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Saturday Musing About Blaugust Systems

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2024/08/03

I find myself in an odd place this morning. I actually have time and motivation to sit down and write a blog post. Blame Blaugust I guess.It usually takes me at least an hour to get a full blog post done, and that’s a long time for me to sit and write these days, and there’s usually a physical cost for it. I haven’t quite worked out how to write comfortably for long periods of time at my advancing age without hurting my back, neck, and/or shoulders. It’s strange because I

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Reading Old Writing S1 E2 - 2029 AG 7 Pt 2

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2024/08/02

This is another reading from my NaNoWriMo 2009 draft, an unfinished near-future science fiction story with the easy-to-remember title 2029 AG 7. Click the play button that should be somewhere in the vicinity of this text, or add this feed to your favorite podcast app. These bits finally get to the reason the story was called 2029 AG 7. If memory serves, I read somewhere that this is how NASA designates astronomical objects. Something like the year it’s discovered, followed by some letter code,

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Trying New (To Me) Comment Systems

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2024/08/02

I was taking a look at the functionality of CommentBox, the third-party comment system I’ve been using on the blog for a while now, and noticing that there seem to be some bugs in authenticating with any method other than Google. I didn’t notice because I use Google to authenticate on the Internet roughly 99% of the time. Also, I don’t often comment on my own blog. I then noticed that CommentBox hasn’t had a new blog entry on their site since 2018, and I didn’t see any

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Reading Old Writing S1 E1 - 2029 AG 7 (1)

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2024/08/01

To kick off this experiment, we’ll start with a bit of writing from NaNoWriMo 2009. It’s an unfinished near-future science fiction with the easy-to-remember title 2029 AG 7. Click the play button that should be somewhere in the vicinity of this text, or add this feed to your favorite podcast app. This was the first NaNoWriMo I attempted, and I did not do particularly well with it. I haven’t read this in forever, and I have little or no memory of writing it, what it was about, or

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Introducing Me to Blaugust 2024

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2024/08/01

I’m led to believe we’re supposed to write an introductory post for Blaugust 2024. I assume this means an introduction of me to you. This is, of course, the worst thing that could ever be asked of me, as I have a particular distate for talking about myself. I have a fairly poor sense of self at the best of times, but when you do the “hey why don’t we go around the room and introduce ourselves it’ll be fun” thing, it turns into a full-blown anxiety disorder. To

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July 2024 Part 2

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2024/07/31

The one where I just plain give up on trying to think of a unique title for a post containing a potpourri of radically-different subjects. Blaugust I signed up for Blaugust after all, and I’ll be trying something completely new. It might be a rousing success or a dismal failure, or, even worse, average and unmemorable. The future is unknowable. You can find all the details here. For myself, I see it as a thin excuse to force myself to read some old writing again. (That’s a content

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Microblogging Journal through 7/29/2024

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2024/07/29

Dispatches from @ultrviolet@gts.endgameviable.com: Monday 07/22 09:21 # Luckily I have avoided the entire CrowdStrike thing because, while it’s installed on my work laptop, it’s a MacBook Pro and unaffected. Otherwise it’s not on any Windows machine I own. Feel bad for anyone in IT support who has to manually fix and reboot every single affected machine without automation. Yikes. 09:55 # Last night I encountered Bud Lady Romina in the Elden Ring DLC. I expected another 100 rep

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Reading Old Writing S0 E2 - Margway

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2024/07/26

Last time, I tested the technical method of distributing audio files through an RSS feed on the blog. This time, I’m testing the concept for the “show” and the workflow required to produce it. Add this feed to your podcatcher of choice to listen and/or click the “play” button that should theoretically be somewhere in the vicinity of this text.This is a reading from a 2012 short story I wrote called Margway, which is a spin-off of sorts from my NaNoWriMo 2011 project

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Reading Old Writing S0 E1 - The first technical...

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2024/07/23

Hello, this is a technical experiment to see if there is any chance of this working. I’m adding a new experimental section to the blog for Blaugust 2024.

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Microblogging Journal through 7/22/2024

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2024/07/22

Dispatches from @ultrviolet@gts.endgameviable.com: Monday 07/15 18:36 # When I wear my computer glasses while recording games, my mic headset is significantly more painful to wear. This has inspired me to use ear buds and my Rode PodMic more often, which sounds better anyway, but I haven’t yet worked out a way to position it so that a) it doesn’t get in the way of playing and b) the mic arm attached to the desk doesn’t pick up mechanical noise from the mouse moving around on the

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Elden Ring DLC - July 2024 Part 1

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2024/07/15

Blaugust is returning for 2024. I don’t know if I’m going to sign up this year. I like to have some kind of theme or new process to test out, and I only had one idea, but I don’t think it’s really in the spirit of Blaugust. Also, it’s more work than I particularly want to do.The idea was this: Take 31 pieces of writing from the 10+ years of NaNoWriMo drafts I’ve done and post one per day. I keep trying to think of ways to do something useful with those drafts,

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Microblogging Journal through 7/15/2024

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2024/07/15

Dispatches from @ultrviolet@gts.endgameviable.com: Monday 07/08 08:18 # I recorded well over 250 videos of Elden Ring, took meticulous notes on every single one of them (well, almost all of them), and yet I cannot find where I found or explored the Wyndham Catacombs. That’s where a tier 1 spirit ash bell bearing is located. Somehow I had unlocked the site of grace but never gotten the bell bearing. Weird. I didn’t do very much off-camera with that character but I guess that was one of

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Microblogging Journal through 7/8/2024

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2024/07/08

Dispatches from @ultrviolet@gts.endgameviable.com:Monday 07/01 20:57 # Since I’ve been listening to audiobooks lately, I randomly wondered if there were audiobook versions of some Jack L. Chalker pulpish sci fi book series I read in my 20s that I never finished and always wanted to finish. Turns out there are. The first one I got was Midnight at the Well of Souls. It wasn’t very good, I didn’t remember any of it, and wondered what I ever saw in it. It’s read by a narrator

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Microblogging Journal through 7/1/2024

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2024/07/01

Dispatches from @ultrviolet@gts.endgameviable.com: Tuesday 06/25 08:22 # Sometimes the UPS powering my router and Linux NAS box just goes off for no reason. It did that last night. At first I suspected my cat was accidentally hitting the power button, but that seems unlikely. Anyway, it’s mildly annoying. 08:35 # Been listening to The Dark Forest audiobook. Just got through “the space battle.” Yikes. I can’t think of any other science fiction books I’ve read like

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Eliminate human tyranny! - June 2024 Part 2

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2024/07/01

It’s been rather hot this June. The highest temperature measured at my house (in the shade) was 97 degrees (that’s 36C for the rest of the world). That’s more of a July or August sort of high temperature. My heat pump wasn’t operating very well at the start of this month, but after some maintenance and additional refrigerant, it’s working much better.It still doesn’t cool more than about 15 degrees below the outside temperature, though, so when it’s 97

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Microblogging Journal through 6/24/2024

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2024/06/24

Dispatches from @ultrviolet@gts.endgameviable.com:Tuesday 06/18 22:07 # It’s too hot this evening for normal brain function so I watched a movie. By fortunate coincidence, Oppenheimer arrived on Amazon Prime. My perception is that it was good, but a bit overrated. It didn’t really seem to have anything new or interesting to say about the subject matter. And I wasn’t ever really sure what story I was being told. The story of the bomb? Oppenheimer’s biography? A spy thriller

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A Review of an Audible Review

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2024/06/21

I saw a review on Audible of The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu (the sequel to Three Body Problem). I was transfixed while skimming this review, and I found myself wondering what it was like to be that person. I will quote it here in its entirely, a blatant violation of that person’s valuable copyright, because it must be preserved for future generations to study, and I could not work out how to find a permalink to the individual review on the page. The aforementioned review, written by someone

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Microblogging Journal through 6/17/2024

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2024/06/17

Dispatches from @ultrviolet@gts.endgameviable.com: Tuesday 06/11 11:11 # I know these Steam Next Demo Fests are supposed to be a good thing, but for me, all it does is reinforce the notion that there are a thousand million times the number of games that any normal human can actually play. Therefore, the only sensible reaction is to play fewer games and wait for the ones that are the very best of the very best, which are almost always the occasional ground-breaking AAA game that only comes out once

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Summer Is Here - June 2023 Part 1

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2024/06/16

It’s hot as I’m writing this. This past week has been the start of the traditional summer weather here, which has average temperatures during the day somewhere between 85-90 F (29-32 C, according to Google). Today I mowed the back yard, and even though it’s nowhere near as hot as it could be, it was sufficiently hot that I did not enjoy being outside.Gaming There’s been another Steam Next Fest, the forty-seventh one this year? Or maybe the six hundredth? Something like that

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Microblogging Journal through 6/10/2024

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2024/06/10

Forgot to run the script to pull the posts last week. Manual blog-related processes are the worst. Dispatches from @ultrviolet@gts.endgameviable.com: Tuesday 05/28 17:22 # Ugh I clicked on one of those WIRED “some person who is an expert in some field answers Internet questions” and now that’s all that’s on my YouTube recommendations, which is a real problem because they’re actually really interesting to watch. 17:30 # Most of the questions that are answered are

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