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Sat Aug 5 07:16:34 EDT 2017 Slept from eleven-ish to six-thirty without waking. Mostly sunny today. High of sixty-seven. Goals: - Clean apartment Done. Dusted, wiped down the dining room, put away laundry, emptied the trash, changed linens, etc. I LOL'd: http://www.metafilter.com/168616/Help-me-get-the-mysterious-library-to-my-sister Watched Sword Master. Very enjoyable. I think in some of the scenes, especially the outdoor scenes, they used 3d renders as matte paintings; the island/forest/graveyard around 10:00-12:30 is a good example. Somewhat stage-y. I like it. Reminds me of a bit of Kwaidan. Good fights. Also, some nice, Shakespearean irony. Washed a load of laundry. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/magazine/the-loyal-engineers-steering-nasas-voyager-probes-across-the-universe.html Science limited by the human lifespan. Voyager engineer forgoing retirement to work out of cubicles in a small office rented in Altadena, CA. > Because they have only four kilobytes of computer storage, the spacecraft transmit data 24/7, but the radio signals take 19 hours and 12 hours to reach Earth. The three antenna dishes big enough to register them are shared, so Voyager gets only four to six hours of reception time per spacecraft per day; outside these often odd windows, their data dissipate into the ether. Half-hour walk in the afternoon. Saw a morning dove, a rabbit, and a broad flat mushroom. One-Punch Man is pretty funny. Lunch: coffee, lasagna, ice cream Dinner: pizza

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