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1 | title: community, code, a skunk, a dog, a rabbit, and an owl |
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3 | 2022-11-06 13:42 |
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5 | i recently rewrote my project, [https://git.m455.casa/nicethings|nicethings], |
6 | in chicken scheme. it was originally in racket, but it was old, messy, |
7 | redundant, and i just like translating programs from one programming language |
8 | to another haha. originally, it was in python before it was rewritten in |
9 | racket. |
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11 | i ended up simplifying a lot, shortening the code, removing commands that i |
12 | didn't think were that necessary, and yeah, it just felt good. |
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14 | the main reason i wanted to touch on it was that i wanted to get back into |
15 | making stuff for tilde.town. i really love just, like, being in a little |
16 | digital community and writing fun things that other people might use. they |
17 | don't have to use them, but it's just fun to contribute to the kinds of |
18 | treasures that others can discover while exploring the tilde.town |
19 | computer--that's one of my favourite things to do in tilde.town. |
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23 | i forgot to post about this, but the dog recently got sprayed by a skunk, and |
24 | it took forever to get the smell out of the house. eventually things went back |
25 | to normal, but what a wild night. |
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27 | after the dog was sprayed, and after i showered him, i took him out for a late |
28 | night walk. on the way home, i saw this really eerie creature that looked like |
29 | something you'd see on one of those black and white fake demon photos from some |
30 | wild documentary. it looked really skinny and bony with long arms hunched over |
31 | something on the ground. it kind of made my hair stand up, but it was far away, |
32 | and we kept walking closer. |
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34 | i saw it moving, and was almost sure that it was eating something off the |
35 | ground. we slowed down out of caution as we approached it in case this was some |
36 | wild creature from mars preying on a squirrel haha, but it turned out to be a |
37 | fucking owl. |
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39 | as the dog and i walked closer, the owl flew up on top of the tip of a |
40 | triangular-shaped roof right next to the sidewalk, staring down at us like it |
41 | was going to come down and scoop us up too. when we reached the spot where it |
42 | was eating, or, at least, looked like it was eating, i saw this mangled, bloody |
43 | rabbit with its guts everywhere. it was almost the size of the owl. we have a |
44 | crap load huge wild rabbits here, so the size of the rabbit wasn't as |
45 | surprising as how big it was in comparison to the owl. i had no clue that owls |
46 | prey on rabbits, but yeah, it was fucking wild. |
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48 | what a night. |
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