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
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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)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDk6IM52R-I)
[San Fermin - Jackrabbit (Studio Music Video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWJeQdqg_0s)
~caff
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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
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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 )
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 )
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
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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