Looks like I won’t make it to the reunion after all. Last minute emergency. Have fun, everyone!
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Apparently I’ve added a new spot to my San Diego regular itinerary. Not what I
Apparently I've added a new spot to my San Diego regular itinerary. Not what I would have chosen.
I remember being both impressed and disturbed at how easy Chromecast was to set up
I remember being both impressed and disturbed at how easy Chromecast was to set up.
“Rickmote” box Rickrolls Chromecast, forcibly earworms hapless victims
Chromecast is very user friendly, Petro says, which translates, in security researcher terms, into ‘oh, goodie’:
“It just kind of like automagically works, which from a user’s perspective is totally awesome. And it is really is amazing easy to set up, which usually means amazingly insecure.”
A grim picture of a world not long ago
“…a grim picture of a world not long ago where it wasn’t unusual for children and adults to die from polio and other diseases, a reality people today are spared thanks to decades of universal immunization against these plagues.”
Having grown up in California during the 1980s, I can’t imagine NOT turning the water off while I brush my teeth.
Having grown up in California during the 1980s, I can’t imagine NOT turning the water off while I brush my teeth. OK, I can imagine it, but it’s like chewing on aluminum foil while reading an article entirely written in Comic Sans in white type on a light gray background with terrible spelling, grammar, and a complete disconnect from reality, while listening to Wolverine scrape his claws against a chalkboard.
Found at https://wateruseitwisely.com/tips/category/bathroom/
Has it really been more than 10 years since this essay about the structure…
Has it really been more than 10 years since this essay about the structure of the internet? The key idea is that the internet, at its heart, is only about moving data from one place to another. And because that’s all it does, anyone can come up with any kind of service to build on it. Building preferential treatment into the system, as the cable companies want to do, undermines that potential.
Having killed a jade plant by giving it too much water…yeah.
Having killed a jade plant by giving it too much water*…yeah. There's no sense in wasting water AND killing your plants.
Found at https://wateruseitwisely.com/tips/category/landscape/
*To be fair, the plant also went through a termite tenting. I took cuttings rather than try to transplant the whole thing, and the cuttings are all still just fine. I'd put more blame on the tenting if the original plant hadn't hung on for another 7-8 months.
Having been a teenage geek in the 1990s, the phrase “AD&D coverage” always makes me…
Having been a teenage geek in the 1990s, the phrase “AD&D coverage” always makes me think of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, not Accidental Death & Dismemberment. Though depending on your DM and how the dice are rolling that day, there might be some overlap.
Not only does this use less water than running the faucet (I’m always surprised …
Not only does this use less water than running the faucet (I'm always surprised by how much that actually uses!), it makes it a lot easier to scrub when the pans are done soaking. For extra savings, nest them while soaking, or soak one at a time while you're working on other dishes and reuse the water from one pan to the next.
How to Terraform the Moon
How to Terraform the Moon: It’ll be habitable, if a lot like Florida.
An interesting article by Gregory Benford on how terraforming the moon might go if you could launch about 100 icy comets at it to give it atmosphere and a faster day/night cycle, and use bioengineered algae to give it oxygen.
Woo hoo!
Woo hoo! – My photo of a sun halo around a coffee mug made this week's Twitter Tuesday selections on the Flickr blog! (The other photos are a lot better IMO – I can only assume mine was included for the subject matter and not the composition or image quality.)
“In a cruel paradox, federal climate watchers reported that overall, the contiguous U.S. just…
https://www.kqed.org/science/19415/californias-drought-is-hurting-farmers-more-than-food-consumers
“In a cruel paradox, federal climate watchers reported that overall, the contiguous U.S. just had its sixth wettest June on record, though drought persists throughout much of the southwest.” Yeah, that's been really annoying. Every time I read about heavy rains or storms or even flooding elsewhere in the country, I think, “Send some of that water over here!”
Apparently all the last-minute comments crashed the website, so they’re extending the deadline.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/15/fcc-extends-deadline-user-comments-net-neutrality
Apparently all the last-minute comments crashed the website, so they're extending the deadline.
My favorite is “I like how it’s trying to rain in LA. Cute.”
Southland’s reaction to scattered rain showers is classic
My favorite is “I like how it's trying to rain in LA. Cute.”
We’ve been doing this for a couple of months now. Admittedly our vegetable garden’…
We've been doing this for a couple of months now. Admittedly our vegetable garden's not that big, but we haven't needed to use the hose for watering in all that time (much to J's annoyance).
Found at https://wateruseitwisely.com/100-ways-to-conserve/
Lee Vibber This explains why he was so happy to help me water with the hose!
Southland falls short of achieving 20% voluntary cut in water use
Southland falls short of achieving 20% voluntary cut in water use
“Local water officials attribute the meek response in part to the conservation successes of recent years, which they say make it more difficult to realize further reductions.” Well, that and people who are still watering the sidewalks in the middle of the afternoon.
Also interesting: “Daily per capita use in Los Angeles dropped from a high of 187 gallons in fiscal year 1987 to a low of 122 gallons in fiscal year 2011. It crept up to 129 gallons last year. But the city’s overall water demand remains less than in 1970, despite the addition of 1 million residents.”
J: “I need twenty pounds of sleep.”
J: “I need twenty pounds of sleep.”
“I thought you were going to get pants, not Darth Vader.”
“I thought you were going to get pants, not Darth Vader.”
It’s always nice to see restaurants that not only recognize the reality and severity…
https://www.eater.com/2014/6/19/6207199/how-restaurant-pros-are-handling-the-surge-of-food-allergies
It's always nice to see restaurants that not only recognize the reality and severity of food allergies (unlike those who dismiss allergies as lies made up by attention-seekers who want to feel special), but are willing to help the rising number of people who have allergies have a nice meal out.
It’s worth noting that the actual effect measured was MUCH smaller than the fallout
New York Times joins Facebook fray: How a stale press release suddenly triggered media frenzy
It all started as a largely ignored paper about the number of positive and negative words people use in Facebook posts. Now it’s a major scandal. Yesterday the New York Times connected the Facebook experiment to suicides. The story was headlined, Should Facebook Manipulate Users, and it rests on…
It’s worth noting that the actual effect measured was MUCH smaller than the fallout from the fact that the experiment was conducted in the first place.