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The 5E cockatrice only petrifies for 24 hours instead of forever, as it originally did. That was cool for us because the guy is not ready for permadeath, but I don't know how I feel about that in general. I mean, the petrification is the only thing interesting about the cockatrice.

I suppose anyone that wants it to work the old way can just flip it back to permanent, though.

Fungi is now streaming.

There is some debate over whether multicellular fungi are truly multicellular, because organelles and cytoplasm can move from one cell to the other in a process called cytoplasmic streaming.

I guess technically, it's always been streaming.

This is about a giant football player, but I like how it reads like video game boss strategies.

If you hit him too high, he’d stiff arm you. If you hit him in the midsection, his legs and his hips, there’s no way to do it. You hit him too low, his legs hurt you. The only thing I could do — I was long, 6-4 and 180 pounds — was just jump on him and grab and hang on. Because you’re not going to knock him backward.

Also, I think football would be much more interesting as an asymmetrical game — like, how would a two giants vs. eleven regular guys sport turn out?

Maybe with more injuries, but perhaps fewer brain injuries.

- Dropped off, picked up, dropped off, picked up.
- Client B work.
- Called to clear up some health insurance stuff.
- Client A work.

It has not been a very interesting month. Though, of course, it is important to actually get money.

Andrew Plotkin wrote about the day in Boston when everyone saw sun dogs and the low robustness of the internet. Here's my sundog photo from that day, BTW.

An amazingly weird article about a massive underground drill. The animation of the cartoon version of it is a popular emoji on a Slack I'm on, and I had no idea for years that it came from this.

~/.cache % ls pip
http selfcheck wheels
~/.cache % ls pip/http
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f
~/.cache % ls pip/http/0
3 4 7 a b e
~/.cache % ls pip/http/0/3
1
~/.cache % ls pip/http/0/3/h
ls: cannot access 'pip/http/0/3/h': No such file or directory
~/.cache % ls pip/http/0/3/1
5
~/.cache % ls pip/http/0/3/1/5
7
~/.cache % ls pip/http/0/3/1/5/7
0315762642f58779e2cecff67579c340ec81a8c2fc3ee7cac703de66

Is this…Numberwang?

- Dropped off, picked up, dropped off.
- Client B work. Some awkward territory was spanned today.
- A tiny bit Pure Data source code reading, just to stay in the game.
- Did some laundry.
- Did some yoga.
- A lot of Client A work. I'm not a fan of this particular situation and am unsure how it'll end, but I stepped back and realized it's not actually causing that much stress. It's so much less bad than when I hated my job back in 2020, to put it in perspective.

20 burpees, 12 pull-ups.

- Finally fixed favicons on ghostcrab.io. I thought I could ignore that problem, but it turns out I couldn't. Next: Updating really old content.
- Client B work.
- I started to read through Pure Data's unit generator code because I can't get a decent explanation of exactly how overlap works. It is slow, slow going. I didn't want to spend that much time on this, but there's just no other practical way to know what I need to know.
- I chatted with someone doing a Recurse batch right now. We talked about web dev, and I assured him it's fine to just do things in a script tag if that works. He was really overwhelmed by all of the frameworks, etc. We also talked about ML hype, and I'm encourage that a young person can detect that. I couldn't help but ask a few "do the kids really believe…" questions. He doesn't like NFTs, but he did invest in crypto at one point. He also knew an ice cream truck guy who made a lot of money on crypto and also made an ML model to win horse race bets.
- Helped my dad with an Excel issue, which fortunately was just a billing thing, not a "OK, click on the File menu…the File menu…it's in the upper left corner…you have to switch to the app…click on Excel in the dock…at the bottom" kind of thing.
- Emailed a friend back.
- Emailed my mother-in-law back.

21-minute run, 12 pull-ups.

- Dropped off, picked up, dropped off, picked up.
- Got groceries.
- Wrapped up the notes-cast app.
- Did some Client A work.
- Did some Client B work.
- Investigated the differences between the rsqrt results between two vocoder versions the happen when the input is 0. (There is very little differences between the sqrt results.) These feel like outliers, though. I'm not sure they matter. The rest of the general shape seems the same. Next thing to look at is understanding block overlap.

10-4-4-4-4-12.

If you're on an iPhone, you can now also sign up for the Notescast via this Apple Podcasts page or by searching for Notescast in Apple Podcasts, the app.

This Bjork video:

1. Has Dokaka in it.
2. Features a cat playing her boyfriend.
3. Is the source of the "I should buy a boat" meme.

- Spent most of the day getting the guy to clean his room (and helping to clean it). It was surprisingly not a terrible time! He felt good about it. Then, we rearranged his furniture so that a parent could comfortably hang out in there, which is something he does request.
- Made dinner.
- Finished up homework 5 for the Puckette course.
- Went to the electronic music group, talked about live input to pd and the clone object.
- Put together Inchoate Burbler.
- Installed upgrades (dist-upgrade) on my server. There was a bit of a heart drop when I couldn't get ssh to it or hit the web server for five minutes after it supposedly rebooted, but a hard reboot from the Digital Ocean admin page got it back up. That'll learn me to check the backup before upgrading!

A lot more got done that I thought would be possible on a holiday day!