Travel / catching up
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Sun 13th Jan 2019 /cpj

Back from travelling out to PEI on a work trip. Was interesting, as we were
chased by a storm on the way out, and skirted a storm on the way back. I
hadn't been to the island since before the bridge, so was a good opportunity
to see the western part, which I hadn't been to yet.

<semi-brag mode on> I've been to every province / territory in Canada, save
Nunavut, which I hope to visit this year. I've also done it all by train,
where a train still exists. You see more when you move slowly, and with over
5K of track, there's plenty to see. There's a certain majesty to a slow
winding trip of several days, 24 hours long of travel, the clickity-clack of
the tracks to keep you company. I'll take that over plane travel, every day.

Interesting reads this morning on the Zaibatsu:

- wangofett on decluttering
	I've been following the story on KonMari since the show debuted on
	Netflix. I watched about five minutes of it before I lost interest.
	There's an article on CBC that references how the weeb has gone crazy
	with this.[1] Interestingly, the response to her suggestion to toss
	books resonated the most with me.

	As a professional recordkeeper, I recall Heinrich Heine's quote: "Dort
	wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen." (Where
	they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.)

- tfurrows on Fahrvergnügen
	It's been over ten years now since I stopped watching cable TV. Back in
	2000, I just started purchasing the shows I wanted to watch, and
	eventually, with streaming, just subscribe to the show on iTunes.
	Netflix is a bit addictive, however. Good shows, but a *real* time sink.
	
- visiblink on terminals
	There's a certain zen in the terminal. I find when I'm working
	fullscreen on a smaller machine, like my MacBook, I can completely
	isolate my thoughts to what I'm working on.
	
	I've started using new windows instead of tabs, because I find the tab
	list at the top to be jarring, as it reminds me that there's something
	outside of the terminal I'm in.
	
- moji on port70 stickers
	How about ":70" with a half-square cursor block, in an old font? Found
	_GlassTTY_, a VT220 reminiscent font.[2]
	
	Might be cool also as an iron-on patch.

Peace, all.

[1]	https://www.cbc.ca/radio/q/blog/the-internet-s-hilarious-responses-to-the-marie-kondo-craze-are-sparking-joy-1.4972043
[2] http://sensi.org/~svo/glasstty/