No Victory Over Hugo
I lied the other day.
I am now able to push Web sites built with generators like Hexo and Pelican to GitHub Pages, but not Hugo.
I cannot understand it.
Building a Hexo site in the local repo, for example. writes everything to the public directory and there is no index.html in the root. Unlike Jekyll which writes it all to root. But eppur se muove.
This is supposed to be the trick to doing the same with a Hugo site, but I cannot get it to work.
Some suggest copying the contents of the public folder over to a separate folder, from which you will push.
Others suggest using two branches of the same repository, for source and for output. The logic of it, and those ASCII stemmatic diagrams, make me dizzy.
Here is the thing: I have a really nice simplke blog, My Paraguayan Progress Report, above, with the ghostwriter theme, which I want to use for charting my supposed technical progress instead of HubPress.
In any case I should not move forward without finally educating myself about git and all its mysteries. This is pretty basic, for example.
I guess I am the kind of guy who just jumps right in and does not read the freaking manual until he has developed ulcers googling solutions he does not really grok.
Brasilianas of the Day
Here in Brazil, the Senate will start voting on the impeachment charges against President Dilma Rousseff. Ordinarily I would be very interested in following the media blitz surrounding the proceedings on The New World Lusophone Sousaphone. I am after all a trained and licensed Barthesian, though not McLuhanite, interpreter of mass culture.
Lately, however, this sort of thing just makes me nervous.
The coup will be consummated and there is nothing any can doup about it.
What mainly impresses one is how much the Glogo-dominated media has underplayed the story, with the exception of the final day of Rousseff’s testimony, covered closely by dozens of international news sources.
The story plays second fiddle today to coverage of a shooting on a Rio beach involving a Polish tourist, as it played third bassoon the other day to the earthquake in Italy. Umberto Eco (PDF) notes this as one of his ten categories of bias in the Italian media
The Sambodian subliminal message: «All is Quiet on the Political Front.»
The interim government is large and in charge and almost certainly not going anywhere — Globo is already referring to the party of the president as the «opposition» — so go ahead, foreign investor and make your long-term plans. And yes, we plan to privatize like no tomorrow so get your checkbooks ready!
Huck Finnegan & The Space Case
I would normally be in rehab today but I am doing a Huck Finn number. Again.
Today being our rodizio — one day a week when you cannot drive from 9 to 5 on the Sambodian streets — and lacking funds on my *bilhete único — a Sambodian Metro Pass — I resolve to sleep late and then hack GitHub Pages — I want to make a Pelican site with backdrop — until our Netflix hour.
For people of a certain age, we are really into The Get Down, which already has a Wikipedia page as extensive as that of Ramon Llull.
But we are not really so old as that. I remember the mainstreaming of Grandmaster Flash and Kurtis Blow and to a lesser extent Afrika Baambataa from freshman in college days, when me and all my friends worked all summer keeping The Space on the air.
My DJ namme was Joey Dharma.
