@mikesusz social feed.

@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…

this is Bexar County Courthouse. my particular photo is insignificant.

in 2017, IBM hired me & flew me to Texas. i flew in early, rented a car, drove to San Antonio before my training a few days later in Austin.

i did the river walk. ate dinner. saw the alamo. and completely forgot where i parked my rental car. panic. didn’t know the plate #. could barely describe this car.

then, remembered i took this photo right after parking. Apple Photos saved the geo. i tapped on a map and found it.

@revmem i gotta sneak out and do that too. need my vote to counter the “don’t pay for anything!” crowd in my small town.

@threetonesun @marcamos should go to 7-11 and get a big Gulp to celebrate

other bonus of hosting your own content: you can guarantee your messages don’t appear alongside ads for boner pills or missives from people advocating for racial cleansing!

trying to see the status of Fortnite by looking at the Fortnite Status account on X except the elon timeline isn’t showing me newest first. in fact i’m scrolling through a list of irrelevant garbage from 1-4 years ago.

companies: please stop using this “service” as an official communications channel

Sleep while the puppy is sleeping.

Clean while the puppy is cleaning.

Work while the puppy is working.

Chew the edges of the carpet while the puppy is chewing the edges of the carpet.

Dig holes in the yard while the puppy is digging holes in the yard.

Chase the cat while the puppy is chasing the cat.

dearest apple
why do you
prevent
the resize width
of macOS
system settings

“you can close your move ring! take a brisk walk!” i’m IN BED you stupid blinking trinket

i’m sorry everything is bad and i can’t fix it all.

if your first thought is “ooh we could make a Slack channel for this!” maybe wait around for the second thought to arrive.

we have gone directly from dry eye relief eye drop season into allergy relief eye drop season

technology is pretty awesome.

i wanted to look up some specs for my pickup truck. i knew i had a photo of the sticker inside the door. i:
- searched Photos on my phone for 'Ford' and found it
- copied the text of the VIN out of the image
- pasted it into my reference note in Obsidian
- got back to my PC where it had synced, used a website to decode the VIN
- found some specs in metric
- copied them into VS Code, asked copilot to convert them to imperial units & format them in a markdown table

@marcamos filthy ligatures

@beep @hotdogsladies i think these go to the same person who receives the message when you mis-type your root password

spent some time organizing the new (warm!) shop. installed a tonneau cover on the pickup. met our new puppy. it’s been quite a day.

@threetonesun help i’m trapped in a programming language factory

@threetonesun is this a job posting or a cry for help

65.1mph gust last night at 12:34am at my weather station KNHRINDG5 #NHwx https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KNHRINDG5/graph/2024-02-28/2024-02-29/daily

@m750 i feel this every time i hear the news, like we lost someone from our team who couldn’t escape from the force pulling down on them, pulling down on all of us.

and i think how different a world could be if we still had dolores & kurt & elliott & chris & jeff & tim & robin and so many others. we’d take it for granted—we wouldn’t know otherwise. but we’d still have a chance to let them know how they make us feel, and hope they could turn our love into strength to help them resist the pull.

@marcamos that’s Fab

@hotdogsladies i made all my poster art in poster shape and then what did apple do with movies :(

it’s so cool that we can (mostly) put magnets in/on/near computers now. decades of built up baggage around this is slowly dissipating for me.

@m750 i gotta get up there and drive up it again

@jerzone something i’ve been intrigued by (i may be attracted to the very slight elevation change ;) https://eriecanalway.org/explore/cycling

my watch: “10% battery remaining. low power mode”
me: relatable.

@sbourne i have worked with so many developers who claim to be “full stack” who then say “i don’t know anything about out CSS” well goodie, i guess each of us gets to decide where the “stack” becomes “full”

@jerzone you did the tram!

the script for your SSRI won’t auto-renew. you send a message through the app asking if you need an appointment.

“just call the office…”

@jerzone also not specifically transit related but i was shocked to see a tram go overhead once https://rioc.ny.gov/302/Tram

@jerzone i don’t think you can pass through the abandoned city hall station anymore without being a scofflaw. but that would be quite cool.

@beep ‘slash you’ seems kinda threatening

@caseyliss so you’d say when it comes to Apple Vision Pro, you’re … a big fan?

@Meyerweb web216 4ever

@revmem agreed. my trash is all currently frozen solid in my shed

@caseyliss will you add photos of feet for @hotdogsladies

another of my favorite shots from my NYC trips.