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I just entered a completely wrong number for my phone number on a form. I had to get out my phone and look it up. Probably not that uncommon a situation today!

I like that "Weird" Al has never dropped the quotes from his name.

We watched three episodes of the Hilda animated series last night. So, far it's adaptations of the books. Episodes later in the seasons appear to be new stories.

We enjoyed it, but there a few flaws. The animation is not as fluid as it should be. It's not bad, but it's not as liquidy smooth as it should be. Maybe this is from an adherence to the comic's brushy style?

The pacing seems off as well. In Hilda and the Troll especially, I imagined a lot of space between most panels. I imagined Hilda and Twig would encounter a new phenomenon, then stare for a bit. Or Hilda would make an observation, and it would sit for a while. They jumped very quickly from beat to beat in the first few episode.

I think all this could change, though! Adventure Time was mostly just OK for the whole first season.

Went way over on the checks yesterday: 25! I should have little trouble staying under 20 on weekend days, though.

Oh, also to be clear about an earlier note: I don't have any health issues; a relative of mine does.

Huh, bad news for friends today. There's a health issue I'm particularly concerned about.

Weirdly, mirroring that in the world of the famous, Nobuo Uematsu is not well, and Telltale Games, whose games I didn't play much, but I really liked the spirit of, has shut down.

One of my favorite newsletters this week was 100% links to Facebook property Instagram. Straight into the garbage.

Oh, yeah, Single Parenting Week came to an end last night! 🎉

The guy asked every night and morning whether "Henry" (that is Katt's current assigned Thomas identity) was home. This morning she was home, and he just kind of stared!

Yesterday's social media check count was 19. I think I can try to bring it down next week.

Fucking Shakespeare now has Fucking RSS!

For the most part, Makefiles work really well for a lot of what I do. For the most part, I can just paste commands I'd use in the shell into them. (Here's Mike Bostock's Why Use Make? for a longer explanation of why it's good.)

But it is weird and confusing about some things. I needed to conditionally set some variables just now, based on the value of another variable. Here's the documentation on that:

The syntax of the conditional-directive is the same whether the conditional is simple or complex. There are four different directives that test different conditions. Here is a table of them:

ifeq (arg1, arg2)
ifeq 'arg1' 'arg2'
ifeq "arg1" "arg2"
ifeq "arg1" 'arg2'
ifeq 'arg1' "arg2"

I read that as, "if you want to compare something to a string literal", put the string literal in quotes."
As in:

ifeq ($(TARGET), 'prod')

Where, if the TARGET variable's value was 'prod', the code in the block following that would execute. Turns out they were just throwing the quotes into the syntax documentation to tell you that it was a string literal, but they didn't actually mean you should use quotes. All strings not enclosed by $() are literals in make.

So, this is what I wanted:
ifeq ($(TARGET), prod)

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I feel you should check out this great Karlheinz Stockhausen piece that has sudden yelling in it.

His whole Composer Weekly playlist.

10-4-4-4-4. Form was solid on each rep, I felt. Good weather!

Geoff!

A D&D sorcerer is supposed to have a source of their magic, right?

What if it’s Geoff? Geoff just… doesn’t have time for adventuring anymore. Has a collection of artifacts, but you know, family has to come first. The best stuff is on display, but some is in storage. If an adventurer wants to borrow magical power, then sure… but only if they bring it back later! Just part of being a good neighbor.

It's excellent that it's been made into a real playable thing, too.

19 checks yesterday! Guess I'll stick to a goal of 20 for a few days still.

A cat bonking another cat on the head will always be funny.

This Slayer rehearsal of Hell Awaits songs is *amazing*. It's got that amazing boom box drum recording sound. (See also Napalm Death's The Traitor.) The whole thing is incredibly vibrant.

Like I said on Mastodon, the fact that the official Hell Awaits gives it a lot of chances to spring to life in other forms. This later-era live version of Hell Awaits (the song), for example, is my favorite version of Hell Awaits because of that completely killer extended last note in Jeff's solo.

I gave a talk to a small group at work that went over well. It was actually helpful to give some cohesion – in my own mind – to various projects I've been doing

Have been able to stay under 20 checks per day the last couple days. Gonna shoot for checking things 15 times today.

…aaand today I'm up at 4:30 AM after going to bed st 9:30 PM. Solo parenting mini-week may continue to be weird.