Posts in Misc

In our Slack at work, we have an #availability channel, where people can post their comings and goings. In the middle of the day, there is often a stack of posts that say simply “lunch” or “back.” Friday, my friend Joe, rather than writing “back”, did this: That is: instead of the word “back” (as I posted), Joe posted “🇧🇦🇨🇰”. If you’re not super into vexillology, those are the flags for Bosnia and Herzegovina (left) and the Cook Islands (right).

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I sort of forgot I had this blog. Well, “forgot” isn’t quite right; I knew it was still here, but had been actively ignoring it. I suspect its readership has not actually changed at all in its dormancy. It’s possible I’ll start writing it in again, though by now I suspect that fully half of all the posts are meta-commentary on the blog itself. I started to write a list of all the things that have happened in the 16 months since I’ve written here, but that was boring to write and would certainly have been boring to read, too.

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I learned Adobe Illustrator in graduate school, and have used it to generate hundreds and hundreds of musical examples over the years. I used to get it for free from IU as part of the (excellent) [IUware][iuware] program, but then I graduated, and my gravy train ran out.¹

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