03 november 2016
Hello guys! It's time for my second day of blogging my feels, and it feels so good! (Pun pretty much intended) I've spent most of today unmotivated, but still trudging through some work, thankfully, so I don't feel completely bad about my progress, but I still wish I could have accomplished more today. Going to try and get some sleep tonight to be super productive tomorrow, since there's very little left for me to hit deadlines that I need to, and I'm super excited about that.
It feels great to be home though. Netflix did me a great service, and reminded me that Supernatural is indeed a thing, and that I should watch it all. (Season 11 is now on Netflix in the US for those of you who enjoy Supernatural!) I decided to start over at season 1, since I haven't watched it in years. I also realized that despite me wanting to watch Kung Pow for a while, I never have gotten around to it, and much to my chagrin, it's not available on any streaming service I subscribe to. Not on Netflix, not on Hulu, not on Amazon Prime Video. I could rent it from Amazon, or buy it, which I may do, but there's so many streaming services, it's crazy that sometimes you just can't find something you want to watch on any of them.
In addition, I'm finally doing some setup on Manjaro, which is apparently one of the few Linux distros that my monitor likes, with several different Debian and Ubuntu-based distros causing an ambiguous "Input Not Support" on my off-brand monitor. I suspect it may be detecting a larger resolution than is available, or doing something funky with the refresh rate, but I digress. Today's more of a "venty" day for me.
~caff
I'm still staying commited to including a song with my ttbp posts. Since I shared a downtempo alt-J song yesterday, along with plenty of whining about rain, or rather the lack thereof, today I figured I'd share a more uptempo song. It's also appropriate, since I would probably have still never heard of them if they didn't open for alt-J at a concert I attended, and I'm obsessed with them now. An eclectic mix of instruments, from brass, strings, and more traditional pop instruments, San Fermin's Jackrabbit produces a very eclectic mix of sounds that come together beautifully. A genre that I believe is termed "Baroque Pop", it's something very unique sounding. The live version also has a very different energy from the studio-recorded version for reasons I cannot quite put into words, so it's only fair that I include both, and let you decide for yourself.
San Fermin - Jackrabbit (Live Music Video)
San Fermin - Jackrabbit (Studio Music Video)
~caff
Now, for some town business. I've made a few more tweaks to caffbot that should improve the round-trip quality of translations. (As in they should mostly make it back to English, or something vaguely English-like, as opposed to a mixture of English and Bengali, or Korean, or some other script.) I've also identified an issue that I hope to resolve soon. If a translation direction isn't supported by Yandex.Translate, it will return a 501, which in turn causes caffbot to freak the hell out. The sane thing to do is to simply retry if it returns a 501, which is probably the fix I will end up implementing. If anyone wishes to help, let me know and I can figure out some sort of git repository for caffbot for additional collaboration! I'm also very excited to announce that the previous five lines of writing, well, now six, were exactly 80 characters across. Not at all useful information, but I love little things like that.
~caff
Back to caffbot for a bit. I forgot that I've found a couple favorite lines from
!telephone.
20:00 <@krowbar> !telephone To sleep, perchance to Dream; aye, there's the rub
20:00 < caffbot> Translating to foreign languages! Please wait, it may take a while... (Results Powered by Yandex.Translate <http://translate.yandex.com/>)
20:00 < caffbot> en->is->su->ko->ta->mk->mn->is->en: The sleeping God dreams honey,Yeah,you can rub
Oh my. Thank you for that amazing line ~krowbar! I don't think that could have been better if you'd tried.
Also, while not quite as thoroughly entertaining as the previous one, I did try one that I'm moderately happy within response to tildebot telling me that I am, in fact, better than a horse.
07:56 < caff> !telephone You are a horse amongst men.
07:56 < caffbot> Translating to foreign languages! Please wait, it may take a while... (Results Powered by Yandex.Translate <http://translate.yandex.com/>)
07:56 < caffbot> en->pl->no->ka->ceb->gd->fi->en: You are horse people.
You are horse people.
I'm easily entertained by things like this, so please forgive me for rambling about this, but hopefully you'll find it at least mildly entertaining!
~caff
One more caffbot update today! I've implemented a new command! !polyphasic
will give you information on alternative sleep schedules. It's kind of cobbled
together at the moment, and should work, but if you find any issues with it, let
me know. The returned information will give you a short blurb explaning the
sleep cycle, and a representation of it on a 24 hour timeline, with each cycle
starting at midnight, and sleep marked by #, with awake time marked by ..
Hope that this proves interesting to some of you!
~caff