…and of course today a flyer came in plugging one of the 12 propositions on the ballot.
Category: Fediverse
Link: How Writers Map Their Imaginary Worlds
uspol/campaign mailings oddity
Normally by this point in an election cycle we’re inundated with mailings for every major candidate, several recommended slates from various groups, and half the ballot propositions.
This time? A bunch of mailings from *one* state legislator.
And nothing else.
We’re both still registered, and we got the voter guide & both sample ballots.
Maybe they figure anyone voting in the midterm has already made up their minds? Or they’re focusing online or on TV?
Life finds a way
PCH Blvd???
Got an email promoting something on “PCH Blvd.” PCH is short for Pacific Coast Highway. Which would make it Pacific Coast Highway Boulevard.
The footer says it was sent from New York, so I guess that’s at least sort of understandable…
I’m still fond of this comic strip
@kemonine I’m still fond of this comic strip: World’s Most Elusive Human Being
@DialMforMara Better than the CW app. I was watching a show on it last night, …
@DialMforMara Better than the CW app. I was watching a show on it last night, and at one point it put an ad about 30 seconds before the show’s commercial break.
Second full workday with reading glasses. I’d forgotten how much more pixelated the desktop monitors …
Second full workday with reading glasses. I’d forgotten how much more pixelated the desktop monitors at home and work look compared to my mobile devices.
I know I don’t need it, but I’m tempted to look for a new monitor just to get better DPI now that it’s noticeable again!
Gotta do something with them, I suppose: a 5-meter dome made entirely out of bicycle wheels…
Gotta do something with them, I suppose: a 5-meter dome made entirely out of bicycle wheels in Whitehorse, Yukon. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/bicycle-wheel-dome
China Miéville described “mainstream” literature as a genre with a successful multi-decade campaign to convince people that it wasn’t a genre.
@bridgebury @auntiekiki @rhiannonrevolts I was at a Comic-Con panel once on which China Miéville described “mainstream” literature as a genre with a successful multi-decade campaign to convince people that it wasn’t a genre. I thought it was a good description.
Link: Biosphere 2: A Once Troubled Social Experiment is Transformed
Biosphere 2: A Once Troubled Social Experiment is Transformed
That means researchers from the Global Institute for Water Security at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada don’t have to worry about harming the environment while studying how plants in the tiny rainforest adjust their water consumption.
Heatsink inside!
Heatsink inside! A photo I originally took to try to get some idea of what the power supply was in this particular computer without pulling things out, so I could figure out what limitations I was working with for upgrading. I think it looks interesting.
I’ve since upgraded every component I *can* in it: CPU, RAM, SDD, graphics…but it still can’t handle The Bard’s Tale IV, which is really disappointing, since I’ve been looking forward to it since the start of the Kickstarter campaign.
The rain picked up again and has been going for about 2 hours! Not heavy, …
The rain picked up again and has been going for about 2 hours! Not heavy, but continuing! 👍
And now I need to sleep..
Sunset lighting up the clouds before tonight’s rainstorm.
Sunset lighting up the clouds before tonight’s rainstorm. It was one of those moments when you just stop wherever you can because you know that if you try to get to a good spot, the light will have changed and the moment will be gone. So there are power lines and telephone poles, but at least I captured the light.
Rain! I was literally about to hit the send button on this when it started: …
Rain! I was literally about to hit the send button on this when it started: No rain here, unless you count a smattering of drops that have already evaporated from the windshield, but clouds in the distance are lighting up with occasional flashes of lightning.
Downside: I’m in the laundry room, starting a load of laundry.
Kiddo came out with an umbrella. Then wanted to walk in the rain. (It’s southern California, we haven’t had any rain since spring.) The lighting was far enough away that I agreed, and as it turned out the rain stopped by the time we reached the corner.
But we were able to find a halfway decent vantage point to watch the lightning off in the hills.
Cool collection of then-and-now space images. #space
Cool collection of then-and-now space images. https://www.planetary.org/articles/nasa-60-years
“You’re receiving this email because you participated in past crowdfunding campaigns.” But not yours…
“You’re receiving this email because you participated in past crowdfunding campaigns.”
But not yours, which means you have no business spamming me.
*plonk*
Trying to pick up dinner at a fast food place that’s doing a fundraiser for …
Trying to pick up dinner at a fast food place that’s doing a fundraiser for the kid’s school. I don’t know how busy they are most nights, but today they could use one of those “The wait from this point is X minutes” signs like at Disneyland.
32 minutes in a line that wrapped around 2 full walls, 4 to get the food. And I almost forgot to show the fundraiser flyer!
Using the Google+ news to make a point about attack surface: Your old online accounts …
Using the Google+ news to make a point about attack surface: Your old online accounts can put you at risk even if you’re not using them anymore.
Laughing at Google+ bug? You’re making a big mistake.
The popularity of Google+ is a distraction when you’re thinking about Google+ as part of a consumer’s broader “attack surface”…The more accounts you have, the bigger your digital footprint and the wider your attack surface.
Taking it a bit further:
Does the account still have access to anything else? Unlink it!
Do you use the same password anywhere else? Change those passwords!
Does it have private information on it that could be used to impersonate you on another account? Think about whether you still want to keep it around.
@sohkamyung Good to know that there’s still an active community there.I was on G+ …
@sohkamyung Good to know that there’s still an active community there.
I was on G+ for a few years, but as my friends left, I did too. Most of the people and groups I was still following on G+ were also active in other places, so I’d follow them there or directly on RSS. In the last 2 years most of my posts have been just auto-pushed “new blog post” entries.