Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • News And Links (publ. 2024-04-30)

    Per simple reasoning, using old-universe assumptions, small bodies far from the sun should be cold and geologically dead. So this is another problematic discovery.

  • Anyways

    Been a while since I updated the ol’ Gemini capsule. I just haven’t really had a lot to say, I guess.

    I’ve really come to love using Obsidian for writing and organizing. I tried to be a purist before; use text editors for everything! No bloated Electron apps! But Obsidian is *good* and I am *tired all the time* and I just want to do stuff in a way that isn’t exhausting.

  • A Brief explanation of my Calendaring system

    I use a pen & paper system, sort of like a bullet journal (but made in a graph paper notebook) as my calendar. Each page is a week of the year, with daily tasks and a to-do list made up. At the end of each week I reflect and see what I need to change.

  • Spring Idleness

    It is a quiet and idle spring day, with not much going on. But these days with not much going on is precisely when I have the most space to think and time to set those thoughts down.

    I started watching the new Fallout show last week and watched the second episode today. I'm not one for binging TV shows. I'm also a pretty poor critic, so I'll refrain from saying much about it save that it is keeping me reasonably well entertained, and also that it seems to be a very foot-hostile show, with two characters receiving injuries to their lower extremities in as many episodes. I think when I watch the third episode, I'm going to be preoccupied wondering who will be hobbling by the end.

  • postii

    Have a headache today that started in my sleep; wishing there were clouds in the sky to dull the pain.

  • Opera

    Went to our opera house the other day. They played Puccini's "il trittico", that is three short operas in a row with two breaks (necessary for changeing the stage design as well as for the audience to recover from what they saw).

  • Love vs. Romance

    The past couple of years have really challenged my notions of what love can look like.

    I was raised in a traditional Catholic household - we were told, for example, to wait until marriage, though that didn't stick. As a result, I grew up with some very traditional ideas about love, sex, relationships, monogamy, etc. But a few interactions have started to loosen the hold that those ideas have on me.

  • Having a Sound

    I play and write music as a hobby. One of the big things I've wanted to do as a next big project is write an album with a cohesive sound.

    The question becomes, what do I want that sound to be? I have a number of disparate influences - who would I most like to emulate? On one end of the spectrum is fairly heavy music - stuff like Hum or Fucked Up, loud music. On the other is ambient music, something peaceful. It seems like what I want an album to be changes based on what I've been most recently listening to.

• Technology and Free Software

  • OFFLFIRSOCH 2024: foodscale.py

    Sorry it’s late. The code only represents a couple hours of effort, but I missed the March deadline due to life and work, and then I kept putting it off forever because it was already late. I also hoped to find a new tilde home to host the repo now that retrace.club isn’t coming back, and got distracted by that quest, deciding ultimately to make a Codeberg account because it was free and easy.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Ads keep the internet free

      You would rather watch an ad than pay to see a video, right?

      Well, maybe. It's actually hard to tell. My sister would think so, and she would be wrong.

      There's *a lot* of money flowing around in the ad economy, and it has to be someone's money. It's not all marketing failures. Users are investing enough money in advertised products that just a share of it is enough to generate hundred of billions.