@mikesusz social feed.

@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

@spacehobo i am forever grateful!

is there a … Mrs. Coffee?

@shanselman did you get to complain about how this would be better with LEDs except CANBUS?

i’m working on getting approval for a plan to start a writing workshop for inmates.
to be fair, the idea has its prose and cons.

@threetonesun ceiling tiger is watching you masticate

random: if you or someone you know has SSD (Single-Sided Deafness) and have trouble finding good monopods (single headphone) try this: search ebay for “airpods missing” and you will find plenty of people who lost one of their airpods and are selling the case plus the other one.

@searls having a large, uncached image on your error page is also an excellent strategy

i’ve always asserted that Google’s promotion and then destruction of widespread RSS adoption was purposeful on their part (seeing RSS as an existential threat - it literally cuts them out of the loop in discovery) but this demonstrates it so much more eloquently (and in detail) “embrace, extend, extinguish” https://mastodon.online/@ixi/110898662624632294

i know, speedtest is not a proper network diagnostic tool. i am also not a professional network technician.

i guess i remembered how to do ethernet.

today’s task: T568B. lots of it.

TOO SOON

@jerzone oh neat, thanks. i’m interested in this for small PC building parts but also getting back into CAD for house plans and stuff. also looking at stuff like LibreCAD

trying to remember the last time i had to use ‘sliding doors’ in CSS/HTML.

@jerzone what do you use for modeling? i have long-ago cad experience (architecture school, early 90s lol) and when i looked up all that stuff it’s wicked expensive

Kiwi Recall!

yeah! go back to New Zealand!

…

wait what?

https://www.health.com/zespri-kiwi-recall-listeria-2023-7571618