The sun appeared.
This was unprecedented, so I decided to take a walk down the road. Arthur came along.
This tree has appeared before, here. But now it’s been winterized.
Walking along the road, we ran into our neighbor Mike, out walking the dog. He’s a little bit hard to see: center of the road, a bit behind the dog.
Day: February 2, 2020
Caveat: The Superb Owl
Today is Superb Owl Sunday – when people throughout the US and all over the world contemplate the fine owls they’ve seen.
I remember how weird it seemed to me, living in Mexico City in 1986, the way that the city seemed to grow so quiet and shut down because of the football game to the north. In fact, I learned that American football is shockingly popular in Mexico. I’ve always thought that Mexico City would be a smart place for an expansion team.
Unrelatedly…
Today’s date is a palindrome, regardless of your preferred format.
Do you like MM/DD/YYYY? Palindrome, check: 02022020
Do you instead prefer DD/MM/YYYY? Palindrome, check: 02022020
Or, like me, do you prefer YYYY/MM/DD? Palindrome, check: 20200202
When will this happen again? Far, far in the future.
Caveat: Too many projects, not enough motivation
[This is a cross-post from my other blog.]
There are many things I could be working on, geofiction-wise. I was chatting on the OGF Central discord channel a few days ago, and managed to enumerate 9 different ongoing geofiction map-drawing projects, all essentially unrelated.
- OGF / Makaska
- OGF / Tárrases+Mahhal
- OGF / Ardisphere
- Arhet / Deadlands+Hellbridge
- Arhet / Rasfsayan
- JOSM Only / Lekista
- JOSM Only / Tsiqeye+Preye+Domeye+Sekeye (4 continents of a planet)
- JOSM Only / Bofobunda+Zhebeyem
- JOSM Only / Senhar
All of these above-listed projects are basically not moving forward at all.
Meanwhile, I also feel that I should be working on things like upgrading and/or completing the deployment of my map server (currently called Arhet). I also wish I had the energy to develop my expertise in the realm of getting contours working on Arhet, as they do on OGF. I won’t be happy with my own server environment until I’ve solved that.
But I have zero motivation, lately.
Anyone have any motivation to spare?
Music to motivate by: Taylor Swift, “The Man.”
Caveat: Poem #1281 “Self-skepticism”
My beliefs dwell in a parallel universe where I disagree
– a pseudo-haiku