Journal entries in the last 26 days
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[[New Years Eve]] was great, [[2025]] started great!
- [[Yi Jian Mei]] is stuck in my head (in the sense that it comes up spontaneously every day or so) and I don’t mind
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Back home!
- After 15 days spent in the US west coast (working) and then Japan (traveling with friends).
- I slept home in Oerlikon alone as I crashed not so long after arriving due to jet lag; [[AG]] will come with [[Lady Burup]] later today.
- I woke up at 6am after only 7 hours of sleep due to jetlag despite only getting five hours yesterday and I decided to just get up and start doing things; I’ll try to take a nap later today as needed.
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Non-prioritized list of things I want to take a look at now that come to mind and I wanted to jot down:
- [[Cline]] — I heard it’s a good AI plugin for [[vscode]] that is not too opinionated/walled-gardeny (is that a word? maybe it should be)
- [[Posty]] — something cooked by [[Oliphant]] over at the Fediverse which sounds a lot like something I wanted to build/I wanted to see someone build)
- This [[talk by Dan Dennett]] who passed away this year.
- [[social.coop]] activity — some threads on Mastodon, some on Matrix, some on Loomio surely
- All in all this is supposed to be a free "jetlag recovery day" so I’ll just try to enjoy it and also spend time offline.
- I read [[Alan Watts]]‘s Wikipedia page (again? unsure) and I wondered again about his alcoholism and relatively early death at 58.
- I finished [[The Moon is a Harsh Mistress]] today, after starting it and reading most of it yesterday during the flights. I liked it quite a bit! In particular the relationship between the protagonist/narrator and Mike/[[Mycroft]], the AI; and how it went straight into the topic of collaborating with AI towards the revolution.
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Writing this on the flight from [[Tokyo]] to [[Copenhagen]] while on my way back to [[Zรผrich]].
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I was (lightly) disappointed to see this flight did not head northwest as I expected, but rather northeast, despite what the map ‘navigation’ promised. This told me two things though:
- "Western" planes are avoiding the whole of Russian airspace, likely because of the war. In retrospect I should have known this!
- The navigation map available to the public in planes does not reflect in any way the course set by pilots. Instead it seems to just show the [[great circle]] to the destination from the current position. This held true through the trip. Indeed, the ‘projected path’ was roughly orthogonal to the true path at least until we reached the Bearing Strait (which is when I’m writing this).
- I was planning on catching up on coding and writing (beyond this short entry), but I forgot to charge my laptop and there are no chargers in economy, so there goes that plan :) Well, I have plenty of reading to do so it’ll be fine.
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I’m writing this on my way to [[Japan]] ([[Fukuoka]]) from [[Honolulu]] :)
- I just finished [[Story of your life]] and other stories by [[Ted Chiang]], I liked it a lot. I don’t know why I waited so long to read him more intensively after liking some of his short stories I read online.
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Some related concepts/topics:
- He likes [[Borges]] (so do I as you might know). This came across most clearly maybe in his [[Golem]] related story, but there’s such an undercurrent in several stories and he uses the adjective [[Borgesian]] (IIRC) once.
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[[Agora development]]:
- I’m flying to [[San Francisco]] to work from [[Sunnyvale]] for a few days. As I write this I’m on a SAS A330 sitting in 51A with the seat next to me empty, the plane being about 70% full.
- I started listening to [[Right Concentration]] by [[Leigh Brasington]] (sp?) on the way to Copenhagen where I made my short connection.
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Now I’ve finally started properly reading the [[Fediversalist Papers]] (I’ve been waiting for such an occasion) and found the report immediately engrossing.
- …and finished :) I tried taking good enough notes to then share with the Social.coop working groups and organizing Circle.
- I’m still two hours away from San Francisco. Not much more battery left in my laptop, so maybe I’ll just keep reading something else.
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I finished reading [[Thich Nhat Hanh]]‘s commentary on the [[Heart Sutra]]. I enjoyed it a lot :) Thank you Thich as usual.
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I’m writing this on the train to [[Bern]], after which I will make a few connections and make my way to [[Puidoux]] where I’ll join a [[party in the forest]].
- It’s going to be quite cold tonight and the party goes on until Sunday afternoon, so I’m happy I got some [[Merino]] underpants and a long sleeved shirt yesterday :)
- I caught up with [[Eerie Shell]] and [[Kris]] over messaging.
- I say [[We Will Defeat Moloch]].
- [[2024-11-27]] took place as well (linking it so I can then go node it :)
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Interesting conversation in [[Agora discuss]]!
- [[Zicklag]] wrote about [[weird.one]], sounds very cool, it would be great to catch up synchronously with them and [[Erlend]].
- I woke up with a headache for some reason, and it came back during the day, but otherwise I was fine.
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I worked and then attended the [[end of year dinner]] with my coworkers.
- There was also a [[bowling]] afternoon event which I skipped as I felt I was too behind work and I wanted to use the opportunity to catch up.
- Even as I decided to skip it I knew that, with the passage time, I would remember the bowling event but not the afternoon working. But I decided to do it anyway as I also knew my mental state would be affected by not making progress on some tasks, and I think in the end it was a reasonable choice.
- I enjoyed dinner. I actually like my coworkers, I’m lucky in that (and many ways!).
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Then I returned home and I played with [[Lady Burup]] and played the piano.
- Still recovering from disease (flu? covid? unsure) with [[AG]] — but feeling better thankfully, both of us.
- Ended up testing [[backup restores]] for [[social.coop]] finally and it felt great! It was in the todo list for long.
- Not so much progress on [[work-work]] this weekend — which I know might sound a bit weird, why is it that I sometimes plan to work on the weekends? The truth is that some of the things I need to do I find it hard to do during the week for a variety of reasons, like meeting load. So I sometimes use the weekend to catch up. But when I don’t I have to at some point ‘let go of it’, else it weights on me implicitly.
- Spoke to my mum over [[Meet]] and it was great!
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[[23]] is [[Lady Burup]]‘s day :)
- A chill day at home, with snow outside. I’m taking care of [[AG]] a bit as she’s sick.
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Todo for the day:
- back to the office finally, after a few days sick working from home! it was nice going back.
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I’m [[sick]]. Nothing serious, feels like the flu. [[AG]] got it over the weekend.
- Working from home and catching some [[Meet University]] talks, although today only until 16. There’s an all hands later I may put in the background; I told my manager I was low energy and would focus on resting half a day.
- I cut my hair, which usually makes me feel fresher, and it did. I also shaved everything except my mustache, for [[Movember]] (is it still a thing? I think so)
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[[work]]
- I woke up sick but I worked from home anyway.
- [[Meet University]] was good!
- then I rested after work, ate something, spent time with [[Burup]] and caught up with friends
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then I thought about:
- [[cwebber]] joined [[social.coop]] earlier this week!
- I [[worked]]; it was fine actually, I had a late review meeting (I don’t usually have meetings on Fridays) but it was interesting/felt worth it.
- I met [[L]]! We spent some of the afternoon together. It was very nice to see her.
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I then worked on [[social.coop]], scaling up (with [[Dan]]). Then I read/wrote/coded a bit.
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I found a ‘task list’ (I have 7-8 at any given time, usually anything from a3 to a4, envelopes and forms and such that I reuse to write things to do later) which I sort of completed so I archived it. It had the number [[131]] on it, without further context, although it was close to a task related to Wikipedia in the Agora that I have advanced.
- It is prime in case you’re wondering :) [[prime/131]].
- Which reminds me about the notion of having prime/ be autopulled when n is a number. Hmm.
- [[Algรบn dรญa]]
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Noding from [[paramita]] and from [[nostromo]] while I work on the Agora tonight.
- I’m already showered and can go until the time I go to bed, probably early as I woke up at 6am due to double pages :)
- I’ll enjoy the ride for however long it lasts!
- I thought of [[2024-11-19]].
- I thought of the future.
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[[agora development]]:
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[[writing]]:
- I say I want to do more writing in long form/intelligibly to the average prose reader, but don’t often make time for it. Some time ago I said Sundays were going to be for this kind of writing more often, and I could try to uphold this today. Let’s see.
- [[letters]]: some [[closed]], some [[open]]
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To test [[collimation]]:
- As it’s cloudy, maybe I’ll observe the distant LEDs in a construction crane ~500m away tonight.