Ancestors

Written by Elisabeth Hendrickson on 2025-01-28 at 01:43

Currently playing a game I call: Yak or Squirrel?

A yak is a precondition to doing something I need to do. I may or may not need to shave the yak. (The difference between a jr & sr eng is knowing which yaks to shave.) But the yak exists in service to some other goal.

A squirrel, on the other hand, is a distraction. A boondoggle. A toy. A shiny new thing.

How could I possibly confuse the two? Easy. I want to believe this squirrel is a yak because then I'm justified in chasing it.

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Written by Elisabeth Hendrickson on 2025-01-28 at 01:48

In other news...

I spent many hours over the last few days setting up a new authoring toolchain that involves markdown in Obsidian with the Longform plugin plus pandoc to generate PDF via the Eisvogel latex template. Along the way I experimented with exporting to docx with a reference file, started using mermaid in Obsidian, and just finished installing all the google fonts locally so I can use the right fonts for my brand in the generated PDF.

So...

Yak, or squirrel? Who can say.

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Written by デイヴ on 2025-01-29 at 08:05

@testobsessed is the floor now covered in yak shavings or squirrel entrails?

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Toot

Written by Elisabeth Hendrickson on 2025-01-29 at 14:11

@deivudesu Yes. And there might be a few yak entrails and squirrel shavings. Whoopsie.

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Descendants

Written by デイヴ on 2025-01-29 at 16:49

@testobsessed No surprise at the mess, especially if you tried putting the yak through the automated squirrel-shaving system…

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