🧚 🦉 キラ 🕯️ 🦊 @tty@sunbeam.city

I adore this poem -- it's been a bit of a guiding light 🌟 for me. It's been pinned to my browser tabs for weeks, and when I feel down I pick a stanza to read.

https://www.loveyourselfproject.org/PDF/charliechaplinpoem.pdf

I'm pretty pleased with the result though -- this feels pretty elegant. ^_^

Yesterday I wrote the modulus operator for the WDR Paper Computer[1].

It's a tiny computer with only 5 instructions: add1, sub1, jump to line#, end program, and is-zero?.

My conclusions so far about paper computing:
- It's really fun to figure out clever ways to write programs using a limited instruction set!
- Running programs by hand is pretty tedious and gets old fast. ^__^

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDR_paper_computer

Anyone else have Sega Channel as a kid? This was just the coolest.

https://www.gamerterra.com/news/sad-death-sega-channel/

It was a device you put into the cartridge slot that used your existing cable connection to download interactive menus and full Genesis games from Sega servers. All without the internet!

Today was mostly an Adult Stuff day. Boring things. >___<

Going to do some maintenance things, and then make time for some fun stuff.

@wakest Hey! I saw an announcement saying that registrations are open again (to invites), but the rules page says that they're closed. Is it ok to invite new folx?

When you're in a conversation with someone who "hogs the microphone" (that is, talks a lot and doesn't "give the mic" back to you often), how do you handle this?

I dislike this in conversations, but am not sure what a good response is. Some ideas:

1. Stop hanging out with people who do this.
2. Confrontation: explicitly point this out & ask them to share the mic more.
3. Passive Aggressive: interrupt or use other strategies to forcefully take the mic back.

What's worked for you?

How stretchy are "real" sails? 🤔

Updated the microsail to have jam cleats, using a split in the wood (thanks @rek). Now it's able to be much tighter.

I've realized that the sail is actually too big for the mast & boom! I cut the fabric to match those dimensions, but to get a really tight-trimmed sail, I think the sail needs to actually be *smaller* than the triangle of space here, so that it can have room when it needs to be stretched.

Yay, breakthrough day in voice practice! 🎵

I've managed to figure out repro steps for producing a very low vocal fold mass that I *love* the sound of. I can only do it with a certain phase as mimicry, so I'm excited to start dissecting its constituent components. :3

It's been really interesting to play with & see how it responds. I think it needs some controls somehow on the three points of contact for tension.

"I wanna understand how sails work.."

"..Let's build one!" 🦊

Picked up two new/used books from a cute dusty bookstore in Vancouver yesterday! ^___^

Is there a good term of a "self-balancing system"?

e.g. How an arrow is stabilized in flight because opposing fletchings counter-act each other's rotation with air drag.

A Self Defense Study Guide for Trans Women and Gender Non-Conforming / Nonbinary AMAB Folks

https://www.silversprocket.net/2021/09/13/a-self-defense-study-guide-for-trans-women-and-gender-non-conforming-nonbinary-amab-folks/

Please share!

This was also one of the most rewarding & satisfying experiences I've had.