1. ChangeLog

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    • Switched from American-style knife and fork with dominant hand swap maneuvering to standard fixed knife in dominant and fork in alternate handed meal consumption. Use napkin to fix fork inaccuracies on non-ambidextrous systems after upgrading. Beta users can also spoon/fork now.

    • Posting now requires “command-return” where it used to require “return”. Use command-return a second time or bang on the escape key to un-full-screen every other app this error transfers to.

    Posted on Mastodon recently and archived here at /mastodon/2026/08/14/117096182245774655/ in the Mastodon collection.

  2. Grabtown Gulch to Purisima Creek

    We had an opportunity to go on a hike without the seven year old so we biased for elevation that he would not enjoy. It was a beautiful day to be in the shade of a northern California redwood forest along a creek.

    Figure 1. A map of California. The path of a five and a quarter mile (eight and a half kilometer) walk is indicated. About 10400 steps and 1207 feet (368 meters) elevation over one and three quarters hours.
    Posted on Strava recently and archived here at /strava/2026/08/09/grabtown-gulch-to-purisima-creek/ in the Strava collection.

  3. RE: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/107797954684040653

    gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)getting a lot of “infosec discourse” vibes from the shadows on the cave wall this morning as the sun rises so I’m wagging my finger in the direction of the entrance to the cave ⃔ ☝🏼⃕Mastodon

    Trying to find a gd post I know I made and it isn’t this one or the nonsense I boosted moments ago and I’m giving up on finding what I wanted but anyway, imho, this finger wag should be a standard ligature or whatever.

    Posted on Mastodon recently and archived here at /mastodon/2026/08/08/117062252206981726/ in the Mastodon collection.

  4. My mom has never acknowledged the times I used to sneak out of the house to do crimes. I’m pretty sure she knew or at least knows now (thanks, Sis) but she sure doesn’t post about it. Respect.

    Posted on Mastodon recently and archived here at /mastodon/2026/08/08/117061071325803327/ in the Mastodon collection.

  5. It was fun how everyone rallied around Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains" yesterday. Someone cool in chat suggested Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore’s “Vintage Season” ( https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20220847) as another great story-about-a-house and I enjoyed it last night.

    Vintage SeasonEverybody seemed to want the old house during May—and seemed willing to pay fantastic prices for the privilege. Strange tourists they were, too. The Café Society of another time. The 1992 American film Timescape, also titled Grand Tour: Disaster in Time, was loosely based on Vintage Season, though with a happy ending substituted for the somber conclusion of Catherine L. Moore's original.--Wikipedia.fadedpage.com

    TWCSR reminded me of PKD’s Autofac ( https://www.philipdick.com/mirror/websites/pkdweb/short_stories/Autofac.htm), which made for a pretty good if only kinda sorta related (as per) episode of Electric Dreams ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6902176/), which I really wish had expanded into a modern day Amazing Stories. Neither, unfortunately, are quite old enough to be able to share directly.

    AUTOFACphilipdick.com
    Posted on Mastodon about a week ago and archived here at /mastodon/2026/08/06/117049047969877717/ in the Mastodon collection.
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