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Traditional, non-gambling card games never really resonated with me, but I now get them as a casual, but not mindless thing to do with friends.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy was really good. Perhaps next year, I will watch another film I said I should see seven years ago.

I'm reading some pretty compelling books lately. One of them is on my phone. Maybe I should try to train myself to look at that instead of hitting the web?

I'm desperate to check things today. I guess I'm having some social media withdrawal spike? I actually scrolled through GitHub activity just now.

Well. White supremacists tried to take over a town.

The residents of a tiny North Dakota town are now faced with the potential of having white supremacists on their City Council.

As a result of the recent election, the mayor would prefer to just shut it down. Leith, North Dakota, Mayor Ryan Schock has collected signatures from 12 of his 18 constituents calling for the abolition of the city’s government, ceding control to the county.

Good on Leith for procedurally stopping that shit.

Molnar might've liked Rogue.

(I do like Molnar's art, though!)

Francois Molnar's "Toward science in art" essay can be summed up like this: Art should be more scientific; it should find the roots of good pictorial composition.

He never once addresses subjectivity, what good pictorial composition is, what the goal of such art would be (to be pleasing?), or what he thinks science does. My guess is that he admires the respect that science got in the '50s (and now) and wanted some of that. Science > art has been around a while.

Wait, I *do* think handmade, personal things are still good. Maybe I'll implement editing someday.

Finally realized a way to light the grill (the igniter is broken, so we have to use a lighter) without making it a high-stakes dexterity test!

I was just thinking, maybe I need to exist in a new form.

I don't know what that means, so maybe an Oblique Strategy obliqued itself into me. Well, going out to cook burgers now!

12-6-3-4. I'm working from home, and it's rainy out, so these were indoor pull-ups on the thin bar. A few burpees for warm-ups instead of a run.

Phantom is kind of operatic, also has the tasty melodic riffs.