Daniel Lowe @dl@cantos.social

@chr
If this is your first moot
You _have_ to toot.

#introduction

I used to be a lot weirder. I'm a middle-aged geek, father to two boys, and I bang out code at #Google. I live near Boston now, but I grew up in central Mississippi.

I know the conlangs #Lojban and #TokiPona. I write hobby code in #Tcl and #CommonLisp.

I play a bunch of #music instruments, but none well enough to perform. I've been playing around with a DAW.

I started the cantos.social instance, trying to be a part of the small-scale Internet.

I try to be as kind as I can.

Actual #LifeProTip -

You have plastic storage. You have plastic storage lids. They want to be together, nestled up. "We love each other!" but NO. They must be kept apart, for the good of the kitchen. Put the containers on one shelf, sorted by nestable type. Put the lids on another shelf, sorted by size. How easy it can be!

Now step back and admire your work. Pick out a container and easily find its companion lid. You have brought peace to the kitchen. and yourself.

I've been reading some recently on the effects on a person when their identity is smeared across time on the internet. Being pressured in a way to be the same person forever, since stuff from your past can be dredged up.

When we practiced the old ways, we used only pseudonyms and discarded them when they became inconvenient. To choose a name was power. To hold another person's True Name had power (see story by Vernor Vinge).

Maybe we should get back to that. Maybe *I* should get back to that.

Quoted in the article:
"[...] Never read when you can reflect; read only, except in moments of recreation, what concerns the purpose you are pursuing; and read little, so as not to eat up your interior silence."

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/reading-ourselves-to-death

Honestly I have some spicy Comments concerning many of these Requests For Comment.

I've read so many RFCs but never the related Cs.

Speculative execution, but all paths of execution are simultaneously taken in quantum superposition.

https://medium.com/@socialcreature/the-covid-event-horizon-37dc504bf503 (via @craigmaloney) is one of the most disheartening things I've read so far, especially when I'm in the middle of my third case of covid.

I'm seriously contemplating what lifestyle I might accept to utterly minimize my chances, and the chances of my family, from ever contracting this again. Outdoor schools? Moving away from population centers?

The weirdest part about researching your genealogy is finding evidence that you exist because a couple of people four hundred years ago had the complete hots for each other.

Begun, the gas station sticker wars have.

Tested Covid-19 positive again. This is my third time to roll the dice. The rest of the family has it too.

Bad cold, my ass.

This insight brought to you by a recent rediscovery of how bad infinite scrolling apps are to have on a mobile phone. The temptation is to check them any time you're not doing something else, and it can really add up. Better to not have them constantly available at all.

The act of reading consumes spoons.

Moving your eyes across the letters, forming them into words, interpreting their syntax, reflecting on their meaning, integrating it into memory - all of this combines into a high-focus activity consuming finite brain resources. It can stealthily deplete you. If you're mentally exhausted, think about how much you're reading, not just what you're reading.

Dear Lazyfed:

I really need an Android app and/or website for family health logging. I should be able to log, per person, timestamped events with custom fields and optional levels per field. And then give me some graphs. This could be a generic tool rather than a specific thing.

I can find a ton of apps that will do this for a single individual (Bearable seems particularly nice even though the premium upsell is relentless), but none that work for families.

Our dog found some baby bunnies in our backyard and I'm trying to figure out how to keep her away until they mature