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[2022-05-05 Thu 11:30]

Eight hours of sleep. Such a miracle! Course I think I mentioned we’re staying right in the Fremont Experience, so that required waiting until around 2am to fall asleep.

I’m having some fun despite myself, but I am also very much looking forward to getting home.

[2022-05-05 Thu 11:46]

My only intentional use of Emacs at the moment is assorted Org mode tools, but even at that level it’d sure help to get more comfortable with it.

Got myself a copy of Mastering Emacs to fill in a few of the gaps between C-h t and wherever I’ve been at for the last few years.

[2022-05-05 Thu 14:26]

If I’m using this is a micro-blog type thing, I need to think in single paragraphs more. Anyhow, we needed to decompress so I spent some time puttering on layout here.

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hackers.town: 2022-05-05 Thu 00:16

BTW we compared notes on Tournament of Kings

  1. might’ve been more fun if we were 6yo
  2. the corn on the cob was ahistorical but worse it was gummy
  3. all in all, the biggie: some of those horses looked stressed to our (unprofessional) eyes

hackers.town: 2022-05-05 Thu 00:40

And just a free-floating annoyance: why do so many presenters, MCs, etc want me to convince them I’m happy to be there?

“MAKE SOME NOISE”

[wooh]

“THAT’S NOT GOOD ENOUGH”

Well too damn bad we ain’t paying our money to address your fragile self-esteem.

hackers.town: 2022-05-05 Thu 00:54

@lown honestly it’s not too bad once or twice but we’re in Vegas so we were urged on in so many contexts today.

My poor overworked brain eventually refused to emote further.

hackers.town: 2022-05-05 Thu 14:49

Having me some fun with https://randomgeekery.life. I’d like to get a lot more done, but what I’ve been missing most is comments so I think the next step is to start the base of that with http://utteranc.es

Sometime tonight maybe because we’re back in the world in a couple minutes.

Screenshot of site with post summaries listed

hackers.town: 2022-05-05 Thu 20:56

In the Bellagio. Alas, no sign of Sparkle Pony.

Kinda wish I’d thought about us maybe hanging out here a little bit, since I know where the side tables are. Could’ve brought my laptop.

hackers.town: 2022-05-05 Thu 21:09

Larger than life Spring theme.

Sculpture of giant hummingbird checking out sculpture of giant flowers

Giant yellow rose sculpture. It has dewdrops, each of which contain a life-sized bloom

Giant songbird sculpture flying over giant plastic daffodils

Yellow frog sculpture spraying water from a rock in a pool

hackers.town: 2022-05-05 Thu 21:14

@maddiefuzz it is! They change the installation routinely, so that was a stop I had to make.

hackers.town: 2022-05-05 Thu 21:30

“Heroic Nureyev” by Richard MacDonald.

Bronze statue of dancer, in high contrasting overhead light

hackers.town: 2022-05-05 Thu 21:57

Sissone (I think) by Richard MacDonald

Bronze statue of female dancer in dynamic pose, with smaller version of same statue

hackers.town: 2022-05-05 Thu 23:21

@maddiefuzz I’m sort of lucky in that casinos hit my ADHD / autism overstimulation buttons long before any gambling urge can set in.

hackers.town: 2022-05-05 Thu 23:22

@thegibson @maddiefuzz apparently they’re all Caesar’s now? Some sort of consolidation.