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I've been reading Orwell's Homage To Catalonia, it's excellent, I expected it to be awfully bleak in some parts, but I certainly didn't expect it to bring to me to tears laughing in others.
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@neauoire Everything I've read by Orwell has been just wonderful. I've been working through his letters as collected by Peter Davison: A Life in Letters. That volume serves as Orwell's autobiography.  @neauoire super good read! i read it at first w/o somehow knowing it was george orwell who had written it X) I love these long summer days living in remote inlets where we can spend our time reading and cooking. I haven't been doing much else in the way of creative work other than completing the proof-reading of Rek's manuscript for Wiktopher, and doing research for the upcoming Strange Loop talk.  We tend to plan our night passages based on the phase of the moon, prefering full moon so we can see debris in the water. I found this little script to predict how much visibility we'll get, it has been pretty reliable so far, maybe someone else finds this useful: @neauoire smart idea to use the second largest lamp in the sky! in tidal prone areas would this also increase the vertical distance from ground-anchored debris? bc the moon's pulling all that water? haven't studied tides so much cause not as big of an issue around here ^^'  I don't have reliable connection to the internet at the moment and cannot handle instance onboarding, please get in touch with @somnius.
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Charles Ives: Insurance Agent. Not sure what your problem is TBH. Twice I got stung this week while walking in the woods, the first time by a common looking wasp that lives in holes in the ground, it hurt for about 4 days. Now two days ago, I got stung by a tiny black wasp without stripes, super painful, my ankle has doubled in size. If it had been in my neck, I'd be super dead. Not really lucky with our little strolls lately.
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@avi I know, I know. This wasn't meant a joke at your expense, it just something that ran across my head when I read your message <3 I got Brutaldon stuck in a weird mode right now and can't directly reply to the thread for some reason. avi@cosocial.ca I know, I know. This wasn't meant a joke at your expense, it just something that ran across my head when I read your message <3 I got Brutaldon stuck in a weird mode right now and can't directly reply to the thread for some reason. "We're well past the time when using Photoshop as a verb has had any relevance, we ought to be saying I will gimp t-"NO! You will not end this sentence.
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 It almost looks like the loggers clearcutting that mountainside are trying to write a word.  @neauoire If I were in that business, I'd totally do it in the shape of a crop circle, just to mess with satellite imagers. "De quoi remplissent-ils, quand ils sont libres, leurs absurdes petits dimanches." We're tied to a cliffside next to friends of ours, last night they pulled in and told us about how their summer has gone so far. They said something interesting on remote work, and how it is now more difficult than before. They used to be able to work on the hook, answering student's emails remotely, but now that everything is a video call, a remote desktop, a cloud app. The shift to remote work has made it harder for them to keep on working remotely.
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 @neauoire yeah so so much of that stuff is set up to be on a high bandwidth connection and totally shits out without it. Discord is the big sucker in my life these days a lot of my work goes through there and transferring it would be hard, but as soon as I'm out of 4g or my WiFi is on the fritz it is a miserable experience She asked us if maybe we knew tools that could help with collaboration on presentation documents for low-bandwidth situations. And while of course we know a lot that could help, to add insult to injury, a handful of her students use chromebooks, which sets a hard limit the tools the class uses, the limit being google slides. The accessibility push of google to put chromebooks into student's hands, seems to have the effect of shifting the cost from buying the terminal, to paying the ISP. I love making these collages of references for my slides, here's one for Strange Loop 2023. I have a really nice one where it's Pythia overlayed on Swift's engine(the machine described after landing from Laputa), to talk about Design for Descent.  speaker: "What are most important things to writing programs?"
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 @neauoire I thought it's going to be "having fun" but yeah, what speaker said. @neauoire Did the speaker then queue up the sound of incoming shells/ missiles from a newfeed about the Russian invasion ? |
@neauoire We had five and a half here in central NH yesterday! Sump pump couldn't keep up and we came within an inch or two of drowning the water heater pilot. It must have been some kind of record. Are you in a rain shadow area?