R E K

http://kokorobot.ca

Cartoonist & agender Rabbit. Lives on a 10m sailboat in the Salish Sea.

main current projects: Re-building Oquonie(game for Uxn), Hakum (comic), and Wiktopher (novel)
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2024-12-14 19:43:31

On #izzzzi → rek

2024-11-14 18:50:59

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@nprofile…lmnj It really messes with your head :). It makes it impossible to use the land as a reference when sailing.

2024-11-14 17:16:46

During our sailing trip to Southeast Alaska last summer, we experienced a strange optical phenomenon, at least twice.
Today, I learned that it's called a Fata Morgana.
We saw it when sailing. We couldn't understand what was ahead and astern of us. The land was distorted, moutains and trees were stretched and/or compressed together, on occasion some would appear inverted.
It is nice to finally put a name to this ^^
(Photo by PtrQs, CC BY-SA 4.0)
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2024-10-15 19:45:26

Went apple picking today ^____^!
(edit: apples were free :rek_apple: )
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2024-10-01 03:13:20

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@npub1qu5…4evr There was that one time when we found a pack of 200 sheets, but it turned out to be 100 sheets of nori cut in two. Much disappointment. :ohnobubble:

2024-09-15 20:10:05

Released the logs documenting the first week of our sail from Victoria(B.C) to Sitka(Southeast Alaska).
I plan to release more as soon as I am done transcribing them.
https://100r.co/site/victoria_to_sitka_logbook.html
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2024-09-11 17:25:29

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@npub1qu5…4evr
Devine yesterday, “it’s impossible!”
Devine today: :cooldog:

2024-09-10 20:39:28

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Fun with ASCII 🖐️ 👈 🤟
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2024-09-09 18:03:12

In the book The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman talks about what he calls "Good Enough Arithmetics", which is a way of calculating results in your head when precision isn't important. The approximate answer is often good enough.
I gathered a few notes on my website as a reminder, and plan to add more as I find them :neofox_book:
https://kokorobot.ca/site/good_enough_arithmetic.html

2024-09-07 00:46:02

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@npub1qu5…4evr Hide yo kids, hide yo wifi.

2024-09-04 15:36:33

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from this article: https://www.techpolicy.press/challenging-the-myths-of-generative-ai/
Article first shared on Merv by Csepp: https://merveilles.town/@csepp/113078492017538033

2024-09-04 15:34:58

"The productivity myth suggests that anything we spend time on is up for automation — that any time we spend can and should be freed up for the sake of having even more time for other activities or pursuits — which can also be automated. The importance and value of thinking about our work and why we do it is waved away as a distraction. The goal of writing, this myth suggests, is filling a page rather than the process of thought that a completed page represents."

2024-09-01 22:34:37

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@npub1qu5…4evr 💫

2024-09-01 22:29:40

Rabbits in the ferns.
kokorobot/site/wunderland_rabbits.html
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2024-08-29 19:31:06

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@npub14me…dd5g My bike :>, became mine in 2012.
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2024-08-28 16:27:30

This map is really too big to post here, but it shows our summer route through Northern BC.
The southeast Alaska route is yet another separate map because it's just too damn much to show in one picture, and I've already shared it :P...
Yellow writing marks anchorages visited on the way back south. For now, the road ends at Von Donop.
https://100r.co/site/western_canada.html#2024
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2024-08-28 16:22:07

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@npub1qu5…4evr une belle capsule ^^

2024-08-20 16:43:01

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@npub1qu5…4evr Sherlock Holmes, we said :P

2024-08-13 17:35:56

Brown your own deck by using our patented "no windlass" anchor hauling method!
For quick results, make sure your chain has some rust, and choose very muddy bays!
https://100r.co/site/no_windlass.html
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2024-08-07 22:52:19

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@npub1qu5…4evr found one moomin sticker tho :moomin_hello:

2024-07-09 17:27:37

Here is the total path for the trip we did through Southeast Alaska, from Prince Rupert and back, this past month :)...
https://100r.co/site/us_se_alaska.html
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2024-06-30 02:52:13

Released the list of changes to the Hundred Rabbits projects for June 2024.
https://100r.co/site/home.html#jun2024
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2024-06-19 17:03:03

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It is crazy to think of just how far glaciers used to extend in Southeast Alaska. There is a reason that the entrance to each glacier arm is bordered by a bar. The bar marks the point of greatest advance of the glaciers during the last ice age.
The glaciers pushed gravel and boulders, then receded, leaving the bar behind.

2024-06-18 17:21:44

Some ice stranded on land, as well as a tiny glimpse of Baird Glacier.
Best viewed with binoculars :P...
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2024-06-03 17:20:44

Released the list of changes to the Hundred Rabbits projects for May 2024.
Pino is now in Ketchikan (SE Alaska).
https://100r.co/site/home.html#may2024
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2024-05-31 01:05:28

Friends of ours on the sailboat Moonshine took this photo of us as we sailed out of Port McNeill, in Queen Charlotte Strait. We were on our way to Millbrook Cove, just around Cape Caution, on May 20th.
It is very rare to have photos of Pino from afar, with full sails :)...
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2024-04-28 22:39:22

The boat is now full of food!
Instead of doing one big supply run(friends often offer car rides), Dev & I do frequent grocery runs by bike. We've been doing this for a few weeks now.
We can carry a lot at once. A few days ago I had 12 kg of grains on my back.
Doing it this way takes more time, sure, but it permits us to go for a bike ride often, which is nice :> 🚲😬 !

2024-03-27 16:04:24

My website now has a splash screen :>
https://kokorobot.ca/
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2024-03-25 18:57:53

A stainless steel carbonation cap, used to carbonate liquids in PET soda bottles.
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2024-03-21 04:15:13

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@npub1l3g…vu48 It can be, yea. The emphasis is on the words tho. Here's another song from the story that was put to a whistle, sounds pretty good: https://merveilles.town/@patchlore/111065415362940758

2024-03-10 19:56:49

"To avoid a collision on the water with another boat, look at the other boat and the land behind it. Pick out a tall fixed object on the land behind the boat. From one spot on your boat, watch the other boat's movement relative to that fixed object. If after a minute or two of watching, the other boat does not move relative to that fixed object, you can conclude you're on a collision course with that boat."
From Defensive Boating, by Ken Taylor (Excerpted from Small Boat Journal-July, 1990)
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