Programming and Dog Walking

(not in that order) I took the trolley with Gwen (the Goblin) this morning. Dogs are amazing. We co-evolve with them. They would not exist in the way they do without human ingenuity and intervention. And I suspect we would not exist in the same way without them. And when I think of that I do usually think of the line in Vinny Thomas’ video “The Galactic Federation interviews Earth for membership”: Why did you turn the wolf into the pug? A solid question. Gwen at a trolley stop Kelly’s not been at full strength. I enjoy walking with both of them, but I enjoy a walk just with Gwen and I, too. Yesterday I added backfilled Foursquare checkins to my site. There are 2,985 days worth spanning 2010 to 2026. I think I’m going to try to cross-correlate Tweets with them. Maybe I’ll make timelines? There’s probably some interesting correlations to be made. I turned a library of mine on GitHub (artlung/foursquare-export-to-html) into a package which can be installed with composer. I thought I’d…