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An eight hour layover with a two hour delay. Had enough airports for today, thank you very much.

We are heading out on another trip and as the mood strikes me I will post some updates here.

My favorite sign, ever It only took twenty-four years, seven residences, five dogs, and raising one child, but I got Jodi to do a long, two-day bike ride with me. Jodi had been fighting some foot issues and could not run most of the summer. And since we were now sans-child, biking seemed like a good option. Jodi was ok with it, and the she got a bike that did not wight a thousand pounds and she…

The legendary auteur returns to the closet, the first person who has been allowed to visit for a second time, and it is as charming as you would expect it to be. He selects new editions of favorite films like Down by Law and Wanda, talks about Kurosawa’s genius for recreating weather on-screen, and shouts out his former assistant director Claire Denis. He even calls out his favorite of his own…

This makes me want to see what my WordPress site here looks like. Kind of wish the author had taken the step of seeing what was being downloaded not just how much. But, that would be a fun learning experience. https://tonsky.me/blog/js-bloat/

I have always loved the idea of commonplace books, a writers sketch book, more or less. Digital versions in things like tickler files have tempted me down the path into many failed or abandoned organizational systems. I have tried to keep physical ones, digital ones, even have a magical one as part of a novel. For a long time now I have been saving notes in a digital commonplace book. (I don’t…

So, to recap, I decided to revive an old piece of software, because corona-virus induced sheltering in place had left me a little bonkers. Last update I talked about how I got it at least limping along. Before I went too far, I set out some goals: Cross-platform – has to run on both Mac and PC, Linux an added bonus. Maybe mobile. Modern C++ for new code – any significant new code will have to…

In the process of moving all of my notes from one app to another, a blog post for another day, and the biggest pain point so far has been editing Markdown tables. The app I am going from has a lot of tables, and the app I am going to does everything in Markdown (light weight formatting for plain text files but gives you enough bells and whistles for things like notes and scraping webpages). The…