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Yeah. Bandcamp got bought again. Enjoy Bandcamp Fridays while you can.Comments
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I thought of an album name, but now I think I have to come up with a track by that name.Comments
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I rotated my mattress. It’s looking a less likely that we’ll be able to move, even in a few years, but no one can stop me from mild changes to my sleeping platform.Comments
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Twelve pull-ups, back stuff, some amount of body weight squats.Comments
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I was kind of bummed about the way school, work, and house were going today. The guy played the Mario theme on the piano just now, though, and that was really heartening. Gonna have to keep a stash of sheet music so he can learn another jam next time I’m depressed.Comments
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In the last ten minutes of this episode of the Big Story, the guest talks about how Canadians are now weary of their Liberal government and now have a taste for the Conservative party. He says that maybe if they resolve the housing price problem or grocery prices, they might have a chance.Comments
I don't have a sense of how conservative that the Conservatives are, though, the convoy stuff makes it seem the Trump style stuff is on the rise. -
Amon Amarth is surprisingly popular. A few years ago (and maybe today), they were in the top 2500 artists on Spotify. So, I guess I shouldn't be surprised that they have a video budget.Comments
I would have thought they'd do some standard viking battle thing for The Great Heathen Army. They sort of did, except they put it all in the frame of two nerd kids playing a board game. I applaud their weird choices. -
One of the many things I did not really take seriously when becoming a parent is that there’s a lot of things you can’t do for a kid. There’s problems that will make them unhappy, and you be there to coach them through it.Comments
That can be good for their independence. It can also be bad if it’s a challenge not “scaled” to their level that convinces them they can’t deal with some things.
Either way, you will feel bad when they feel bad, and there’s not much you can do about it. There’s an unlinking between the levers you have and the reward or punishment you get. -
15-minute run, 13 pull-ups, ab stuff.Comments
I’m back to thinking running doesn’t affect my back (at this point), but I don’t believe that enough to push it. Currently, I’m not waking up with any pain, which is great, but I do have problems if I suddenly bend at a 30° angle off vertical. It is weird. -
Helio Gracie is promoted as saint by the Gracies and was also promoted as such by himself when he was alive.Comments
He does deserve credit for technical innovation, but he'd also present himself as morally elevated, saying things like "The jiu-jitsu I created isn’t for competition. It’s for personal use to improve your confidence, whether you’re an executive, a woman or a child." (That's the three major kinds of people, BTW.) And also on the purity (and pimp ethic?) front:"I never loved any woman because love is a weakness, and I don't have weaknesses."
It turns out, though, that he didn't always solve problems by being above it all, or even with Gracie Jiu-Jitsu:A dispute between Gracie's brother Carlos and Manoel Rufino dos Santos worsened after Dos Santos won a public bout against Carlos. Subsequently, the conflict then moved to the newspapers, where Rufino criticized Carlos's skill and dismissed his jiu-jitsu credentials, leading Carlos, George and Hélio Gracie to assault him in front of his teaching place at the Tijuca Tênis Clube on October 18. They hit him repeatedly with a steel box and immobilized him for Carlos to apply an armlock, dislocating Rufino's shoulder so badly that it needed surgery.[2][5] The brothers were arrested and were convicted to two years and a half in prison for assault, as well as for trying to run away during the arrest, but their connections to President of Brazil Getúlio Vargas granted them a pardon.[2]
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GPT 3.5 (and the Internet that it scraped) is really into the White savior thing. I tried "Create a fictional account of a 1920s jujutsu fighter's career."Comments
In the roaring 1920s, when speakeasies thrived, flapper dresses dazzled, and jazz filled the air, there was a jujutsu fighter whose name became legendary in the underground world of martial arts. His name was Jack "Iron Fist" Sullivan, a burly Irishman with a heart of gold and fists of steel.
To be fair, you could see this script getting greenlit, perhaps with Mark Walhberg in mind.
Born and raised in the rough streets of New York City, Jack grew up in a world where survival meant being tougher than the next guy. At the age of 16, he found his way into the world of jujutsu while trying to protect his younger sister from a gang of street toughs. He stumbled into a small, dimly lit dojo run by an aging Japanese master named Sensei Hoshizaki. -
Smarta traditionComments
The Smarta tradition (Sanskrit: स्मार्त), also called Smartism, is a movement in Hinduism that developed and expanded with the Puranas genre of literature.[2]
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I woke at 4 and tried to get back to sleep for an hour. This has happened enough times that I should skip the trying to get back to sleep the next time it happens.Comments
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I got sound playing in my players-at-a-distance thing! (I was missing a volume envelope.) Shortly thereafter, I caused some overly rapid player-to-player responding, which crashed the tab.Comments
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After 13 years, the Boston Unity Group is shutting down.Comments
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I learned about the world of split-flap displays today. I've seen them, and yet never noticed them. It turns you can have one at home for only $3000!Comments
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Wrestling in IndiaComments
The wrestling in Punjab and Haryana will take place in a circular court with soft ground which in Punjabi is called an "akharha". Two wrestlers will continue to wrestle until the back of one touches the ground. The winner will parade the court with the loser following him.
Dag, extra humiliating! -
In case you were wondering, collage is a legit form. Alexis Hillard Collages.Comments
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Welp, had to shovel a dead rabbit out of the flowers and onto the sidewalk so the city would take it. Life’s hard! I’d prefer it didn’t end in our front yard, but when you gotta go, you gotta go.Comments
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I put on an old Amon Amarth album, and I just realized I don't know any of their lyrics. (I do know them on their new album because every word can be deciphered. Johan Hegg is the most articulate death metal vocalist of all time.) I know the songs are all viking-themed, though, so I tried to think of some viking activities:Comments
- Sailing
- Killing some guys
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Brian Leroux announced a new framework. In the course of doing so, he says:Comments
The basic idea with progressive enhancement is that you start with working HTML. Then you add a script tag, and you enhance the behavior with JavaScript. Sometimes people call this HTML first lately. I like that, because I think that's very honest with how the browser lifecycle works. HTML is first, that's how a browser works. It loads the script tag, and then JavaScript is second. This doesn't mean JavaScript doesn't load or don't use JavaScript. This just means that it embraces the lifecycle and the workflow of it.
I’ve worked like this for a decade and have met a lot of resistance.e have tens of thousands of users doing this. It's been around since around 2017. We always said just, return HTML, and progressively enhance it. People would look at me like I was a lizard for saying that, but I'm not.
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It’d be cool if souls really existed but weren’t immortal. If they lasted just a minute longer than their bodies’ deaths, that would be enough time for a soul to say, “Huh, souls are real” just before dying as well.Comments
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