Barnaby Walters • Notes

Barnaby Walters: Anyone got scifi recommendations (any media) specifically for narratives which at no point involve sentient individual creatures moving between rooms, using doors or anything similar.

For example, I’d love to read something like Terry Bisson’s Meat, but where the narrators are repulsed by the fact that humans have to traverse 3D space, most often between artifically constructed bounded areas, in order to achieve their goals.

Anyone got scifi recommendations (any media) specifically for narratives which at no point involve sentient individual creatures moving between rooms, using doors or anything similar?

Articles like this one are the reason seriouseats.com is my favourite food blog. So much good information, so many excellent recipes. Making their French Onion Soup this evening.

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Evan Prodromou: Is there anything besides film, software or a rash that you "develop"? What a dumb verb.

@evanpro in British English you can develop an idea, develop land, develop a technique or product, and now I’ve developed semantic satiation from thinking about the word “develop” too much :)

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Brian Suda: finds some closure on a few orphaned notebooks. They've been re-routed to the proper home. The new scholarship awardees will enjoy them now.

@briansuda if these are the ones I think they are, props to Analog for handling them in such a human way

First thing I did after getting home from Germany was make mango lassi. @brennannovak, you are to blame for this fruity yoghurty deliciousness!

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gRegor Morrill: The llama thing was about a couple llamas that escaped and caught national attention. CNN even had a llama in the studio last night. http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/surprise/2015/02/26/sun-city-llamas-on-the-loose-abrk/24068713/

@gregorlove ha ha cool, thanks :)

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Ashton McAllan: Barnaby Walters: I was travelling all day yesterday and missed out on the “llama dress thing?”. Can someone fill me in?

@acegiak oh, that’s actually a pretty cool optical illusion! Thanks :)

I was travelling all day yesterday and missed out on the “llama dress thing̦”. Can someone fill me in?

Buying viola strings at justmusic.de in Berlin is a weird process. You choose the strings at the desk on the top floor, who give you a piece of paper and tell you to go to the ground floor. By the time you’ve got there, the strings have arrived in a little vacuum tube thing, and you pay for them.

I’m not entirely sure how this works for the pianos and do not intend on buying one to find out, unless they have a vacuum-tube to Iceland as well.

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Kyle Mahan: I’m confused, isn’t that exactly what the method you linked to (request.data) provides?

@kylewm only if the data isn’t in a “format understood by Flask” (a list of which is not given). Apparently it’s empty if the data has been processed by Flask.

Python-land: where it’s apparently acceptable for a popular “micro” web application library to not provide a consistent way of accessing raw request data.

I’m looking at you, Flask.

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Joschi Kuphal 吉: @BarnabyWalters Wow, that's news! So you're planing to move here? +@aaronpk

@jkphl @aaronpk yup, hopefully sometime this Summer, to sw Mecklenburg. Checking out the potential place (an old water mill) next week.

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Aaron Parecki: @BarnabyWalters Wow you make a lot of progress normally! What language are you learning? #duolingo

@aaronpk German, for my (hopefully) pending move there!

This week’s illness, measured in #duolingo XP:

(Context: when feeling more like a human than a sack of flu germs, I usually get between 60 and 100 duolingo “XP” per day. Thank goodness for streak freeze.)

Stay safe, Copenhagen friends.

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Aitor García Rey: Oh, and by the way @verkami joins cool kids like @CAH and releases its boardgame as a creative commons creation: http://www.verkami.com/year/2014/en#31

@_aitor looks cool (and yay CC) but that walking hand holding money is REALLY CREEPY

Drehleierwiki has a very comprehensive list of #gurdy string suggestions, and is excellent reference if you’re not sure where to get strings, what to get, or simply want to try something new.

I’m currently using a Thomastik Infeld Dominant Viola a1 medium, (synth core, aluminium wound) as my g, some unbranded roundwound violin G (turns out roundwound doesn’t sit nicely with my gurdy) and a Violin D for the D. Planning on replacing the D with another low G set up for harmony playing, and maybe trying some gut strings for my trompettes after I’ve made new chiens.

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Julien Genestoux: @kevinmarks https://waterpigs.co.uk/services/microformats-to-atom/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftantek.com%2F :(

@julien51 apparently my service doesn’t like @t’s site — I’ll take a look at it. Fortunately, Tantek provides his own ATOM feed :)

Rewatching Star Wars IV for the first time in years (not counting the Uncut) is a hilarious reminder of all the mondegreens my 10 year old ears heard amongst the dialog, such as threepio exclaiming that for droids to suffer is “our Latin life”