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11/4/2023, 5:38:38 PM

Meanwhile, this rabbit bone in the yard has had all of its flesh stripped before we even noticed it. Hawk? Hawks should try onions.
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11/4/2023, 5:37:22 PM

I left this onion skin that fell off a plate last week in the yard, figuring it would biodegrade or disintegrate or something. It’s still here! Might be a GMO Forever Onion.
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11/4/2023, 4:32:25 PM

Oil spill!
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11/4/2023, 9:33:01 AM

Good bread insides
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11/4/2023, 8:50:42 AM

Directly on rack, risking the baguettes sticking to the rack. Living life on the edge, etc.
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11/4/2023, 8:49:19 AM

Moon loaf. I wonder if I’d just get a megabaguette if I cooked it like this.
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11/4/2023, 7:58:38 AM

Good bones
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11/3/2023, 9:29:48 PM

Puttin’ on the splots
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11/3/2023, 9:05:29 PM

Trying official®️aluminum polish on this. Unsure both if things are actually getting smoother and if I’m doing this right.
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11/3/2023, 7:59:31 PM

Apple is trying to get people to be happy with less RAM.
Two years ago, I got a 14” MacBook Pro with an M2 Pro processor and 16 GB of RAM. I was told by lots of people that “16 GB is enough,” that “RAM works differently on Apple Silicon,” and that the M-series processors are so good that RAM is less important than ever.

Those people were wrong then and they are especially, extremely wrong now, 23 years after the turn of the millennia, as they watch Tim Cook sell a brand new MacBook Pro with a brand new M3 processor that comes with 8GB of RAM and costs $1,600 and applaud. The same type of Apple apologists are now saying 8 GB is enough for most people with a straight face. They are calling the people who are saying that 8 GB is not enough Apple haters and elitists, who simply do not GET RAM or Unified Memory.
Heh, how very Apple.
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11/3/2023, 6:08:15 PM

Most of the kids at this judo class are running around or milling about. One dude is meditating. Watching eagerly to see if he is super badass.
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11/3/2023, 3:59:30 PM

55-minute run, 13 pull-ups. I thought I had stayed on the route I drew the last time I ran, but I hadn’t. This time, I did, at least going through the Fells, and it turns out I did pick real paths on which you can stay running most of the time without pathfinding or climbing.

There’s a lot of leaves now, though. I wiped out once, fortunately without eating really badly. Imagine being 70 or 80 (if you aren’t already) and having to always watch out for falling because it could permanently damage you. Those guys are playing a high stakes game! As we all will be at some point. Roguelike real-life!

I did mess up the route coming out of the Fells, though, and exited in a way that I did not hit the graveyard. Someday I’ll 100% this. Maybe.
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11/3/2023, 3:43:20 PM

Deer! Pretty cool, though they kinda smelled.
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11/3/2023, 1:19:58 PM

Machaut looks way happier than Bach. I guess all that counterpoint thinking can weigh you down.
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11/2/2023, 6:48:50 PM

Bryan Jag!
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11/2/2023, 4:35:30 PM

OK, recumbing while working feels good for the back, if you’ve had a rough night of sleep, it can also put you out.
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11/2/2023, 2:41:45 PM

I thought of writing something to get around the problem with Mastodon only working if you check it several times a day. (It only gives you posts from the last couple hours. If you scroll back further in a list, you’ll see gaps that go all the way to the last time you logged in.) It was going to be something like a keep-alive service that kept pulling posts periodically.

But there’s just way too much for me to do. I’m going to have to explicitly put that idea down and just live with getting a small random sample of whatever’s going on there.
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11/2/2023, 10:56:27 AM

This overflow ring is now not overflowing.
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11/1/2023, 11:33:28 PM

The Patch ‘n’ Seal is more transparent-seeming if it goes over paint.
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11/1/2023, 8:31:18 PM

We tried a new judo club today. There were like 35 kids and five or six instructors, all of them good. The guy got to spar with five different kids in addition to doing more detailed drilling than at the other place.

I wouldn’t have bothered because it is a slightly longer drive, but at the last class our current place, the sensei was out for the fourth time, and the substitute was a yellow belt. It wasn’t clear if he had taught kids before.

Anyway, it’s good that this place is so vibrant.
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11/1/2023, 4:13:59 PM

For whatever reason, I was thinking about the Empire Strikes Back Atari game. Then, I remembered that the kid who let me play it was an older kid I met via the older brother of a friend my age. I think I lost track of him after that friend moved away, though this guy continued to live a few blocks away from me.

I looked him up, and he's a real estate agent. I feel disappointed and somehow like that's a waste of human potential, but I guess that's not really justified. What did I think he was going to be? A professional cool video games introducer? I didn't know much about him other than he seemed mature, had the 2600, was good at pretend shoot-and-bomb games, and he liked tennis.
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11/1/2023, 3:10:14 PM

19-minute run, 13 pull-ups, back and ab stuff.
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11/1/2023, 11:14:28 AM

I set up a space heater. It involved moving a lot of things around to avoid any potential fire hazards. (The fire extinguisher is there on the off-chance that if something bursts into flames it somehow triggers the extinguisher, taking care of the fire. Video game logic!) I actually considered moving the board games, but I decided they’re not actually flammable.

I resented having to have a space heater, but I guess it is in fact November.
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10/31/2023, 11:32:18 PM

Trying out painting via dipping. Hooray for this AC Moore close out sale paints!
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10/31/2023, 11:08:29 PM

Well, we did not guess De Mol for Seizoen 6, either!
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