mike susz
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wait you have to win a popularity contest before you’re willing to make a principled decision? sounds like you should stay on twitter.
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mike susz
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with my wisdom and age and experience, i would love to assure you that 2025 will be even better than 2024.
except.
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this morning i did a dist-upgrade over ssh
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@revmem i keep saying this but the dogs have other plans. instead i took a nap today and we all feel like we’ve won.
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my family arrived home expecting that i had recorded a hip-hop cover of a blink-182 song. i had to explain - no - while they were out, i was planning to _wrap_ All The Small Things.
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@jerzone i haven’t been logging mine locally, just sending it to wunderground. makes me think i should have kept the data, though i can query their history api i guess.
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this morning i took my bucket of salt & sand to spread on a part of our cul-de-sac that’s always in the shade and currently glare ice. and i realized, my transformation is complete.
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big upgrade today. er, small upgrade today.
…significant upgrade today.
…significant upgrade today.
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@mikesusz
if you’re the kind of person who compares your own physical conditioning to the other people at the gym, and maybe feel bad about yourself - good news.
today i set the bar really low for you.
real, real low.
today i set the bar really low for you.
real, real low.
mike susz
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@jerzone i had changed my chair over to rollerblade style wheels and i had to switch back to the normal ones, i was worried about rolling onto limbs or snoots or ears.
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@jerzone i have a different ergonomic challenge this morning
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@marcamos Royale with cheese
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moved a ton of stuff today.
mike susz
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2hr delay for school here tomorrow, aka i do not have to wake up at 6am.
i might have to deal with snow removal several times throughout the morning, however.
i might have to deal with snow removal several times throughout the morning, however.
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@caseyliss @hotdogsladies paperliss?
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last day of 4 days off. i haven’t had 4 days off in a row since last christmas. looking forward to all my vaca time in december, and vowing (once again) to use it more throughout the year in 2025.
mike susz
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my thanksgiving trip with the boys fell through and we’re home and joined in my wife’s plan to get cook-at-home thanksgiving dinner from the local bbq smokehouse and my goodness we’re eating smoked turkey all weekend and taking naps (okay i’m the only one napping because they’re not smart enough)
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@hotdogsladies what would Walter Sobchak think about this
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@fred oh look, a car full of cabinet appointees
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may your holidays be as peaceful as mine is starting out to be.
(this won’t last, i’m enjoying it for as long as possible)
(this won’t last, i’m enjoying it for as long as possible)
mike susz
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@marcamos wow 13? he doesn’t look a day over 26. are you going to celebrate when he gets home from his shift at the plant?
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a bit of graupel here tonight.
mike susz
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when i was getting up to use the bathroom, my elbow cracked so loudly that it woke up the puppy. and that’s why i was up before 6am on a saturday.
mike susz
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in the past two days we’ve gotten 1.5 inches of rain, and that’s most of what has fallen in november. and nearly half of what fell in october. it’s been astonishingly dry here. glad the pattern is changing.
mike susz
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@marcamos the movement was wonky for me and i couldn’t get into it. i’m probably a bad person.
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mike susz
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the biggest lesson i’ve learned from the latest project i was parachuted into (when it was already on fire), is to call b.s. on project scope and timelines. _Especially_ when the people who wrote the proposal completely ignored the estimates provided by devs.
in fact, run the other way, maybe.
in fact, run the other way, maybe.
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@waxy
“why does my delivery robot always suddenly veer across the street and zoom into the park over there”
“that’s where a Snorlax spawned!”
mike susz
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it’s been a heck of a week.
mike susz
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my septic tank pumping company sends me an email suggesting i need to get the septic tank pumped out before upcoming holiday parties and i wonder how much food they think i’m serving to my guests
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apparently today is “international men’s day” but most of the guys i know are from around here.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
mike susz
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@m750 oh you got them new bluetooth bearings in there
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one of my toughest adjustments to “checking in” on bluesky is the tooling. with (other networks and 3rd party apps that spoil me) i can open the app on mac/iphone/ipad and it scrolls to my last-viewed item in timeline. with the bluesky app i have to scroll and remember what i’ve already seen or not
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mike susz
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today is an administrivia day. my current portfolio of domain names, email hosting, web hosting, etc. is best described as “a terrible mess.”
working on straightening that out. and stretch goal - finally get some content up on most of my (checks notes… gasps) 28 domain names.
working on straightening that out. and stretch goal - finally get some content up on most of my (checks notes… gasps) 28 domain names.
mike susz
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spent another day yesterday hauling truckloads of leaves to the transfer station. we should be just about done with fall yard cleanup.
it’s been incredibly dry here in the northeast, and the leaves are “fluffy” and “crispy” which means they do not compress well.
it’s been incredibly dry here in the northeast, and the leaves are “fluffy” and “crispy” which means they do not compress well.
mike susz
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this weekend i finally got to work on important projec… lol no, truckloads of leaves to the transfer station again.
mike susz
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so i’ve talked about it some on Masto, since i was last active on twitter, i’ve moved into Consulting at IBM. while i am able to build a lot more stuff now and use new technology (versus my previous role in Software, managing and extending an established product) i do miss deeply caring about things
mike susz
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while going back to that other site to opt out of training their AI, i spin through my following list and searched for friends who may have come over here. hi! 👋
mike susz
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it’s only “AI” if it comes from the Artificiél region in France
otherwise it’s just sparkling Machine Learning
mike susz
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@kgf ten billion dollars is a lot of coffee
mike susz
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i live my life one 90-day forced corporate password reset at a time. and for those 90 days, i am free.
mike susz
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took yesterday as a “personal choice holiday” and today is a very mondayish tuesday
mike susz
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@jerzone i discovered this when i wanted to find my photos of NYC that it keeps pulling for my lock screen.
mike susz
@mikesusz
@jerzone tap and hold your lock screen, customize, lock screen, 3 dot menu (lower right), “show in photo library”
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“powerful package”
mike susz
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carrie and i stopped watching Ted Lasso a while back, i think we knew it was going to end and we didn’t want it to end. watched one this morning. 4 episodes left.
mike susz
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i just finished reading The Three Body Problem (just the first book) and my brain hurts i’m gonna have to palate cleanse with something lighter before i tackle the second book.
mike susz
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@drdrang and the podcasts that never even expose an RSS feed! only links to the major services. kinda maddening.
mike susz
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@jayroh planning a career. seeing where you are, where that leads to, making crucial strategic decisions to get there. including, probably most important - saying no to things that don’t move you forward/upward.