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As a Blind person i never thought i would be on social media savoring photos. But the communal Mastodon alt text game is so strong that sweet, poetic or silly descriptions abound on my timeline. Thanks to legions of people who take time to write a meaningful description of the ephemera they post, i learn so much about insects, plants, buildings, memes — all dispatches from a dimension of the world that i otherwise wouldn't experience. If you're wondering whether anybody reads these things: YES.
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  Just released the list of changes to the HundredRabbits projects for July 2024, a few days late, we just arrived back into Prince Rupert :>. @rek Greater that the Earth's circumference! So, you are circumnavigators in that sense now. 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 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. Shoes and bikes. A very very short comic, a sort of vignette, for funsies. Dae never wears shoes, he spends all his time in the woods. Woops, on certain screens the drawing has some purple areas ^^;. I grayscaled the image and re-uploaded it on my website, but this one I'll leave as is. Finished playing Saturday Edition on the Playdate the other day. I didn’t expect to get into it this much, I absolutely loved it. Great dialogues and storytelling. @rek I recently have enjoyed this two as to having something to play at random times and knowing the battery is gonna last :) Solitaire game: https://play.date/games/hermit/ When things go wrong is when we learn the most aboard Pino. We had a lot of engine issues this year, so... LOTS and LOTS of learning. The boat itself doesn't have issues, Pino truly is a strong and dependable little vessel. The engine is the weakest link(or us, because it seems like we never know enough). I updated our list of notes on the subject: https://100r.co/site/engine_care.html Yesterday we had to unclog some seaweed from the engine intake while underway, a little hand pump did the trick :P... we pumped air into the thruhull and it cleared it away. Sometimes when we anchor we pull up a bit of kelp, but a few days ago we pulled up a kelp forest.  Time away from internet, with no way to step off the boat, gave me ample time to finish these two drawings featuring many of the Hakum characters. The first is a version of the group when they're a bit younger, the other is of the expanded group with a few more years on! Still desperately looking for somewhere, anywhere, to stay outside the EU's Schengen zone (UK, Ireland, USA, Tangier), from the last week of July. Alt Text Selfies an interesting collection of alternative text examples for selfies, that explores the way people describe themselves and other, beyond visual description. Some go can blend smell, taste, touch, sound, and more.  Here is the total path for the trip we did through Southeast Alaska, from Prince Rupert and back, this past month :)...  We are doing well. We left Sitka and sailed offshore, stopping twice to anchor, and did two overnight sails. Had a bit of engine trouble, managed to fix it. We had good weather to start, but the sail through Dixon Entrance was very rough. More on all this later. We have arrived back into Canada, Pino is docked in Prince Rupert. We are tired and tired. It had been a LONG time since we've done an overnight sail. The first was very nice, with calm seas, good wind, and so much wild life! We stopped pointing out breaching whales to each other because there were so many. I saw a puffin for the first time, many sea otters, and lots of black-footed albatrosses(they're so big)! The second was in big weather, with rough seas... not as relaxing. I cooked some okonomiyaki in the solar cooker today! Evidently, I ended up with a sort of tube, not a flat pancake, but it cooked well. I spooned out chunks of it, divided it into two bowls, poured some sauce and green onions overtop 👌 :vegan: ☀️ Okonomiyaki recipe: I really didn't expect to be able to solar cook while in Southeast Alaska, I thought it'd be cloudy and rainy all the time (it was when we first arrived in early June). We've had a full week of sun. I was able to cook brown rice yesterday, as well as split green peas and seitan. Some ice stranded on land, as well as a tiny glimpse of Baird Glacier. It is crazy to think of just how far glaciers used to extend in Southeast Alaska. There is a reason that the entrance to each glacier arm is bordered by a bar(a shallow rock and gravel bank). The bar marks the point of greatest advance of the glaciers during the last ice age. The glaciers pushed gravel and boulders, then receded, leaving the bar behind. |
