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Hello there, intrepid viewer-of-source.
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To be honest, there is nothing very interesting here, but one day
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there might be.
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(o)(o)
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One day.
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<h1>~brennen</h1>
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<p>
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<a href="feed.xml" title="an atom feed of updates">feed</a>
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| <a href="http://squiggle.city/">squiggle.city</a>
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| <a href="http://tilde.club/">tilde.club</a>
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| <a href="https://p1k3.com/" title="a blog">p1k3</a>
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| <a href="https://p1k3.com/userland-book/" title="a book about the command line for humans">userland</a>
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| <a href="http://squiggle.city/~brennen/workings-book/" title="a technical notebook">workings</a>
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</p>
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</nav>
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<div style="clear: both;"></div>
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<section>
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<article>
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<h2>December 2015</h2>
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<p>Ok maybe I will rethink the slidy-tile interface to this page.</p>
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<p>Also I put the lights back up.</p>
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</article>
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<article>
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<h2>A Sunrise</h2>
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<p class="huge centerpiece">🌄</p>
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</article>
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<article>
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<h2>A Crawly</h2>
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<p class="huge centerpiece">𓆨</p>
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</article>
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<article>
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<h2>three things i kind of love</h2>
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<ol>
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<li>
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<p>I actually think the Marvel Cinematic Universe, for all its
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considerable flaws and shallow CGI flash, has been really great. With
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few exceptions, even the trivial movies are pleasant enough diversions
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featuring people I like, while the better ones have real emotional
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heft. Plus I can watch and talk about them with my 50-something
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parents, who have them all on DVD and are completely up on who last
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kicked Loki's ass etc.</p>
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<p>In the end, will its narrative metaproject succeed? Maybe it's not
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likely. A longform story project on this scale with no clear endgame is
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likely enough to collapse under its own considerable weight. But who
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knows. So far they're pulling it off. They've managed to make me care
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about a character literally named Captain America.</p>
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<p>(Parenthetical to Marvel: I think you have enough dumptrucks full of
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money by now to give Black Widow a movie already. Hell, why not a
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<em>series of movies</em>? Remember, I'm pulling for ya. We're all in
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this together.)</p>
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</li>
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<li><p>Two-slice toasters from the 1950s-70s having at most two controls.</p></li>
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<li>Dishes consisting of a gravy on rice.</li>
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</ol>
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</article>
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<p>[ a dry, cold wind whistles through the streets of tilde.club ]</p>
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<p>[ a tumbleweed skitters into the big pile under the mercantile's front window ]</p>
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<p>[ a single flake falls from the slate-gray sky and drifts into the black water pooled in the old stock tank by the windmill ]</p>
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<p>[ creaking noises ]</p>
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</article>
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<article>
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<p><img src="images/frog.gif"></p>
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<h2>some textfiles</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="textfiles/corn.txt">a news.tilde.club post about sweetcorn</a> (I
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hope ~schussat (?) doesn't mind being quoted here)</li>
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<li><a href="textfiles/vimpoems.txt">about writing poems in vim</a></li>
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</article>
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<article>
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<h2>Reverse Chronological Dated Entries Are Totally Fine But I Already Do That Elsewhere</h2>
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<p>And, thinking that, I decided to make my home on squiggle.city a stack
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of cards about... Well, about whatever. Some of them will have dates.
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Some of them will change arbitrarily.</p>
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<p class=centerpiece><img src="hypercard.png" /></p>
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</article>
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<h2>Thursday, January 22, 2015</h2>
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<p><a href="http://squiggle.city/~brennen/workings-book/#Thursday-January-22">RARGH GIT</a></p>
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</article>
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<h2>Thursday, January 15, 2015 - wee hours</h2>
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<p class=centerpiece><img src="hypercard.png" /></p>
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<p>I have decided that my squiggle will now be more like a HyperCard
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stack.</p>
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<p>Please use ← → arrow keys to navigate.</p>
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<p>Comparisons to PowerPoint will be vigorously disdained.</p>
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</article>
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<h2>Wednesday, January 14, 2015</h2>
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<p>Some things I have been up to:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>nostalgia-tripping a little bit on <a href="http://squiggle.city/~brennen/workings-book/#Monday-January-12-MS-DOS-AGT">DOS software</a></li>
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<li>the third in a series of guides for Adafruit, <a href="https://learn.adafruit.com/an-illustrated-shell-command-primer">An Illustrated Shell Command Primer</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://squiggle.city/~brennen/workings-book/#Tuesday-January-13-rtd-bus-schedules-transit-data">messing around with RTD schedule data</a></li>
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<li>a <a href="http://squiggle.city/~paper/archives/squiggle.city.herald.1.2.txt">second issue of the local paper</a></li>
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<h2>Monday, January 12, 2015</h2>
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<p><img src="images/heart_keen.jpg"></p>
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</article>
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<h2>Sunday, January 11, 2015</h2>
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<p>Some radio streams, ordered by time in my life when they were
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important:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://wnax.com/">AM 570 WNAX Yankton</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://129.93.42.12:8000/listen">FM 90.3 KRNU Lincoln</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.kzum.org/">FM 89.3 KZUM Lincoln</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://stream.kgnu.net:8000/KGNU_live_high.mp3">FM 88.5 KGNU Boulder/Denver</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.radio1190.org/wp-content/themes/nextmagazine/listen_high_v3.html">AM 1190 KVCU Boulder/Denver</a></li>
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</ul>
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<p>WNAX is one of the great old mid-American AM stations. It's been
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operating since 1922. I remember it for the Five State Trader, the
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Neighbor Lady, and being the kind of station that carried <a
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href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Harvey">Paul Harvey</a>. Also a
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lot of weather and farm market stuff. These days when I hear it (and I'm
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listening to the stream right now), it's mostly right-wing talk radio in
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the modern style, though it still sounds like itself during the ad
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breaks.</p>
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<p>KRNU is the <a href="http://www.unl.edu/">UNL</a> college station. I
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first heard a lot of indie rock and deliberate weirdness there.</p>
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<p>KZUM is the community station in Lincoln. It's deeply weird in the
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way that all community stations seem to be, and idiosyncratic in the way
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of volunteer-run broadcast media in smallish
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urban-refuge-from-the-provinces markets. I'm pretty sure it was the
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first place I heard Democracy Now, but that doesn't really convey the
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full character of the thing. Like right now it's winding up two hours of
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Native American drum-and-group-vocals stuff, and I have vivid memories of
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driving to work and listening to this (daily? weekly? it happened over
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and over again) U2-only hour.</p>
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<p>KGNU is Boulder's equivalent to KZUM. It's both a more professional
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exercise and perhaps a more predictable one, though it shares a lot of
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the implicit politics of a KZUM. Both stations, it pretty well goes
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without saying, get deeply weird late at night.</p>
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<p>Radio 1190 is the local take on the low-power college indie radio
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thing. In keeping with type, it's often aggressively unlistenable in
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precisely the way that its core demographic is always seeking.</p>
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</article>
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<h2>Thursday, January 8, 2015</h2>
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<p>Wikipedia sentence fragment of the day:</p>
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<blockquote>
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<p>groundhogs are the most solitary of the marmots</p>
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</blockquote>
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</article>
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<h2>Tuesday, January 6, 2015</h2>
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<p>So I skim through ~schussat's
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<a href="http://prettygoodhat.com/2015-01-03-EndlessLegend.html"
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title="My Endless Legend Journal">Endless Legend journal</a>, which is
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a writeup of a game with a bunch of screenshots. It looks neat, but I
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know I'm never going to play it.</p>
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<p>What I keep wanting, really, is something that is like a game but is
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not exactly a <i>game</i> so much as it's a little world in a box that I
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can ramble around in like an itinerant traveler with no particular
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agenda, or watch over like an indifferent minor deity. The thing I want
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is for interesting things to happen without me being obligated to
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<i>do</i> anything. I don't want to go on quests. I don't want to
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manage an empire. I don't want to work my way through any decision trees
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or max any stats or struggle to make any NPCs happy or deal with any
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marauding hordes. (I don't mind if there occasionally <i>are</i>
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marauding hordes. I don't even mind having the option to thwart them or
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whatever. I just don't want to be <i>compelled</i> to thwart them by
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some ludic apparatus any more mechanical than my own reaction to whatever
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they're doing in the simulation space.)</p>
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<p>Back when I still played a lot of games, I used to spend absurd
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amounts of time flying around with all the cheatcodes on just looking at
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stuff and trying to provoke the monsters into doing anything that wasn't
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fighting me. One of my favorite parts of Doom-engine games was the thing
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where some monster would accidentally shoot some other monster and they'd
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forget all about whatever hackneyed narrative they were part of and just
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start slaughtering one another in a fit of pique. I loved the little
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villages and forests and rainclouds in something like <i>Black &
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White</i>, but I passionately hated that I was supposed to complete
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quests and achieve goals.</p>
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<p>I don't want all my interactions with the denizens of whatever
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world-in-a-box reduced to the nexus of simulated violence or simulated
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feed-the-livestock quasi-benevolence.</p>
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<p>(Is there a mode in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_Fortress">Dwarf
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Fortress</a> where everything just happens and I don't have to decide anything?
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Because that sounds like it would be neat to watch.)</p>
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<h2>Monday, January 5, 2015</h2>
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<p><a href="https://ello.co/brennen/post/EPBHcI7lPlBPdG-CCD_PCw">Cats think about murder.</a></p>
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<p>I <a href="http://squiggle.city/~paper/">founded a newspaper</a>.</p>
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<p>~imt made <a href="https://club6.nl">club6.nl</a>, "the first IPv6
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only Public Access UNIX System". Get in while you still can, folks. It's
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gonna be a landrush.</p>
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</article>
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<h2>Saturday, January 3, 2015</h2>
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<p>It's snowing.</p>
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<p class="huge centerpiece">
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❄ ❅ ❆
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</p>
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<p>I have talked some real shit about Ubuntu in the not-so-distant past,
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and if I'm honest I have to admit it probably won't have been the last time.
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Every once in a while it wouldn't hurt for me to acknowledge some of the
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<i>good</i> work happening there.
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<p>Specifically, I really like the Mono variant of <a href="http://font.ubuntu.com/">this
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font family</a>. Looks great in the terminal and gvim both.</p>
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</article>
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<h2>Monday, December 29</h2>
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<p>Leaving the decorations up too long is a family tradition.</p>
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<p>Recent notes:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://squiggle.city/~brennen/workings-book/#screencast-gifs-thursday-december-18-2014">screencast GIFs</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://squiggle.city/~brennen/workings-book/#drawing-tools-friday-december-19-2014">drawing</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://squiggle.city/~brennen/workings-book/#candles-amp-candlemaking">candles</a></li>
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</ul>
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</article>
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<h2>Tuesday, December 16, early a.m.</h2>
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<p><img src=christmas_lights.svg width=500 /></p>
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</article>
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<h2>Monday, December 15</h2>
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<p>Text editors I have known and loved:</p>
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<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfs:Write">pfs:Write</a> for DOS</li>
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<li>DOS Edit / QBasic</li>
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<li>Notepad<sup>1</sup></li>
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<li>Pico</li>
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<li>BBEdit</li>
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<li>Some weird Windows thing that had a bunch of menus of HTML tags built in</li>
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<li>The super-90s-Windowsy text controls embedded in mIRC</li>
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<li>XEmacs</li>
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<li>Vim</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Games I really liked:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>That one where you were a little smiley face and you went around
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the dungeon finding artefacts and sometimes typing things like
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<tt>DRINK POTION</tt>.</li>
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<li>The first super-pixelly <i>Commander Keen</i>, with the little green
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Vorticons running around.</li>
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<li><i>Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure</i></li>
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<li>That artillery game on the Apple ][ where you had little castles
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shooting at each other.</li>
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<li><i>Scorched Earth</i>, where little tanks shot at each other.</li>
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<li><i>Worms</i>, where a bunch of little worms shot at each other.<sup>2</sup></li>
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<li><i>Bolo</i>, where little tanks shot at each other but it was
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top-down and real-time and there was a Little Green Man to do your
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bidding and it was <i>networked multiplayer</i>.</li>
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<li><i>Taipan</i>, where you had a merchant ship and shot at
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pirates.</li>
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<li><i>Tempest</i>, which featured both shooting and abstract colorful
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shapes.</li>
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<li><i>Spy Hunter</i> on the NES. Also the version of <i>Spy Hunter</i>
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at the Pizza Hut in Wayne, NE.</li>
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<p><small><sup>1</sup> Ok to be fair I never actually loved Notepad.</small></p>
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<p><small><sup>2</sup> I've never really warmed to subsequent entries in
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this (enormously successful) series. They all struck me as the wrong
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kind of cartoony. I think this is a lesson in how the constraints on
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an aesthetic can force it into channels more broadly appealing than
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the same artists will later find with bigger budgets and greater
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technological capacity. Either that or a lesson on how weirdos like
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me often prefer low-res hackery. Either way, there is probably an
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analogy to country music and George Lucas somewhere in here.</small></p>
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</article>
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<article>
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<h2>Sunday, December 14</h2>
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<p>Here's an interesting little thing:
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<a href="http://protocol.club/~datagrok/beta-wiki/tdp.html">Tilde
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Description Protocol</a>.</p>
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<p>I have the following going in relation to this:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://squiggle.city/tilde.json">squiggle.city/tilde.json</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://squiggle.city/tilde.txt">squiggle.city/tilde.txt</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://squiggle.city/users.json">squiggle.city/users.json</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://squiggle.city/users.txt">squiggle.city/users.txt</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://githug.com/squigglecity/squiggle.city">squiggle.city repo with listusers.pl</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h2>Tuesday, December 9</h2>
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<p>A few sections in <a href="http://squiggle.city/~brennen/workings-book/">workings</a>:</p>
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<li><a href="http://squiggle.city/~brennen/workings-book/#makecitizen-wednesday-december-3-2014">on
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a script to make new users</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://squiggle.city/~brennen/workings-book/#single-board-computers">on messing around
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with single-board computers</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://squiggle.city/~brennen/workings-book/#namespaces-scope">on namespaces
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& scope</a></li>
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</ul>
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<p>In more interesting news, a bunch of people have asked for
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squiggle.city accounts lately. That's pretty cool. I do wish I knew how
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to encourage more people who aren't demographically within a couple of
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degrees of me to sign up.</p>
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</article>
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<h2>Saturday, December 6</h2>
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<p>I just started a new project that I'm going to host on squiggle.city:
|
|
<a href="http://squiggle.city/~brennen/workings-book/"><i>workings</i></a>
|
|
is an attempt at an ongoing technical notebook. I plan for it to get huge,
|
|
and expect it to be really boring, if you're not me. Hopefully it will
|
|
be useful for remembering stuff I do, and a place for the rough notes on
|
|
things I'm going to turn into finished writing later.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>This idea owes something to an experience I had in jr. high and
|
|
highschool of being required to keep a daily logbook for science classes.
|
|
(Ed Brogie, if you ever google yourself, here's a little ego bump for
|
|
you, which I will temper by observing that the <a
|
|
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_taxonomy#Cognitive">Bloom's
|
|
taxonomy</a> trip you were on was really weird and probably super
|
|
counterproductive - but hey, at least you tried to get people to write every
|
|
day.)</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>I could put this kind of effort into contributing on Stack Exchange or
|
|
something, but doing <a href="https://p1k3.com/userland-book/">userland</a>
|
|
showed me that I really like the <i>idea</i> of a book as a container for
|
|
effort, and anyway I can't stand all that gamified bullshit with roaming
|
|
packs of vicious procedure jockeys constantly assailing useful questions
|
|
and answers as incorrectly framed, categorized, or imagined. This kind
|
|
of thing is also why I no longer invest time in the bureaucratic hell
|
|
that is the machinery of Wikipedia. Life is just too short and time too
|
|
precious.</p>
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|
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</article>
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<article>
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<h2>Tuesday, December 2</h2>
|
|
|
|
<p>There's a list of updated pages on the
|
|
<a href="http://squiggle.city/">squiggle.city home page</a>, generated
|
|
from <a href="#2014-11-12">a script</a>. For a while, I was updating this
|
|
by deleting it and running a vim command to pull it back in:</p>
|
|
|
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<pre><code>
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:r !perl listusers.pl
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</code></pre>
|
|
|
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<p>I wanted to make this automatic. In the old days, I would have
|
|
turned on Server Side Includes in Apache and written something kind of like:</p>
|
|
|
|
<pre><code>
|
|
<!--#exec cmd="perl /var/www/listusers.pl" -->
|
|
</code></pre>
|
|
|
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<p>Unfortunately, squiggle.city is running nginx, and while nginx is
|
|
pretty groovy these days, its SSI module only does includes, not execs.
|
|
What I settled on instead is this include directive:</p>
|
|
|
|
<pre><code>
|
|
<!--# include file="listusers.html" -->
|
|
</code></pre>
|
|
|
|
<p>Coupled with typing <code>su www-data</code>, followed by
|
|
<code>crontab -e</code> and adding this:</p>
|
|
|
|
<pre><code>
|
|
# m h dom mon dow command
|
|
0,5,15,25,45 * * * * perl /var/www/listusers.pl > /var/www/listusers.html
|
|
</code></pre>
|
|
|
|
<p>Which should refresh the list on minutes 0, 5, 15, 25, and 45 of every
|
|
hour. (The intervals are arbitrary. I just kind of felt like those were
|
|
the right minutes.)</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>There is pretty good <a
|
|
href="http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_ssi_module.html">documentation</a>
|
|
on enabling the nginx ssi module and writing directives for it. I just had to
|
|
do this in <code>/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default</code>:</p>
|
|
|
|
<pre><code>
|
|
location /index.html {
|
|
ssi on;
|
|
}
|
|
</code></pre>
|
|
|
|
</article>
|
|
|
|
<article>
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|
|
|
<h2>Monday, December 1</h2>
|
|
|
|
<p>I'm out on the plains for a few days.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>It's a strange season in a strange century. The news cycle is still working
|
|
the kind of groove that feels like it would fit pretty well in the opening
|
|
infodump of a film about the collapse of civilization. (You can practically
|
|
hear Godspeed swelling over the measured tones of NPR personalities and the
|
|
stridencies of ChristoRepubliFascistCatholiFamilyTalk radio alike, complete
|
|
with little bursts of punctuating static.)</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>And then on the other hand, things are not so abnormal as all that. My
|
|
cousins are having babies. My sisters are getting married. The people who
|
|
were my age when I first knew them are twice my age now.</p>
|
|
|
|
</article>
|
|
|
|
<article>
|
|
|
|
<h2>Wednesday, November 27, 12:27 p.m.</h2>
|
|
|
|
<p>It turns out there's now an IHOP attached to the Flying J Limon, CO.
|
|
I think this is a relatively new establishment, but truck stops have a way
|
|
of aging in quickly, so it's hard to tell.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>I'm having the quick two-egg breakfast, eggs over medium, bacon, wheat
|
|
toast. The eggs are pretty much actually over medium, which is a thing
|
|
you can't always rely on.</p>
|
|
|
|
</article>
|
|
|
|
<article>
|
|
|
|
<h2>Tuesday, November 25, early a.m.</h2>
|
|
|
|
<p><a href="https://github.com/stars/brennen">Things I have starred on GitHub</a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>A thing about lists like this: They're often full of touchstones for
|
|
personal memory. Here's me getting worried about e-mail. Here's me
|
|
keeping an eye on the big boss. Here's when <a
|
|
href="http://danacoalition.org/">Erik Winn</a> died. Here's that <a
|
|
href="https://p1k3.com/2014/1/14">detour</a> into weird text editors.
|
|
Here's that <a href="https://github.com/sinker/tacofancy">taco thing</a>, when they
|
|
<a href="https://www.metafilter.com/125946/Google-Illiterate#4870602">closed</a> Google Reader, that <a
|
|
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzL04B9WPQg">day with the model train</a>...</p>
|
|
|
|
</article>
|
|
|
|
<article>
|
|
|
|
<h2>Monday, November 24</h2>
|
|
|
|
<p><a href="https://p1k3.com/2014/11/24">On not spamming</a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
</article>
|
|
|
|
<article>
|
|
|
|
<h2>Saturday, November 22</h2>
|
|
|
|
<p>So as we were drinking beers yesterday,
|
|
<a href="http://squiggle.city/~stilldavid">~stilldavid</a> pointed out
|
|
that you should be able to mail everyone on the server.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>I figured this should be pretty easy, but it took more googling and
|
|
grepping and general head-scratching than I really would have liked to
|
|
remember that <code>/etc/aliases</code> is a file which exists, and then
|
|
to determine that the version of exim installed here supports a line like
|
|
this one:</p>
|
|
|
|
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; overflow: scroll;"><code>
|
|
citizens: acg,ahava,ben,berkay,brennen,bri_huang,burnedboard,casey,danlyke,delio,drun,erik,fazol,frencil,hord,ianremsen,jbd,jenleelind,jimblom,joe,kache2k,kirstenrk,leducmills,mike,mshorter,nallen,nick,nightliz,pearcebot,randy,robacarp,sgmustadio,sibicle,skk,stilldavid,thcipriani,todd,tonicorinne,trevor,typexawesome,zinefer
|
|
</code></pre>
|
|
|
|
<p>...which means that if you're logged into squiggle.city, you can write
|
|
to citizens@squiggle.city in your mailer of choice and we should all see
|
|
your message.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Send some e-mail?</p>
|
|
|
|
</article>
|
|
|
|
<article>
|
|
|
|
<h2>Friday, November 21</h2>
|
|
|
|
<p><a href="http://squiggle.city/~robacarp">Pretty good answer</a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
</article>
|
|
|
|
<article>
|
|
|
|
<h2>Wednesday, November 19</h2>
|
|
|
|
<p>Hey <a href="http://squiggle.city/~robacarp">~robacarp</a>, long-time
|
|
listener, first-time caller here. I just have a couple of questions for
|
|
you and then I'll take my response off the air, thanks:</p>
|
|
|
|
<ol>
|
|
|
|
<li>Where the heck do you get lanolin? Is this just a "now we have
|
|
the internet and you can mail order literally anything" phenomenon, or
|
|
is there a kind of store you go to and they have lanolin in a jar on the
|
|
shelf like some kind of normal thing that you would normally buy in a store?</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Second, and really Rob this is more of a comment, but second, isn't there an
|
|
"i" in "manifesto"?</li>
|
|
|
|
</ol>
|
|
|
|
</article>
|
|
|
|
<article>
|
|
|
|
<h2>Monday, November 17</h2>
|
|
|
|
<p>Here are <a href="http://squiggle.city/~brennen/drawrings/">some drawings</a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
</article>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<article>
|
|
|
|
<h2>Saturday, November 15, evening</h2>
|
|
|
|
<p>In which I install a MUSH engine:</p>
|
|
|
|
<pre><code>
|
|
|
|
TOPICS
|
|
|
|
Help available on the following Topics:
|
|
|
|
$-COMMANDS ARBITRARY COMMANDS ATTRIBUTE OWNERSHIP
|
|
BEING KILLED BOGUS COMMANDS BOOLEAN VALUES
|
|
COMMAND EVALUATION COMSYS CONTROL
|
|
COSTS CREDITS DROP-TO
|
|
ENACTOR EXITS FAILURE
|
|
FLAG LIST FLAGS FUNCTION LIST
|
|
FUNCTIONS GENDER GOALS
|
|
HERE HOMES LINKING
|
|
LISTENING LISTS LOOPING
|
|
ME MONEY MOVING
|
|
OBJECT TYPES PARENT OBJECTS PARENT ROOMS
|
|
PIPING POWERS LIST PUEBLO
|
|
PUPPETS REGEXPS ROBBERY
|
|
SEARCH CLASSES SEMAPHORES SPOOFING
|
|
STACK SUBSTITUTIONS SUCCESS
|
|
SWITCHES USER-DEFINED COMMANDS VERBS
|
|
WIZARDS ZONES
|
|
|
|
help wizards
|
|
WIZARDS
|
|
|
|
Wizards are the people that help run the game and make sure that everything
|
|
is working properly. They have special powers to tweak reality in ways
|
|
mortals can only dream of. Be nice to them, they are going out of their
|
|
way to help keep the game running smoothly. And remember, if you have any
|
|
problems or just want to talk to someone, they will be there for you as
|
|
well.
|
|
|
|
|
|
</code></pre>
|
|
|
|
<p>Yesssssssssssssss.</p>
|
|
|
|
</article>
|
|
|
|
<article>
|
|
|
|
<h2>Saturday, November 15, afternoon</h2>
|
|
|
|
<p>If you have JavaScript turned on, <del>this</del> the background of this
|
|
page should be a silly <a href="http://p5js.org/">p5.js</a> doodle.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>For folks with squiggle.city pages, there are a few resources at <a
|
|
href="http://squiggle.city/js/">squiggle.city/js/</a> if you'd like to
|
|
include jQuery, p5.js, or syntax highlighting on your pages without cluttering
|
|
your <code>~/public_html</code> or relying on somebody's CDN.</p>
|
|
|
|
</article>
|
|
|
|
<article>
|
|
|
|
<h2>Wednesday, November 12, 9:38</h2>
|
|
|
|
<p>Here's <a href="tilde.club.listusers.html">listusers.pl output for
|
|
tilde.club</a>, just 'cause.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Really, the way this should work is that <code>listusers</code> should be
|
|
a utility which outputs tab-separated values, and there should be another
|
|
utility that's good at making TSV into HTML tables.</p>
|
|
|
|
</article>
|
|
|
|
<article>
|
|
|
|
<h2><a name="2014-11-12"></a>Wednesday, November 12, 9:00ish</h2>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a href="http://squiggle.city/">squiggle.city home page</a> now
|
|
has a slightly better summary of users' home pages. I also feel better
|
|
that it now contains a table (used for tabular data, though - I should
|
|
really work one in somewhere for layout).</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>I wrote a little Perl script to generate that list. Here it is in
|
|
full:</p>
|
|
|
|
<pre class=sh_perl><code>
|
|
#!/usr/bin/perl
|
|
|
|
use strict;
|
|
use warnings;
|
|
use 5.10.0;
|
|
|
|
# we'll use this to filter out people who haven't logged in.
|
|
# pretty silly!
|
|
my %whitelist;
|
|
my (@lastlog) = split /\n/, `lastlog | grep -v Never | awk '{ print \$1; }'`;
|
|
foreach my $user (@lastlog) {
|
|
$whitelist{$user} = 1;
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
opendir(my $dh, '/home/')
|
|
or die "could not open /home/: $!";
|
|
|
|
my %dirs;
|
|
my %titles;
|
|
while (my $dir = readdir $dh) {
|
|
next if $dir =~ /^[.]/;
|
|
next unless $whitelist{$dir};
|
|
|
|
my $index_html_path = "/home/$dir/public_html/index.html";
|
|
|
|
if (-e $index_html_path) {
|
|
$dirs{$dir} = (stat $index_html_path)[9]; # mtime
|
|
$titles{$dir} = get_title_from_file($index_html_path);
|
|
}
|
|
}
|
|
close $dh;
|
|
|
|
sub sort_by_time {
|
|
$dirs{$b} <=> $dirs{$a};
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
my $list = "<table>\n";
|
|
foreach my $key (sort sort_by_time (keys(%dirs))) {
|
|
$list .= ' <tr>'
|
|
. '<td><a href="/~' . $key . '/">~' . $key . '</a></td>'
|
|
. '<td>' . $titles{$key} . '</td>'
|
|
. '<td class=tiny>' . $dirs{$key} . '</td>'
|
|
. "</tr>\n";
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
$list .= "</table>";
|
|
|
|
say $list;
|
|
|
|
sub get_title_from_file {
|
|
my ($filespec) = @_;
|
|
my $html = slurp($filespec);
|
|
|
|
if ($html =~ m{<title>(.*?)</title>}is) {
|
|
return $1;
|
|
}
|
|
return '';
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
sub slurp {
|
|
my ($file) = @_;
|
|
my $everything;
|
|
|
|
open my $fh, '<', $file
|
|
or die "Couldn't open $file: $!\n";
|
|
|
|
# line separator:
|
|
local $/ = undef;
|
|
$everything = <$fh>;
|
|
|
|
close $fh
|
|
or die "Couldn't close $file: $!";
|
|
|
|
return $everything;
|
|
}
|
|
</code></pre>
|
|
|
|
<p>This is by no stretch of the imagination a good script. Actually, it's
|
|
terrible. As an exercise, maybe I'll write and explain a version that's
|
|
less dumb.</p>
|
|
|
|
</article>
|
|
|
|
<article>
|
|
|
|
<h2>Monday, November 10, 1:58am</h2>
|
|
|
|
<p>I like <a href="http://tilde.club/~schussat/slowblog-sat-20141108.html">~schussat's
|
|
slow-blog from Saturday</a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
</article>
|
|
|
|
<article>
|
|
|
|
<h2>Monday, November 10, 12:55am</h2>
|
|
|
|
<p><a href="http://squiggle.city/~danlyke/">~danlyke</a> has some thoughts about
|
|
design. These are harsh thoughts, but they are worth considering.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a href="http://squiggle.city/~frencil">~frencil</a> has some thoughts
|
|
about nuclides and JavaScript. I look forward to seeing where this project
|
|
goes. I should mess with D3 again. It broke my brain <i>so hard</i> the
|
|
first time around, probably because I cannot math very well.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a href="http://squiggle.city/~stilldavid">~stilldavid</a> has some
|
|
thoughts about science, and measurement, and value.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a href="http://squiggle.city/~acg/">~acg</a> has a list of all the
|
|
things he's voted up on Hacker News, which is cool because I mostly can't
|
|
bring myself to follow HN on a day-to-day basis and Alan's interest in a
|
|
thing is often a pretty good filter for whether it will be worth my
|
|
time.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p class="centerpiece">✵</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>If you're logged into squiggle.city, you can run a few classic text
|
|
games now. I installed <code>adventure</code> a while ago, using the
|
|
bsd-games package in Debian. The other day I added <code>frotz</code>,
|
|
an interpreter which will let you play lots of the things at the
|
|
<a href="http://www.ifarchive.org/">Interactive Fiction Archive</a>. I
|
|
downloaded a version of Zork there and made a <code>zork</code> command that runs this
|
|
in Frotz. What I will do eventually is install a whole crapload of
|
|
adventure games and make a big menu for running them.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>I'd also like to install some development tools for this kind of thing.
|
|
I used to dabble in <a href="http://www.tads.org/">TADS</a> and such, and
|
|
it was fun even though I never wrote a game that anyone would actually
|
|
play. I should probably take another look, because I'll bet the
|
|
<i>programming</i> side of this stuff would be a lot easier for me these
|
|
days, even if the structuring and writing of a serious game would still
|
|
be pretty daunting.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p class="centerpiece">✵</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>I'm on the tilde operators mailing list now. I get the sense that some
|
|
interesting things are about to happen, and I should probably take some
|
|
action with regard to those things. It's been difficult to do anything
|
|
requiring thought or planning or a working memory because I have been
|
|
<i>sick as a dog</i> for a bit over a week now, but I think I'm trending
|
|
towards functional. I'm down to "coughing sometimes" and "feel massively stoned
|
|
even though theoretically sober" from "coughing relentlessly" and "the kind
|
|
of headache you think of in terms of how bad the tunnel vision is at any
|
|
given moment." This is promising.</p>
|
|
|
|
</article>
|
|
|
|
<article>
|
|
|
|
<h2>Tuesday, November 4, 4:48pm</h2>
|
|
|
|
<p>Oh also, I wrote <a href="https://p1k3.com/2014/11/3">a little bit about
|
|
quitting</a> SparkFun and talking in front of people.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>I'm going to bet this isn't the last I'll write about either of these things.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The best tweet I saw today was
|
|
<a href="https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/529706476315500544">this one</a>,
|
|
by Wm. Gibson, in tribute to everybody's favorite Colorado airport demon horse.</p>
|
|
|
|
</article>
|
|
|
|
<article>
|
|
|
|
<h2>Tuesday, November 4</h2>
|
|
|
|
<p>New on ~c:</p>
|
|
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li><a href="http://squiggle.city/~zinefer/">our first arcade</a></li>
|
|
<li><a href="http://squiggle.city/~stilldavid/">Dave is gonna write</a></li>
|
|
<li><a href="http://squiggle.city/~nallen/">Nick's face</a></li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
</article>
|
|
|
|
<article>
|
|
|
|
<h2>Friday, October 31</h2>
|
|
|
|
<p>Hi SparkFun.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Here are some <a
|
|
href="https://p1k3.com/userland-book/slides/">slides</a> from the talk I
|
|
gave today on the command line.</b>
|
|
|
|
</article>
|
|
|
|
<article>
|
|
|
|
<h2>Tuesday, October 28</h2>
|
|
|
|
<p>Last night's project: <a href="https://github.com/brennen/git-feed">git-feed</a>:
|
|
a simple tool for making Atom feeds out of git commit logs.</p>
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</article>
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<article>
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<h2>Monday, October 27</h2>
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<p>I'm doing a "lunch & learn" at work on Friday that will attempt to
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be a gentle introduction to the command line.</p>
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<p>I have <i>no idea</i> how to go about this, really. Some smart people
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on irc.tilde.club suggested that I go with the "tell them what you're going
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to tell them, tell them, and tell them what you told them" + "tell them
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about three important things" approaches. These seem like good ideas. I
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guess I will start by trying to decide what the three things should be.</p>
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<p>I used to be so very afraid of public speaking of any kind. Like, physically
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shaking, cold sweats, creeping numbness, inability to talk terrified. I don't
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really think I am any more, but I'm not sure how that changed.</p>
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<p>It's funny how what you're afraid of changes. I used to be afraid to say
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things in front of people. Now I'm afraid that everyone I've ever loved is
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going to die and everything I've ever done will be forgotten and it will
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be as if I never even lived. The defining difference between these two fears
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is probably that the former wasn't even really <i>of</i> anything at all
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and the latter is an objective fact.</p>
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<p>Anyhow, if you have any ideas about what the best thing to convey to
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people right after you give them a shell account is, I would love to hear
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them.</p>
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<p class="huge centerpiece">✵</p>
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</article>
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<article>
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<h2>Saturday, October 25</h2>
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<p>Reading about nerd things:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://michaelcoyote.github.io/2014/08/15/my-fathers-tools/">my father's tools...</a> - on Awk</li>
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<li>a lot of <a href="http://tilde.club/~ford/">~ford</a></li>
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<li>a lot of things via <a href="http://tilde.club/~_/">~_</a></li>
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</ul>
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</article>
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<article>
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<h2>Friday, October 24</h2>
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<p>squiggle.city, while still far from heavily trafficked or populated,
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stirs a little, and a few things emerge:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://squiggle.city/~robacarp">~robacarp</a> makes a squiggle follow your mouse</li>
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<li><a href="http://squiggle.city/~thcipriani">~thcipriani</a> has a nice face up</li>
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<li><a href="http://squiggle.city/~todd/">~todd</a> is all droney</li>
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<li><a href="http://squiggle.city/~joe/">~joe</a> clearly understands the internet as well as anyone</li>
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<li><a href="http://squiggle.city/~randy/">~randy</a> also has sound ideas</li>
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</ul>
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</article>
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<article>
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<h2>Monday, October 20</h2>
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<p>So for now, I'm going to mirror this on both tilde.club and
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squiggle.city.</p>
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<p>squiggle.city is coming together pretty ok. I'm maybe going to rethink
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the Debian stable approach, because everything is <i>super old</i>. On the
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other hand, I'm not sure if I want to run testing. I'm still pretty sure I
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don't want to run Ubuntu but I guess we'll see.</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;">★</p>
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<p>Also, I just put up a new version of <a
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href="https://p1k3.com/userland-book">userland</a> that feels more complete
|
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to me. I think I'm going to call this version 1.0.0 (except maybe for
|
|
adding more detail about how to run your own Linux) and wait until after
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I've tried to teach out of it to make any more changes.</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;">★</p>
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<p><a href="https://p1k3.com/">p1k3 is live again!</a> Well, minus the wiki part,
|
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but I'll get that back up soonish.</p>
|
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|
<p>This is good: <a href="http://monkey.org/~marius/unix-tools-hints.html">Hints for writing
|
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Unix tools</a>.</p>
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</article>
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<article>
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<h2>Sunday, October 19</h2>
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<p>Now open for business, in a completely unprepared fashion:
|
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<a href="//squiggle.city">squiggle.city</a></p>
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</article>
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<article>
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<h2>Thursday, October 16</h2>
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<p>All of my personal internet stuff is still broken. I spent an hour
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earlier this evening trying to configure Apache on the machine where I'm
|
|
stitching p1k3.com back together, and <i>nothing</i> worked. I had
|
|
almost forgotten the unbelievable frustration of the nothing works →
|
|
bash on config files → google errors → read docs → bash on
|
|
config files → nothing works loop here. Apache at its worst is like
|
|
a special kind of stateful psychological torture device for web
|
|
nerds.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>My working life is also a shambles. For most of the workday I kept
|
|
task-switching between a few dozen utterly predictable nerd failure
|
|
modes: Stare at the bug tracker. Stare at the e-mail. Stare at the
|
|
code just long enough to begin to understand it, then get distracted by
|
|
something blowing up in the logs. Stare at the bug tracker. Go for
|
|
coffee. Open some browser tabs, forget what I was trying to research.
|
|
Close the wrong browser tabs, spend too much time trying to retrieve
|
|
them. Review other people's code ineffectively and with misdirected
|
|
hostility. Sit on the couch drinking beer and listening to the Velvet
|
|
Underground. Stare at the bug tracker.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>My house is the kind of messy that usually indicates severe illness or
|
|
nontrivial substance abuse issues. My clothes are all dirty. My car
|
|
sounds like it's going to disintegrate. I'm pretty sure I need to
|
|
advance my landlord the rent money for next month or the power's going to
|
|
get turned off. I'm eating undercooked pizza at the unbelievably shitty
|
|
bar across the street from my driveway (where the same angry bartender
|
|
acts skeptical of my age and IDs me with focused hostility two or three
|
|
times a week, but also usually proves to be nice in the long run) instead
|
|
of just making a salad or something at home.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Anyway, I just registered squiggle.city and pointed it at a
|
|
DigitalOcean VM. I think AWS is maybe the standard thing, but I feel
|
|
this weird sense that there is a benefit to spreading the thing out
|
|
across providers. I'm going to run Debian on it because Debian is one of
|
|
the longstanding loves of my technical life, and because I would rather
|
|
teach unixy stuff using it, if I've got the option.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>I in no way have the mental bandwidth or the temporal capacity to
|
|
sysop anything that actual human beings are using, on the off chance that
|
|
anyone uses the system I spin up, but I'm going to do it anyway, because
|
|
despite all the trappings of nostalgia, this feels to me somehow like a
|
|
thing that gestures at a possible future that I would like to be working
|
|
on, and I would really like to continue feeling that way for a
|
|
minute.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>All of these decisions may bite me. I'm going to look at the existing
|
|
configuration stuff people are doing tomorrow and see how practical it is
|
|
for reuse, given my self-imposed constraints. If anyone would like to
|
|
get on my list for an account, tweet me or find me on freenode #tildeclub as
|
|
brennen or whatever.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>This is fun.</p>
|
|
|
|
</article>
|
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<article>
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|
|
|
<h2>Wednesday, October 15, 12:11 a.m.</h2>
|
|
|
|
<p>On the rest of the internet, things are kind of loathsome right now.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>In the tiny part of it that I inhabit, I'm watching a bunch of people
|
|
rediscover things that maybe a lot of us didn't know were sincerely missed
|
|
by more than just ourselves.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>I've written a handful of posts to local newsgroups tonight. This
|
|
doesn't feel like an exercise in nostalgia so much as it does an exercise
|
|
in <i>reevaluation</i>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>It seems to me like this is an important distinction. You can indulge
|
|
nostalgia for a little while, but you can't really trust it. Sooner or
|
|
later it will deceive you really painfully.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>On the other hand, sometimes older patterns illuminate. Sometimes the
|
|
nagging, pervasive sense that you have been sold a bill of goods can be
|
|
thrown into a useful kind of relief in the light of a time - or just a
|
|
mode - that didn't feel that way at all.</p>
|
|
|
|
</article>
|
|
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<article>
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|
<h2>Monday, October 13</h2>
|
|
|
|
<p>As happens every year or two, DreamHost just updated something and broke
|
|
<a href="//p1k3.com">p1k3.com</a>, which is where I put most of my writing.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>I think I'm going to take this as a sign that maybe it's time to move that site somewhere
|
|
less likely to arbitrarily quit working. I just fired up a vm on
|
|
<a href="https://digitalocean.com/">DigitalOcean</a>, which was a fairly painless experience.
|
|
After DNS finishes propagating, I will have to figure out an Apache configuration for the
|
|
umpteenth time and install some Perl modules and muck around with SSL certificates.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Once I get that done, I think I'll get serious about putting together a
|
|
tilde.club-alike shell server. I have, right now, the following domains sitting unused:</p>
|
|
|
|
<ul>
|
|
|
|
<li>userland.club - I like this because it echoes my intent to make a space for playing
|
|
around with the stuff in <a href="https://github.com/brennen/userland-book">userland-book</a>,
|
|
but I don't want any confusion with UserLand Software.</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>getyouashell.com - sort of speaks for itself, I think?</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>lostsnail.org - I had this dumb idea one time about a service where you'd sign up
|
|
and you'd get handwritten letters in the mail (gift subscriptions available). For some
|
|
reason, despite never having done anything about the service, I haven't quite been able
|
|
to bring myself to give up the domain.</li>
|
|
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
<p>I'm not really sure any of these are quite right, but then I'm also not sure that I need
|
|
to spend any more money on vanity domain names.</p>
|
|
|
|
</article>
|
|
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|
<article>
|
|
|
|
<h2>Saturday, October 11, 2014</h2>
|
|
|
|
<p>Interesting things generally are happening in the
|
|
<a href="https://github.com/tildeclub/tilde.club/issues/">tilde.club
|
|
repo issues</a>. Also, I
|
|
<a href="https://github.com/tildeclub/tilde.club/issues/33">asked about shells</a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
</article>
|
|
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|
<article>
|
|
|
|
<h2>Friday, October 10, 2014</h2>
|
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|
|
<pre class=art>
|
|
__________________________________
|
|
( Time keeps getting away from me. )
|
|
----------------------------------
|
|
o ^__^
|
|
o (oo)\_______
|
|
(__)\ )\/\
|
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||----w |
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|| ||
|
|
</pre>
|
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|
|
</article>
|
|
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|
<article>
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|
|
|
<h2>October, 2014</h2>
|
|
|
|
<pre class=art>
|
|
______________
|
|
< Hi everyone. >
|
|
--------------
|
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\ ^__^
|
|
\ (oo)\_______
|
|
(__)\ )\/~
|
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||----w |
|
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|| ||
|
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</pre>
|
|
|
|
<p>I'm Brennen. I also have <a href="https://p1k3.com/">this other web site</a>
|
|
and there is this <a href="https://p1k3.com/userland-book/">thing I am writing about
|
|
using the command line</a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p></p>
|
|
|
|
<p>I am keeping this in a git repository. Here is <a href="git-feed.pl">a
|
|
Perl script</a> you can use to make a <a href="feed.xml">feed</a> out of a
|
|
git log. (It needs a little work to generalize well.)</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Maybe tomorrow I'll try to find my old GeoCities stuff and put it up here.</p>
|
|
|
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</article>
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</section>
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