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Sailing into the wind with sunglasses sucks, you soon get a thick crust of salt over the lenses almost immediately.. There has to be a better way. Snow goggles(ilgaak), perhaps?
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 @neauoire Back in the day, I used to deliver boats from the Baltic to the UK in late autumn (for the London Boat Show). It often snowed and worse, sleeted. We used to use a motorcycle crash helmet when sailing to windward — in strong winds, the spray/rain/ice would blow aft to the edges of the face glass. Not perfect, but warmer and drier than goggles. Also, the helmet had headphones so we could jack in to a portable Sony cassette player. Discover awesome obscure thing, and of course now, kragen has made 3 implementations of it, wrote 2 books about it, 8 blog posts, 3 rants, 8 rebuttles.. in 1997. @neauoire applies to you too, I keep reading your wiki for things I only tangentially touched and wanted to dig deeper someday, but you beat me to it. I guess the world is just a pyramid of obsessed people reading slightly more obsessed people? Just released the list of changes to the HundredRabbits projects for July 2024, a few days late, we just arrived back into Prince Rupert :>. We had barely set our foot down onto Vanisle for the first time since may, that we hear, shouted from across the water "Pino!!", and surely enough we are dragged into a bar hopping whirlwind across town, but we ended up at the foot of the burnt down burl(biggest one in the wurld!!), as one does. It's good to be back home y'know.  Suggested change to the #uxn macros, some thoughts and ideas. It doesn't break compatibility and should make writing a few things a bit more fun.  @neauoire I’m totally in favor of this backwards compatible change, especially if it means drifblim will get macro support!  @neauoire Regarding the first proposed change, one nice thing about stream processing is that macro-defining macros are easily supported. sailing today to an uninhabited island southeast of curaçao to plunder shipwrecks... hoping to find a new boom for Luma…
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  update, on shipwreck plundering: we did not find a new boom… but did excavate a few months’ old wreck- found an anchor chain that is in much better shape than the one we have now. the extraction mission was an insane ordeal involving the four of us dragging the (many hundred pounds worth of) chain in chain-gang fashion across the whole island, some of us wearing backpacks loaded with chain, some of us wrapping huge amounts of it around our bodies. it looked ludicrous I love that Sudre allocated one of the few available 3 syllables Solresol words to the word "merveilles"(wonders). Amazing little garden growing game by Kylep for the Watt Wise Game jam! - Click tile at the bottom, and place it in the garden. @rek Greater that the Earth's circumference! So, you are circumnavigators in that sense now. sickos.jpg: https://git.phial.org/d6/nxu/raw/branch/main/uxntal.1 (read with `man ./uxntal.1`) @d6 oh my! this is so great. Could you make a patch to some of the repos? I think this would be good for everyone to have around :uxn: @d6 I AM LOVING THIS THING I think the non-imm opcode proper is BRK, it could be BRK* * has no modes. I'm starting to think that maybe trying to make a webring with so little internet connectivity was a bad idea.  @neauoire I think I’ve found the pull quote (well, chapter subhead quotation) for the chapter on CSV in the book I’m writing. By way of thank you, here’s my favourite post about CSVs, from Jesse Donat: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About CSVs
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@neauoire it's a way to make poetry  @neauoire honestly I love the stupidity of it haha. I use tsv where possible but have modules for both in lua. We use them for the translations in arco as it allowed the translation teams to use Excel which is their normal process. My father in law keeps growing fruits and veggies for us. Now look at that 3.4kg Hokaido we just received :tealheart: 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.
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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 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   |
@neauoire I am, but I consider it a work of juvenilia.