Electric Josh

Happy new year
It's unbelievably foggy in Boston, like San Francisco but cold; off partying we go anyway.
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Movable Josh
Switching over to Movable Type, which replaces the handrolled Python code I worked on, and which I'm abandoning for a while. Or forever. Whichever. The old stuff is here, on the other end of my cable modem.
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Electric Lib
Now Libby has one of these things. Have fun, Lib.
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Back from the swamp
Disneyworld is the strangest place I've probably ever visited. What it lacks in overstimulation it makes up for in artifice. Everything is happy, and the music and prose blasted everywhere from invisible omnidirectional speakers is relentlessly upbeat, inspirational and mindless like a Bill Clinton speech or an 8th grade essay extolling the virtues of the wonderful, dynamic state of South Dakota. Except that you can buy things everywhere. The whole place is built on what was once swamp, and the abundance of land is a bit scary to the unsuspecting semiurban New Englander.

It was crowded, said the vendors, even by Disney standards. The rides were mostly great. The music was mostly teen pop, and one would assume that Disneyworld was a training ground for the manufactured stars of tomorrow. The occasional bit of classical choir or flamenco dancing/guitar was pretty amazing, and even the stuff I found distasteful was performed more than competently. These guys are pros. Animatronics were well done if silly. The mind boggles at the scale and thoroughness of the show. It was really a pretty good time.
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Xmas
We're off super early tomorrow morning to Logan, and thence to Disney. No posts, mostly on principle, until I return.
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Leaves
I spent the whole day mowing the unraked leaves into piles of damp confetti and then shoving the short piles into skinny paper lawn bags. They won't pick the leaves up until Spring, so the leaves will have to sit in a brave column on the back patio and hopefully not provide a warm winter haven for stinky vermin.
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