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3-6-3-6-3-6. Also, I think I may have messed up my knee some.

Fortunately for my knee, and unfortunately for my arms, I'm going on a short vacation and won't be able to do work out for several days. Man, January has been a spotty month!

YIS! A re-release of Laurie Spiegel's Unseen Worlds!

V. impressed by this from a local school's newsletter:

We learned about facts and opinions from our first graders. Fifth graders recited their writing regarding Espiranza Rising. JK (junior kindergarten) talked to us about human rights.

Probably should have been doing this with elementary school students 50 years ago, but hey, maybe better late than never?

My belated newsletter is done! Whew.

Like and subscribe! Or subscribe and complain, if you like.

In one of the unsealed documents, two Facebook employees deny a refund request from a child, who they refer to as a “whale” – a term coined by the casino industry to describe profligate spenders.

A trove of hidden documents detailing how Facebook made money off children will be made public

Minor compared to their role is spreading misinformation and violence, but Christ, what assholes.

I've noticed this aesthetic among web pages of some generative artists and blockchain startups and "future" technologies. It has these characteristics:

- All black and white, no color.
- Sans serif fonts
- No pictures, just "futuristic" symbols
- Really sparse text (and sparse everything)

I feel that this is perhaps to create a sense of hard-to-get too-cool futuristic mystery. Sometimes this aesthetic is on web pages of people I like even. Still, I hate it.

I realized my own personal web page's (accidental and lazy) aesthetic is too close to that. So, I put a huge picture of an actual person and an actual cat on there.

Gross. Ended up at racist totalitarian Mencius Moldbug's company by following two links from a repo someone liked on GitHub. Turns out he has a blockchain company funded by — surprise, surprise — pro-totalitarian Peter Thiel.

He named his company after a planet in a Borges story, which is quite the way to smear shit on a great writer.

I actually wrote something for ye olde bloge: How to make a tl;dr control.

I guess I put "OK for people evaluating me as a professional" stuff there. And thus, one post a year ends up there.

Let's all worship this ice disc!

2-4-6-3-3-3. Well, I tried.

We started The Hobbit again tonight. In the midst the explaining about runes and what hobbits are, the guy demanded to know when we were going to start reading the story.

Oh, shit, the Remarkable Tablet is actually $600. I misread that price. Hmm.

I talked to a guy on the bike path using a Remarkable Tablet. At first, I thought he was just saying it was a "remarkable tablet".

I am totes into this. I was really disappointed that there was no competitor to the Apple Pencil, which looked like it was exactly what I wanted, except that I don't need to be more hooked into Apple, and iPads are $1,000.

This thing is 1/20th of the cost, and doesn't do anything except let you write and send what you write to places. Something that doesn't try to do a jillion things is incredible appealing. I hope it holds up!

2-6-5-5-4-4. It's cold, but the bar is sticky, which is encouraging. Woke up with a stiff neck this morning. I think it feels better now?

Because I never remember, I finally wrote down how to make an animated gif from a video.

The guy took a shower for the first time. It was a revolutionary experience for him! Great work, inventors of the shower.

I thought that this was going to be skyscrapers! Interesting you can suggest that by angling rectangles (which, here, come from an aerial view of a town).