Jim Tittsler 🗼 @jimt@mastodon.oeru.org

A stunning day in the midst of the rainy season prompted a morning bicycle ride along the coast.

Baseball season (well, yakyu season) finally starts tonight! Choice of 4 televised games (although one is in a rain delay, and another playing in pouring rain). But hey! Baseball!

I am saddened to learn of the passing of #WikiEducator contributor Keith Lyons. Keith was the author behind the Sport Informatics and Analytics course (which I enjoyed even though it is well out of my areas of expertise). He was a dedicated blogger, OER contributor, and an interesting correspondent. https://keithlyons.me/blog/2020/05/14/vale-keith/

Radio New Zealand makes it easy to discover new folk to listen to during New Zealand Music Month.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/nat-music/audio/2018744462/nz-music-month-2020-fresh-music-daily

I enjoyed a pair programming session with a 12 year old girl halfway around the world, where we each learned something... lockdown doesn't stop picking up new skills. A fun alternative to more local frustrations.

Thanks to the Wellington VHF Group for holding their meeting online tonight... First time I have been able to "attend" a meeting in 2 years. https://vhf.nz/

Thanks to the Vienna (Virginia) Wireless Society amateur radio club for making their bimonthly meetings available on Zoom. https://viennawireless.net/wp/ @hamradio

Social Distance game, including Prime Minister Abe giving you 2 cloth masks: https://gamingchahan.com/mitsudesuenglish/ @japan

Finally got serious about reorganizing my dotfiles mess using GNU Stow @linux

That time when you wonder if you should admit knowing Cobol, but are far enough from New Jersey that you don't have to worry about it. https://josephsteinberg.com/covid-19-response-new-jersey-urgently-needs-cobol-programmers-yes-you-read-that-correctly/

Blossom season is starting in Shizuoka.

Updated XLX936 (NZ) and XLX626 (JP). I've been using YSF->DMR, but now have the option using YSF directly.

Contributed to the (very ambitious) rooftop shack revitalization fund at the MIT UHF Repeater Assoc. http://w1mx.mit.edu/giving/

From a simpler time when carrying around surplus HT200s with rebuilt Ni-Cad packs made us nerds. #W1XM #W1MX

_Finally_ got around to uploading a couple of keys to https://keys.openpgp.org/ to simplify life for Enigmail-using correspondents.

Impressed by the polish shown by a release candidate of #Armbian 20.02 running on my #PinebookPro Early exploration of the provided XFCE4 18.04.3 makes it look quite functional.

After last week's Mozilla dev Roadshow, I am experimenting with #WebThings Gateway to tie together my WEMO, TP-link, and Ikea gadgets. https://iot.mozilla.org/gateway/

Spent Culture Day at #VimConf 2019, a day's worth of presentations devoted to the cultured text editor. Talks ranged from philosophical to practical. https://vimconf.org/2019/

An inexpensive Open Source FIDO2, U2F security key that slots into a USB port is in its final days on Crowd Supply from @SoloKeysSec crowdsupply.com/solokeys/somu

(I am already playing with #Tomu and #Fomu in this cute form factor.)

It is election campaign season in Japan again... where candidates presume that saying their name over and over from a loudspeaker truck is enough to distinguish themselves... from all the other loudspeaker trucks.