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Sun Aug 19 11:16:24 EDT 2018
Slept from two to ten. Woke briefly around seven.
High of eighty-three today. 20% chance of thunderstorms.
Goals:
- Clean a apartment
Done.
Vacuumed, watered plants, wiped down kitchen and bathroom.
Read more Snow Crash.
Google's Noto font family (formerly "Droid"):
> The name "Noto" is short for "No Tofu", describing the aim of covering all living Unicode scripts (currently 47 are covered, at least partly, across hinted and unhinted).
> Tofu (豆腐) is Japanese jargon for unicode replacement character "�" (U+FFFD) often displayed as replacement for unassigned or unknown characters.
The Debian package is `fonts-noto`.
Finished watching the first season of Killing Eve.
Excellent.
The ending is both "wow, WTF?!" and "that makes total sense".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17793375
https://umbrellajs.com/
Umbrella JS, a 2.5kb jQuery alternative
Read a little about Go modules (vgo) forthcoming in Go 1.11.
Created a little generator for D&D magic items.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17737821
https://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2018/08/rockets_once_flew_at_launch_pa.html
> Remembering Michigan's Keweenaw Rocket Range
> If you're up in the Keweenaw anyway, it's worth the side-trip to visit the rocket range. You'll spend a few miles past the end of the paved road, and there's a small stream to ford, so take a vehicle with good ground clearance, and self-recovery gear in case you find more mud than you bargained for.
> And some industrial-strength mosquito repellent.
> Once you're there, it's a quiet little site, and the rocket pad makes a perfect place to set a campfire without having to clear a bunch of brush first. The water is just a few feet away, and there's lots of cool geology within a short walk along the shore.
> Michigan Tech claims that from Quincy alone, up to 756 million pounds of copper were produced from 1856 to 1925 [3]. The mine, with 90 levels, went to a final depth of 6,225 feet with a finial shaft length of 9,260 feet [4]. I'm not sure how reliable it is, I've only ever had my eyes on the Quincy Mining Company financials, but the national park services claim that over 10 billion pounds of copper were produced from the area (https://www.nps.gov/kewe/learn/historyculture/copper-mining-timeline-page-4.htm).
Lunch: coffee, beer, chicken pot pie
Dinner: pierogis
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