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  "type": "miscellanea",
  "title": "Miscellanea for 2025-05-31",
  "time": "23:59:00-07:00",
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  "html": "<ul>\n<li>Hello world!</li>\n<li>I need to come up with a process here that keeps these miscellanea posts marked as a draft, if I never get past \"Hello world!\"<ul>\n<li>I start a new file every morning from a template, with the intent that I'll drop by and jot some things here throughout the day. But, this week turned out to be particularly busy. So, I went a few days never getting past \"Hello world!\" and that's not super interesting to publish.</li>\n<li>At some point, I want to hook this stuff up to Mastodon and Bluesky accounts. I don't want to just post templated nonsense. (Just intentional nonsense.)</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li>Maybe there's something in the air, because a week or two ago I got suddenly compelled to dive down a rabbit hole about <a href=\"https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Kronoform\">the transformer robot watch</a> I had when I was a kid in the 80s.<ul>\n<li>The one I had was confiscated by a teacher and never given back. I'm still salty about that.</li>\n<li>But, just a couple days ago, I saw <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe5umc6Jha4\">this video from Secret Galaxy on the history of the Kronoform watch</a></li>\n<li>From there, I found <a href=\"https://www.printables.com/model/962592-takara-mc-06-kronoform-the-desktop-clock\">this giant-sized printable version of the Takara Kronoform in desktop clock form</a> - I'm going to have to give that a try.</li>\n<li>I kind of want to try building some version of the robot watch with some smart guts. I probably won't get around to it, but why do smart watches have to be so boring?</li>\n<li>Maybe I can split the difference by sticking a smart display in the desktop clock version? Hook it up to Home Assistant and make it do... I don't know what.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n",
  "body": "\n- Hello world!\n- I need to come up with a process here that keeps these miscellanea posts marked as a draft, if I never get past \"Hello world!\"\n\t- I start a new file every morning from a template, with the intent that I'll drop by and jot some things here throughout the day. But, this week turned out to be particularly busy. So, I went a few days never getting past \"Hello world!\" and that's not super interesting to publish.\n\t- At some point, I want to hook this stuff up to Mastodon and Bluesky accounts. I don't want to just post templated nonsense. (Just intentional nonsense.)\n- Maybe there's something in the air, because a week or two ago I got suddenly compelled to dive down a rabbit hole about [the transformer robot watch](https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Kronoform) I had when I was a kid in the 80s.\n\t- The one I had was confiscated by a teacher and never given back. I'm still salty about that.\n\t- But, just a couple days ago, I saw [this video from Secret Galaxy on the history of the Kronoform watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe5umc6Jha4)\n\t- From there, I found [this giant-sized printable version of the Takara Kronoform in desktop clock form](https://www.printables.com/model/962592-takara-mc-06-kronoform-the-desktop-clock) - I'm going to have to give that a try.\n\t- I kind of want to try building some version of the robot watch with some smart guts. I probably won't get around to it, but why do smart watches have to be so boring?\n\t- Maybe I can split the difference by sticking a smart display in the desktop clock version? Hook it up to Home Assistant and make it do... I don't know what.",
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