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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. |
| 10 | |
| 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. |
| 13 | |
| 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. |
| 26 | |
| 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. |
| 33 | |
| 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. |
| 38 | |
| 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. |
| 47 | |
| 48 | what a night. |
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