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Some make sense, some less so

2022-10-04

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I got a haircut this morning, and then dilly dallied about but now I'm sitting down to write. The time is 11:47am, October the 4th.

Return.horse

I was happy with the general return.horse joke yesterday, but struggled with the wording. I think the contrast between simple cowboy jargon and ideas of language limiting our expression is funny, but didn't want to hit the audience over the head with it. That a cowboy might be frustrated with these limits, or desire to say more complex things, and that he lives within the cowboy system being keenly aware of its failings, is an idea I'd love to have established as an overtone to the series.

As a project it's fallen by the wayside a bit - it's hard to maintain energy and excitement for something over a long period of time. I desperately need to finish the redesign, I feel like that's been putting me off. I so badly want it to be minimal, I'm considering just having the the current one and hiding all other info in an about page. I will do a design, implement it and then run it past Giles.

I also want forge.horse to be a little easier to use, I think bundling it into an app would be a good move, and it lets me use golang again. I think too, the model I've been using with the journal isn't so bad, where the deployment is completely decoupled from the creation.

This will be repeated in the questions in the end, perhaps with more general wording: How can I get re-excited about return.horse?

Portuguese

I was really tired yesterday, and felt like I wasn't bringing my best to the portuguese class, but I actually ended up feeling like I'd had a pretty good lesson. We covered language around job aplications, food, subjunctive future tense, and some idioms. Brazilian portuguese has so so many idioms. Some make sense, some less so. I haven't taken stock of the idioms we use in english, but I wouldn't be surprised if we are also fairly well laden. The distance between language in writing and language in conversation grows ever more measurable, and vast.

what else

I struggled to make myself settle down last night, intending to spend an hour reading but instead craving vapid stimulation, tv or instagram. Eventually I managed to pick up the Paul Klee book I've been working through, and as always really enjoyed it.

Unfortunately, what the so-called spatial arts have long succeeded in accomplishing, what even the temporal art of music has achieved so eloquently in polyphony, this simultaneous view of many dimensions which is the foundation of the great climaxes of drama, is unknown in the realm of verbal explanation. Contact between dimensions must be made outside this medium; and afterwards.

I've forgotten to feed my sourdough starter, will do that today.

Troy bought a BBQ for the apartment.

I still haven't tackled the habits work sheet - why not?

listening to

Live Scraps/ The Fall of Troy

questions