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Sun Nov 1 06:00:01 EST 2020 ======================================== Slept from eleven to six (seven — before end of daylight savings time) without waking. Breezy. Chance of rain showers, possibly mixed with snow showers early in the morning, then snow showers likely in the late morning and afternoon. Accumulations up to half an inch. Highs in the lower 40s. West winds 15 to 25 mph. Gusts up to 35 mph increasing to 45 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation 70 percent. A few snow flakes fell in the afternoon. A weird, quiet vibe today. For once, I feel like it's the world that's a little off, not me. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24940624 https://zserge.com/posts/etude-in-c/ ``` 🐚 fortean ~ $ cat /dev/urandom | pacat ``` https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/31/world/asia/afghanistan-haunted-outpost.html > KABUL, Afghanistan — It seemed the perfect vantage point for the Marines: a 30-foot-high dirt pile overlooking the low-lying poppy fields of Helmand Province. What they could not explain were the strange lights at night, the whispers in the darkness, the mysterious radio static, the sudden chill in a summer breeze and the recurring whiff of corpses. > Only later did the Marines and British soldiers stationed there begin to understand the place they called Observation Post Rock. > The post and its surrounding area were considered cursed by residents of the Amir Agha villages, an area where the Taliban insurgents now reside following the failed campaigns of the American, Afghan, Soviet and British militaries there. > The vacated outpost has cemented itself in both American and local Afghan culture as part of a legend, a peculiar intersection of history, spiritualism and the paranormal. It is the backdrop for a ghost story built along the spine of Afghanistan’s unending wars and its countless dead. > But before the Marines destroyed what they believed to be a Taliban defensive position on the mound with a demolition charge, Lance Cpl. Brendan Kelly discovered evidence of the hill’s ancient design: small tunnels dug into its base that led to a single chamber — maybe a fort or tomb. > But the bones were almost certainly not Taliban: they were decades and, likely in some cases, centuries old. > But it wasn’t long after that Mr. Perkins heard some detached voice speaking in what he described as Russian while he stood guard, at his lone machine gun position, from midnight to dawn. > “Just thinking about it makes my hair stand up on my arm,” Mr. Perkins said. “It was real faint at first but eventually sounded like someone was standing post with me.” Played with Go stuff for the first time in a while. Read more of Let's Go, which is a really worth-while tutorial for Go web stuff. Watched a couple episodes of Truth Seekers on Prime. Fun. Has that old low-budget BBC vibe — in a good way. Servings: grains 6/6, fruit 1/4, vegetables 1/4, dairy 3/2, meat 3/3, nuts 0/0.5 Breakfast: cheese curls Brunch: banana, cucumber, an egg, coffee Lunch: cookies, two hot dogs Dinner:

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