Daniel @daniel@campduffel.social
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Ugh, stayed up way too late re-watching Blade Runner 2049.
“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
- Kurt Vonnegut
I have hijacked someone's evening. I didn't mean to, but I did.
And the data was GOOOOD! It was pretty much stored in a hot car and garage for 27 years. Only one Karel program left on there and it looks like my brother obnoxiously deleted the rest and left an idiot recording of himself. He deserves this.
Found my old Karel the Robot disk…I think there’s some Pascal stuff on here too, at least there used to be. Amazing that I can get a drive and disks delivered tomorrow in 2025.
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The gifting season is coming up. I highly recommend checking out the SUMAK ONLINE STORE associated with the Santiago Partnership. You can find some very unique items and your money isn't going to a Big Tech giant like Amazon or Walmart. This store is built to help a community in Ecuador. All items are made locally to Ecuador. My wife is heavily involved in this partnership, so I'm not just recommending something that isn't worthwhile. Give it a look and act sooner rather than later. It's not easy shipping items from long distances.
https://www.santiagopartnership.org/sumak
If you want to know more about the partnership itself, go to https://www.santiagopartnership.org/about-1
@sundogplanets I saw this back in January and thought of you,. You might already know about it.
I never experienced the 1970's. Tell me something good or bad that you experienced from that decade that doesn't exist anymore. Could be just personal stuff, boosts appreciated.
“Of course you can use bitcoin. We love bitcoin. and now that the breakthrough of digital id transaction tagging is enabled, it’s accepted everywhere.”
- The State
“Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.”
-Dave Barry
I had to do a double take at the floor…we’re programmed to see faces.
Took Heidi to watch her first movie in the "cinema" today. She made it and had a good time! We also spent last night sleeping under the moon and stars on the trampoline...@mary tapped out early😂 At least she got some decent sleep. Seeing your 6YO daughter's beautiful face in the moonlight while she looks at you and whispers, "I love you", beats pretty much anything.
Daniel
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A pretty cool thing about the Fediverse:
It will still be around in a decade. Even two decades.
Usenet still exists. IRC still exists. Email still exists. When you build platforms on open protocols and standards, it doesn't actually matter what corporations try and do to enshittify it. So long as there are people who are still willing to run instances, and users who still want to talk to one another without going through some corporation's platform, it'll still be here.
Daniel
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Y’all. My heart (and belly) is so full at the end of these two weeks at the John C. Campbell Folk School. I can’t tell you how lucky I feel that I was able to take the time out of my “real life” to do a deep dive building new skills and honing some rusty ones. Being surrounded by folx from all kinds of backrounds who were also diving into their respective crafts and arts.
I’m more than a little emotional about heading home in the morning!
So. Here’s a picture of the result of all that work:
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200 years ago today, at roughly 9am, between 450 and 600 people boarded 21 waggons with seats on them at Brusselton, County Durham, England. There were also 8 coal and one flour Waggon attached to the train, and Experiment, a closed carriage.
This train was hauled by a steam engine built by Timothy Hackworth and James Kennedy, engineers at the Robert Stephenson and Co. factory in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. At the time, it had no designation, but it was given number 1 by 1827, and was named “Locomotion” sometime around 1833.
This engine proceeded to haul the train to Darlington over the next two hours, with two stops, one due to a broken waggon, and the other for some minor repairs to the engine. It reached a peak speed of 15mph, and averaged 8mph on that trip if you discount the time needed for repairs.
This is widely considered to be a turning point for the railways, as the first steam-hauled passenger train in England, and is being celebrated for that today. #SDR200 #Rail200
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