Daily Head Voices on Saturday 2024-01-06

Researching assault-style airbikes as an alternative cardio modality, for when I would like a workout that’s not running (for when my joints need some rest) and that’s not in the sun so much An assault-style airbike uses a big fan as the front wheel, and engages your arms and upper body as well. Seems to be an important staple in the crossfit world. I’m not sure if I’m the right person for it, but it sure looks convincing!

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Daily Head Voices on Friday 2024-01-05: Café Zest

Woke up to gorgeous day in Betty’s Bay, spent first half on the beach Spent second half of the day slowly packing up all of our stuff (not my favourite vacation phase), some drinks, and working in-between on stuffing the archaic wlziipsrv.fcgi into a debian bookworm aarch64 image. Mostly bunches of ugly new hacks to work around some of the ugly old hacks in wlziipsrv. Scenic Clarence Drive route home, stopped at Café Zest in Gordon’s Bay for dinner.

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Daily Head Voices on Thursday 2024-01-04

Pushed through to completion finally, the 2024 edition of the traditional yearly year transition blog post! Added an about page for the Daily Head Voices / lifelog (an edition of which you are reading now) How can I add this as a standard but discrete part of every DHV? Should I? Noticed that I can upgrade my super humble Hetzner VPS + its extra storage for visible-orbit.org to a newer Hetzner VPS with 4 x ARM64 cores instead of 2 x AMD64 (according to benchmarks in total a small step up), double the RAM and enough storage for current needs for only a few cents extra per month.

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Daily Head Voices on Wednesday 2024-01-03: Escalating streaks

Tom Scott, and the formidable power of escalating streaks a post by Simon Willison, who himself is now stranger to the formidable power of streaks… (hint: blog post monster) Went for easy run late afternoon. Run was super enjoyable. Hip niggle only made its appearance at around 5.5km and was manageable. Dinner with family in Betty’s Bay. During the day and after dinner spent some hours working on the year transition post, which is one of the reasons for this bullet list being shorter than yesterday.

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Daily Head Voices aka lifelogs

Read the “Writing” section of the 2023 to 2024 transition post for the slightly more detailed origin story of the daily head voices. In short: Starting on November 14, 2023, first on the emacs.ch Mastodon server and from December 18 right here on this blog, I publish a low expectations daily bullet list of life minutiae: Experiences, learnings and observations that might be interesting to Someone on the Internet. You can find all of the DHV / lifelog posts, or even subscribe exclusively to their RSS, under the lifelog post category.

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The 2023 to 2024 transition post

Welcome to 2024 everyone, and especially to this traditional yearly year transition post! Figure 1: View from first morning of the Cape of Good Hope hiking trail with family and friends. The 3-in-1 hill climb in the summer sun at the end of day 2 almost took me out. Overview, and a warning While the year transition posts down here are usually an optimistic and upbeat affair, I have to warn you that this year’s edition is a bit different.

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Daily Head Voices on Tuesday 2024-01-02: Culture of doubt

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt. – Richard Feynman Went to the beach at just after 11:00. Brilliant weather which for Betty’s is quite special, so the place was absolutely packed. Finally created org-capture-template to do the Daily Head Voices post setup more easily and more consistently, see below for the relevant element. Thought a bit about writing and then self-hosting the tool that scans the cpbotha.

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Daily Head Voices on Monday 2024-01-01

Typing this note in the fresh new 2024-01-Jan.org file, in the completely fresh new journals/2024/ directory. Had to fetch GOU#1 from her NYE party in Hermanus, where they had been focusing more on the party parts and less on the sleeping parts. On the way back, stopped at my aunt and uncle in Onrust to give best wishes for the new year in person. Slipped and talked about AI a bit.

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Daily Head Voices on Sunday 2023-12-31

If you’re reading this, you’ve successfully made it to the last day of 2023. Congratulations! My jokes about successfully not dying for another period of time are unfortunately starting to hit closer and closer to home. The bad jokes will continue until morale improves! (more about this later) The tail-end of yesterday’s navel gazing about these daily posts involved looking into this blog’s Hugo configuration. I really do like Hugo, but there is a substantial amount of implicitness and magic going on.

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Daily Head Voices on Saturday 2023-12-30

Woke up to overcast, rainy and windy day in Betty’s Bay 11.4km run with hip niggle brought me to exactly X.0 kilometres for the year, where X was my modest kilometre goal. I was not sure about that .4 until after I had recorded the run. Whoohooo! 🥳 Hip niggle is currently not happy with me. Will deal. Helped the electrician debug a non-functioning lights circuit, which turned out to be due to two disconnected load wires hiding behind the rail plate in the DB.

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