Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Astronomical fact of the day 🪐

    You could to jump into space.

    OK, that claim needs some backup, doesn't it? You can't jump that high on Earth. Big rockets are needed to get into space here. The moon isn't as big, so you could jump higher but you'd still come back down. We need to go somewhere smaller.

    Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos, and they're quite small, particularly Deimos.

  • worm second day

    A nice fire ceremony yesterday. I kept it simple, burning the past, making place for the future. It felt relieving, letting go of the physical objects. The night was filled with enjoyable dreams.

    Healing from a past relation is a start, but now I got to deal with feeling lonely. Or is it? Is it the loneliness or the purpose in life? When I am in love, I have a purpose to care for the other, cultivate the relation, there is something I can focus on. Right now, the motivation is fairly low.

    The snow has covered the whole forest. There is a sense of relieve as the winter had been quite dry. The community is hoping for a bit more snow, in the hope the ground will be covered for at least a few weeks.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Use Texinfo to create gorgeous PDF files

    I have been a fan of Texinfo for quite some time. The option to link pages, read info pages in the terminal, and the immutability of the pages, including the ones you have written yourself for your self, makes this a great information and knowledge system.

    Lately I have been generating book-size PDF files with Texinfo and became an even bigger fan. The resulting PDF is stunningly beautiful and it only takes a moment to generate.