Not crowded at Canadian Tire today. Lacking subtext, I have to say I don't hate it.
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Mar 13, 2020, 10:50 PM -04:00 I think I'm more afraid of societal breakdown then I am of actually getting infected with the Corona virus.
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Mar 11, 2020, 10:36 PM -04:00 For me, it was Dune. I can see why people like it, but it just wasn't for me.
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Mar 8, 2020, 8:20 PM -04:00 Leche Desserts makes me happy
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Mar 6, 2020, 12:19 PM -05:00 I do something vaguely similar with my media endpoint, except I use a server that I rent out from from kimsufi, where I also host my webmention and micropub endpoints. But...does it ever bother you to split your content like this? I use a static site generator, and one of the nice things about this is that your entire site can be generated from the contents of your local folder. When part of your content (your photos) live somewhere else (a media server, or a CDN, or whatever), that's no longer the case. This bothers me somewhat, though I don't lose any sleep over it. I don't really have a good answer for it.
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Feb 20, 2020, 9:24 PM -05:00 
Susie Dent (@susie_dent) on X
English has an ancient law: in words like 'chit chat', 'zigzag', and 'seesaw', we always put the part with an i (as in 'pit') or e (as in 'be') first. We instinctively know this rule of 'ablaut reduplication'. You can't have a pair of flop flips or jamjims, or play pong ping. -
Feb 20, 2020, 8:12 PM -05:00 I think this is my new favorite Twitter account
Susie Dent (@susie_dent) on X
Word-discovery of my morning is 'bumfle': Scots for a wrinkle in clothing or an unsightly bulge. Goes well with 'cover-slut', 17th-century English for a garment put on over another in order to hide a tear or stain. -
Feb 12, 2020, 10:27 PM -05:00 Your Website Is Your Passport
One of the themes that crops up again and again in the IndieWeb community is that your personal domain, with its attendant website, should form the nexus of your online existence. Of course, people can and do maintain separate profiles on a variety of social media platforms, but these should be subordinate to the identity represented by your personal website, which remains everyone's one-stop-shop for all things you and the central hub out of which your other identities radiate.
Part of what this means in practice is that your domain should function as a kind of universal online passport, allowing you to sign in to various services and applications simply by entering your personal URL.
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Jan 26, 2020, 8:40 PM -05:00 Watching Paradise Lost! #CentaurTheatre
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Jan 22, 2020, 5:42 PM -05:00 The modern manifestation of a Turing Machine is an algorithm, not a computer. The modern manifestation of a computer is a Universal Turing Machine, i.e. a Turing machine that can simulate and run any other Turing Machine. #Turing
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Jan 17, 2020, 3:14 PM -05:00 That's probably a good way to think about it. Or at least about establishing an alternative.
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Jan 14, 2020, 1:55 PM -05:00 This looks good! But why do you have four identical photos?
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Jan 7, 2020, 8:10 PM -05:00
Portal
📸 A section of the D&R Canal State Park trail between Rocky Hill and Kington has a tunnel that runs under Route 27/Main Street on the border with Kingston and Princeton. A few years ago I walked this section of the park as part of a longer walk from Griggstown in Franklin Township. I remember that the first time I saw this tunnel it felt a bit spooky when seen from a certain angle. One cannot see into the tunnel which, due to its length appears cavernous, and which makes disconcerting noises... -
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Jan 7, 2020, 11:02 PM -05:00
Dark clouds with wisps of sky barely visible between them, one of them making a tilted V, over a yellow orange horizon from the recent sunset behind the Pacific Ocean, waves crashing, leaving a smooth wet sandy shore with a mirror image reflection of the bright horizon, and a negative space letter T from the reflected wisps of sky surrounded by dark clouds Walk on the beach at sunset, another item crossed off a list. Cracks between dark clouds let the light in, painting single letters separat... -
Jan 12, 2020, 10:40 PM -05:00 This whole thread is awesome. I remember reading someone's fantasy Superman scene somewhere and it involving him on a mountaintop listening to the entire world in danger, in anguish over who to save first.
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Jan 10, 2020, 8:39 PM -05:00 Aww, no love for @getpelican? I guess it's really only a thing if you already like Python :) It's my blog engine of choice these days though I'm considering switching to @gatsbyjs.
Cameron Moll (@cameronmoll) on X
What's everyone using for blogging these days? I'm particularly interested in solutions beyond WP and (gasp) commenting. -
Jan 9, 2020, 6:17 PM -05:00 It's 2020 so I decided to join the 2010's and replace my desktop hard drive with an SSD. Pretty easy, mostly due to Clonezilla. It's...nice. I should probably shake things up more often.
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Jan 5, 2020, 11:39 PM -05:00 Thank you! The link should work now :-)
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Jan 5, 2020, 11:06 AM -05:00 Your Website Is Your Castle
In a previous blog post, I gave a very brief introduction to the IndieWeb, hopefully giving a sense of what it is and why it matters. In this post I'll try and zoom in a tiny bit and explain something of the mechanics of how the IndieWeb actually works and what it means to "like" a post or "share" a status update.
I'm deliberately trying to avoid too much detail in this post because, frankly, there's a lot to write, and it's easy to get lost. So I'm going to try and give a rough idea of what an IndieWeb enabled website looks like at a very high level, without going into the weeds. Further posts will go into more detail.
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Dec 28, 2019, 11:45 PM -05:00 I kind of love that @BarackObama is also a Ted Chiang fan. Read Exhalation if you haven't already.
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Dec 26, 2019, 2:29 AM -05:00 
Hank Green (@hankgreen) on X
I was today years old when I learned that a manger is a box animals eat out of. -
Dec 24, 2019, 12:30 PM -05:00 I find it confusing in general, not just with WordPress (although WordPress is extra confusing since I think you can have both multiple tags and categories, yeah?)
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Dec 22, 2019, 4:43 PM -05:00 In my house, you can tell how cold it is outside by how hot the radiators are.
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Dec 21, 2019, 10:29 PM -05:00 What is it about the Farine Five Rose sign blinking crimson in the darkness that I find so sinister?
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Dec 20, 2019, 7:17 PM -05:00 
Melissa Hunter (@himelissahunter) on X
I really do love this time of year — the Christmas music, the twinkle lights, the woman in front of me in line at Costco who just told her husband, “We can give your cousin a pile of dog shit for all I care.”
