@richText (although it looks like I should be relying on "secrets" instead... docs.docker.com/compose/u... . Something to learn about over the weekend, maybe....)
I have avoided posting about my weekend, which wasn't great. Funny way to spend a birthday. 🚑 🏥
Making up for it by going out for a nice meal tonight.
Looks like I'm going to lose ~ $700 on non-refundable costs thanks to this trip cancellation. How does one say "well, f##k" in German? 🇩🇪
I had a job interview in '99, an office building on Harbour Island ("ooh, a 'u'! It must be classy!") and I saw the name Andrew C. Greenberg on the building index.
"Surely not," I thought. "In Tampa? No way." But it was he! I never figured out a way to meet him though.
#wizardry
Spent some time today tearing down an online project that took me an entire summer to build, 6 or 7 years ago. It was only ever a silly (but complicated) joke, and I can't justify the domain cost anymore -- plus it simplifies other things going on my VPS.
Onward, to new dumb things!
KEN JENNINGS (on podcast): "...what was it Bartles and Jaymes said?!"
ME (shouting over the vaccuum noise, to no one): "THANK YOU/FOR YOUR SUPPORT!"
"Friday new tires, Monday new battery, Tuesday oil change, Wednesday car gets stolen. I HATE CARS." is the post I was angry-fantasizing (?) about posting as I raced downtown at rush hour to meet T. Then the phone rang again.
"I was on the wrong level of the garage. Sorry."
#Metronet again tacking on more unjustified price increases, absolutely speedrunning the enshittification process. You didn't think you'd ever go back to #FuckComcast, but here you are 18 months later...
#Metronet again tacking on more unjustified price increases, absolutely speedrunning the enshittification process. You didn't think you'd ever go back to #FuckComcast, but here you are 18 months later...
"Arthur, King of the Britons.... oh don't grovel!"
"Arthur, King of the Britons.... oh don't grovel!"
"Gen X" came from Douglas Coupland. "Gen Y" was around for a while until they declared themselves "Millennials."
"Gen Z" is just "the one that's two after X," but at this point haven't they named themselves more appropriately?
Boomers | Gen Xers | Millennials | Hey Guys...
"Gen X" came from Douglas Coupland. "Gen Y" was around for a while until they declared themselves "Millennials."
"Gen Z" is just "the one that's two after X," but at this point haven't they named themselves more appropriately?
Boomers | Gen Xers | Millennials | Hey Guys...
I'm on pg 3 and I already know I'm going to love this book, The Modem World.
Lost in the transition from hobbyist telecommunication to commercial social media was the intimacy of the modem world.
(Pages 1 and 2 introduced this "world" using the example of a BBS in Gainesville, FL, in the very early 90s. This would've been a local call from campus/apartmentville... if only I'd socialized with the right nerds!)
I'm on pg 3 and I already know I'm going to love this book, The Modem World.
Lost in the transition from hobbyist telecommunication to commercial social media was the intimacy of the modem world.
(Pages 1 and 2 introduced this "world" using the example of a BBS in Gainesville, FL, in the very early 90s. This would've been a local call from campus/apartmentville... if only I'd socialized with the right nerds!)
That was an extra-close one there to the north. #flwx
That was an extra-close one there to the north. #flwx
Just deleted a big long post about mobile-data aggravation and changed my carrier instead. Ryan Reynolds, you finally won me over. (I still haven't seen your comicbook movies though.)
Just deleted a big long post about mobile-data aggravation and changed my carrier instead. Ryan Reynolds, you finally won me over. (I still haven't seen your comicbook movies though.)
@cheesemaker Firefox does this occasionally on my M1 iMac -- I assumed it was FF's fault, but.... Safari too?!
@richText (by "dodge" I mean "only" 18K customers in TLH without power today. c.f. 80K in the last storm)
@gregmoore wow!
@richText followup note-to-self: during the May 16th -to June 16th cycle, total cell data usage was 393 MB, 188 of which was claimed by "System Services." 🥇
@richText (I've just discovered the early 90s comic-book versions, found on an ancient hard drive; no idea where they came from (I'm not a comics person generally, other than Bloom County). The art direction is different from every other version, which makes perverse sense, while the narrative and quotes seem to be verbatim from earlier sources. Arthur's a bit too lantern-jawed for me, but baggy Two-Tone Ford cracks me up; my new Mastodon profile pic.)
@richText now I see the YT app moving to a sort of screensaver mode after a few minutes, showing the video’s thumbnail with a slight Ken Burns? zoom effect. Pointless, AFAICT, but better than straight-up unpausing something I expect to stay paused.
@aa It's such an unsettling thing, even if there's an innocuous "technical glitch" explanation. I'm wearing it ~24/7 still, but dissatisfied with the software quality.
@richText LOL and then the attempt to re-play the same song ("(Nothing But) Flowers" by Talking Heads) failed when the vinyl started skipping near the end. "This song was just not meant to be played today!" (At least turntable two sounds good. 📻)
@fgtech I try not to be a prescriptivist but I loathe "myself" as "formal 'me'" 🙉
@leonp ...and Happy New Year! 🍻
@leonp haha! I built that comment box for a couple of Tumblr friends who aren't hip to webmentions. Their names are hard-coded into the "receiver" and all others are rejected. (Trivially defeated, but I'm so low-visited, it doesn't matter?) Nevertheless, your micro.blog reply showed up as a comment!
@petebrown hah, yep!
@odd I think they're best known for Groove Salad but the Indie Pop Rocks is so good!
@jean My dad was a rising senior at South Dade HS (new to the school, his stepdad relocated from Jax Naval Air Station) in '59. Base housing with no A/C. I have never been able to wrap my head around it. 🥵🥵
@kimonostereo oh, this could really be something!
@paulrobertlloyd 🍾 awesome!