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2026 Jan 6: Görkem Şen (Yaybahar on YT): Yaybahar III Nadiri

The description text:

The essence of gold was rare, he conquered with his virtue, offered his gifts and fell behind the sun...

Dedicated to the soul of my dear friend's father, Nadir Oğuz...

I am surmising that "Nadiri" means "Of Nadir". Yaybahar is the instrument, the artist is its inventor:

The name yaybahar (pronounced /jajba'har/) has Turkish origin. It is a composite of two words: yay means a "string" or a "coiled string" and bahar means the season "spring." According to Gorkem Sen, the name is derived from the idea of a new life or a new beginning. [1]

I assume this is the third one of its kind the artist has made.

Artist's website: https://www.gorkemsen.com/

dewline

This went live today:

https://theneworleans.ca/2026/01/06/orleans-needs-more-public-libraries/

Current Mood: busy
Current Location: Home-for-now
Current Music: Larry Nemecek's Trekland on YouTube

dewline

May we live - to our shared joy - in interesting times!

Current Mood: hopeful

dewline

1. I spent some time this morning doing some activist writing about our network of public library branches in Orléans, my particular corner of the city of Ottawa. It's an issue that does not affect me personally and directly, and yet it still makes life more difficult than needed for some of my neighbours. I expect this will "go live" at some point in the next week or two, and I'll let you know when and where as soon as it does.

2. The news about Venezuela this morning is scary as Hell. The Vulgarian has yet again given the middle finger to international law as a whole. Carole Cadwalladr has thoughts about that, and you might want to have a look if you're not already subscribed to her newsletter.

3. The Trek fanfiction collective I've been doing map design with has a new thing out: Jayce's Fighting Ships of Wolf 359. It's a partner-work to We Have Engaged the Borg, which was created as an oral history-style retelling of the events of the Next Generation two-part episode, "The Best of Both Worlds".

4. More later.

kareila

I was told today that Hoopla changed their terms of service and because I'm not a county resident, I can no longer access Hoopla using my metro library card. It's never been available through my local library, as far as I can tell.

That's going to make it harder to cheat on my goal of reading more books that I already own. Although, I do still have Libby access. And I haven't cancelled my Kindle Unlimited subscription...

In other semi-related news, today I went to order a new pair of glasses with my updated progressive prescription (because the flexible spending account refills every January), and got talked into also buying a second pair just for medium distance vision, to use when spending a lot of time on the computer. These days I do that so rarely that I didn't even realize it was hard on my eyes until I was working on Advent of Code last month. Hopefully those will come in before the MIT Mystery Hunt starts in a couple of weeks.

Current Mood: busy

siderea

Interesting:

2025 Dec 31: DwarkeshPatel YT fea. Sarah Paine: Human Rights Killed Communism - Sarah Paine:

Watch on YouTube

BTW, that's Sarah C. M. Paine, until very recently the William S. Sims University Professor of History and Grand Strategy and the Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History, both, at the US Naval War College. She's an incredibly interesting speaker. Recommended.

(Dwarkesh Patel is this random dude who mistakenly thinks he's a podcaster and keeps trying to have other guests, but in actuality was put on Earth to bring Paine to the masses. He's got something like 14 hours of her up on his channel.)

dewline

I'm mostly done with the first day of this year. Some good stuff, some scary stuff, some disgusting stuff. Already feeling tired. There was an idea of my saying something useful if not witty, and the idea has escaped my grasp for the time being.

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The first three moods of 2026 are now up; thanks for reading, and I hope to see you there!

Current Mood: happy

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Current Mood: busy

kareila

Previously: 2023, 2024

Here are the albums I have acquired within the past 12 months, with "new" used to describe "released within the past 2 years" (includes 2024 as well as 2025).

For extra funsies, here's the stats on where these came from:

Purchased from Bandcamp: 12
Acquired from local libraries: 25
Purchased from Amazon: 8
Purchased from eBay: 1
Received as a gift: 1
Acquired directly from artist: 3

( Read more... )

Current Mood: awake

dewline

Here we go.

Good luck to us all.

Current Mood: groggy

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Привет and welcome to our new Russian friends from LiveJournal! We are happy to offer you a new home. We will not require identification for you to post or comment. We also do not cooperate with Russian government requests for any information about your account unless they go through a United States court first. (And it hasn't happened in 16 years!)

Importing your journal from ЖЖ may be slow. There are a lot of you, with many posts and comments, and we have to limit how fast we download your information from ЖЖ so they don't block us. Please be patient! We have been watching and fixing errors, and we will go back to doing that after the holiday is over.

I am very sorry that we can't translate the site into Russian or offer support in Russian. We are a much, much smaller company than LiveJournal is, and my high school Russian classes were a very long time ago :) But at least we aren't owned by Sberbank!

С Новым Годом, and welcome home!

EDIT: Большое спасибо всем за помощь друг другу в комментариях! Я ценю каждого, кто предоставляет нашим новым соседям информацию, понятную им без необходимости искать её в Google. :) И спасибо вам за терпение к моему русскому переводу с помощью Google Translate! Прошло уже много-много лет со школьных времен!

Thank you also to everyone who's been giving our new neighbors a warm welcome. I love you all ❤️

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siderea

"...but it turns out, mining is fun."

2025 Dec 26: Engineer Everything (user Engineer.Everything-i5g) on YT: Shall I go still deeper? #engineering #Minecraft #tunnel #mining #constr...

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dewline

Seems to have fizzled out by morning. Overnight winds tonight are bringing the chills back, though.

I wish I had more to say right now.

Current Mood: lethargic

kareila

Not much to report from the last 2+ weeks, just the usual December madness. The Messiah was sung. Everyone had a nice holiday. I did far too much crochet and knitting. My dad continues to ignore me. Whatever.

I got bogged down on Day 10 of Advent of Code and never completed it or looked at the problems for the final two days, but maybe I'll find time this week.

I don't think that I'm going to finish the most recent Dungeon Crawler Carl book before the end of the year, but I'm down to only 6 library books checked out, and half of them are non-fiction. Next year I want to focus more on my TBR, which is up to 850. If I could get it down to 800 (while presumably continuing to add to it) that would be a big success.

Denver and New England both won their NFL divisions - yay!

On New Year's Eve we're planning a Freaky Friday D&D session where we randomly switch up characters. Should be hilarious.

My resolutions for 2025 were to get the old house sold, see Connor graduate from high school, and stay healthy. I guess two out of three ain't bad. Robby is finally getting to the end of his fix-it list, and I have pretty much forbidden him to add anything else to it until we get a licensed inspector to check things over and see what he points out.

Current Mood: accomplished

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Current Mood: busy

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Ottawa City Hall has declared a Significant Weather Event tonight.

Current Mood: nervous
Current Location: Home-for-now
Current Music: CBC News' Front Burner on YouTube

Musings and Mutterings

Yaybahar III Nadiri [music]

About Library Branches in Orléans

A Wish for 2026, However Late

Checking In - 3 Jan. 2026

well now I don't have a choice (or less of one anyway)

On the work of human rights work [pols, hist]

2026, Day One Almost Done

Mood Theme in a Year 2026

All my 2025 stories on hope in dark times

Space Exploration

my 2025 in music

2026

Привет! LiveJournal imports may be slow

Dreamwidth Book Club

"I initially planned to build a small storm shelter..." [civ eng]

gamechangerhr | Game Changers/Heated Rivalry

Not Quite an Ice Storm in 2025, Then

one last post before the new year

Birdfeeding

Weather: Yikes, Again

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