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The news that C3 is cancelled made me almost tear apart. I really miss the congress.
Hopefully there will be some sort of remote C3, perhaps by some collection of decentralised conferences. Here's the CFP for the first one I have seen so far:
Some friends are planning on doing something anyway, even if there's nothing conference-like to watch, perhaps a remote(?) hackathon and some lightning talks. And a lot of Club-mate, of course, with or without rum.
I will probably be in my cottage, depending on if there's a floor in the kitchen or not. I'll add some LED strips and stuff to my "office" there and try to be cheerful. P says I was very moody during the last few pandemic remote C3s.
Had a nice dream the other day that I was working and living in a large house somewhere in the UK countryside in the late 1980s developing an alternative operating system for the Atari ST Mega. I was just getting my intro to the code and to the other people there. We had these really nice, large monochrome monitors for the STs. They were taller than wide, I think. I don't think anything like that existed for real.
Had to duckduck for something similar when I woke up and found mostly the SM194 19" Moniterm/Philips monochrome monitor and the Viking graphics card, max resolution of 1280x960. Not bad! Expensive stuff, though! Card and monitor costed 2400 USD in 1989, much more than the Mega and a hard drive would cost together.
Nice dream, though. What a dream job!
I created an account on Codeberg and pushed a few projects:
When I was a teenager I was often walking home from school reading. Yes, reading while walking. I didn't do it as much in the morning, but I was always so tired in the morning so I guess that explains it. Still am.
I bumped into this about Robert Heinlein written by Virginia "Ginny" Heinlein, his wife:
> He did, in fact, read on his way to school, going along the street, up and down curbs, up to the schoolhouse.
Haha! I didn't know I shared this with Robert. From "Grumbles from the Grave", edited by Ginny:
Like everyone else I read a lot of Heinlein in my pre-teens and early teens. I vividly remember "Space Cadet" and especially "Tunnel in the Sky" which I probably read in Swedish ("Rymdkadetten" and "Tunnel i skyn") somewhere between nine and eleven. I thought it quite funny that when I met my ex-wife H I found a cute photo of her at maybe ten-years-old reading "Tunnel in the sky" with a cat lying on top of her.
I think maybe "Tunnel in the sky" formed me a bit politically, especially with its focus on cooperation instead of competition, as far as I remember, but I guess many things did.
Later Heinlein stuff, "The Moon is Harsh Mistress" and especially "Stranger in a Strange Land" made an even larger impression.
Celebrated P's birthday at a very relaxed and surprisingly affordable fine dining restaurant, Lyran matbar. Eight courses. They have a vegetarian menu but you have to tell them when booking if you want it vegan. Really nice experience. Recommended.
The local hacker/startup culture thing Foo Café had a bar/mingle party thing: Foo bar. I went with a friend and brought a TK1 with me. It seemed a bit off, really, and there wasn't much people but we had free beer and free pizzas (yes, even vegan!) so who am I to complain? Talked with a lot people, mostly about the TK1 and work stuff, but rather enjoyed myself.
When we ran out of beer we moved over to Hyllie brewery's pop-up thing close to the train station and continued for a while.
Every Friday I go the gym with some friends. The gym thing is, some say, an excuse to sit and talk in the sauna afterwards, but yes, I know, the exercise is good for me, especially for my back. I try to fit in at least two gym visits besides the two fencing days every week. Recently I even forgot my gym clothes! Instead we just sat in the sauna for a while and then went straight to a bar for a couple of cocktails! They didn't even get upset when we ordered outside of the cocktail list even though it wasn't really a cocktail bar.
Depeche Mode is going on a tour this spring. DM is one of my favourite bands, ever, up there with Sisters of Mercy.
I bought tickets to their concert in Stockholm on May 23. I'm thinking about checking again if there are any tickets left to the later Copenhagen concert as well. I'm hoping that we can have a small party before the Stockholm concert somewhere.
I noticed that the strange film adaption of Birgitta Stenberg's novel "Apelsinmannen" is still available on the state TV, so one late and bored night I watched it. Again. For perhaps the fifth time? Sixth?
The main character is the 18-year-old Birgitta. I really like that the real Birgitta is in the crowd at the jazz club! There's also the 20-something poet Paul, a sort of Swedish Rimbaud character.
Interestingly enough Görel Crona was 31 when she played Birgitta and Rikard Wolff was 32 when he played Paul! This is even more strange considering that the actor Figge Norling is also in the film. He looks much more like the real Paul than Rikard does, and he's of the right age, but he doesn't even get any lines!
After viewing "Apelsinmannen" the first time, probably in 1991, I became slightly obsessed with the real Paul Andersson. That Newtonmas my mother gave me his collected poems. Perhaps she noticed how I reacted to the film. Of course, both the film Paul and the real Paul were miserable junkies...
Synchronicity: A Christer Strömholm exhibition of his Paris photos from the 1950's and 60's recently started in Stockholm. I read a review with some of the photos and who do I see in one of the photos? Paul Andersson, of course!
PiDP-10 is coming along. Here's Lars Brinkhoff playing with a prototype:
SJ told me that I have travelled 10,655 km with them the last 12 months. Much less than when I worked in Stockholm when I travelled >16,000 km every year. And that's not counting local commuter trains or trains outside of Sweden, of course!
Going to Gothenburg (by train) again next week. Luckily it's just two days for me. Some people have to stay at a hotel for a week!
I am, again, contemplating a bespoke or at least made-to-measure suit. I'm thinking bamboo and I don't know what any local tailors will say. Check out, for instance, these nice fabrics from Huddersfield Fine Worsteds:
About bamboo as a suit fabric:
> This changed in the mid-aughts when the renowned fabric wholesaler Huddersfield Fine Worsteds began experimenting with its Italian weaving partners to build a better bamboo cloth. After re-working their processing, weaving, and finishing recipes, they managed to create a bamboo cloth that takes to the needle like a fine worstedwool.
British King & Allen has these nice things with bamboo:
but importing from UK is rather complicated right now. And expensive. Might even be cheaper with a made-to-measure, but I have to find someone I can persuade to use bamboo.
mc,
Prickle-Prickle, the 2 day of The Aftermath in the YOLD 3188
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