Trammell Hudson @th@v.st

My morning coffee reading has adorable ads.

Good morning Amsterdam

Good night Amsterdam

as of this afternoon, the bivalent boosters are available if you're 18 or older and in the Netherlands. go get your fifth vaccine if you can! https://coronatest.nl/ik-wil-me-laten-vaccineren/wilt-u-een-afspraak-maken-voor-een-booster-vaccinatie

It's time for booster number five in the Netherlands and they are doing it based on age again. So I've restarted my cronjob to track the required birthday: https://ikwilcoronabooster.nl/

Ooh fun! Calendar math on a different planet with a different *Equation of Time* and dealing with Earth's *Leap Seconds*. Thanks, NASA, for the worked examples and test cases! https://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/mars24/help/algorithm.html

What time is it, **on Mars**?

Alas poor bollards

Surprise sunny morning

Our neighbors are ready to party

Play testing a paper prototype of my out-of-control Turing Machine board game.

Chaotic mess with two states
```
rules = {
'a': [[1,-1,'a'], [0,+1,'b']],
'b': [[1,-1,'a'], [0,+0,'b']],
}
```

Two state square spiral
```
rules = {
'a': [[1,+1,'a'], [0,-1,'b']],
'b': [[0,-1,'a'], [1,+1,'b']],
}
```

Single-state Turing machine with 10k cycles of chaos and then it suddenly builds a highway.
```
rules = {
'a': [[1,+1,'a'], [0,-1,'a']]
}
```

```
rules = {
'a': [[1,+1,'a'], [1,-1,'b']],
'b': [[1,+1,'b'], [0,-1,'a']],
}
```

```
rules = {
'a': [[1,-1,'b'], [1,-1,'b']],
'b': [[1,+1,'b'], [0,+0,'a']],
}
```

```
rules = {
'a': [[1,+0,'b'], [1,-1,'a']],
'b': [[1,+1,'b'], [0,+0,'a']],
}
```

```
rules = {
'a': [[1, +1, 'a'], [1, +1, 'b']],
'b': [[0, +0, 'a'], [0, +0, 'b']],
}
```

```
rules = [
[[1,+1,1], [1,-1,1]],
[[1,+1,1], [0,+1,0]],
]
```

It seems like A and B are fairly evenly preferred, as are X and Y. My older watches are A/X, while I'm getting used to my new one that is B/Y (with extra markers for local noon and sunrise/set).