@mikesusz social feed.

today was a fairly big milestone for me, and i have thoughts. just not sure where to post them. my tech blog is not the appropriate place. perhaps i should revive my main blog that hasn’t been updated in earnest for a decade. do i still remember my wordpress login?

@revmem i just ran the AC because it was 75 with 60% RH in the house. too swampy.

@jerzone i’ve dreamt of a more holistic solution to moving heat around. like in the summer my AC just dumps heat to the atmosphere while i still burn oil to heat my water. it could be put to better use … heating DHW, heating a hot tub, i dunno. of course any of this requires major investment and disruption to implement.

@irafcummings @jayroh always made me smile when i passed the Sleater Kinney road sign on I-5 when driving from Seattle to Portland

if you live in a certain region in France do you need to fuel your outdoor grill with propagne?

TIL: if you have a “bunch of stuff” to sell on ebay and you’ve been putting it off becuase you have a “bunch of stuff” to sell on ebay, it’s possible to just list one thing. today. just do it.

@marcamos if i go one town north of here (Jaffrey NH) i have 4 bars of LTE but can’t do anything online. period. like not a byte will get through. it’s like verizon has cell towers that aren’t connected to the internet. i guess i could … make a call

@hotdogsladies @dandersod used to drive my momma crazy

@jayroh i sure do! it was … the 90s

stacked.

@searls @tenderlove imagine being able to code Whidbey Island Style.

@m750 they remind me that there’s always room for chaos in any system.

@_Davidsmith familiar to web developers and our debugging css rule 
* { outline: red !important;}

macOS Sonoma off to a great start! initial screen prompting you to choose Sonoma wallpaper or your previous wallpaper, doesn't respond to Tab keyboard controls to confirm the dialog.

@m750 ah well, the well was the key. we get sediment sucked up by the well pump sometimes. the mixing valve on the boiler (that regulates the temperature of hot water by mixing in fresh cold water) was clogged with detritus. i had to open it up all the way (to take full hot from the boiler) and flush it out.

@m750 no valves were touched but you’re on the right track. another hint, we have well water.

@m750 no water heater. DHW comes directly from the boiler. no electrical problems. boiler still produces hot water for baseboards. we had hot water last night.

looks like i have a ton of work to do.

this morning i fixed our “we have no hot water” problem, and now i’m making it a guessing game for my old-dads slack group.

just learned that the large cable co. who bought out the small business cable co. in my town, is now stringing fiber. i’ve been on fiber (gigabit, symmetrical) from my telco for more than a year. soon i will have two fiber options?

so amazing to me, as for a long time the best i could do was two bonded DSL lines to get 14 megabits downstream.

and when i moved to this town, there was nothing. the NYT even covered us in an article about satellite internet in 2006. https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/14/technology/14satellite.html

happy friday y’all.

one of the best features of my mixer setup is having my work computer playing a training seminar or something and laying some blistering techno over that. i think this should be a feature.

me: (crunching pringles on mute)
webex: PRESS THE SPACEBAR TO UNMUTE

kids take too long in the shower?

how is it only tuesday

@hbuchel chaotic

finally got tired of wi-fi/cellular interference with my little mixer. (choosing one with a metal case would have prevented this)

but i had some copper shielding tape and this morning i put some inside the case. it seems to work well - i can literally hold my phone directly over the mixer and there is no noise.

i discovered a difficult to diagnose problem with my truck today and an easy to diagnose but difficult to resolve problem with my car today.

i almost look forward to being angry at javascript tomorrow.

@hotdogsladies

put fruity pebbles on ice cream.

@marcamos git branches or Mini Metro?

this has been a heck of a week.

i completely lost it this morning. crying laughing. the dogs don’t know what’s wrong with me. this is why i listen to merlin and john. http://www.merlinmann.com/roderick/

i’m am so tired.

cooled off enough that the dogs wanted to run around

Spotify recommended Angles & Airwaves (band) to me yesterday, and today a playlist based on them included Death Cab for Cutie. i’ll very happily pay my bill this month.

getting rid of old old pallet wood. happy Labor Day to all who celebrate.

@threetonesun thank pythagoras

@threetonesun also this trick if you have a sheet of paper handy.

@marcamos it may have been a stunt butt

quick project today. old insulation was original, 19 years ago.

good god i made my first “homepage” more than thirty years ago.

@Meyerweb i eventually got used to it saying “it’s up to date” (as of the last time i checked) but if they could literally put that time in human-readable format in the message, that would be keen

imagine being the richest person in the world and you choose to destroy a social network instead of making Portal 3

@danielleganza i would encourage folks to give feedback to their colleagues who use these terms also. my CEO used to say “maniacal focus” frequently, and i heard it repeated by my department head. so i asked them not to, explaining that “mania” is a medical condition. they thanked me for the feedback. i never heard them say “maniacal” again.

If I had a dollar for every time I launch the Microsoft Store instead of launching Slack... I could buy something nice at the Microsoft Store.

@annika yeah i’d like to think game designers didn’t make it as sisyphean as software development, but no promises.

(my son, playing a game called “Flashing Lights”): “I’m fighting a dumpster fire!”
me: relatable.

@Meyerweb imagine being in your late 70s and feeling it necessary to ‘look tough’

@annika i apparently missed a whole transcontinental journey, i need to read back maybe