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Sat Dec 2 06:00:01 EST 2023
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Slept from eleven to six-thirty without waking.
Cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain showers.
Highs in the lower 40s.
North winds 5 to 10 mph.
Read more of Men at Arms.
Watched Phantom of the Paradise on Criterion.
Ran backup.
Updated router firmware.
https://mitxela.com/projects/candle
> I was recently fortunate enough to find myself in the pub with some very creative and talented people. The discussion turned to electronic candles, and how one might create something that would look like a flickering candle from any angle. I suggested a persistence-of-vision display, but the general consensus was that those require too much in the way of supporting machinery to make them work: bearings, and probably slip rings and so on.
> Afterwards I had a think and figured that if the motor and battery were small enough, the whole thing could spin. I was ordering some other circuit boards the following day, so I quickly threw together a simple LED matrix board and combined that with the other orders.
https://www.metafilter.com/201584/Blind-people-gesture-and-why-thats-kind-of-a-big-deal
> Earlier this year [2016] a new paper came out that adds to this story. Şeyda Özçalışkan, Ché Lucero and Susan Goldin-Meadow looked at the gestures of blind speakers of Turkish and English, to see if the way they gestured was different to sighted speakers of those languages. [...] The results showed that blind Turkish speakers gesture like their sighted counterparts, and the same for English speakers. All Turkish speakers gestured significantly differently from all English speakers, regardless of sightedness. This means that these particular gestural patterns are something that’s deeply linked to the grammatical properties of a language, and not something that we learn from looking at other speakers.
https://limits.pubpub.org/pub/6loh1eqi/release/1
> Permacomputing Aesthetics: Potential and Limits of Constraints in Computational Art, Design and Culture
> Permacomputing is a nascent concept and a community of prac- tice centred around design principles that embrace limits and con- straints as a positive thing in computational culture, and on creativ- ity with scarce computational resources. As a result, permacomput- ing aims to provide a countervoice to digital practices that promote maximisation, hyper-consumption and waste.
> Uxn is a small virtual machine geared towards small graphical applications, shown in figure 3, with features reminiscent of classic home computers.[ 48 ] It differs from most other fantasy platforms in its emphasis on low implementation complexity, and it has already been implemented on a variety of platforms including devices such as the Nintendo Gameboy Advance and the Raspberry Pi Pico. Uxn is being developed by Hundred Rabbits, a small artist collective living on a sailboat, as a platform for their own games and programs.
Long nap in the afternoon.
Servings: grains 5/6, fruit 0/4, vegetables 4/4, dairy 0/2, meat 2/3, nuts 0.5/0.5
Breakfast: corn chips
Brunch: Japanese curry
Dinner: left-over curry, ice cream
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