No ROOPHLOCH, and my October Gothic Just a general status update. I didn’t manage to do ROOPHLOCH this year. Partly, I was busy, but a bigger part is maybe just that I didn’t have anything new to do. Post from my phone, post from a modern but obsolete computer tethered to my phone, post in a park, post in a nature reserve. It just feels like I’ve done the easy levels, but the next level up is unreachable for me.
Weather and things I am, as usual for me and ROOPHLOCH, sneaking things in at the end of the month. One reason has been that it has been too damn hot here! It doesn’t normally start cooling down for autumn here until October, but this year it has been especially bad. Temperatures in the mid 80s F, with heat indices in the 90s. We’ve finally started to have cool evenings and mornings as of last week, and now after the equinox, I had been hoping the days would start being tolerable.
This list is necessarily incomplete, partly due to the complexity of
modern HTTP and HTML, but it hits the high points. If you think
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Today’s the last day to submit entries to ROOPHLOCH, the outdoor, off-grid Gopher logging event. I’ve submitted one the last two years, but I’m going to skip it this year. My main reason is that I want to move my Gopher hole to mirror my Gemini capsule rather than my website, but I haven’t got around to making that conversion. If I were going to post ROOPHLOCH this year, I’d rather it be on Gopher and Gemini rather than Gopher and the WWW.
I’d like to announce a new website I’ve created, called Gemini Quickstart!. It’s a guide to getting started on Gemini for non-technical users with no experience with Gemini, Gopher, or other alternative internet protocols. It walks you through installing a Gemini client, finding things you’re interested in to read, and creating your own space in the Geminiverse.
If you’re reading this, and you’re not on Gemini yet, check it out!
As is the tradition, I am writing this blog outdoors, for Solderpunk’s ROOPHLOCH 2020 challenge. I’m in a picnic shelter at Dreher Island State Park, where my family has been camping for the last two days. As an offline exercise, this is not especially successful, because there is WiFi in the campground. In fact, that’s why we’re camping.
With COVID-19 distancing measures in effect, I’m able to work remotely, and the kids are able to do school.
After I decided to give KOReader another try, I knew that I needed some way of getting news articles onto my Kobo. The methods that KOReader supports are RSS feeds, Send2Ebook, and Wallabag. I investigated each of these methods at least briefly.
I ruled out Send2Ebook because it involves the client app sending your documents to an FTP server, and I’m not willing to run an FTP server in the year 2019 CE.
Protein pancakes are kind of a trend now, and you can buy pre-made mixes. It makes sense, because pancakes are a comforting breakfast food, but people want to have more protein in their diet, and fewer carbohydrates. This is my own recipe for making them from scratch. It is not low carb, but it should be a complete protein, since it includes a legume and a grain. The secret ingredient is chickpea flour, which you can buy at an Indian grocery store, where it is sold as “besan” or “gram flour”.
Gray Area responded to my Kobo post, pointing out, among other things, that you can actually save settings application-wide in KOReader, and not only for a particular book. That motivated me to give it another try, mainly for the sake of better font rendering, and hypenation (the lack of hyphenation in Nickel drives me batty).
So far, so good. I’ve got the defaults the way I want them now.
I mitigated the issue of Calibre making it hard to browse books in KOReader by configuring Calibre to not use subdirectories when sending books to the Kobo.
This is a recipe that’s actually 100% my own, though there’s nothing very original or creative about it. This is a soup that is optimized for being easy and fast to make, while still being filling and having a reasonable amount of protein.
Ingredients 2 Tbs vegetable oil 1 large sweet onion, diced 2 carrots, quartered lengthwise and diced 8 cups vegetable stock (I use Not-Chick’n Bouillon Cubes). 3 cans different canned beans (e.
