# tlohde

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15:16 27/02/2026
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Not a lot. I think. I am still hopelessly in love with this peanut rayu, and I'm currently enjoying reading (very slowly) A Thousand Blues by
Cheon Seon-ran.[1]

ill

I was snotty for a week and a bit. That halted the running & cycling & climbing discipline of last month. I have just come back from my first climb in a fortnight, and I was going ok ish.

jury service

I didn't have to go to court. I just had to phone a number every evening for four days to see if I had to go to court.

map festival

Not having to attend court meant I could go to the Map Festival at the National Library of Scotland. I didn't get tickets to any of the talks, because (a) I didn't realise I needed to. I browsed the free section for an hour or so. Had a chat with someone from the National Collection of Aerial Photography. They are digitising ~30 million images. And the film canisters are huge. ~30 cm negatives. Incredible things. I had questions about how accessible and discoverable their collection is. I didn't get an answer as to whether or not they are using STAC. And unfortunately the imagery isn't free.[2] But that's not surprising, the cost of scanning and georeferencing that many images must be huge. They also had some stereo pairs to look at.

There were also some panoramas of Edinburgh from the late 17-, early 18-somethings by father-son duo Robert Barker & Henry Aston Barker.

One day[3] I'll use some high-res lidar data and write some terrible code that won't quite work to make a poor imitation that won't look anything like the original, and will be far less intelligible.

projects

tui

I made some progress on my little CLI / TUI .

this site

And I tinkered with the archive page of this site, which now, thanks to the uncharted plugin, has a graph entirely composed of HTML & CSS showing the cumulative number of posts on this site. And thanks to some poorly written javascript by me, I now have a list of #ExtremePosts.

cartography

Resumed tinkering with a now very late[4] birthday present for a friend. Still not happy with it. It might involve the pen plotter, which I haven't been able to get running since the old laptop died[5] and I'm now using a different old laptop running Linux Mint, instead of Ubunutu. Something to do with a driver a CH341 serial driver and tty...ugh.

None of that really has anything to do with cartography.

the thing

A significant thing has been happening. Which I shalln't be sharing any details about. Other than the fact that the thing is giving the bucket of emotions a mighty stir.

the dog

The dog had two seizures this month. Bringing her total to four. We're off the vet next week for her annual check-up. Maybe she'll get some meds for it.

I'd like her not to have any more. They suck. The episodes tend to happen ~an hour before normal waking up time and start with her throwing up, then ~a minute later going into a seizure that lasts ~2 minutes. During which she goes blind, loses control of her bladder and bowels, in addition to the convulsions. After that she is, understandably, disoriented. Her balance is off, and she's can be a bit aggressive[6] whilst working out what just happened. I stay a few metres away and just talk calmly and quietly. I think I can tell when her vision returns: the pupils start responding a bit more normally; and she moves her head more predictably. The "coming-out-of-it" phase is ~5-10 minutes, and I'll then take her out for a toilet break and my partner starts mopping. Once back, it's time to give her wash[7] because she is invariably covered in her own urine and faeces. Once all the windows in the flat are open, it's time to put some coffee on, write the date on the piece of paper titled: "dog seizures", and start the day.

the car

Needed jump starting, because I rarely use it.

time

The days are getting longer, and milder, and for that I am grateful.

elsewhere

grazie, ciao

footnotes

  1. translated by Chi-Young Kim ↩︎

  2. which makes me appreciate all the Sentinel and Landsat data ↩︎

  3. probably never ↩︎

  4. nearly four months ↩︎

  5. need to try harder to get it running again ↩︎

  6. low growling, little bit snarly, the occassional bark ↩︎

  7. she gladly swims in the sea and lakes and rivers. But she does not like the bath ↩︎