Figure 1. A map of California. The path of a zero and a quarter mile (zero and a quarter kilometer) walk is indicated. About 300 steps and 10 feet (three meters) elevation over a quarter hour, (a few minutes moving).
Goth surrealist tangential punny folklore ghost stories? Idk what the hell I just read and if it was a TV show I’d turn it off but I can read stuff like this all day long (and just did).
Figure 2. the paperback cover of “Magic for Beginners”, Stories by Kelly Link. An illustration of a woman with black hair parted down the middle, a long black doubled-over pearl necklace, and multiple rings and black wristbands in a black t-shirt holds a ferret? looking left (pretty goth imo), over a blue background. A sky blue rectangle with the corners clipped (as if it was a card tucked into cuts in the cover) is covered w/ the title in all caps sans, the authors name below in light blue over the blue background.Per Link’s website: The cover is modeled on Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Lady with an Ermine.”
Figure 1. A map of California. The path of a two and a quarter mile (three and a half kilometer) walk is indicated. About 4300 steps and 285 feet (87 meters) elevation over one hour, (three quarters of an hour moving).
Figure 1. A map of California. The path of a two and three quarters mile (four and a quarter kilometer) walk is indicated. About 5400 steps and 148 feet (45 meters) elevation over one and a quarter hours, (one hour moving).
Had to move the adirondack i was sunning myself in about fifteen feet into a clearing because the trees above where it was initially are so full of bees that every other thought i had was “buzz”
Figure 1. photo of a Sequoia grove to me east, the rising sun above, blue skies behind.
🏁 what I’m considering Glen Park and Diamond Heights, bound by Portola, Diamond Heights Blvd, San Jose, Bosworth, and O’Shaughnessy Blvd
🏁 what I’m considering Potrero Hill, bound by Division, 280, Cesar Chavez, and 101
Figure 1. A San Francisco street map centering the area bound by Market, 3rd street, 280, and Twin Peaks, on which most streets have a meandering purple GPS path I’ve logged on it, generally completing (in order I walked it) Noe Valley, Bernal Heights, the Inner Mission, Mission Dolores, the Castro, Eureka Valley, Glen Park, Diamond Heights, and Potrero Hill.
Figure 1. A map of San Francisco, California. The path of an eight and a half mile (13 and three quarters kilometer) walk is indicated. About 17100 steps and 738 feet (225 meters) elevation over two and three quarters hours, (two and a quarter hours moving).
Tenth book of 2024: “Pnin", by Vladimir Nabokov. Nice.
Figure 1. the current Vintage International paperback cover of “Pnin” by Vladimir Nabovkov, as I read it:a black leather frame that is set on and shadows a white field contains a bow tie constructed of two or three pieces of maroon paper covered with the lowercase typewritten letters p, n, i, and n in repetitive 8 letter blocks is affixed to white board with sewing pins.and a strip of cream paper with “Pnin” typewritten below,.
Unexpected tiling window manager bonus: image popovers immediately get tiled to the same size
I never really got into these things because I guess it never occurred to me that they would have pleasant margin options for single app configs, which for some reason I kinda prefer (tiled round rect windows and drop shadows at 0px margin and padding look weird, to me)
MoomMove, zoom, and snap windows. Arrange windows in layouts. Auto-adjust to display setups.Many Tricks (opens in a new tab)Figure 2. Link preview of https://manytricks.com/moom/, "Moom".Figure 3. screenshot of a computer desktop with the mastodon application Ivory open and filling nearly the entire screen. floating over Ivory’s main window is an image open in a window about 1/3 the size of the main window by volume, which seems to have been the default way to “show image” since lightbox.js ten or fifteen years ago or whatever.Figure 4. the same image loaded on the same computer with nothing changed except that Amethyst is running and instantly yoinked the image to fill the entire screen, which is always what I wanted when I tell the computer to “show image” or whatever, instead of lightbox.js style nonsense.
