In the early afternoon I checked the traffic page of the Github repository of
tumblelog. I noticed
listed under referring sites the site
wolfgirl.dev. Checking the blog I found out I
got listed in PolyWolf's Other Static Site
Generators
post:
tumblelog by
John: Both Python & Perl versions of the
same program, kept in feature parity?? They say it hasn't been done
before now. Interesting concept to use Markdown files as the basis
for templating instead of HTML; I guess makes sense given
technically it's a subset, and given the intended use of the program
(microblogging).
In the afternoon Esme and I went to De
Carlton, a garden centre which is just a
short bike ride from our house. Esme wanted some plants for our garden
and I wanted to have a look at the orchids, first.
Close-up of a Cambria orchid flower.
Soon, I noticed a section with "Cambria" orchids. From what I
understand those are technically × Alicerara the hybrid name for
intergeneric hybrids between three orchid genera: Brassia ×
Miltonia × Oncidium. Commercially, × Cambria is used.
Close-up of Cambria orchid flowers.
I selected a large specimen with two flower stalks, one of which had
still closed flower buds. Later, I went back to take some photos of
the flowers of other Cambria orchids on display.
Close-up of a Cambria orchid flower.
After Esme and I had selected some more plants for our garden we paid
and left on our bikes. Back home, I first took a close-up photo of the
orchid I had bought.
Close-up of a Cambria orchid flower.
Next. I took a photo of the whole plant in its dark flowerpot, which
we also bought in the same garden centre. The orchid will share a
small table, together with two small Phalaenopsis sp. orchids.
Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a
grandfather. On the way they stumble across what appears to be a
deserted house, only to discover something sinister
within. Something armed with a chainsaw.
In the evening Jaiden, Esme, and I watched The Texas Chain Saw
Massacre. Jaiden had requested
this movie and liked it a lot. I liked the movie not that much but
rate it a 6 out of 10.
If you want to obtain a list of Mac ports you installed (requested)
and that are active use the following command:
port installed requested |
grep -F '(active)'
requested is a pseudo-portname limiting the list to installed ports
that were explicitly asked for. The grep command limits this list
further to the ports that are active only. It checks for the exact
string (active) using -F. By adding -c to grep one gets a
count of the requested and active ports.
In the late morning I finished Trullion: Alastor
2262, Alastor book 1
of 3 by Jack Vance. Despite having read this story several times
before the story still felt fresh. In short: it was very good.
Last week, Tuesday the 14th of April I ordered a
Monocentropus balfouri female with a body length of 3-3,5cm with
Exotic-Spiders. I had ordered three
tarantula
slings
nearly 6 years ago with Dawid Staroń, the owner, before.
I ordered the Monocentropus balfouri female to replace a (larger)
female
that passed away a few months ago, without an obvious reason, after nearly
3 years in my care.
Last Tuesday, the 21st, I got in the morning an email
confirming my order. I was already anxious the past few days because I
hadn't received any confirmation email from the website's shopping
system nor a reply to an email I sent to Dawid last Friday. But my
worries were for nothing: the confirmation email was in the afternoon
followed by an email from UPS that the package was on its way.
And today, just around noon the package was delivered. Inside a
cardboard box filled with polystyrene chips was a smaller package
wrapped in a polystyrene sheet. This package, a small styrofoam
thermobox, contained the live spider.
Styrofoam thermobox containing a female Monocentropus balfouri.
Heeding the warning on the thermobox to be careful I put the box
inside the terrarium: a large plastic container with a layer of
coconut coir and some decoration, like plastic plants, and a piece of
cork. The plastic plants will be webbed over soon; in my experience
this species is a heavy webber. Next, I carefully removed the lid of
the box and used large tweezers to remove the moist toilet paper
covering the tarantula.
The spider rested on another piece of moist toilet paper which I
lifted and placed next to the box. After this, I removed the box and
gently moved the spider off the paper using a paintbrush.
Monocentropus balfouri female resting on moist toilet paper.
Moving it to its terrarium went without any issue. This spider is an
old world tarantula and its bite can be very painful I've read. Also,
in my experience, this species can be very skittish. When I moved the
container later on it ran quite fast around the container. In short,
not a species recommended for a beginner in general.
The spider looks certainly larger than a body length of 3.5cm. I think
it's closer to 5cm (roughly 2"). I will wait a few days until its
settled with feeding this beautiful tarantula.
The Alastor Cluster is made up of three thousand inhabited planets
whose sole protector of law is the mysterious Connatic. On Wyst,
world 1716 of the Cluster, can be found a Utopia - or so it seems;
in one great city live millions of people, sharing alike, working in
absolute equality for just a few hours a week. But there is
something decidedly strange about it all...
In the afternoon I started in Wyst: Alastor
1716, Alastor book 2
of 3 by Jack Vance. I downloaded the version with a great cover by
Konstantin Korobov. I had read this book several times already and
look forward to a reread.
Back in the late 90's I bought a second hand Silicon Graphics Indigo
R3000. And because I like to name my computers after planets in Jack
Vance's universe I named it Wyst because the tower workstation could
resemble a big apartment block on the planet Wyst.
Trullion - world 2262 of the Alastor Cluster - is a water-world of
fens, mists, and idyllic islands set in clear oceans whose teeming
richness provides food for the taking. The Trill are a carefree and
easy-living people, but violence enters their lives during raids of
the Starmenters, freebooting galactic pirates who live short,
perilous lives in pursuit of adventure, rape and pillage. Then
there's the planet-wide game of hussade - when the Trill's passion
for gambling drives them to risk all - even life itself, on the
hazardous water-chessboard gaming fields. Their prize? The beautiful
sheirlmaiden...
In the evening I started in Trullion: Alastor
2262, Alastor book 1
of 3 by Jack Vance. I downloaded the version with a neat cover by
Konstantin Korobov.
I had read this book several times before. It's
one of my favourite Jack Vance books, especially since I grew up near
a canal and even had my own small rowboat. Later, when I owned my
first (second hand) Silicon Graphics Indy R5000 I named the workstation
Trullion because of its teal blue "water" color.
