Month: August 2023

You never know who you’ll meet while walking with Yuki

Walking my dog tonight. Who we met on the trail

Yuka had been stalking a rabbit in the backyard for a week, and today Yuka was fortunate, though it seems the rabbit was not. The rabbit had the sense (or whatever it has) to climb over the fence from a safe territory full of grass to a closed area with snapping jaws. Maybe it believed that after so many days they were already friends. Likely, in that minute while Yuka entertained the rabbit, it took a significant beating. Eventually, it squeezed into a crack where dogs can’t fit. Tomorrow at dawn, I will go check if it survived and escaped or survived and didn’t escape. Yuka seems to be spending the night in front of the closed backyard door.

UPDATE: This morning we cannot find the rabbit, nor can Yuka. I hope it’s doing well.

The dishwasher decided to cut off a piece of the glass goblet. The top centimeter

And I don’t quite understand, is this some kind of honorary guard at the cemetery, or are they going to wait there for 40 days? Well, as it is known, for up to 40 days after death, the soul undergoes trials and tribulations, and during these days a person has to answer for the sins they committed in life. Maybe it’s just a process happening?

Put in checkmate three seconds before the end. Too bad you can’t see the opponent’s face;-)

Frequent, not always neat blitzes (actually, recently, it’s no longer blitz but rapid chess) have wrecked my rating, but at least it’s honest.

Does anyone know how to calibrate an arbitrary color printer? I specifically want to calibrate mine, but there surely must be some tool where you upload a scan of a test print with clean colors and gradients, and it creates profiles that can then be applied to any image before printing to achieve better color accuracy than without all this? It’s understood that this introduces a scanner into the process, which adds its own color distortions, but it seems that scanner distortions are nothing compared to those from a cheap color printer.

Meaning, of course, you can just respond and manually adjust the sliders to make the scan and the original look as similar as possible. But in the end, that only lets me optimize the raster image, while I’d like this to be a default setting in the Mac OS printing system. Sure, for raster images I can whip something up myself, but I want such rules to apply to everything that goes to the printer from any application…

Have you ever tried cocoa beans?

Took these today in Washington. The inscriptions are very philosophical. Especially the arrows.