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12:56:18
Colleen
๐๐ โฌ And ๐
you โฎโฌ may ask ๐
yourself, "Am โฎ๐
ก I ๐
right, ๐
ค am ๐
I wrong?", ๐
and โฏโฌ you ๐
may ๐
ฃ say โซ to yourself, โญ๐
ก "My God, ๐
what โญ๐
have โฌ I โฌ done?" ๐โฌ๐๐
12:56:18
Colleen
๐๐ โฌ And ๐
you โฎโฌ may ask ๐
yourself, "Am โฎ๐
ก I ๐
right, ๐
ค am ๐
I wrong?", ๐
and โฏโฌ you ๐
may ๐
ฃ say โซ to yourself, โญ๐
ก "My God, ๐
what โญ๐
have โฌ I โฌ done?" ๐โฌ๐๐
13:07:14
isoraqathedh
shinmera: Fun fact: the stave marks are meant to be part of a comprehensive system embedded into Unicode that allows staff notation to be displayed in plain text. The Unicode consortium rejected the submission saying that it's out of scope - and yeah, can you imagine doing all the fiddly vertical positioning and spacing things? - but the submitter literally just resubmitted everything minus all the fiddly font specifications and we get what we have now.
13:08:07
isoraqathedh
Which includes, amongst other things, control codes for ties that now do absolutely nothing now that they don't control anything.
13:09:10
isoraqathedh
At least the graphic characters remain useful for denoting note lengths and isolated notes in text.
13:09:50
shinmera
yea when I looked at the pages it was pretty bewildering. oh well, what's a few codepoints between friends
13:19:51
isoraqathedh
"The original proposal for Musical Symbols wasโฆkind of a mess. No source is given for the oddball quarter tone accidentals that made it into the standard. The closest Iโve seen in the wild were sharps and flats with a conjoined fraction ยผ above that I think only one composer used"
13:20:23
isoraqathedh
"The original proposal definitely seemed to be geared towards embedding actual score in text (though vertical position/pitch was left as an exercise for the reader), even talking about the possibility of data entry via musical keyboard / The Consortium basically replied with โthatโs nice but out of scopeโ so the proposer followed up with a revision that left that part out but changed nothing else"
14:24:01
gingerale
Hm.. Not getting much tax returns this year, it looks like. Ah well. At least it's not payments.
14:36:08
gingerale
Sometimes I love my past self's foresight. I completely forgot I went to the store today during lunch and was feeling sad that there's nothing to eat. But in the fidge an entire large chicken sandwich waited for me.
15:05:37
shinmera
noticed that every now and again some weird stank was wafting my way that smelled kinda pissy?
15:05:51
shinmera
seems to come from the cheap diffuser I got from ali, even when it's not turned on
17:03:50
gingerale
I have to admit, I'm really hecking weak. Tried a different series of exercises that included sideways plank with knee lifts to elbow. I could barely hold the position, much less do the lifts.
17:08:50
gingerale
I hate the idea of ever being buff, and there is no joy in exercise anyways. I just wish I didn't need to do it to stay functional.