looking forward to @bleeptrack and @blinry rC3 presentation later today. https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/rc3/2021/Fahrplan/#789f5925-9bc1-5da6-9872-21a6a95e9033
Weather too rainy to walk the Amsterdam Light Festival? Control the Lite Festival exhibit tonight from home instead: https://paint.v.st/
I mean, we've all been there...
> After having risen from table, to stoop with too much precipitancy to pick up a lady’s glove, you knock your head against the arm of the chair, on which she is seated; and, on getting up again, you give another a blow on the stomach with your head, after having felt vour tight pantaloons give way, when you have no drawers on...
What a horrible evening the author must have had in 1829...
> Dressing by candlelight — at the moment you are tying your cravat, out goes the last inch of candle in the house, and to be obliged to finish dressing in the dark...
> After having officiously offered to carve a fowl, to see yourself obliged to acknowledge that you don’t know how, and that before twenty witnesses, whose eyes, during your awkward efforts, are continually fixed upon you...
https://archive.org/details/b21530713/page/296/mode/2up?view=theater
Low Tech Magazine has an article on fascine mattresses, historically used for inpoldering in the Netherlands, and I noticed that the technique is still in use in modern construction https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/11/fascine-mattresses-basketry-gone-wild.html