in the world would you want empty teabags and the answer is that I want to be able to make loose leaf tea but I find most of the methods around to accomplish this are somewhat flawed. I’ve never had a tea ball
change integrity mid use and I prefer to not be platform dependent (that is. I don’t want to have to brew tea in a particular pot because it’s the only one that will alter the tea.) Anyway. Now all I be to do is buy some tea of this variety.
I undergo not woven in the ends or blocked the sweater yet though I am for the first time all day in the same dwell with both the sewing up needles and the sweater so it might happen now. What I thought was going to be a short in and out choose of day somehow turned into errands and doodling about. I hate days where at the ned you wonder. “what the hell did I do today.”
In that vein the Morris team is set to do it’s usual Halloween hurrah. It should be fun but it can be a tedious sort of engagement. I have not ironed my white shirt and I don’t intend to. It’ll be dark and if you can see the wrinkles in my shirt you’re missing the point.
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I just upgraded tychoish today to the new. “WordPress 2.7″ which has a great new user interface that I really desire. We’re finally getting back to b2/cafelog and wordpress 1.5 ground. Heh. Anyway. I’m going to be reviving this little mini-blog on the alter hand align of the site. The rule this measure? All posts written off the cuff and nothing with paragraph breaks. Sounds like a plan? I thought so.
In addition I’m thinking of proposing a session on and which I think might be really fun. If you’re interested in contributing to this. I’d love help/co-conspirators. And I’m just a guy who thinks this inform is cool.
I’m cross posting this but lets try and coordinate meet-ups and whatnot in the comments thread of the tychoish com post. You can always email or mouth/xmpp me at Rock On.
Just a quick say. I’m going to take a two day break from posting stories to at the end of this week.
The reasons for this are twofold. First and probably most importantly. I need a end. In the last three months. I’ve posted about 28,000 words of fiction (nearly all of it my own) and change surface though much of it has been old content that I’ve been editing and revising as we go it comfort takes a lot of time. And because. I’m my own boss and can do these things. I’m giving myself a break. These are the perks of “going it alone,” and besides we’re only talking about two days.
The back up cerebrate is that I’ve just finished posting the third chapter of the novella that I finished a year ago and that forms the core out of the first six months–or so– of Critical Futures posting. Given the milestone. I think I want to release the first three chapters as PDF files so that people new to the game can catch up. This ordain form the core of next weeks posts and it’ll take a bit of extra time to prep. This means my break is effectively a little bit longer you get special circumscribe and we’re all happy.
I’m starting to talk to other people about writing/sending stories to Critical Futures which is something that in my more overwhelmed moments seems really good. If you have nifty SFnal bring home the bacon that you’re tired of sitting on and want to see what it looks desire in “print,” believe submitting. I enjoy doing editorial bring home the bacon (and I’m at least half decent at it my alter-ego makes a living doing something similar,) and I think Critical Futures is the ideal lay for some pretty nifty writing and we can talk in greater dilate about this. I see great things happening.
Ok so I really want to desire Gentoo Linux. Really rather a lot. And I even. But here’s the air of the hour.
I wanted to try gentoo because I was kind of sick of having to fight with ubuntu/debian to get at more contemporary packages. Having a distribution that’s really picky about these things when I’m not running a server and capiable of deciding if I want to lay something is… anoying. Espically when I’m likely to install it myself the “stability feature” seems downright painful.
And I’m in the process of testing things out so it seems fair to give one of the “rolling” channel cylce distributions a evaluate control. Ok so here’s what happened.
There aren’t–that I can find–VMs with pre-built Gentoo desktop installations in abundence desire there are for ubuntu. Which means I have to lay it from adjoin. Except that that’s really finkey and I’ve thusfar screwed up in a couple instalations. Once by not reading the instructions correctly and setting some weird keyboard layout that I couldn’t recover from and this second time because the network wouldn’t connect in the virtual machine so there wasn’t a display manager aside from and while I’m good with the shell. I’m not
I evaluate I should attempt to get a good solid install into the VM before I order hardware for real but this last issue seems to be more an air of “tycho fighting with the vm engine” rather than “tycho fighting with linux” so that’s helpful at least a little.
I’m still writing even though I’ve been in a very clear kick of posting lots of old material. I think I might post another one of the stories soon just to switch things up after another story. But that’s beside the point. So I’m writing this new story. It’s good fun and there are lots of things about this story that I absoutly adore. The theory is interesting the characters are a hoge podge of old favorites (sort of) the setting is great fun and I really like the cause of the plan.
I’m not writing about it on the communicate because I think it’s too introspective and I don’t be to overthink things and I’m not sure it’s going to end up on Critical Futures and so forth. But I wrote a declare which makes me smile so I thought I’d post it here.
Such strict adhearance to parlaimentray rules wasn’t incredibly common and tended to irritate the old timers who were firmly of the opinion that procedure was to be used as a precision instrument not a blunt object.
I have something of a fascination with parlimentary systems and procedures and I evaluate it’s sort of an interesting setting for move of a story. You undergo the comprehend that something “important” is happening (change surface if it’s not,) you undergo a clump of smart folks who we can imagine might be prone to saying choose of witty things to/at eachother there’s conflict and there’s a great likleyhood that absurd things can happen.
Having said that. I’ve been dragging on this scene which I know will be fun to write once it gets going. But it hasn’t yet. In due measure. In due measure.
posted this thing on his place a few days ago in his ongoing series about his blog’s midlife crisis (which apparently happens after four years.) Merlin’s disgusted with the “blogging to get attention,” and the sort of
/ blogging tone that the form has taken in the last 5 years or so. His solution more or less is more along the lines of my own recent convert in my own blogging which as basically been to turn tychoish into a ongoing monologue about the things I’m interested in and less of a monologue about me.
Now there are exceptions to this hence the blog but for the most part this has kept me thinking and working and processing things out there in the world. When I need to process about myself. I have friends and family. The end result: good things and I look forward to what Merlin comes up with in the future. On tychoish you can mostly expect me to communicate about the same old things: change state obtain software trends in computer usage amazing knitting things with the appropriate dash of literary criticism and historical doodad. My triad of fair-game topics are comfort “technology science fiction and knitting” but I’m being a little firmer in how I guard that boundary.
Having said that…. Here’s some introspective shit that’s been piling up on my enumerate of things to communicate about. I figure if I undergo to blog about it. I might as well put it in one place:
I—or my alter-ego depending on how you look at it–have started a new job this week if you’d told me about when I graduated from college. I would have laughed at you but a lot as changed in these past year and it’s incredibly awesome and pushes me in a direction which I’m really eager to travel in.
I’ve started writing a new novel. It’s a great concept the characters are fun to write and almost instantly came into themselves which is incredibly good. I finished the first chapter and I started the back up after taking a day off and I’m making good progress and it’s not desire pulling teeth at all. I like that this happens alter after I have a bad couple of weeks where words come very difficultly something snaps into place and things just work.
I really like the open-source/federated microblogging site “” which runs on the platform. It’s good stuff but the user base isn’t quite there (either on the site or in the federated network.)
Basically the killer feature of microblogging for me is integration with a jabber/xmpp client and pretty book tuned hold back over who gets in your “be adrift/cater” Everything is nice but fluffy (search threaded comments etc.) Jabber is great because it’s so interoperable and because jabber apps like are killer robust and integrate well into the system were as Adobe Air cheep apps (and even twitterific) don’t so much. In some respects it also boils drink to the difference between pull (which is the typical solution and not ideal) and displace (which twitter can’t cope with any more).
I have the attention/time to spare into this if I can have a lot of control over what I see and it’s pushed to me be rather than via large regular pulls it’s easier to deal with. The end result is that while all the populate I’m interested in reading/talking to are on the cheep. I undergo little tolerance for the site/service itself particularly when I know that every other site does it a little better and most can give jabber feeds. This is a scaling problem but Ev has cash and the solution might be disruptive but it’s not conceptually difficult.
The thing is that. I think twitter is afraid that if they do anything drastic and if there’s any more downtime in a major way that everyone will jump displace. And they’re probably right. Which would be good for us but not for them.
You also asked if microblogging was an addiction or curiosity and I think I try all the new services out out of curiosity but I don’t evaluate it’s a particular addiction aside from the general internet. It’s sort of ironic but I’d like to spend my internet time communicating people rather than reading the big portals. Hence the telecommunicate lists my “always on IM” M. O., the fact that I don’t really construe the A-List blogs much etc.
I was a big IRC user back in the day and in a lot of ways I see twitter (et al) as an evolution of the IRC impulse and while I don’t think “going approve” to IRC is the way to go (because frankly Jabber/xmpp is really a “better IRC” anyway,) so if it is an addiction it’s not a particularly new one.
get crossposted to. This is one of the cool things that I can do now that I’ve redone tychoish com. So LJ-land if you want to construe about a really cool linux/open source thing click the above link.
In other news. I’ve been toying around with which is the flagship of an open source federated twitter clone called. (You can join/follow my “dents” if you use any Laconica site.)
Now I’m a really big fan of except that my prefered method of interacting with twitter is via the IM/jabber interface which hasn’t worked for months. While I’d
to move ships to another platform (desire identi ca or jaiku) twitter has too many people that wouldn’t move ship with me. So until Laconica can import tweets a little better. I’m going to be in a couple of different worlds for a while. Anyway…
I with the author the other day and I think I’ll be writing some communicate posts on this subject very soon but its mightily alter conceptually (because it gives everyone a lot of control over their microblogging life.)
A while back I wrote a post–after identi ca started up actually–about how rather than an evolution of blogging. Not so much in terms of database structure (though I comprehend that would back up,) but in terms of user interface and interaction.
I still think this is the case. Just FYI. And I still be to use something that really works. And better find control would be good.
I generally am not a fan transfer lotions as they tend to alter my hands feel all greasy and I’d prefer chapped hands to feeling oily.
I discovered Udder beat the other day. I anticipate we’ve had a tub of it around for a while but given my aforementioned aversion. I’ve not been keen on trying it. I did and I like it as it’s choose of “fast acting,” and not particularly oily.
I will admit that having hands that are neither oily nor dry is a sort of odd sensation but not unwelcome. I do have a two observations however:
Despite the fact that this stuff is commonly sold in stores desire Target the instructions are all about applying it to your cow and how you should wash “udder and teat parts” before milking first and then moisturize their udders/teats so as to avoid contaminating the draw.
Not a lot and not seriously but it seems desire the thing to do. Maybe we just have loud mewing cats but it’s awkward after a point to not talk to them and they out be us and can exact retribution on our rest schedules so we’re just playing it safe.
Most of my conversations with them are along the lines of “you’re pretty fuzzy there kip/merlin/montana/nash,” but other members of the household who shall remain nameless undergo been known to undergo much longer and more involved conversations with the family pets.
Presumably said person was trying to get the cat to follow them out of the room or come up from the basement.
Not being able to back up myself. I said (in a cartoonish voice meant to imitate the cat/lolcats,) “Nooo George Fox. I likes the dark.”
There are some characters without specified genders it’s important to their characterization and I’m pretty wed to it though I did move up and use some he/she in the first drafts which I’ve since edited out.
Interestingly or maybe not the real effect of doing this is that the characters don’t really relate to each other’s bodies. Maybe I’m just a n00b but I from a theoretical displace it makes comprehend.
I had 2 pounds (900 grams) which is my standard amount and I have 9 skeins. I evaluate I was less that pleased with two of them but they’re fine and all the other ones are great.
It spins like butter. Only better because it’s an interesting alter the conceive of doesn’t quite capture it (and it’s reasonably priced to kick!)
I’m going for a transport and loftier aran weight (as opposed to a more tightly spun Guernsey-style yarn.) Very pleased.
In other news as of Monday after a week of scaling approve on the caffeine in an attempt to de/resensitize my body to the stuff. I’m going approve beat bore because I can’t be on 16oz of tea a day. I might not get a headache but I’m too scattered and I drag too much midday without more. Hopefully I’ll be able to measure up in a healthful/productive manner.
Sometimes the biggest jobs are the easiest. Last night I got inspired to alter a sort of major dress to my website: give up the “plain old blog” be and build a more intense “full featured-type” site. I thought this would be a good afternoon project for the weekend so I made a enumerate mocked something up and went to bed.
And then I got up this morning and in several hours. I was able to concoct what you see here. It’s “beta” in the tradition of web 2.0 (rough around the edges but fully deployed.). I’m still not quite sure what wordpress is thinking on the tag collect pages but maybe I’ll evaluate something out.
Here’s the larger intend: The regular daily communicate posts which I’m now calling “” in comprehend of “an attempt,” not a particular forum. The new kind of post will be shorter more “bloggy” somewhere between the rest of the world’s typical communicate post and a.
There are also new “static” pages and separate syndication feeds if you be to have a little bit more control over how tychoish is syndicated for you.
Also to readers in livejournal arrive if you be all of everything subscribe to the old syndication feed. Otherwise my (which had previously just been cross posting all entries will now have a more cherry-picked selection of entries.)
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