bw @benjaminwil@tiny.tilde.website

snail email

2020

list of potential band names:

soft ambient pulse
bathroom agoraphobia
piss kiss

Thoughts on technical writing and accidentally gatekeeping communities, by @m455

https://m455.neocities.org/posts/thoughts-on-technical-writing-and-accidentally-gatekeeping-communities.html

just tweaking my bash prompt ~

just switched from zsh to bash, it's cool

my review of a little film in which the filmmaker (jennifer west), presents film titles from her personal bootleg movie collection – but i didn’t actually read her introduction first so i didn’t totally understand that that’s what was happening:

https://boxd.it/1ii7IF

oh, or these are bars that i intended to visit some place that i visited.

random old list i found:

nextareen dream
heart and science
lllpcorps reviver
old crustacean

pretty sure these are misspelled cocktails

another good plant

“What we must do is be ruthlessly skeptical. It is important not to let overconfident jabberers get away with presenting themselves as sages, saviors, and scholars.“

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/07/how-to-pretend-that-you-are-smart

classic gin & tonic, with lime 👌

pseudo review: instead of straight up tonic water, i’m using a locally-made tonic concentrate and conventional (sodastream) soda water. this is a very economical way of making drinks that require tonic, and i am a fan. the concentrate is from rootside provisions and i can very much recommend it: https://www.rootsideprovisions.com/

i read an interview with star trek: voyager’s kate mulgrew recently where she complained about how many times they changed her hairstyle throughout the show’s run.

and now, i have just witnessed, in the episode basics, part ii: a scene where they literally cut off 5 locks-worth of her hair and use it to start a fire in a star trek cave. it’s incredible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmPX3nkKLps

2.50 oz vodka
0.25 oz lavender syrup
+ a pinch of black pepper
+ ice

add syrup to a glass of ice, then add vodka, then stir to chill, then use a fine strainer to strain into a martini glass.

review: just was given some fresh lavender and was able to make some lavender syrup with it. it is so effective, even in such a small quantity here. this is a perfect, difficult to screw up drink. definitely will come back to it.

historic fire ~ by bw

2.00 oz dark rum
0.50 oz lime juice (fresh)
+ lots of ice
+ smoked ginger ale (fever tree tonics makes this)

add rum, lime juice to tall glass filled with ice. fill remaining space with smoked ginger ale.

review: my weird take on the dark and stormy in a house without ginger beer. would be nice to add a little more smokey something next time. something like sesame oil?

mexican martinez ~ bw variant

2.25 oz tequila resposado
0.50 oz vermouth blanco
+ some maraschino cherries (for mixing only)
+ 2 dashes of rhubarb butters
+ ice

stir ingredients and strain into a coupe glass. really sorry if a bit of maraschino cherry meat gets in the glass – use a bit of maraschino liqueur instead if you have it.

review: i think blanc vermouth makes everything taste pure. this is a surprisingly interesting drink and i will make more of them.

for those interested, this is an ergodox. the parts list and build instructions are available at ergodox.io

i ordered the diy cable kits from zapcables.com

and i got the multi-layer acrylic case cut from ponoko.com. i won't link to the github repo i got the case design from because... it didn't quite work out for me, and caused me a couple of problems.

3. the acrylic case had the layer names laser-cut into them. i.e. L2 - LEFT HAND. this was not attractive to me so i painted the underside of the first layer, so that it would hide the layer names from the user.