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Thu Dec 20 10:29:42 EST 2018
Slept from midnight to nine.
High of forty-two today, rain.
Goals:
- Work on comment system
Done.
- Maybe the movies?
Done.
https://sarkos.tumblr.com/post/181269892597/the-original-ninja-turtle-we-are-rogue-its
> Burglars in medieval Cairo would sometimes send a turtle with a lit candle on its shell into the house they were planning to rob. If someone was home, they'd cry out in amazement when they saw the turtle, scaring off the burglars. Otherwise, the robbery could go ahead.
> > It's true! And not just in Egypt, it's recorded as a standard burglar technique in 12th century Persia. So much so that catching a fellow in the middle of the night carrying a crowbar and a drill wouldn't necessarily prove anything, but if he also had a live tortoise with him, well it could only be a professional burglar.
> > > The tortoise is employed thus. The burglar has with him a flint-stone and a candle about as big as a little finger. He lights the candle and sticks it on the tortoise's back. The tortoise is then introduced through the breach into the house, and it crawls slowly around, thereby illuminating the house and its contents.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/islams-medieval-underworld-15821520/
https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd
> ngIRCd is a free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat server for
small or private networks, developed under the GNU General Public License
(GPL; please see the file COPYING for details). It is simple to configure,
can cope with dynamic IP addresses, and supports IPv6 as well as SSL. It is
written from scratch and not based on the original IRCd.
https://medium.com/adobetech/2017-will-be-the-year-of-the-cgi-bin-err-serverless-f5d99671bc99
https://twitter.com/benschwarz/status/743180671720398848
> What is serverless?
> it's like a cgi-bin script that you deploy in a really awkward manner
Watched Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
Fun.
Mostly successful visual style, decent soundtrack.
Miles, the main character, and Gwen shine.
The villains are mostly non-entities.
Not that they're terribly offensive, but the movie would lose nothing by cutting the noir and anime spider characters.
Appreciated the nods to the 60's cartoon.
Picked up a few toiletries at Target on my way home from the theater.
Fifteen-minute walk in the dark and rain.
Wet but not cold.
Watched a couple episodes of March Comes in Like a Lion on Crunchyroll.
About a young shogi (Japanese chess) player finding his way.
Servings: grains 2/6, fruit 2/4, vegetables 2/4, dairy 0/2, meat 0/3, nuts 1/0.5
Breakfast: orange, spinach, coffee, carrots
Lunch: banana, pita, hummus
Dinner:
138/85
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