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1/18/2023, 9:37:05 AM

Battles of the Sexes: Duels between Women and Men in 1400s Fechtbücher

tl;dr These battles didn’t really happen, but these medieval drawings really did happen, and they’re good.

We can leave behind the gender roles here, but make hole fighting happen!
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1/18/2023, 9:12:24 AM

Grim Wu-Tang fact
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1/18/2023, 8:01:12 AM

The ottoman is mostly a chill place, but every once in a while, it is the site of a Big Battel.

Round 1 Round 2 Back to normal
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1/17/2023, 10:51:23 PM

Good news! I got this to work.
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1/17/2023, 9:53:21 PM

All of the insanity in this Bandcamp feature rules: Sound Poetry
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1/17/2023, 5:27:17 PM

There's a transform-origin property in SVG now so you don't have to do a pair of translates before and after rotating.
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1/17/2023, 4:23:34 PM

You have to turn on the light in the bathroom across the hall to be able to see into it, which is dumb, but at least this tiny closet finally contains stuff!
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1/17/2023, 4:08:05 PM

Buying melamine-coated shelves turned our to cost $80 with shipping, so I got $18 of wood from the $2/sq. ft shorts pile at Longleaf. With rounded edges and some polish, they don’t feel quite like professional shelves, but they don’t feel like just sawn wood, either.
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1/17/2023, 3:24:43 PM

Push ye snow boulders while ye can
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1/17/2023, 2:48:59 PM

OK, I have put the double shower rod lifehack into effect! Two additional towels can be hung!
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1/17/2023, 11:37:13 AM

Ten burpees, thirteen pull-ups.
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1/17/2023, 10:22:20 AM

A colleague from the Recurse Center tipped me off that Dismember are anti-vaccination.

I'm surprised. Sweden really seems to be moving to the right lately, what with the wishful "herd immunity" approach to covid and electing actual Nazis.
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1/17/2023, 9:47:23 AM

Trying out “Seal ‘n’ Peel” caulk instead of sealing the windows with the heat-shrink plastic. It’s harder to apply than the spray foam stuff, and the spray foam is already easy to remove.

I think Seal ‘n’ Peel might be a mostly marketing-born product. Though I guess the one tangible thing it had going for it is that it’s clear.
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1/17/2023, 9:44:32 AM

I’m going crazy with sealing the crappy window frames in the house with spray foam insulation. Hopefully, posting this will make me remember to actually remove the excess instead of just leaving it there, barbarian style.
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1/17/2023, 7:28:20 AM

…aaand I’m back to regretting chickening out of leaving the country.
We learned that the boy brought the gun to school. He pulled it out while the teacher was doing a lesson. He pointed it at her, and he fired once. We learned that she was shot sort of in the palm and in the upper chest by the same bullet. You know, after she'd been shot, she was able to get all the kids - other kids out of the classroom, out of danger before she was tended to for her injuries.
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1/16/2023, 10:54:05 PM

I realized I wasn't really using the vim shortcut layer on my keyboard (there were only four shortcuts anyway), so I cut that entirely. I also realized that, most of the time, I'm only going to the numeric layer for one key at a time, and I sometimes forget I'm on that layer. So, I replaced my persisting layer toggle key with a one-shot layer switch.

So far, it's working well, though I do have moments of disorientation, like when you're playing Zelda Second Quest, and the dungeons aren't where you think they are.
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1/16/2023, 10:49:31 PM

I didn't go to the music programming group today, but I did add support for non-looping samples to Flooding so that the narration works correctly now.

Right now, I have narration recordings I did with my own voice as a placeholder. I started to make TTS versions of them, but Google TTS does not sound right when saying short phrases. It sounds like a phone alert. I kind of wanted something robotic-sounding for Sound of the Far Future, but that doesn't work here.

So, maybe I can find a voice actor or I can try to sound more neutral. The thing is, can you ever sound neutral to yourself?
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1/16/2023, 9:49:35 PM

Huh, shellac is bug drip pin’s!
Shellac (/ʃəˈlæk/)[1] is a resin secreted by the female lac bug on trees in the forests of India and Thailand.
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1/16/2023, 9:24:35 PM

I like Feed ‘n’ Wax because it’s a non-noxious polish you can use indoors without special ventilation, but it feels unpredictable to me. This got way darker than I expected. I’m guessing the polyurethane-based polishes don’t alter the color as much, but I’m not touching those in winter.
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1/16/2023, 6:16:51 PM

I’ve verified that my Goodwill router does indeed round edges. One thing it does not do is take anything than 1/4” router bits, but hey, it is a $20 Goodwill gamble, so I’m lucky that it turns on.

A nice thing about routers in general is that I don’t need to clamp down a fence like I thought I did, at least for rounding. The part that extends past the cutting part of the router can ride along the edge of the board and keep the router at a fixed distance from the edge of the board.
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1/16/2023, 5:17:26 PM

It snowed a lot, but a lot of it melted already.
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1/16/2023, 9:13:29 AM

Test B.
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1/16/2023, 9:13:08 AM

Test one
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1/15/2023, 10:42:23 PM

I fixed a bug in note-taker that's been there since the start.

If a media file (like a picture or audio file) was sent to note-taker that had the same filename as an existing file on the web server, it would just overwrite it. I didn't notice it because filenames that I use tend to be unique, but every time you edit a video on iOS, the resulting video is named FullSizeRender.mov. So, I've been overwriting FullSizeRender.mov files for four years! Hopefully, I can get some of those back at some point.
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1/15/2023, 9:18:15 PM

We had a celebration of Slow Life today. People were good at living slowly! There was coloring, pattern drawing, wordcrossing, and reading going on, along with low-key chatting.

There was also a lot of snacking. This may be while I’m now extra sleepy at 9 PM.
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