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It appears that I avoid the buying tasks on my list even more than I avoid the planning stuff, which I assumed I hated the most.Comments
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PT back exercises, stretches, 13 pull-ups.Comments
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Cleaned out some drains with a zip tie. The biggest problem wasn’t the grossness, which was only mild, but that I lost the bathtub drain cover screw.Comments
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The current episode of Past, Present, Future is about the TV show Dallas. I never saw it, but thanks to an older orchestra director, we played its theme in middle school orchestra. I found that I can still hum the theme. That is some effective theme-writing.Comments
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How not to get stuck as a solo devComments
The tl;dr for this if you don’t want to read it is:
1. Motivation is your most important resource, so don’t kill that off at the cost of short-term productivity.
2. It’s OK (and I’ll add: better than OK in the context of music composition) to leave things alone for a while and come back to them. - Comments
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I at least started thinking through which expensive, expensive home renovations will be worthwhile. It's very important to figure out as early as possible, yet at the same time, it's not that easy to figure out because of the whole "do we have to move because of high school?" question, which is one of the largest things we've had to figure out in our lives.Comments
I will say that it was kind of OK as a break from learning WebGL, which has been going well, but is subtly tiring. -
This is unreasonable, but I feel disappointed that there’s so many gaps in the uniform polyhedra. Where is my 13-faced uniform polyhedron?Comments
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I was talking to Joe the other day about back recovery PT (everybody's doing it these days!), and I remembered that I used to have exercise goals like deadlifting 280 lbs.Comments
I got as far as 230 or 240 before injuring my back, but the injury just kind of got better on its own, back in the heady days of my 30s.
But why was I trying to hit that number at all? The best I can guess is that I read that someone of my size should be able to lift that. Maybe picking some number and working toward it is a natural human tendency, which is why games and businesses have such an easy time manipulating people. -
PT ab stuff, 12 pull-ups.Comments
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I wanted to remix something that I had carefully archived a few years ago. Unfortunately, it's in NanoStudio 1 format and having upgraded iOS past the last version that supported NanoStudio 1, I can't reopen the project, nor is there an easy path to upgrade the project to NanoStudio 2's format. But it's not a total loss. I've at least got the midi parts out, so I can reconstruct it with different instruments.Comments
So, there's a lesson here about not always doing OS upgrades without thinking about it. And I tend to archive my work done in NanoStudio 2 in it's own format, but maybe I should be rendering individual tracks to wav files, as space-consuming as that is. -
That feeling when your realize you’ve left shrimp unattended, and you fear turning around to see Smidgeo chomping on them.Comments
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I don't like to get the magical book in Zelda because it causes a lot of accidental burns. (It makes the wand create fire when it hits something.) I have reached Level-9 in the second quest, though, and didn't see it, so I wondered where it was.Comments
I don't want to spoiler myself, but I'm OK with looking at maps of dungeons I'm not going back to. Thanks to NESMaps, which I found via a Set Side B post, I now know that it's in Level-4.
That's a subtle cruelty in keeping with the nature of the second quest. You don't find the wand until you get to Level-8, which I have to say, is very hard to find. You need a certain item to get there, and even then, it's one of the ones that doesn't have any visual cues about where the entrance might be. The guy did a lot of overworld mapping for me, and by exhausting search, we found it. -
Huh, one of my projects is a little further along than I thought. It's really nice when that happens!Comments
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According to the National Oceanography Centre (the nation referred to here is the UK), the Boston tide gauge is located on Congress St. I guess they mean in the Fort Point Channel, but they could also just mean "somewhere in Boston".Comments
tides.net seems to think it's in the channel by the Evelyn Moakley Bridge, but they do not have citations. -
OK, I am charmed my this anti-mail game.Comments
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Had to reschedule a specialist appointment (that's fortunately non-time-sensitive, though important) originally set up for July, and it got pushed back to November. Medical stuff! ZONG! as they'd say in Dog Man.Comments
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I did seven logistical tasks today, one of which was booking flights. And yes — I am going to complain about flight booking again!Comments
Do not use justfly. I thought I found something, and filled out a long from, then a spinner came up and disappeared, leaving behind the "shade layer", covering the rest of the page.
After scrolling down for a while, I found out that there was a message saying that one of the flights I had selected were no longer available. They just didn't allocate the dev time to make sure it showed up on the part of the page I was actually looking at.
Then, I went back and picked another pair of flights and filled out the long form again. (These flights were $100 cheaper than I could find elsewhere, which should have tipped me off.) Again, poorly surfaced message that the flight's no longer available.
I closed the tab, and I just went directly to the airline and paid the extra money.
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Lots and lots of software gets worse over time. In fact, that may be the default state of software.Comments
I don't think I've seen as plainly visible a decline as I've seen in Doodle, though. I started using it around 2016 or 2015 and have since been using it once every two to three weeks to schedule D&D games.
It used to just do the thing you wanted it to do: Gather consensus on when a meeting should happen. But starting a few years ago, they started adding extraneous features making it harder to find the essential stuff, then increasing the bugs. A bit later, they started pushing features I used, like duplicating old invites, to the pro tier. Which I might have paid for, if my trust hadn't been eroded.
Today, creating invites has stopped working in Firefox.
Looks like they were acquired by an AI-oriented company in 2016, so maybe it was doomed throughout my entire time with it. Then in 2019, that parent company was shut down. Anyway, you can very easily imagine the meetings about product vision and OKRs every time something breaks. -
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