to see she's out cruising again :) @neauoire We've been sponsoring them for years, and wondered if your paths would cross this summer! My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge.
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 @neauoire @neauoire I have linked to this so many times. And find myself after years still thinking of it. (I really wish Laurel was on the Fediverse.) Wonder is in such sort supply at so many layers. I want a browser that lets me wander through worlds and spaces not just filter information. Languages that consider strange modes of composition. Weird, human, messy. I still believe the web is a creative medium rather than a vast array of interlinked data to be sifted and mined. 📢 Heads up that we're closing registration to #ournetworks on Friday! There are only a few spots left, so register today if you want to attend: https://ournetworks.ca/#register Remixing @tbsp's tea timer rom. @malleablesys I think another good example are Postgres Extensions (alive and kickin and even in a dozen languages) or back in the day Nagios/Icinga plugins and maybe one can count Kubernetes controllers/operators as well? The Diablo tribute tape is so good! Amazing work to everyone who contributed tracks, it's sick. Looking for the Sumerian word for abacus(uttuku) so I could make the neologism "computer" to make a pun in a talk. But depending how you type it, it either means "abacus", or "an ambiguous class of demons"(𒌜). That checks out
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@neauoire Hah, know the feeling. We've had a season of this in the Aegean sea. The pilot book kept waffling about "the prevailing southerly" but said southerly never showed up once in four weeks and we had to resort to smashing upwind at 3am for several nights in a row as the waves and headwinds were a little lighter than in the daytime.
Tires you out! On the upside, we got to explore unusual anchorages that weren't accessible with the "prevailing" southerly.
@neauoire I think Ontario has those sort of things https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/weatheradio/find-your-network.html
I absolutely love listening to radio during the day
@neauoire reading your post, I’m brought back to the days of when I lived on a small boat. I can still hear that automated voice clear as dawn