I took 10 days off. It’s the longest I’ve been away from this job since I’ve been here. I expect to get fired every single time I set foot in this place, and being away for a while fosters my belief that in my absence it will become clear to all that I am not needed, not necessary, and superfluous. On my return it will be evident that I have nothing to do here. That is the assumption.
The shower felt good today. Yesterday was a sartorial puzzle. The shorts I wore, while not new, had likely not been worn in a long time. They absolutely clamped my balls at certain times. I had to yank at my junk in public like I was a 5-year old. There is a picture of me at 5 or 6 years of age grabbing my WEINER. That is what yesterday made me look like again. A child guilessly grabbing his crotch. But it really felt like ants in there, biting.
In addition to its unaccomodating coverage of my crotch the shorts also collected a dull stain from the leather messenger bag rubbing against it. It may be the fabric of the shorts that is to blame, as no other white-colored garments collect this stain. The shorts are dead to me.
I finally reached a point of stability with the live streaming camera that now includes about a dozen new sounds from the LinkNYC machines. I found a collection of calls I recorded in 2017 that captured some audible or barely audible sounds of people talking. I think it sounds pretty cool. It’s heavily edited, or rather the calls are heavily excised of the non-verbal hemming and hawing and squeaking and squawking. The LinkNYC microphone picks up basically everything, but not selectively, which is part of what makes phone calls on those machines such a godawful experience.
The camera and LinkNYC Radio now stream to YouTube and Twitch using just one line of code for each stream. They are not running as a daemon so they will not survive a reboot but they can keep going after I log off the server. At present the streams have been up for about 39 hours. I don’t know why, exactly, this has been such a protracted pursuit. The goal had been reached many times over but at the cost of great inefficiencies and expense. Now I’m running the stream from a dedicated Linux server and I do not need to keep a PC at home running 24/7. I also discovered that Twitch’s embed code is a lot friendlier than YouTube’s, which had been a repeat annoyance. Any time the YouTub stream crapped out I would have to use a new embed link to keep the stream live on my site. Twitch makes that a no-brainer.
I use more hypens than I think other people do. I read somewhere that hyphenating words is a sure sign that the text was generated with AI. I have not studied AI text patterns but hyphens have always been a conundrum for me. I don’t get paid to write, so word count does not matter, but when I did concern myself with word count I always held a bit of a grudge toward hyphenated words, since they turn two words into one and thus reduce your word count. But I hyphenated anyway. I saw a sign on Long Island a few weeks ago where the phone number had been removed but only the hyphen remained. It was strange to see an apex hyphen stripped of it true purpose, hyphenating nothing.
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