Paul Batchelor @paul@post.lurk.org

For the past 5 years, every few years, I get emails asking about my Android app Ethersurface. Some of them are nice, but most of them are short unhelpful emails like this one.

Firstly, this is a free app. No ads. I make no money or revenue at all from this. Where is my motivation to implement features?

Secondly, I can't build this app anymore. Couldn't update this even if I wanted to. Android Ecosystem is very fickle. I blinked and suddenly everything was different.

The perks of waking up early.

A curated selection of some of my stones. I definitely have a type that I enjoy.

From left to right:

- childhood stone, picked up in a beach in Nahant, MA
- stone picked up from a beach in Seattle WA
- stone picked up at Race Point Beach, Cape Code, MA
- palm stone, lapis lazuli, purchased on etsy
- palm stone, obsidian, purchased on amazon

New stone today. Lapis Lazuli.

Blueberry mead, bottled and dipped in wax in festive red!

Manged to get the standard C "hello world" working on the Classic Mac OS via the PCE emulator (the same one used by archive.org for their in-browser software emulation).

The cutting came to an abrupt end after I broke my blade. As you can see, I didn't dull it too bad this time so that's an improvement. Pluses and minuses.

I cut two different sized rings today. The larger rings are 16 gauge ss wire, and the smaller ones are 18 gauge ss wire. Both I intend to use for 4-in-1 maille weaves.

My industrial strength Thai iced tea brew. This stuff bends light.