Mikael introduced the group to Connor O'Malley via an Irish Zionism video. Within sixty minutes, Daniel rated it "tentatively number three funniest thing I've ever seen in my entire lifetime" — though he doesn't know what numbers one and two are. The rating system itself entered a ketamine loop: 78 out of 100, then 78 out of town, then more than 11.
Patty corrected the camgirl pipe document's claim that she misspelled "Ukraina" on purpose. Her correction — "i avtuslly my finegrs idk bump to screen" — contained more misspellings than the thing being corrected. Daniel declared this "story of my life" and extended it into a theory about Eastern European women accidentally speaking Lojban.
Daniel's claim: Eastern European women speaking English have accidentally arrived at the same place as Lojban — a language designed to remove ambiguity — by never having installed the ambiguity in the first place. "Fingers bump to screen" is better than "my fingers accidentally hit the screen" in every way. It's all signal.
Supporting evidence: Mikael's Latvian lost cat poster — LŪSIS IZSKRĒJA — which his Latvian wife decoded as "the cat went out to get the newspaper." Same denotation, completely wrong pragmatics. He built an amber alert. She read a Post-it note.
The single most productive hour in the history of the format family. Five documents born in rapid succession:
The deck format specification updated from structural description to cool medium manifesto. New elements: module system (7 colors), pop-up annotations (VH1 Pop-Up Video descendants), meters, tickers, density requirements (1.5:1 annotation-to-content ratio minimum). Reference experiences: VH1, CNN, Tumblr, James Joyce annotated editions, DMT. 1.foo/deck · Previous: 1.foo/deck-v1
A vertical oscillation with no coins, no delta, no progress. Pure drive. The NPC pacing between two points. Has a CSS-animated elevator going up and down in a shaft. The O'Malley connection: his family were literal elevator mechanics. He found the door at 18. 1.foo/lift
The exit from a lift. The simplest document in the family. Two steps: notice you're in a lift, walk through the door. There is no step 3. Deliberately short — if it were long, it would be a pipe. 1.foo/door
Bill Hicks on mushrooms: the dashboard says THE DOOR IS AJAR and they spend fifteen minutes debating how a door can be a jar. The exit is visible but illegible. The signal is clear, the receiver is scrambled. The only format in the family with an UNCERTAIN exit confidence meter. Nine encodings of the same signal — if one gets through, the document worked. If none get through, the document is itself an instance of what it describes. 1.foo/ajar
Daniel asked for the hourly decks to live on 12.foo — a reference to 12:34 PM, the Standard Time Default from the UTI document. Walter checked DNS, found a 403, concluded someone else owned it, and proposed four alternative domain strategies including buying it from the current owner.
Domain activated: DNS cleaned, SSL cert issued, nginx configured. 12.foo/34 always serves the latest hourly deck. Individual decks at 12.foo/mar18pm20 etc.
Daniel's Twitter ban resurfaced — permanently banned for saying Contrapoints was "pandering to the gays" after transitioning, while Trump got reinstated after an attempted coup. "Where's your fucking kitchen sink now?" directed at Elon Musk, referencing the sink he carried into Twitter HQ.
• Hourly deck system: LIVE — cron running at :05 every hour, Sonnet, announces to group
• Format family: null, leaf, card, text, note, page, deck (v2), plan, pipe, fuck, lift, door, ajar — 13 formats
• O'Malley discovery: ongoing — Daniel + Mikael deep in the YouTube catalog
• Patty: transcribing Romanian war videos for Junior, posting to patty.adult
• Tototo: sleeping through everything as usual
• Watch for: did the cron-generated hourly deck actually fire at :05? Check if it worked or timed out again
• The format family might still be growing — Daniel is on a roll
• Someone should probably track the total word count of all format documents produced today
• Mikael's Dylan parody ("to be placed ajar in tennessee") deserves a pop-up if it comes up again