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@Sauce_ grape jelly packet top left = ssd?

@foone can get a basket designed to wash baby bottle parts in the full-size dishwasher.

my oldest son, who just turned 15, read Neuromancer for the first time. i can’t imagine being exposed to this at that age.

i’ve read the book probably 8 or 9 times, but the first time i was in my late 20s.

i’m asking him to read Snow Crash next.

today was a weird mastodon day for me. @annika (who i met at javascript conferences in boston) replied to a thread with @andybaio (who i met at webvisions in portland in 2008) talking about a compilation album curated by @Cameo who is a dear friend i have not seen in far too many years.

i like mastodon. i love you all.

@jerzone broooonco

so Apple is using “AI” to have a device remove its own shadow from a photo/scan of a document. what a time to be alive, and witness these amazing technological achievements.

@threetonesun really need some bigger players to get behind PeerTube https://joinpeertube.org

the dogs stomped on the cords sticking out the back of my subwoofer and broke one of the RCA plugs off (board mounted) but instead of dealing with all that glue and desoldering, i tacked wires to the pins on the back and installed a 1/8” jack for an input. not my neatest, but it works.

i probably would have shied away from a repair involving current, but this was just signal wiring so very low power.

@jerzone they’re great, and you can get a hybrid version (though hybrid can’t be AWD - hoping they update that in the future). would make a worthy replacement for my 2003 ranger if/when it ever decides to stop.

i looked at my phone and it said i was in “Sleep” focus mode and i got excited but then i realized it wasn’t even nine o’clock yet and is this either trying to tell me something, or fulfilling my wishes?

@jerzone this would accompany my “meh.” shirt well

inspirobot.me

ah, it seems like just 90 days ago that my intranet password was about to expire…

@threetonesun clever girl.

“AI can do everything! Machine Learning too! amazing!”

yet you can’t recognize that i want you to focus beyond the windowscreen.

@jerzone The Weather Company has flight planning tools that help pilots choose a route in three dimensions, modeling the weather for the path at the time of the flight. it’s pretty amazing to see.

@jerzone our dog water dish on the deck does this also

youtuber uses a phrase my kids probably don’t know …
me: “i don’t want to explain that to you. but i also don’t want you to google it, either.”

@revmem t568b?

@revmem nice! love a split level.

@mescutia drove up to Lancaster NH to watch the eclipse

6 hour drive home, and on the list of the most worthwhile things i’ve ever done.

trying to add my allergy medicine to Apple Health. i don’t want/need a reminder for this. it says “if you add a time…” but, i can’t proceed to add it _unless_ i add a time. sigh. do i blame development or QA?

@beep i think @hotdogsladies has you covered on that one https://botsin.space/@merlinwisdom/112215195725250613

@annika one time when i first started playing minecraft i asked my kids how to make a Flint & Steel

this has been a heck of a week.

@jerzone it’s been sleeting down here all day, and last time i took the dog out i felt freezing rain from one direction while watching snow from another

@m750 the cheddar cheese, Aaron. it’s Extra Sharp. 😄

so the promise of AI is wonderful but i’d be really happy if my software did this: a Contact has a birthday coming up. their address is hundreds of miles from mine. give me an alert about it a week ahead of time, instead of one day ahead.

no rocket science required.

me: hey son, be careful with the cheese in the fridge
him: ?
me: the cheddar cheese. be careful.
him: ??
me: …
him: 🙄

@rands i have a set of klipsch 2.1 heritage speakers on my desk (big subwoofer on the floor) with all my computers (and ipad) fed into it via a small mixer.

easter egg hunt with two teenage kids:
“I’m going to put $100 bill in an egg and throw it out in the woods somewhere.”

I have joked that, depending on my current state, picking up an object that has fallen becomes a project management process:
first, let’s identify all possible outcomes – perhaps this thing is better on the floor?

@drdrang @hotdogsladies is this so you know how big of a void to leave in a 3d print, in which to insert the magnet later?

as I get older, I find myself doing certain things more deliberately that I used to do without any forethought. Like picking things up.

@threetonesun @marcamos i’ve seen the hotel, it’s beautiful.

@jerzone looks like yours is a flat burr grinder, and i’m wondering if i made the wrong choice (or another ‘upgrade’ is in my future) i recently moved to a baratza virtuoso+ conical, and while baratza sells repair parts (big reason i switched to this one) it still becomes less and less effective as the burr dulls.

looking at your pictures, i could take my tiny chainsaw tooth sharpening file to the edges of those burr teeth and make it last a zillion years :)

@marcamos i lay down on my back on a hard floor and parts of me tense and as they relax is sounds like someone breaking celery as my back flattens out

we have an ETR. looks like we’ll have been out of grid power for about 26 hours. edit: yeah nope. reassessing repairs, brush fire from transformer, we’re still out.

the pines (and hemlocks) are hit the worst

people are comparing this storm to the Ice Storm in 2008. this is nowhere near as bad. that storm the temp dropped to 6, we heard trees breaking in the woods constantly, and the next day it never got above 20 and cloudy. conditions aren’t great but way better this time around.

@jerzone

morning view. still no grid power, but generator means coffee is possible.

snow turned to freezing rain and ice accumulation. 2,151 households in my town without power. (71%). i’d rather have just snow like they’re getting up north.

what if you made a culinary trip to eat various hot dogs and called it Tour de Franks

today on SiriusXM Diplo’s Revolution i listened to a song called “Clap Your Feet” by a collaboration between Duck Sauce and Fuzzy Cufflinxxx

and i don’t even know what words mean anymore

@akahn it was a fun project. i originally thought to add it as an easter egg on a website (or have i already? ;) ) i know that others have literally implemented the entire game in browser, but this was my little bespoke creation.

here’s a silly toy i made with css and javascript. it was inspired by my son’s obsession with a certain game.

https://sqd.co/gdx/

(don’t forget to click/tap!)

i annotated everything with comments so you can view source in your browser or read them on the repo: https://github.com/mikesusz/gdx

we need copilot themes. i want one that responds to ‘Dixie’ (as in, Dixie Flatline) complete with all the snark and creepy laughter.

(this is a Neuromancer reference. if you haven’t read it yet … what are you waiting for? :) )

@atpfm @siracusa this sequence of events is…