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This week, our [Free Culture Book Club]({% post_url 2020-05-02-freeculture %}) watches the first quarter of the episodes of **Where Are the Joneses**, an early scripted comedy web series.
This week, our [Free Culture Book Club]({% post_url 2020-05-02-freeculture %}) watches the second quarter of the episodes of **Where Are the Joneses**, an early scripted comedy web series.
![Survived an ordeal](/blog/assets/783059407_3e21ab4d3e_o.png "Survived an ordeal")

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title: Developer Journal, World Teachers Day
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Today is [World Teachers Day](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Teachers%27_Day), meant to bring attention to how teachers affect students and society.
![A primary school teacher in northern Laos](/blog/assets/TeacherInLaos.png "A primary school teacher in northern Laos")
At a time when a large segment of the population considers itself directly opposed to teachers---trying to destroy collective bargaining, ignoring that they're buying classroom supplies out-of-pocket, and accusing them of brainwashing---and many local governments are pushing teachers back into poorly ventilated, crowded classrooms to pretend that there isn't a pandemic, it seems like a good time to have some sense of what teachers really do.
It's also [Child Health Day](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_Health_Day), [World Architecture Day](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Architecture_Association), and [World Habitat Day](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Habitat_Day). Is it a coincidence that I was just talking about a health crisis (that affects children directly and indirectly) and architecture? Probably, but there's a connection, regardless.
## Entropy Arbitrage
I found some bugs in the scripts I use to maintain the blog. I keep forgetting that Linux command shells generally interpret numbers with leading zeroes as implicitly octal (base-8), which doesn't manifest itself when there aren't any digits greater than seven. When dealing with calendars, that reliably means that there are plenty of days in a month when things go wrong, *but* only two days (the 8<sup>th</sup> and 9<sup>th</sup>) in a month when an error might trigger. With any luck, that doesn't mean that I have months of bad posts.
## Seeking Refuge
I'm continued with the light editing for [the novel]({% post_url 2019-12-14-seeking-refuge %}). Not much to be said, there, but it's nice revisiting at least parts of the story. However, I'm less pleased seeing that I have such consistent verbal tics.
## Next
Mostly, just copy [last week]({% post_url 2020-09-14-democracy %})'s upcoming tasks to this week, since this week didn't accomplish much of substance. Or, rather, note those quietly, because I suspect that I'll continue editing **Seeking Refuge** as I work on getting that other project running, since there's only about a week's worth of work left, there.
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**Credits**: The header image is [Teacher in Laos](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Teacher_in_Laos.jpg) by Masae, released into the public domain.