Also waddling my way through this. Love the narration. π
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New furnace installed today. The old one (going on 20 years) would stop with a clogged condensate tube every 3 hours. It was time for an upgrade anyway.
I’m beginning to shed apps that take too much mental energy: Roam and Workflowy among them. Give me plain text, a rock-solid RDB, and a modern scripting language instead.
I noticed this artifact on my Big Sur desktop background. Brings new meaning to the phrase “If you believe that I’ve got a bridge to sell you.”
Our new well parts are in and working: controls, new pressure tank, new pump. It feels great to have reliable water again after 2 weeks. It’s easy to take for granted. I can’t help but think now how lucky we are to have this, hundreds of millions of people do not.
The Milky Way is probably full of dead civilizations | Live Science - Very interesting.
I’m thinking of using a Raspberry Pi Zero to take pics of the backyard from a window at specific times of the day for over a year. These would be in my time zone and not adjusted for daylight saving time / summer time. Anyone with experience in setting something like this up?
reMarkable 2: first impressions
So far I like it. the OCR experience is OK. It is reasonably accurate for my cursive handwriting, but you can only export by email coming from a remarkable.com address. The iPad’s scribble support is better from that perspective. OCR was not an interesting use case for me though. The weight and thickness are huge pluses. It’s easy to carry around; much easier than an iPad and even most paper notebooks.
Some time ago I posted how I was abandoning wordpress and blot for micro.blog. Well, that didn’t happen. I’ll probably move my two wordpress sites to hugo when I’ve sussed enough of it, and I finally have plans for blot.
Techo entries for Jan 2 & 3. Phenology entries are for sunrise, sunset, weather, unusual weather events, and any animals observed. Other entries record sleep hours. Thatβs St. Clare on the right. Sheβs in charge of marking the current day.
Our 33 year old 5-party well began acting up on December 23rd. We’ve had to manually start the pump every 4-5 hours to bring it back up to pressure. Yesterday the pressure tank started leaking. Tomorrow all the bits get replaced.
My New Years gift to myself is a reMarkable 2. Iβve always found e-ink interesting. I think Iβm going to be using this for a sketchbook, commonplace book, and quick capture.
Finally getting around to getting rid of old, obsolete, technical books. I mean, who really needs iWork ‘09: The Missing Manual?
Science is dynamic. It changes based on evidence. If it did not, it would be religion.
normal. command. insert. These are vim modes. I tried, I really did, to see the utility folks claim for vim over so-called modeless “graphical” editors like atom and bbedit. It’s just not there. Giving up on vim.
Ann and I walked in Frontenac State Park. This is on the northern side of Lake Pepin – a widening in the Mississippi River below Red Wing, Minnesota. It was over 70ΛF today, almost unheard of in this area for November 8. It will likely be the last warm day until March and we made the most of it.
Another view of Maiden Rock.
A view of Maiden Rock from Frontenac State Park on Lake Pepin.
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Someone told me it’s all happening at the zoo. I do believe it, I do believe it’s true.
Paul Simon