so, my current de-stressing activity is learning English round hand from period copy-books. the lines in copy-books that aren't just practice letter-forms are horrifically boring, extremely cringe moral mottoes, and I'm running out of stuff to practice writing
current texts include the long-term nuclear waste warning message, old copypasta like "then who was phone", city names, scientific names, this alphabetic poem from an 1806 manual
any ideas for one-liners or very short texts? or, I guess, anything you want put in fancy script, albeit by a beginner
In my previous post, I briefly wrote about what I called the English Round Hand’s “sub-styles”. Today I want to take the time to explain what I meant and show you what those styles are.
I just completed a quantitative research paper comparing autism traits in medically diagnosed autistic people with the same traits in self-identifying autistic people and I can definitively say with more stats behind it than I care to ever think about again, THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE!
Oh gosh, then it's a huge super mega YES! I learned that at school and I'm infinitely grateful to my late typing teacher, may she have a blessed existence wherever she is now.
I want to be wanted without having to do anything first, without having to impress, without having to spoil someone, without having to go out of my way. I want to be wanted for myself, not to have to make it worth someone's while first.
My best relationships in all aspects from work to friendship to romantic have always been during a time when I wasn't trying to impress people. Granted, my unwillingness to impress people did not come from some amazing life hack or conpidence boost, sometimes I just had enough energy to maintain, so their was neither reason, nor resources I could use to try. All that to say, if you're about to do something you hope will impress someone, just... don't.
Got my cel2jack today. Connection was painless and sound quality is great. Now just waiting for old cordless phone to recharge. Hehehehe, gadgets! cell2jack.com/\
My mom used a cel2jack for a year or so before she got her BlindShell. She had an iPhone XR, but didn't know how to use it. Cel2jack really helped her.
Well then, here you go! This was something I sang, just for fun, in a voice chat group. Then @Derek and a few friends turned it into…this! Lyrics in alt text.
Hello, everyone! I recently returned from our trip to visit friends, Derek and Robin, where we traveled in both South and North Carolina! There is so much to tell, including the sharing of recordings made along the way. Of course, music and live performing will be strewn throughout the telling of the trip and whatever else comes along. See you there!
Okay, so I had to. Tom Lehrer's ode to, She's my girl! Creepy, but a bit funny. He has so much content that might be questionable these days taken out of context.
So today's Tom Lehrer's tribute is an obscure, (well, obscure for me), something entitled the political song. I figured this would work very well with punk rock... and it did. Have a listen:
If you ever have to read anything boring or drpressing, the solution is to use a narator, virtual or otherwise, who is not associated with that kind of material. Here is an example, lets see who is the first to guess the voice.
I wanted to see if I could make a promo with AI that would be good enough to pass inspection by yours truely, and the short answer. I couldn't. I used chat gpt, index tts for the speech, mainly because its the new toy, but used eleven labs for the music, also because that part is another new toy. I still had to generate multiple beds before I was ok with the result, and nothing mixed well without more plugins than should be permitted by law.
Also I'd love to boost this but I won't boost audio without a description, in the same way I don't boost images without description. If we want parity, we need to be the ones that push for it the hardest. If sighted people should be held accountable for adding alt-text to images, so should we for audio, so that our deaf followers, and people that just want a summary of what we're posting, also benefit. These are just my opinions and may not reflect those of anyone else... Or something.
I was today years old when I learned that you can press control+shift+6 in file explorer to force a folder to display in details view. This makes me happier than it should, especially in folders where windows insists that it knows what view is best.
Tonight, I will be demonstrating my Meta glasses to the Lions club. Is there anyway, short of some sort of acoustic coupling, to get the voice of the glasses to go to a speaker of some description? in other words, I can get to the phone to the glasses, but can I get the glasses to a speaker?
Our ol’ buddy @jmd2000 had a birthday this week, so his old wooden barn is temporarily closed. Therefore, @Derek and Robin are doing another “Just Because Show” on HKC Radio tonight at 8pm eastern. Join them for a long-awaited music addition that’s been months in the making! You won’t wanna miss it!
Tonight join @Liz, from 6 P.M. eastern (US time), for Mellow Vibes. It’s two hours of Acoustic, mellow, and unplugged music. So tune in tonight, and start the weekend relaxed. HKCRadio.com
I need to add a private key to a docker environment, specifically referencing this projects: github.com/mattmelling/asl-zel…
I guess I need Docker Basics 101, since I don't really have much experience with it.
I have built the thing based on it's included docker file. Now I need to add this private key before launching it with docker run.
The README expects one knows how to actually use docker, which I suppose is fair. So, do I run a minimal something so I can shell into it and create files before running the complete environment, or what?
It's time for a nap. I think we're going for Thai food tonight. I think I'll have crab rangoon for an appetizer and tamarin duck for my meal. If the weather cooperates tomorrow we'll go to Dots for breakfast and the last flea market of the year.
Thai food is always good. There's a food truck a couple blocks from me, and now I seem to have made it a bit of a routine to order pad Thai and Thai iced tea from there at the end of the week.
Ich teste momentan ja #Gnome unter #Fedora auf meinem Arbeitsgerät, während ich eigentlich seit Jahren privat und vorher beruflich #KDE #Plasma gewohnt bin.
Weiß noch nicht ob ich dabie bleibe. Ich muss mich ehct bei sehr vielen DIngen umgewöhnen und einiges umbiegen bzw. nach meinen Bedürfnissen konfigurieren. Aber eigentlich will ich den Desktop ja nicht zu stark verbiegen... An anderen Stellen vermisse ich Features.
Nein, ist natürlich nicht alles blöd: Gnome ist wirklich schick und fühlt sich wie aus einem Guss an, außerdem gibt es auch wirklich tolle #GnomeCircle Apps.
Gibt es tolle Exklusiv-Features oder Workflows, die ich mir mal anschauen sollte? 👀
was ist GNOME circle? (Ich benutze eigentlich fast ausschließlich GNOME seit bestimmt fast 10 Jahren, aber glaube eigentlich fast keine einzige der GNOME apps)
Ah, gefunden. Mh, i don't think I have a need for any of those ^^.
Today my fishmonger Fran in el mercado Salamanca, had some really wonderful clams - almejas de carril. Just the right size, not too big, not too small.
I'm making a sofrito. Just with an onion and two tomatoes, finely chopped, and some salt.
The trick is to let the onions cook slowly. In Spanish, this is called ‘pochar’ - to poach in oil. It gives the onions a complexity of flavour, and then once they’re translucent, in go the finely chopped vine tomatoes (I peeled these, because they’re delicious but the skin is a little tough) again, simmering slowly, to bring out that magical change that happens to slow cooked tomatoes. #cooking
One of the things I love most about a lot of Spanish #cooking is that, often, there aren’t a lot of ingredients. The object is to let the few that are there shine. Which is why we’re so picky about ingredients down here. Good olive oil, good tomatoes, good onions, good clams and a nice manzanilla to steam the clams in with some garlic.
The complexity of flavour tends, I think, to come from the method of cooking, rather than seasonings.
I've officially finished the email<=>XMPP gateway grant 🎉. Lot of stuff done. The gateway is working but there are still things to do, notably finishing the e2ee encryption which is complex.
I'll most probably blog about it (and the previous A/V one) next week.
Mastodon feels like the future the 1980s promised us. "Oh look, a post from my friend at hacker.space, and what a funny comment from some guy on gaysex.cloud, perhaps I should follow them, they seem witty."
It feels like you could turn a corner and wind up in a tearoom filled with furries discussing existentialism. Across the street are anarchists arguing loudly with socialists about how best to stick it to the capitalists.
Just down the way is a photographer who only takes pictures of bees.
Maternity pay in the UK is insultingly low. It's no wonder the birth rate is declining so much.
I don't know why this isn't more of a national scandal.
After paying for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people, Seattle deliberately left them vacant.
By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads. propublica.org/article/seattle…
Early last year, the city signed a $2.7 million lease extension to continue using a hotel’s rooms as shelter space. Yet despite committing to pay the rent, the city stopped sending people there.
OK, FWIW, I was never a big fan of how the Meta Ray-ben glasses looked. So, when it came to choosing between the gen 2 Ray-bens and Oakley, I decided to go for the latter. They look cooler and feel much better on my nose! :)
#Gnome unter #Fedora auf meinem Arbeitsgerät, während ich eigentlich seit Jahren privat und vorher beruflich #KDE #Plasma gewohnt bin.
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