#screenPrint ALL THE THINGS!!!!




(pictures of two black furoshiki with screen prints on the corners: one is a debian swirl made of cat paw prints, in magenta, and the other one is my seal in light blue; on the furoshiki with my seal there is also a cut from an old pair of jeans, with the same design screen printed on the back pocket)

Yesterday evening I watched this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZskjLq040I (Irving Finkel and Tom Scott playing the royal game of Ur)

On my desktop, I may have accidentally had this:


(picture of two rubber stamps inspired by the rosette on the famous royal game of Ur board)

And so, today, this may have happened:


(picture of a minimalistic board for said game, with squares printed on a sheet of paper, the important squares marked with a rosette from the above stamps, 7 + 7 piecepack coins from white (black) and red suites (from a french suits variant, so that there are 7 coins in the same colour) and four standard d4).

TooItalian;DR: Tonight I had a funny dream with references to the Italian fediverse

Stanotte mi son sognata di essere in stazione centrale a Milano, poco prima dell'orario di punta, quando già iniziava a riempirsi, e vicino ad uno dei binari laterali c'era un *grosso* cinghiale, lungo un paio di metri, accompagnato da un ratto albino.

La persona che c'era con me gli ha fatto una foto usando l'app della polizia locale per segnalare cinghiali e l'ho accusato di essere un delatore e amico degli sbirri.

Who can guess what happened today? (requires quite some local context knowledge)

Chi indovina cosa è successo oggi? (richiede una discreta conoscenza di contesto locale)

My mother, today, just before lunch: “please, set the table. everything is already there”
Me, mock scandalized: “but these are meat knives and forks! we're having fish!”

I mean. The bare minimum decency!

(No, we didn't have guests or anything, she just had decided to use the fancy cutlery because a) Christmas time b) it goes in the dishwasher anyway)

@Bevilacqua Gustavino

You wanted to work on deciphering linear A? here there are a couple of books (and a few others on related subjects) :D

https://crewsproject.wordpress.com/crews-publications/

I just did a new #lesana release, Christmas edition! (not really, just "some spare time before Christmas, and a release was way overdue")

https://pypi.org/project/lesana/0.9.0/

and by overdue, I really mean it, the changelog is the longest one

https://lists.sr.ht/~valhalla/lesana-announce/%3CYcWYtIaYM67Dq6xY%40virginsteele.home.trueelena.org%3E

Updated packages are coming soon-ish to a debian distribution near you

I'm following too many people and I need to cleanup my timeline and my contact list a bit to make them more manageable, so in the next few days I will unfollow some people.

If you get an unfollow from me, sorry, it may be because I don't see enough posts from you, because I see too many, or a number of semi-random other reasons.

No, ma è un complotto. Mai avuto a che fare con cose del genere fino all'altro giorno, oggi stavo facendo window shopping di materiali artistici, e guarda un po' cosa mi salta fuori

https://www.mondo-artista.it/stencil-per-architettura-standardgraph-rumold.html

@Rapita dagli alieni @Yaku

I was searxing for the various kinds of hat stiffeners and how to use them.

I've found https://www.hatsupply.com/leko-purpose-stiffener/ “ok, this is a solvent based one if it has shipping restrictions, let's read on” (it was, it is shellac solution in alcohol, ok, that's one of the options I've found about, fine) and then. this.

Our Hat Stiffener that comes in the gallon jugs, is 190 proof alcohol! This means that if you spray it on your straw or felt hats it will sanitize them giving you and your customers extra protection!!!

on a scale of 10 to 11, how 2020 is this?

jorunalctl is a traditional norse celebration where people drink mead and improvise / recite poetry about what their computer did.

TIL: unpaper expects documents to be scanned / photographed on a back background.

of course, TIL *after* I had already taken the pictures.

An interesting reflection on using modern tools for reconstruction works (TL;DR: yes, it's often necessary and if done well it doesn't detract from how effective the result is)

Filed under: catastropheeeeeee

Friday I was finally able to go to the closest #LYS (the last time had been in autumn 2019, because it's not that close), and I've discovered that they no longer make my favourite #yarn suitable for felting.

Obviously, I may have had to buy just a bit of what they still had.



(picture of eight 100g / 85 m balls of yarn in mauve (4 balls), light desaturated blue (2 balls) and red (2 balls), in a weight suitable for knitting with 5-5.5 mm needle)

I've started to play with the DeAtramentis Document CMYK #inks (or maybe CMYW?).

My aim is to get an ink shade that coordinates with the fabric in one of my dresses (everybody needs that, right?), so I took a couple of pictures of that fabric (in different lights), checked the CMYK values of the pixels with gimp and found results that were always something somewhat close to 50% 30% 0% <various K values>, so my first attempt was 3 parts of Cyan, 2 parts of Fuchsia and 7 parts of white, and this is the result, on various papers (Favini schizza e strappa, printer paper from the coop supermarket, Clairefontaine Dessin Croquis Blanc 55 g/m², Fabriano Layout, Fabriano EcoQua, Fabriano Traccia — most of them are white, the EcoQua has a slight yellow tone).





I've also tried to add one part of Cyan to two parts of White, and then one part of Blue (regular blue, not the one that can be used to make CMYK mixes) to two parts of white to see whether it would control their tendency to feather and generally work horribly, and it does. I also like the shade I got from the Blue, and it's somewhat similar to the one I'm looking for (and easier to make), but I like the CMYK a bit more.

I think that the next time I'll add 8 parts of white instead of 7, to desaturate it just a bit more.

And now¹ I need full bottles of those 3 inks (instead of just samples) to make a decent sized batch, and a new preppy #FountainPen to try and use this somewhere that is easy to clean (I'm not completely sure that the white isn't going to clog pens, even in a mix).

¹ as in: I NEED them RIGHT NOW, so maybe I'll consider buying them next year or so? As soon as I can manage to finish maybe at least one bottle of ink I already have?

It's November, and I've finally managed to do something I've always wanted to do, but always postponed because by the time I remembered about it it was too late.

I've generated my own #weeklyPlanner for the year 2022!

Right now the script hardcodes pretty much everything, and the template is pretty simple, but hopefully next year I will improve on it.

The script is weekly_planner_generator.py from https://git.trueelena.org/software/pdfscripts/ (it can simply be run as e.g. LANG=it_IT-UTF-8 ./weekly_planner_generator.py, and then a6_book.py can be used to get a pdf that can be printed on A4 paper for binding.

Some examples of the results are on https://paste.trueelena.org/QCigPUM3#weekly_planner_a6 (this link will self-destroy in one year, but by that time one will need a planner for 2023, not 2022, right? :D )

Yesterday evening I was playing briscola with my SO: on my first hand I got the trump queen¹. And then I spent most of the rest of the game being distracted by her dress, trying to think how to make it.

For some strange reason, I lost :D

¹ we were using lombard cards, which have french suits

Per la categoria #mastoSogni, stanotte un'amica di famiglia mi ha rivelato quale fosse il cheat code per far apparire i gradini/sgabelli/scalette/quei cosi insomma per raggiungere il ripiano più alto dei supermercati.

Purtroppo non mi ricordo più quale fosse il codice, né come si faceva ad inserirlo IRL :(