Brutkey

Devine Lu Linvega
@neauoire@merveilles.town

It feels a little surreal now to look back on ten years of living on the water. In my memory, all these sunsets blur into one unending dusk, at times overcast, but we've somehow weathered every storm, learning new things along the way. When all is accounted for, I feel so fortunate to have had the chance to do all this, meet all these fantastic people, go to all these fascinating places.

You know what else is lucky? That one of the brightest star visible from the northern hemisphere, Polaris, sits almost perfectly at the apex of the celestial dome, the layout of the stars that seem to us immobile on earth. When you scan the nightsky for the little dipper and find the end of its handle, this star that hardly moves at all, is straight up above the earth. I never truly appreciated this until now and I can't think of any piece of knowledge that has so deeply touched me.

Some of the best things that happened to me this year were anchoring in Ucluelet's smoky, jade colored water while hummingbirds swarmed around us pecking at the colorful halyards with their tiny beaks, watching the sunset barefoot sitting on driftwood, rowing to our friend's ship window before sunrise to pick up warm banana bread, stepping into a new pair of inline skates, finally making the time to implement Lisp for Uxn, getting lost in the mountains of the Austrian countryside and asking someone where the harbor is.

We don't have any plans for the next year yet, so I guess we'll just have to see!

For the year of 2025, Donna Tartt's The Secret History, was my favourite book. Robert Eggers's Nosferatu was my favourite movie. Lorna Shore's latest was my favourite album.

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Devine Lu Linvega
@neauoire@merveilles.town

There's a Siouxsie & the Banshees track in ever good xmas movie.

Devine Lu Linvega
@neauoire@merveilles.town

Day 22: I did some good progress on SunflowerBASIC this morning, when suddenly, while trying to take off my shoe, one of the pins that close the shoe snapped off. I put aside the computer and did some impromptu shoe hacking instead.

I've had this pair of Sou-Sou for nearly 15 years, I really want to keep wearing them. I walked to the Fjällräven store in town, they have a little in-store workshop to repair clothes. They gave me a couple of buttons(thanks guys!).

I probably have the only pair of Sou-sou in the world with buttons now.

#DecemberAdventure

Devine Lu Linvega
@neauoire@merveilles.town

Just learn a new unix trick today, you can get a temporary writable file from any process by wrapping it in parens?!

woah.

No more catting the output in sdafadsf

Devine Lu Linvega
@neauoire@merveilles.town

It has been 7 years now since I wrote the text editor I use today, before that, I used something called micro. I had to use micro again today and I just couldn't remember how to, I was totally useless with it. Turns out it is NOT like learning the bicycle.. I don't remember how to move around a text file without leap keys.

Devine Lu Linvega
@neauoire@merveilles.town

Going through all the lockers and getting rid of spare parts we've kept for years and aren't likely to need, our vessel must be like 200kg lighter now at least, but I can see it, in a week or so, we'll suddenly need that one obscure thing we only just gave away thinking we'd ever need it for anything.

Devine Lu Linvega
@neauoire@merveilles.town

If I write a letter
and mail it
to someone I love,
someone I love may write a letter to me.

Devine Lu Linvega
@neauoire@merveilles.town

The lost art of the 60s cover art design.

Devine Lu Linvega
@neauoire@merveilles.town

Feeling pretty HEALTHy right now