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We've left Vancouver Island behind this morning, we untied the lines at 5am alongside our friends on SV Moonshine, and are now sailing northwest on a flat sea with a light breeze from the west.
It's nice to be on a bit of open ocean again.
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Last day in Port McNeill, early morning departure tomorrow for the Broughtons. Last grocery run for the next couple of weeks. A map I drew to document our northbound transit through the Yuculta and Dent Rapids(B.C, Canada), where it's necessary to ride some back currents to make forward progress if the goal is to pass the two rapids in one go. @rek that’s awesome. Someone should publish a Book of Back Eddies. I know them in Active Pass pretty well but not elsewhere. It's so nice to run into other hardcore long distance sailors with tricked out vessels. Interactive fiction is an ideal candidate for rewriting systems, I'm hoping to make use of the homoiconicity of the language to allow the world to be reprogrammed from within. The atoms of the world will be rewrite rules. Brandalism on point. Shell Oil ad sponsoring British Cycling, defaced meticulously to look as if it authentically reads: "WE'VE TEAMED UP WITH BRITISH CYCLING TO HELP US FAST TRACK THE APOCALYPSE."
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   @neauoire I love making kindling. Chopping wood? Also fun. But little kindling pieces are more satisfying to me.
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  @neauoire I wondered if you would visit it. I also wondered how it looked after the fire. Now I know
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@neauoire It's very nice to see you getting closer to the physical intuition and beauty of rewriting. I feel like that's the real insight behind these systems. When you write in them, you're closer to a physicist (or, perhaps, a chemist) than a programmer. Things bounce off of other things, collide, expand, contract.. Modal may be used to build things that look functional, but at some point, you'll need to think like a physicist, or a mechanical engineer. I could make a "string theory" pun..  
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No one else was sailing that day, we were the only fools out there. Unfortunately, the only spot available in Port McNeil was only partially shielded from the wind waves, so we got our asses kicked all night at the dock too. Now we are ready to relax. We also did a really stupid thing on this transit. Furling the jib is really difficult in high winds, even when facing into it, so sometimes we roll it in wrong. Rolling it wrong means that the wind can catch in it. You can gauge how far north you are by the reaction people give you when you answer them that you don't eat fish. We sailed to a small fishing town that claims to have the world's largest burl, so we have got to go check this out. 🌱 Exploring how to make a little interactive fiction engine entirely using rewrite rules.
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