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One Christmas gift for my partner this year was a custom earring rack, which I made with birch plywood on my laser-cutter and then stained much darker. (I confess I don't love the pale-front-black-sides look of untreated laser-cut wood.)

Personally, I use emacs to keep track of all the raiding and war-making I do on behalf of various Dark Lords and Ancient Evils. I don't know what I'd do without orc-mode.

I've got error reporting mostly working, so I think the final thing to do is round out the stdlib and this little random-text language will be ready for a release.

Please look forward to my Anglo-French fantasy novel exclusively about cooking, The Huile of Time.

I've been sort of idly reimplementing my first attempt at a random generation language and putting a modest bit of polish into its REPL. I'm really happy with how it's coming along.

If you think about it, a tandoor has a naan-stick surface.

Here's what happens in my brain when I play Animal Crossing and watch Deep Space 9 on the same day.

It's called "platonic love" because if someone platonically loves you then they'd be willing to do you a solid.

I'm taking this week off because I have badly needed a break for a while. I also keep thinking about stuff I could be doing at work, which I think is very good evidence that I really do need this break.

Also, somehow, William Hurt's delivery of the "desert power" line in the 2000 miniseries was way more impactful and memorable than Oscar Isaac's delivery of it in the 2021 one, which mostly stood out because of how bad that line felt. The 2000 adaptation felt like a stage play, with mixed results, but it meant it could deliver Herbert dialogue raw and direct, as opposed to watered down for Serious Film Presentation.

I go back and forth between a B and B-. Overall I enjoyed it. The casting is mostly top-notch and the cinematography and visual design is great. The pacing is a bit wonky in places, and some of the dialogue felt weirdly butchered and clunky.

I also feel like they had an opportunity to do better with the Harkonnen and flubbed. (I think actually casting a fat actor as the Baron would have been better than what we got: Stellan Skarsgård in a fat suit.)

My opinion of the new Dune movie is that it did not have nearly enough Butterfly Hat. This is what a Dune adaptation should look like:

Current experiment: using the Glowforge to cut triangular grids on which to do works of "tri-stitch". I screwed it up in a few places, but it came out alright given that I'm not a practiced cross-stitcher and had to kinda invent tri-stitch habits as I went.

There is a non-zero chance that I am going to end up writing some completely useless LaTeX and/or Metafont code in the near future.

Gonna play a D&D character with horns and a tail and various demonic-looking attributes who also specializes in serving drinks before meals. That's right, an Apéritifling.

Loko Moko originally derives from the Latin Locus Mocus.

…now I gotta come up with another way to procrastinate on them, I guess.

Well, I did it: 25 posts in a row (26 counting the intro one) about projects I started but haven't worked on lately, posted daily: https://journal.librarianofalexandria.com/backburner-month#backburnered-projects-index