🗓 Microcosm - 2025 Feb 8-14
📝 FEB 14 2025 15:01
Getting back into 750 Words as a supplement to my daily blogging. I didn't realize that there was a new version and that as an original 2010 era user, I would be grandfathered in. Going for a 100-day streak.
🐶 FEB 14 2025 13:3
Took the pups to the vet with Mary during my lunch. They did great and were a hit with the staff there.
🤧 FEB 14 2025 07:39
Rest of the house seems to be recovering from the bug that's been going around. I'm still fine (knock on wood) other than having the same slightly stuffy nose that I've had for the last week.
☃️ FEB 14 2025 07:37
Slight dusting of snow so far this morning with more on the way this afternoon. Hopefully it won't be too much as I'll be driving across town to drop some stuff off for my daughter and then on to my Mom's for a visit.
🎵⚙️ FEB 13 2025 14:42
gibber.cc is a nifty code-to-music javascript platform I came across today.
FEB 13 2025 14:00
🍿 The Gorge (streaming on Apple TV+) sounds pretty intriguing. Definitely going to have to watch it before I cancel.
🧙♂ FEB 13 2025 12:50
I like Aetherdrift quite a bit so far and I know my son does as well. It's funny to see all the complainers on Reddit.
🤧 FEB 13 2025 12:48
A lot of sick people at my house so I've been working at home since Monday. I've been stuffy, but feeling pretty good.
🧙♂ FEB 11 2025 18:39
5-3 in my first Premier draft thanks to some help from Houston. He went 7-0 in his first one! Also should note that I picked up 8 rares in this draft.
🍏📱 FEB 11 2025 12:10
Didn't realize how unintuitive accessing file attachments in Apple Messages is. I messaged my son the Aetherdrdift epub I had made and couldn't figure out how to open it in Books without going onto the internet to look it up.
📱📚 FEB 11 2025 11:07
The default margins in the Apple Books iPhone app are ridiculous, but they added a margin control slider at some point and setting it all the way to -10 seems perfect.
⚙️ FEB 11 2025 08:46
It's fascinating to look at BASIC code from the 80s again after decades of exposure to modern programming languages. Not only is it easy to grasp what's going on with the code for the most part it's amusing to realize it's just one step removed from assembly language.
📚⚙️ FEB 11 2025 07:53
I hadn't tried Sigil in a long time but gave it a go today since ebooks have been on my mind recently and I'm quite impressed. Very nice cross-platform tool for directly working with epub files.
🐶 FEB 11 2025 06:36
Tough night with the pups. One of them barked constantly and refused to settle down in their crate last night.
📚🧙♂ FEB 10 2025 21:16
Getting the hang of my Magic Story to eBook compilation process. Confirmed that the Readability option was screwing things up in Marky while converting the first three or four chapters from Tarkir.
🧙♂ FEB 10 2025 18:18
Xsolla still seems to be broken in the Mac client. Windows is fine, but I can't believe this bug has remained across multiple sets.
🧙♂ FEB 10 2025 17:05
The new Achievements functionality in Magic Arena debuting in Aetherdrift looks really cool. I'm excited that people are going to have more motivation to try different stuff.
🍿 FEB 10 2025 13:44
Thunderbolts looks pretty fun. I'm actually more interested in it than the new Captain America.
🥶 FEB 10 2025 12:39
Absolutely frigid morning today. Had to take the dogs out before 5am and it was like 5°F at the time.
🍿 FEB 09 2025 22:20
Howl's Moving Castle 👍👍 Watched with the family tonight and enjoyed it a lot.
🏈 FEB 09 2025 22:18
Did not watch the game today and am ambivalent about the outcome other than thinking it's cool that the Eagles won so handily over the Chiefs.
📚⚙️ FEB 09 2025 17:30
Made a lot of progress with Pandoc today and have a workable setup for assembling epubs that I'll be able to reuse in the future now.
📚⚙️ FEB 09 2025 07:59
Going further down the pandoc -> epub rabbit hole this morning. I want to use one of the default Marked styles called Amblin, but it relies on a wrapper id so I'll need to provide a template to pandoc.
📚 FEB 08 2025 16:07
It's always annoyed me that the Magic Story episodes are only released as individual web pages. So working on a process to quickly package them up in an epub I can load on my Kindle.
🧙♂ FEB 08 2025 08:16
Houston is doing an Aetherdrift prerelease this afternoon so I had to get my pre-sleaved lands box squared away so he could use it. At this point, he should probably have one of his own given how much in-person MTG he plays but I don't mind sharing.
🐶 FEB 08 2025 07:26
The pups slept really well last night. They were starting to crash by about 9:30 pm, settled down in their crate when we took them up, and didn't start stirring until about 5:45 am this morning.