Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Happy New Year

    Didn't quite make another phost prior to the jump, so I will phost now and so be it. Hope all y'allz had a fantabulous Gregorian Calendar New Years!

    Last night, I had the opportunity again to spend time with the family and the out-laws (not the in-laws...extended family.) Fun times this round with a mix of drunken party people along with not-drunken folken. For me, I just had my cup o'joe and was happy being present. Since it was at the out-laws place, there wasn't much room indoors so the party was brought outside again under a couple E-Z UP canopies. Good thing the weather cooperated...then again, it usually does and doesn't snow in these parts. Lots of food and drink, socializing, party games, karaoke, bonfire, dancing, illegal fireworks and drunkeness. I had set up a projector/screen in one of the canopies for karaoke and the drunks just kept on singing all night long. By the time I got to bed, it was after 4AM. Phun tymes, fo'real, fo'realz.

  • Gratitude / 2024 New Year

    As I am coming back to normal after a night of mezcal, drugs and dancing, getting in bed (alone) at 7 in the morning, I'm excited about the new year and what it will bring in my life.

    I see people list their achievement for 2024 and I though it might be interesting, or depressing, to create such a list. But these are things that I am grateful for

    - Learn driving stick shift

    - Learned using emacs

    - Got my last brown belt 1st kyu (next is black belt)

    - Got my certificate in Dream Study

    - Directed the play "Metamorphosis"

    - Put the tippi up and down by myself

    - Learned, fixed and improved water pumping system

    - Recorded two audio poem

    - Launched lucid.observer (openBSD server)

    - Wrote 93 gopher post

    - Recorded 90 1 hour radio show and meditation

  • New

    This palmtop has a new battery I put in during a Kentucky Party work session. It was easy and cheap! The old one bulged.

    We celebrated the new year in a cave. A big room, the size of an auditorium, throwing a frisbee, then a toast and kiss at midnight.

    At the end of the year I took daughter and a family we love (adult, 6-year-old, infant) in a short 100 meter long cave. The kids stomped gaily ahead through water. Mom and infant stopped, sat, breast fed. Baby slept, periodically sucking. Over mom's shoulder a tricolor bat hibernated.

    Friends: I decided to offer take the mom's kids some days so she can go back to work, help her get bad debt sorted, and build a friendship with one of three older women or one of two families with kids in my church. Stop pretending I'm friends with a couple people who don't ever really think of me.

  • What is a friend?

    - What do you say when you have nothing to say?

    - You have something to say. You need to identify it. Your question suggests that you may replace it with something vacuous rather than the truth of what you want to say?

  • Man its been a while, as I guess it always is with me and blogs.

    And now that i've started writing i have nothing to say...

    As is said, I hate writing but I love *having* written.

    Hopefully this is enough writing to look back on and enjoy it. <3

  • Guess who made predictions for 2025? Can you say “Nostradamus?” I knew you could

    Of course Nostradamus has predictions for 2025 [1]! When hasn't he had predictions for any given year?

• Technology and Free Software

  • Welcome to Blunder Valley

    OK, so: since I wasn't able to find an existing group opposing this ludicrous $70B, gas-powered, 7.5 gigawatt AI data centre project being proposed by Kevin O'Leary, I went ahead and learned enough about 11ty to be able to spin up a super basic blog-style website for that purpose. It still needs lots more work, but I wanted to gradually get it out there and seek opinions and feedback as I go: [...]