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Jacob's ladder, symbol of hope

2022-12-08

2 minute read

Okay day yesterday, made incremental progress.

incremental progress

Alongside some more covers for the Bee Death Duology I printed off "The Glass Essay" by Anne Carson. It was flagged for me a while ago, I can't remember where. More recently someone else mentioned her in an interview, and I was delighted to have the good taste to already have her work pending in my queue. Now I gotta start reading it. I'd like to have another go at bindery.js to format things like this, I'd much prefer to print them out as nice zines and not just stacks of paper.

Learnt a new game

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koi-Koi, played with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanafuda cards. I played it online with Alex. It's a good mix of chance, planning and probability. Complex enough to be thrilling, it feels great to get one of the high scoring and novel Kadu, like Akatan (赤短) "Red Poetry Tanzaku" or Inoshikachō (猪鹿蝶) "Boar, Deer, Butterflies".

Not sure how those character will fare through the markdown parser, lets find out.

Conjugação

I did a little work on this, working on designs. I keep getting distracted, it's hard to settle on an MVP. I keep thinking about what it "could be", but I forget to focus on making something I'll actually use. Right now I think I'm better off making a conjugacao.com.br clone, with "nicer" design. Even thinking about it now I'm losing control, dreaming about multicolumn variable layouts and dynamic bulk entry.

birthday card

Got a late birthday card from Grandma yesterday:

A lake to cross,
mountains to climb
Jacob's ladder
Many coloured rainbow
Symbol of hope

beautiful and powerful brevity, very encouraging.

listening to

Six Swans

Lovely juxtaposition in the lyrics from GRGFR (Get Real Get Fuckin Right)

Do you love this shit? Are you high right now?
Do you ever get nervous?
Are you single? I heard you fucked your girl, is it true?
You getting money?
You think them n****s you with is with you?

And I say hell yeah, hell yeah, hell yeah
Fuckin' right, fuckin' right, alright
And we say hell yeah, hell yeah, hell yeah
Fuckin' right, fuckin' right, alright

I know I've caused you trouble
I know I've caused you pain
But I must do the right thing
I must do myself a favor and get real
Get right with the Lord

I know I've lost my conscious,
I know I've lost all shape
But I must do the right thing
I must do myself a favor and get real
Get right with the Lord

I know I've always loved you
I know I've always been
But I must do the right thing
I must do myself a favor and get real
Get right with the Lord

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