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Sat Oct 8 08:18:41 EDT 2016
Slept from one-something to seven-thirty without waking.
Watched the sun come up. Orangey-gold sunrise.
Sunny today. High of fifty-nine.
They're supposed to paint my balcony today or tomorrow.
Goals:
- RSS feed for diary
Done.
Slightly more annoying than I thought, but I didn't have to resort to Perl. Pure POSIX shell.
- Household chores
Done.
Vacuumed, wiped down kitchen and bathroom counters, watered plants, etc.
- Work on D&D mini rules
One thing I've learned working on this static website generator is that it can be much easier to write a dozen little specialized tools than one big generalized tool, and that as long as the requirements don't change much, the results can be better too. It probably also helps that I'm not doing anything too complicated.
What would I want on a morning dashboard?
- Weather
- Sunrise/sunset times
- Moon phase
- Maybe a couple of news headlines
http://kottke.org/16/10/the-four-types-of-board-games
> In categorizing these public domain or “folk” games, Parlett (1999) draws on the work of H.J.R. Murray (1952) and R.C. Bell (1979) in describing four types of game, as identified by the game goals: race games, in which players traverse a track in an attempt to be the first to finish (e.g. Nyout, Pachisi); space games, in which players manipulate the position of pieces to achieve prescribed alignments, make connections, or traverse the board (e.g. Noughts and Crosses, Twixt, and Halma, respectively); chase games, in which asymmetrical starting positions and goals cast players in the role of pursuer and pursued (e.g. Hnefatafl, Fox & Geese); and games of displacement, where symmetrically equipped players attempt to capture and eliminate each other’s pieces (e.g. Chess, Draughts).
(_Eurogames_, Stewart Woods)
Fifty minute walk in the afternoon. Nice out. Blue skies. A little cool, but cozy in the sun. The half-moon's out. I wandered through a block party in the neighborhood west of here. A fire truck, chili, pavilions, kids running around, a bouncy castle; a good day for it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebFinger
> ... the name "WebFinger" is derived from the old ARPANET Finger protocol, but is a very different protocol designed for HTTP.
Breakfast: carrots, chicken pot pie, coffee with half-and-half
Lunch: spinach, mac and cheese
Dinner: pizza
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