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3/21/2023, 8:56:23 PM

The gentle squirrel bonking continues, now driven by user clicks.
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3/21/2023, 5:34:03 PM

This onion exploded nicely.
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3/21/2023, 5:26:00 PM

This $3 “bookshelf” does not have sides, which I did not notice until I got home. So, it works only as a “horizontal books shelf”.
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3/21/2023, 5:24:58 PM

I gambled $15 at some guy’s moving sale, and sort of lost? The $2 reading lamp is good for woodworking, but this $10 LCD TV has a resolution that is really is only OK for a TV.
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3/21/2023, 3:21:45 PM

Beans plus stuff: The beloved combo
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3/21/2023, 10:35:31 AM

The guy used to say “restronaut” instead of restaurant. Now he doesn’t remember that at all, leaving me as the only person who says that now.
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3/21/2023, 10:33:59 AM

Unopened restronaut cat!
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3/21/2023, 9:27:31 AM

OK, I have revised the budget. I have several of these unrewarding tasks to do this week. You have been informed!
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3/21/2023, 8:51:54 AM

DeSantis Privately Called for Google to Be “Broken Up”

It's Desantis's Stopped Clocked Time!
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3/21/2023, 8:48:41 AM

Smidgeo is scaling up! With his medications, he costs $239.73 per month.
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3/20/2023, 11:38:15 PM

I got back to work on Flooding in earnest tonight. I got rid of most of the popping noises. That's important. You've got to not have annoying noises to release.

Also in the annoying department, I eliminated the excessive sliding between pitches.

Finally, I pushed back on the perceived dominance of low pitches by making every event in every chord have the same volume instead of dynamically dividing the max volume up and handing it all out to each event every chord.

This makes some parts of the piece extremely quiet, which I'm not sure I want.
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3/20/2023, 10:06:05 PM

I was talking to this guy at the music programming group that made a working audio DSP library with Zig and Lua. It looked really elegant.

Ten years ago, I felt like I was learning a new programming language every week, so I banned learning new languages. Maybe it's been long enough that I should lift the ban?
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3/19/2023, 6:11:33 PM

PT, 12 pull-ups.
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3/19/2023, 5:10:03 PM

Low-key robot gymnastics.
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3/19/2023, 4:59:49 PM

We got in our socialization today. I took the guy to a playdate at the park. He was lukewarm about going but ended up having a good time. I went to a Recurse meetup at which only two other people were at, but I did talk to people I don’t normally talk to, so that’s something. ✔
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3/19/2023, 11:15:35 AM

Drafting: a skill no one needs, but is kind of fun.

For some definition of “fun”.
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3/18/2023, 12:49:38 PM

Wow. They made the extra effort to have subtly iridescent lettering.
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3/17/2023, 11:20:34 PM

The last two days were a mess, but today, I got some work done, did PT, took a shower, made a decent dinner, and did some D&D accounting, which is more than I expected, given how hard it was to concentrate this morning.
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3/17/2023, 9:54:05 PM

The guy is making MC Escher stuff.
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3/17/2023, 9:16:47 PM

Grains were successfully separated and coated!
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3/17/2023, 6:51:57 PM

Did not have old rice like I thought I have, so I’m trying to make sure it doesn’t clump before frying.
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3/17/2023, 5:15:20 PM

PT, then thirteen pull-ups.
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3/17/2023, 9:08:30 AM

I posted my album announcement to my non-microblog along with a digression about naming and Pantera.
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3/16/2023, 3:29:48 PM

Al Jaffee, creator of the MAD fold-in, is 102 year old, still drawing, and very lucid.

It came out in a lot of the things he [Dave Berg] did. He had a very moralistic personality. I mean, he moralized all the time. And his gags were very suburban middle-class America. Plus, he was very religious. He wrote a book called My Friend God. And, of course, if you write a book like that, you just know that the MAD staff is going to make fun of you. We would ask him questions like, “Dave, when did you and God become such good friends? Did you go to college together, or what?”
Magazine staffs did remote work long before the pandemic:
Was there a sense of camaraderie in the golden age of MAD, from the early ’60s through the mid-’70s?

Oh, a great deal. Absolutely! MAD’s publisher, Bill Gaines, did something very clever: He would take the whole staff on an annual trip abroad. And we lived together for anywhere from seven to 17 days. We hung out together, we all went out to restaurants together, and we got to know each other. We became almost like a family. I mean, we weren’t in an office environment day-to-day where we got to know each other. A lot of us worked from home. In fact, every artist and writer worked from home — only the editors and art directors worked in the office.
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3/16/2023, 2:46:38 PM

This cone was supposed to warn others about the hole.
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