Week Notes 30

Week Notes for October 28 - November 3, 2024

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I'm trying a slightly different format for my weeknotes. Kind of related to one of the links I'm sharing further down.

Things this week

• I bought a farraday box for our car key fobs. Happy to report that it works great! I tested it out in the car with the keys in the box - and the car wouldn't start.
• The DS9 model kit my friend got me at Christmas is coming along nicely! All the pieces are put together, and I just bought some paint on Saturday. So two more steps until I'm done: painting, then decals. I really should have followed the suggestion on the box, to complete pieces in separate stages and paint/apply decals before attaching it all together. But I couldn't help myself.
• Happy thing: the sound my dog makes as she trots through the fallen leaves in Autumn.
• I baked muffins and they turned out excellent. We had frozen blueberries from my father-in-law who picked them last summer, and they're still mighty tasty.

Things I made this week

• The Monster in Your Mind | Photos by Stephen Gower
• I shouldn't design a transit system, ever
• Suspense Files and Building Habits
• Wednesday Thoughts 03

Tech & Blog Stuff

• I tried Darktable (very briefly) - I think it's too barebones for me compared to Lightroom. I can see how it would work faster than Lightroom does on my computer, but I couldn't quite figure out the interface. I didn't give it a good chance, granted, but first impressions are pretty important.
• Added a nametag class to my stylesheet (see below). I want to use it to emulate when you tag somebody in Discord or Teams etc.
  • Of course if you're reading in a feed reader you won't see it.

Media

• I'm really enjoying the Stingray Radio channel "Decades of Alt Rock". It seems to have a lot of contemporary alt music (as I type this, Foster the People's "Lost in Space" is playing) but also some 2000s indie. It's a corporate streaming service but it's good. I also recommend the Live 88.5 "The Café" channel^[1].
• Sunday I had the sudden idea to make 2025 the Year of Not Tracking (for books, at least). I currently track everything on The Storygraph, and I have been setting reading goals for the last couple of years. I know I'm not going to hit my goal this year (20), and I don't really care - it's just an arbitrary number I picked. But I'm leaning toward not even tracking books next year. Don't know why...just a thought.

Links

This weeks links come exclusively from @Jedda. She has a post roll where she posts links to individual articles. Often these are articles I don't see on my own - so I'm glad that she does so. Every week in her weeknotes she "rolls off" a set of links so that's how I end up finding them.

• What is it about people who write Weeknotes? - Twelvety
• Hunting Cryptids with Frame 352 (and a cheap thermal print camera) | quailblog
• Frame 352 by hugeboar - This is related to the above post; this looks like a really fun game to play. Sounds like something fun to do on a hike.