Jun 19, 2026
When we went to the coast last week I took a couple of pictures of Dust Mite chatting with a banana slug. Alas, my camera can switched to manual focus and all the pictures came out blurry, so we did a reenactment of that fateful meeting with our wooden slug acting as a stand-in for the banana slug and our living room floor acting as a stand-in for the trail out to the end of Cape Lookout.
—orc Fri Jun 19 22:04:52 2026
A photostitched diorama of the view south from the observation platform just south of the parking area @ Cape Mears State Park
—orc Fri Jun 19 21:27:43 2026
Jun 14, 2026
Discount has been pushed up to version 3.0.1.3 after a few trivial fixes:
- I updated the published interface (“API”) documentation to more correctly reflect how callbacks work,
- I went back in to my implementation of “fenced code blocks” (a creeping feature that a lot of markdownish software has implemented) to make it less ugly, and
- I continue to chase the ongoing dumbification of the C programming language standard by, ugh, having to hand-declare a prototype for
memset() because macos ventura no longer has it and the C compiler there loses its shit when it encounters an external function that doesn’t have a prototype.
I have not yet reached the point of software completeness that Markdown.pl is at, but at least these days the primary changes I need to make are around chasing the standard and keeping the documentation up to date.
So, New Code!! Try it out, see if your computer eats itself, and enjoy!
—orc Sun Jun 14 06:12:33 2026
Jun 13, 2026
(I could have sworn I posted this yesterday!)
Yesterday, SWITCTBN & I walked out to the western end of Cape Lookout, and we brought Dust Mite along. It was an arduous trek, so Dust Mite & I had to pose for a picture before we came back.
—orc Sat Jun 13 14:43:46 2026
Jun 05, 2026
Dust Mite poses in front of my railway bookshelf
—orc Fri Jun 5 23:18:25 2026
Jun 02, 2026
My inability to take a good selfie is undefeated, tho
—orc Tue Jun 2 17:23:45 2026
May 30, 2026
Our feral cherry tree is not (not yet, at least) producing enough cherries to make a pie, but each year’s harvest is getting larger. Maybe I’ll be able to make a pie from the cherries sometime before I die?
—orc Sat May 30 15:17:54 2026
May 29, 2026
A little light reading
—orc Fri May 29 23:32:26 2026
May 22, 2026
Dust Mite rides the rails
—orc Fri May 22 22:16:54 2026
May 16, 2026
(I got distracted until it was already saturday. Oh well!)
—orc Sat May 16 00:10:06 2026
May 10, 2026
A short evening ride before dinner
—orc Sun May 10 21:10:01 2026
May 08, 2026
The large & useful emergency Dust Mite wears a headscarf to bed
—orc Fri May 8 23:58:38 2026
May 01, 2026
Dust Mite is a little too small to carry my purse
—orc Fri May 1 23:48:13 2026
Apr 30, 2026
A picture my electrologist took of me after this afternoon’s face zapping
—orc Thu Apr 30 22:04:37 2026
Apr 29, 2026
Pacific Electric #1590 – a Baldwin-Westinghouse Class B(?) motor – in an undated photo. This is a dinky little machine which is apparently rated at 300 HP, and shockingly still survives; when the PE started to dieselize, they sold it to Ferrocarril Gen Urquiza, in Argentina, and eventually passed into the hands of Ferroclub Argentino, which has preserved it (and a couple of its compatriots.)
—orc Wed Apr 29 23:15:27 2026
Apr 24, 2026
Dust Mite accompanied me to Costco this afternoon (just to pick up a couple of prescriptions, so I rode the sweet fixie on this 16 mile loop) so I had to take a picture to commemorate the occasion.
—orc Fri Apr 24 22:23:02 2026
Apr 17, 2026
I got sucked into writing a webpage for the Cornwall Terminal Railway, looked up, and HOLY COW IT’S ALMOST MIDNIGHT. So, sigh, enjoy a low effort last minute mite.
—orc Fri Apr 17 23:58:23 2026
Apr 13, 2026
The Thompson Elk was rededicated on Sunday and I got a few pictures of it (not so much of the rededication ceremony, because the elk is the important thing :-)
“Monstrosity of art” is a real quote from a member of the Portland Elks Club, which refused to help dedicate the statue after it was installed in 1900. It may be a monstrosity, but it’s our monstrosity, and even the most useless members of the city council helped with the project to put it back in the proper place.
—orc Mon Apr 13 13:20:21 2026
Apr 10, 2026
I bought a second Terry Butterfly for the emergency randonneuse (which needs to have its rear end aligned and to have the fender mounts torched off and replaced with new ones that actually have enough clearance to fit a fender between a Confrerie & the mounts) and Dust Mite has already tested it and found it miteworthy.
—orc Fri Apr 10 23:54:02 2026
Apr 03, 2026
Shopping for some of the material components for red beans no rice
—orc Fri Apr 3 23:17:38 2026
Apr 01, 2026
It’s been a while, but NASA has managed a perfect launch of a trip around the moon! And it’s with a NASA-designed rocket that uses designs from the Space Shuttle (solid fuel boosters, first stage nozzles, probably much more) instead of one of the stupid big rockets from the usual crop of fascist billionaires.
—orc Wed Apr 1 21:28:20 2026
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