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Wed 23 Jan 2019 10:18:54 AM EST Slept from ten to six. High of forty-one today, with freezing rain. Work: - Do the DVR's support syslog? No, they do not. - Packet capture DVR (is the login encrypted?) Done. Not very secure, maybe just weakly hashed. Wet and icy fifteen-minute walk at lunch. Home: - Work to re-titled car and removed Toyota from insurance - Laundry https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18977461 https://www.zotero.org/ > Mendeley and Zotero used to be equally open to sharing and collaborating. Mendeley was in a sense superior as it was polished, had great tools to annotate and great tools to work with Meta-data. Zotero, while FOSS, was always behind. > Then, Mendeley was bought by Elsevier, the largest publisher. Elsevier does not want people to share PDFs, because Elsevier wants everyone to pay for the priviledge to download those pdfs. Thus, Mendeley started to make it more and more difficult to collaborate. Now it is even difficult to share files within the Mendeley eco-system! > Elsevier is to science as Oracle is to database software licensing. https://publicdomainreview.org/2019/01/10/how-the-pre-raphaelites-became-obsessed-with-the-wombat/ > Recalling the hugely enjoyable experience of working in the Oxford Union, another artist — helper Val Prinsep — recalled: ‘Rossetti was the planet around which we revolved, we copied his way of speaking. All beautiful women were “stunners” with us. Wombats were the most beautiful of God’s creatures.’ > Wombats were admired for their stumpy strength, their patience, their placid, not to say congenial manners, and also a kind of stoic determination. Occasionally they were thought clumsy, insensible or even stupid, but these isolated observations are out of step with the majority of nineteenth-century opinion. > In its disposition it is quiet and docile in the extreme, soon becoming familiar with and apparently attached to those that feed it; as an evidence of which, I may mention that the two specimens which are now and have been for a long period living in the Gardens of the Zoological Society in the Regent’s Park, not only admit the closest inspection, but may be handled and scratched by all who choose to make so intimate an acquaintance with them. > Earlier, in 1862, Rossetti had moved to Tudor House, at 16 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea. Spacious, with plenty of room for family and friends including George Meredith and the poet and semi-professional sadomasochist Algernon Charles Swinburne — who liked to slide naked down the banisters — the house had four-fifths of an acre of garden, with lime trees and a big mulberry. As soon as he arrived, Rossetti began to fill the garden with exotic birds and animals. There were owls, two or more armadillos, rabbits, dormice, and a racoon that hibernated in a chest of drawers. There were peacocks, parakeets, and kangaroos and wallabies, about which we know frustratingly little. There was a Canadian marmot or woodchuck, a Pomeranian puppy called Punch, an Irish deerhound called Wolf, a Japanese salamander, and two laughing jackasses. We know the neighbours were tolerant up to a point but Thomas Carlyle, for one, was driven mad by the noise. At length there was a small Brahmin bull that had to go when it chased Rossetti around the garden, and, in September 1869, a long-awaited wombat, the culmination of well over twelve years of enthusiasm for the exotic marsupial. > In November 1867, he was negotiating with his supplier of wild animals, Charles Jamrach. His object was to purchase a young African elephant, but he balked at the price of £400. Rossetti’s income for 1865 was £2000. Rossetti finally arranged to buy a wombat, again through Jamrach, when at length a suitable specimen became available. This wombat arrived when he was away in Scotland recovering from a kind of breakdown, largely precipitated by failing eyesight, insomnia, drugs, and above all his growing infatuation with Jane Morris, the wife of his old friend and protégé from the Oxford Union days. > A remarkable drawing of Jane Morris and the wombat in the British Museum illustrates the degree to which lover and pet merged in Rossetti’s mind as objects of sanctification. Each of them wears a halo. But Jane has the wombat on a leash, and it seems clear that Rossetti also used his pet wombat as a cruelly comical emblem for Jane’s long-suffering, cuckolded husband. Since university days William Morris was known to his friends as “Topsy”; the name Rossetti chose for his Wombat was “Top”. > During its short life, the first of Rossetti’s two pet wombats secured a remarkable place in the mythology of his circle of friends. Rossetti gleefully reported to William Bell Scott on September 28, 1869 that the wombat had effectively interrupted a long and dreary monologue from John Ruskin by patiently burrowing between the eminent critic’s jacket and waistcoat. This must have been a marvellous thing to watch happen. https://www.netgate.com/docs/pfsense/vpn/ipsec/accessing-firewall-services-over-ipsec-vpns.html Servings: grains 0/6, fruit 4/4, vegetables 4/4, dairy 1/2, meat 2/3, nuts 0/0.5 Breakfast: cucumber, carrots, orange, banana, two eggs, coffee Lunch: tomato, carrots, banana, orange, yogurt, coffee Dinner: pizza :( 142/88

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