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Posts on and around this day (Mar 18):- 2023-03-19 / I finished reading How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu. What a fascinating novel: Told in interconnected short stories and read compellingly by more than a dozen performers, it’s the story of a global plague discovered in melting permafrost that ultimately spans beyond the entirety of human history. Despite that scope it’s intimate; each story is a vignette of loss, grief, love, loneliness and carrying on. Amid it all, Nagamatsu imagines what capitalism would be like in a world devastated by a new plague and climate change at the same time: an economy of death-related services, weird cryptocurrencies, and skyscrapers converted to cemeteries that tower over flooded cities and failed crops.
- 2023-03-18 / I’ve been using my Iris now for a little over two months and am feeling pretty fluent with it! In the never-ending quest for perfection, I might change up the switches for something just a bit more positive feeling.
- 2022-03-20 / I felt pretty good about this weekend’s pizza dough. GF crust is a little finicky, but I’m getting pretty okay at it.
- 2021-03-22 / Injection number 1. Let’s gooooo! (Where by “let’s gooooo” I mean, let’s exuberantly celebrate science, while maintaining safety and continuing to wear our masks for the benefit of our communities and those we love.)
- 2021-03-22 / There’s probably a pretty good talk/paper for somebody to write on the comparative trajectories of R-Help’s evolution to today’s R community, as compared to the FSF’s brief rejection and subsequent bear-hugging of RMS.
- 2021-03-21 / 🎮 I didn’t know it, but Lonely Mountains Downhill was exactly the game I was looking for this weekend. It’s super fun and also occasionally stabby.
- 2021-03-21 / Big technology weekend for my kiddo: Yesterday he walked through the instructions to set up a new Minecraft server on my little NUC running Ubuntu. And, today, he gets his very own 1Password vault. They grow up so fast.
- 2021-03-21 / My .vimrc could probably use a lot more cleanup, but I adjusted it just enough yesterday that I think it appears easy enough to grab for any new machine or server I would happen to use.
- 2021-03-20 / This view comes with its own frame
- 2021-03-17 / 🎮 Xbox gaming friends, if you didn’t play Prey, there’s no more excuse: It’s on Game Pass now and it’s so very good.
- 2021-03-16 / I went for a good walk in a borrowed hat, today.
- 2020-03-21 / Shoutouts to this pumpkin + cauliflower + kale soup we whipped up last night.
- 2019-03-22 / Pretty sure David Frum just said in this NPR interview that we need to give racist nationalists what they want so that racist nationalism will stop tearing apart our civic institutions, but maybe I’ve just been hit in the head really hard.
- 2019-03-18 / I saw Darlingside and River Whyless at the MIM last night! Wooowwww! So great, moving, and fun. The closing acoustic encore with both bands was just a treasure. ❤️🎶
- 2018-03-21 / I do live in a special place. We have clear and a dark nights, and we have the San Francisco Peaks sitting atop nearly every view in town. I like to take a snapshot of the changing seasons from my twelve minute commute.
- 2018-03-20 / On the death of the last male white rhino I’m recalling Douglas Adams' and Mark Carwardine’s Last Chance to See. Carwardine writes that we must care about these creatures not simply because their loss represents irreversible damage to our planet and futures, but also because “the world would be a poorer, darker, lonelier place without them.”
- 2018-03-20 / /now: Reading up on h-entry and workin' on my microformats.
- 2018-03-20 / Yesterday, hanging out with my son who is on spring break: “Dad, what is ink made of?” What followed was a perfect hour long Wikipedia dive together into pigments, dyes, CMYK colors, lapis and iron oxide. I learned a bunch!
- 2018-03-19 / Current state: trash talk.
- 2018-03-19 / I’m going to need some more of this today.
- 2018-03-18 / It would appear I have now built a working (for my idiosyncratic definition of working, barely) javascript tool to display mentions from webmention.io. I’ll clean up and share it ASAP and meanwhile, will test a bit more with live posts.
- 2018-03-16 / We got a bit of late-season snow yesterday, so it’s a beautiful slightly snowy day out today. More weather is expected later this weekend, too! March in the high country is good.
- 2015-03-22 / Pizzicletta
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