Aaron Parecki aaronparecki.com

RAI Amsterdam

at RAI Amsterdam

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Aaron Parecki aaronparecki.com

Beatrixpark

at Beatrixpark

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Jonathan LaCour cleverdevil.io

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Aaron Parecki aaronparecki.com

Beatrixpark

at Beatrixpark

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Aaron Parecki aaronparecki.com

Strandzuid

at Strandzuid

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Jonathan LaCour cleverdevil.io

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Aaron Parecki aaronparecki.com

Beatrixpark

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Aaron Parecki aaronparecki.com

citizenM Amsterdam South hotel

at citizenM Amsterdam South hotel

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I often see typewriter enthusiasts "debating" over which is the prettiest or best typeface, and often, they're making their judgement on one machine they happen to have or really wish they had. Rarely are these judgements made with multiple typefaces on the same page for easier direct apples-to-apples comparison, so I threw together a small sample from a few in my own collection.  Gut reaction time: Which of these is your favorite?

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Aaron Parecki aaronparecki.com

Beatrixpark

at Beatrixpark

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Aaron Parecki aaronparecki.com

Scandinavian Embassy Bakery

at Scandinavian Embassy Bakery

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Aaron Parecki aaronparecki.com

RAI Amsterdam

at RAI Amsterdam

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Aaron Parecki aaronparecki.com

Metrostation RAI

at Metrostation RAI

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Aaron Parecki aaronparecki.com

Amsterdam Zuid Railway Station (Station Amsterdam Zuid)

at Amsterdam Zuid Railway Station (Station Amsterdam Zuid)

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Still Alive

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        "text": "Still alive, still kicking. Sorry for the radio silence, gomen.\n\n\n\nSo, what happened in the two months? I\u2019ve been feeling tired/fatigued lately, and not in a \u201coh, you\u2019re just out of shape\u201d sort of way, so I went to the doctor, who was a little alarmed at how loud my heart murmur had gotten since my physical last fall, so I got sent off to get an echocardiogram. That came back with a few things that necessitated a second echocardiogram, only this time more invasive, a transesophageal echocardiogram (where they sedate you, then shove the sensor down your throat so they can get the scan from immediately next to the heart, for higher resolution/fidelity). Long story short: \u00af\\_(\u30c4)_/\u00af The murmur is loud because it\u2019s loud, I now have regurgitation on two valves, but neither severe enough to do anything about. And I\u2019m not (really) any closer to knowing why I\u2019ve been so wiped lately.\n\n\n\nSo,  y\u2019know, could be worse, but it did end up eating a bunch of time and mental headspace, and writing anything here ended up falling off the priority list. (I do find it a little amusing that this escapade dovetailed into my first colonoscopy a few weeks later, so a second round of sedation, and a second time getting a camera put inside my body \u2014 you could say they got me coming AND going.)\n\n\n\nIn other news, I took an extra few days off around Labor Day and had a nice wander around northern New Hampshire and the interior of Maine. Even ended up wandering up Mt Washington, something I don\u2019t recall having ever done before, despite growing up in the general region. It\u2019s beautiful out in that neck of the woods, and even with it being Labor Day Weekend, the roads were pretty quiet and pleasant to drive.\n\n\n\nFor some personal projects, I\u2019ve been fiddling with a few things. I\u2019m taking a stab at building a family tree/genealogy site that uses json-ld and the Person schema from schema.org to create the map of people. The data side is going pretty well, the visualization is where I keep bogging down, dealing with edge cases like where someone might\u2019ve been married, divorced, and widowed, with kids from different partners, and how do you visually represent that in a tree without it turning into a mess. It\u2019s still been a good pastime \u2013 if I manage to get it to a more usable state, maybe I\u2019ll toss it online somewhere so others can use it. I\u2019ve also been experimenting with seeing how hard it\u2019d be to set up AsciiDoc support in Astro.js. Doing a full integration seemed like way too much work for my needs, but I\u2019m getting pretty far as a content loader, using Asciidoctor.js to process the files into embeddable content that Astro can work with.\n\n\n\nIt\u2019s getting to be my favorite time of the year. A friend of mine joked that I was \u201cBasic\u201d for loving autumn, but hey, I\u2019ll own it. I\u2019ve always loved the transitional seasons (fall and spring) most. They come and go fast in New England, and you can feel the change. That scratches an itch for me, probably the same one that leaves me restless when I stay put for too long.",
        "html": "<span style=\"text-align:center;\"></span>\n<p>Still alive, still kicking. Sorry for the radio silence, gomen.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, what happened in the two months? I\u2019ve been feeling tired/fatigued lately, and not in a \u201coh, you\u2019re just out of shape\u201d sort of way, so I went to the doctor, who was a little alarmed at how loud my heart murmur had gotten since my physical last fall, so I got sent off to get an echocardiogram. That came back with a few things that necessitated a second echocardiogram, only this time more invasive, a transesophageal echocardiogram (where they sedate you, then shove the sensor down your throat so they can get the scan from immediately next to the heart, for higher resolution/fidelity). Long story short: \u00af\\_(\u30c4)_/\u00af The murmur is loud because it\u2019s loud, I now have regurgitation on two valves, but neither severe enough to do anything about. And I\u2019m not (really) any closer to knowing why I\u2019ve been so wiped lately.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So,  y\u2019know, could be worse, but it did end up eating a bunch of time and mental headspace, and writing anything here ended up falling off the priority list. (I do find it a little amusing that this escapade dovetailed into my first colonoscopy a few weeks later, so a second round of sedation, and a second time getting a camera put inside my body \u2014 you could say they got me coming AND going.)</p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other news, I took an extra few days off around Labor Day and had a nice wander around northern New Hampshire and the interior of Maine. Even ended up wandering up Mt Washington, something I don\u2019t recall having ever done before, despite growing up in the general region. It\u2019s beautiful out in that neck of the woods, and even with it being Labor Day Weekend, the roads were pretty quiet and pleasant to drive.</p>\n\n\n\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://nadreck.me/backend/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/mt-washington-2026-1024x315.jpeg\" alt=\"\" />\n\t\t\t<p>For some personal projects, I\u2019ve been fiddling with a few things. I\u2019m taking a stab at building a family tree/genealogy site that uses <a href=\"https://json-ld.org\">json-ld</a> and the <a href=\"https://schema.org/Person\">Person schema from schema.org</a> to create the map of people. The data side is going pretty well, the visualization is where I keep bogging down, dealing with edge cases like where someone might\u2019ve been married, divorced, <em>and</em> widowed, with kids from different partners, and how do you visually represent that in a tree without it turning into a mess. It\u2019s still been a good pastime \u2013 if I manage to get it to a more usable state, maybe I\u2019ll toss it online somewhere so others can use it. I\u2019ve also been experimenting with seeing how hard it\u2019d be to set up <a href=\"https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/\">AsciiDoc</a> support in <a href=\"https://astro.build\">Astro.js</a>. Doing a full integration seemed like way too much work for my needs, but I\u2019m getting pretty far as a content loader, using <a href=\"https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoctor.js/latest/\">Asciidoctor.js</a> to process the files into embeddable content that Astro can work with.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s getting to be my favorite time of the year. A friend of mine joked that I was \u201cBasic\u201d for loving autumn, but hey, I\u2019ll own it. I\u2019ve always loved the transitional seasons (fall and spring) most. They come and go fast in New England, and you can feel the change. That scratches an itch for me, probably the same one that leaves me restless when I stay put for too long.</p>"
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Too Soon

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        "html": "<p><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_Soon:_Comedy_After_9/11\">Too Soon: Comedy After 9/11</a> is an excellent documentary about comedy just after September 11, 2001.</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>There\u2019s the adage \u201cComedy equals tragedy plus time\u201d which is pretty much the Onion\u2019s operating principle but we basically skip the time part.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Comedians that genuinely wanted to do the right thing took cues from each other (including Letterman\u2019s 09/17 return) on how to navigate the very challenging new territory in the midst of intimidation and threats of violence.</p>\n\n<p>The comment that Bill Maher lost his job over:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>We have been the cowards. Lobbing cruise missiles from 2000 miles away. That\u2019s cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building. Say what you want about it. Not cowardly.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>\u2026was followed by the White House press secretary delivering the warning:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>all Americans\u2026that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do. This is not a time for remarks like that; there never is.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Although not included in the documentary, it seems the press secretary strangely wrote a letter to the Washington Post to <a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2009/05/24/a-white-house-spokesmans-urban-myth/7ed3fc5a-6a1b-4447-92b3-10d0bbceb7d6/\">deny making those remarks</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>Ari Fleischer hasn\u2019t been seen much since he stepped down as White House press secretary in 2003 and moved out of the public spotlight. So it was a surprise when he e-mailed recently asking The Post to \u201ccorrect the record\u201d on a comment he made nearly eight years ago.  Fleischer, now a sports media consultant in New York, said that Post columnist Dana Milbank was guilty of repeating an \u201cold canard\u201d that has become an \u201curban myth.\u201d</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Also not included were any conversations related to the provenance of Maher\u2019s comments.  For instance, in <a href=\"https://www.usenet-rewind.com/message/QkI5RTM4Q0EuMkIxNkElY29tZWR5amNAaG90bWFpbC5ERUxFVEVUSElTLmNvbQ\">Re: Hicks, Rogan and Leary mentioned on Stern, NY Post</a>, different opinions were shared on how similar Maher\u2019s comments were to those from the November 17, 1993 performance of Bill Hicks:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p><a href=\"https://wdc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/boar/id/14774/\">They blow themselves up in order to get at us, and we launch $3 million missiles off of giant floating iron islands 2000 miles away - Who are the real cowards?</a></p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>They seem very similar but I do not think Maher was necessarily borrowing from Hicks.</p>\n\n<p>In the end, what I learned was that there was a lot of self-censorship and we missed out on a lot of good humor that could have been helpful.</p>",
        "text": "Too Soon: Comedy After 9/11 is an excellent documentary about comedy just after September 11, 2001.\n\n\n  There\u2019s the adage \u201cComedy equals tragedy plus time\u201d which is pretty much the Onion\u2019s operating principle but we basically skip the time part.\n\n\nComedians that genuinely wanted to do the right thing took cues from each other (including Letterman\u2019s 09/17 return) on how to navigate the very challenging new territory in the midst of intimidation and threats of violence.\n\nThe comment that Bill Maher lost his job over:\n\n\n  We have been the cowards. Lobbing cruise missiles from 2000 miles away. That\u2019s cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building. Say what you want about it. Not cowardly.\n\n\n\u2026was followed by the White House press secretary delivering the warning:\n\n\n  all Americans\u2026that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do. This is not a time for remarks like that; there never is.\n\n\nAlthough not included in the documentary, it seems the press secretary strangely wrote a letter to the Washington Post to deny making those remarks:\n\n\n  Ari Fleischer hasn\u2019t been seen much since he stepped down as White House press secretary in 2003 and moved out of the public spotlight. So it was a surprise when he e-mailed recently asking The Post to \u201ccorrect the record\u201d on a comment he made nearly eight years ago.  Fleischer, now a sports media consultant in New York, said that Post columnist Dana Milbank was guilty of repeating an \u201cold canard\u201d that has become an \u201curban myth.\u201d\n\n\nAlso not included were any conversations related to the provenance of Maher\u2019s comments.  For instance, in Re: Hicks, Rogan and Leary mentioned on Stern, NY Post, different opinions were shared on how similar Maher\u2019s comments were to those from the November 17, 1993 performance of Bill Hicks:\n\n\n  They blow themselves up in order to get at us, and we launch $3 million missiles off of giant floating iron islands 2000 miles away - Who are the real cowards?\n\n\nThey seem very similar but I do not think Maher was necessarily borrowing from Hicks.\n\nIn the end, what I learned was that there was a lot of self-censorship and we missed out on a lot of good humor that could have been helpful."
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Aaron Parecki aaronparecki.com

citizenM Amsterdam South hotel

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