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Weeklog for Week 24: June 09 to June 15

Progress

First, two birthday parties.

Then work.

I helped a neighbour flash ESPHome on their device, because Windows. Maybe I need to add some of these to my home as well.

The parts for a new PC arrived, and I built the PC up. Hadn't done that in a long time.

The details of my first real employee take more shape. It's going to be a bit more work, and some hardware investment, but I think we're almost ready to go.

Articles

Libraries, programming, etc

Books

  • The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older: A crime story set on a space station on Jupiter (although in the book it is called Giant for reasons I don't understand), written in somewhat flowery prose, and cutely quaint in its world building. It is British, through and through: everyone drinks tea and eats scones all the time, there's a huge planet-spanning railway systemAnd I do have a faint problem with the scale in this universe. Everything seems to be very close together, and the times and velocities are way off. Circumnavigating the world takes about 15 days via rail. Assuming that these are high-speed magnetic rails going the fastest we can go in a gaseous atmosphere, which is 603 km/h, going 15 * 24 hours gets you 217080 km, or less than half of the circumference of Jupiter. These railcars (which will be described later) are actually quite small, some offering place for only four occupants, some of them are even suspended railways, so we must assume they go slower. Also, the atmosphere is much denser in that world, so we must assume they go much slower. So something is off. and of course the university is divided into schools and groups and student associations, almost as if it was one of the Old Names university. The main focus of this world is, of course, literature, and its main way of gaining new knowledge is reading -- naturally, I assume the author of this book is, in fact, an author. The main character, too, is oddly quaint. She's perturbed by every movement of her (potential, former) lover, yet doesn't care too much about someone potentially falling off a platform. She's enraged at the mere mention of something untowards about her university, her school, yet doesn't seem to know much about the state of it, or the world, or, to be honest, anything, really. Except, of course, each of the slightest movements of her partner. Which is an enigma, too; obviously autistic but also high-functioning and infused with all those qualities that an English major would think an autist would have.
    In conclusion, I don't know. It's easy to read, and there's a mystery, even if it's a slightly silly oneNotice that I did not mention the fact that the main couple are both women. Why? Because it absolutely doesn't matter. The book makes no big deal out of it, and neither should it. That is how you write representation: as something so normal it's barely worth mentioning. So, 7.5/10.

Games

  • Planet Crafter
  • Stray: everyone keeps telling that the game has great animations. But it doesn't. This is a cat we're talking about. Cat's are smooth and fluent and elegant in everything they do, but this stray cat is jerky and wooden and doesn't even properly blend between animations. Apart from that, the game is cute so far.
  • Oddada: such a cute toy.
  • Lightyear Frontier

Board games

  • Die kleinen Alchemisten

Recipes

  • Erdbeereis
  • Fantatorte

Other media

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