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Sat Dec 19 06:00:01 EST 2020
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Slept from midnight to eight.
Cloudy.
Chance of snow showers in the morning, then rain showers and snow showers likely in the afternoon.
Freezing rain likely early in the evening.
Areas of fog early in the evening.
Accumulations up to half an inch.
Highs in the mid 30s.
South winds 5 to 15 mph.
Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
More work on Gneto, my Gemini proxy.
Grocery delivery 3–5 PM.
Watched The Ripper docuseries about the Yorkshire Ripper.
Interesting as a time capsule of the mid to late seventies.
Sad/infuriating how the police and public dehumanized the victims as "just prostitutes".
The attitude not only offends contemporary sensibilities, but as a practical matter it mislead the investigation.
It caused them to discount leads that didn't correspond with their prejudices.
Also interesting how, even to my layman's ears, the "he hates prostitutes" psychology immediately sounds so unlikely.
_Maybe_ he hates prostitutes, but vastly more likely is that prostitutes are simply the easiest and safest targets of opportunity for his compulsions.
Odd how most of the victims were displayed, but a couple were hidden.
Makes me wonder if all were really the same perpetrator, or otherwise why he wanted to revisit the bodies of only a few of his victims.
Kurt Vonnegut:
> When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of “getting to know you” questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don’t play any sports. I do theater, I’m in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes.
> And he went WOW. That’s amazing! And I said, “Oh no, but I’m not any good at ANY of them.”
> And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: “I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them.”
> And that honestly changed my life. Because I went from a failure, someone who hadn’t been talented enough at anything to excel, to someone who did things because I enjoyed them. I had been raised in such an achievement-oriented environment, so inundated with the myth of Talent, that I thought it was only worth doing things if you could “Win” at them.
Changed sheets and towels.
I've enjoyed working on this Gneto proxy — they type of work.
Makes me wonder if I should try app development as a side hustle.
Twenty-minute pace around the apartment.
Listened to TildeRadio.
dj controlfreak played Ministry's Thieves.
Didn't even recognize it at first — "these guys are really good… kinda familiar… oh, yeah, I forgot all about Ministry".
Servings: grains 7/6, fruit 2/4, vegetables 2/4, dairy 2/2, meat 1/3, nuts 0/0.5
Brunch: orange, coffee, wrap with egg and cucumber
Lunch: cheese curls
Afternoon snack: pear
Dinner: macaroni and cheese with avocado and tomatoes
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