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@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

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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.

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mike susz

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the pines (and hemlocks) are hit the worst

a photo of a branch of a large pine tree, the needles and branches are crusted with ice

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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.

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

a photo of the sun rising behind trees covered in ice.

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mike susz

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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.

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mike susz

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

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mike susz

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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

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mike susz

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@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.

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mike susz

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

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: github.com/mikesusz/gdx

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mike susz

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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? :) )

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mike susz

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@atpfm @siracusa this sequence of events is…

a screenshot of a stream of mastodon posts where, chronologically:
- the atp.fm podcast announces their live stream
- the effing birds account posts an image that says “nobody wants to hear your bullshit”
- the hackers bot posts a gif of Zero Cool saying “Shit! come on!”

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mike susz

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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.

a photo of Bexar County Courthouse

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mike susz

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@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.

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mike susz

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

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mike susz

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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!

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mike susz

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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

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mike susz

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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.

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mike susz

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

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mike susz

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

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mike susz

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

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mike susz

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

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mike susz

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

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mike susz

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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

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mike susz

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@marcamos filthy ligatures

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mike susz

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

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mike susz

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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.

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mike susz

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

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mike susz

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

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mike susz

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65.1mph gust last night at 12:34am at my weather station KNHRINDG5 wunderground.com/dashboard/pws

a graph showing weather conditions over time

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mike susz

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@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.

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mike susz

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@marcamos that’s Fab

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mike susz

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

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mike susz

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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.

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mike susz

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

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mike susz

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

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mike susz

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

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mike susz

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@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”

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mike susz

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@jerzone you did the tram!

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mike susz

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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…”

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mike susz

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

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mike susz

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@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.

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mike susz

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@beep ‘slash you’ seems kinda threatening

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mike susz

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

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mike susz

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@Meyerweb web216 4ever

a photo of a “color wheel” depicting the original web safe 216 palette

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mike susz

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

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mike susz

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@caseyliss will you add photos of feet for @hotdogsladies

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mike susz

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another of my favorite shots from my NYC trips.

a photo down Lexington Avenue in NYC at night, with a lit up Central Synagogue in the foreground and the Chrysler Building in the distance

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mike susz

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@hbuchel is this what the execs want us ‘sharing’

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