Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
#reintroductions #introductions Hello, my name is Kelson. I’m a computer programmer in the #LosAngeles area. I like #scifi, #fantasy & #comics (behind on a lot, keeping up w/ #TheFlash, Saga & #JessicaJones). I tend to talk about #webdevelopment and #tech, and I still have a #blog.
I also talk about #books at [edit: @KelsonReads@Bookwyrm.social ] & post scenic #photography at @kelsonv
Saw this on birdsite:
Scientists Slowly Reintroducing Small Group Of Normal, Well-Adjusted Humans Into Society
ITHACA, NYâIn an ambitious attempt to revive a population long considered to be on the brink of extinction, scientists announced Friday they have slowly begun to reintroduce normal, well-adjusted human beings back into society.
Listened to the latest episode of the #LesMiserables Reading Companion. Up to the introduction of Patron-Minette & the “Jondrette” family.
1. Wow, the callback to the miner’s candlestick from back in Digne (lost in the Denny translation).
2. I hadn’t made the connection between Ăponine’s 1st & Fantine’s last appearances.
3. Three times through the book & I never caught on to the implications of just how far Thénardier goes in exploiting his daughters. Ugh.
https://readlesmis.libsyn.com/ep30-iii7i-iii8iv-miners-tools
This popped up on a flashback post today. Back in 2009 I was exploring a disused railroad spur in an industrial park and found this 3.5″ floppy disk just sitting there.
The tracks have since been ripped out. This section was turned into a walkway for a commuter train station on the main tracks a couple hundred feet behind this spot.
#photography #tracks #floppydisk
I caught up on Flash War and its aftermath. I feel like it could have been epic, but ultimately was just a way to break up the Flash family and set up the new Forces.
That’s a problem I’m having with DC Comics lately: Stories don’t feel like they start from the characters and new threats picking up where the previous story left off, they feel like they’re working backward from where everything needs to be to set up the next story and finding a way to get there.
It’s been like that for a while. It was a problem with Flash: Rebirth, with Countdown, with Full Throttle. I sort of feel like the early New 52 escaped the problem and built more organically, at least some of the books I was reading. But those kept getting cancelled.
If you compare Final Crisis to Metal, they’re both similar in structure: cosmic threat turns earth into a nightmare between panels, the heroes seek help from the multiverse to restore the world. But Final Crisis *finishes.* Metal sets up the alloys, the Challengers & Hawks, the crack in the Source Wall. It’s more like COIE in the way it works hard to set things up for the coming year(s) of stories.
7YO is experimenting with HTML and Notepad++: “There. Now I can see the crulfs.”
Me & wife: “Crulfs?”
I look over at the screen. “Oh, CRLFs!”
@Einahpets Same here. I go for the porters and stouts, my wife goes for the IPAs, and waiters often switch them when they bring the glasses to the table.
I saw a new Lamborghini this morning, gliding through traffic like an orange cross-section of airfoil, barely inches off the road. Behind it rolled up a raised F-150 pickup truck, tires almost as high as the car in front of it.
Suddenly that airfoil looked more like a mobile speed bump.
@nev @DialMforMara Yep…and now they’ve got you back while you write that link post, and they can try to keep you there long enough to see some ads before you go.
It’s amazing how desperate FB is to keep you engaged. If I’ve been away for 24 hours, they start sending me “So and so posted something! Don’t you want to look?”
Had a conversation this morning on the importance of not shaming people for learning new things that they âshould have known already.â It reminded me of this XKCD from a few years back.
Another of my #fotofails from the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. I’m terrible at holding binoculars steady, so I’ll take zoomed photos to see what’s in the distance. I think these were antelope or something, but the camera autofocused on the cables holding a balloon between the deck I was standing on and the open area below. For comparison, the giraffes at a similar distance are a lot clearer.
@stefanhayden @andeluuu @Mastodon We have book clubs at https://booktoot.club ! #sffbookclub, #nfbookclub, #storyclub & a few others.
@andeluuu @stefanhayden @Mastodon Just check out the hashtags to see what people are reading. There’s a master list at https://fediverse-reads.dreamwidth.org
Joining the specific instance isn’t required, since hashtag columns will federate.
@andeluuu @stefanhayden @Mastodon I mean each server will be able to see tagged posts from others, so you don’t have to move to a specific one to participate in a conversation around a hashtag.
I’ve made a point from time to time of linking to Mastodon posts from birdsite & FB. Not sure how many people followed.
That said, I’m not a huge fan of the “screenshot of text” phenomenon. IMO text should be quoted so it’s accessible & searchable, not photographed…but based on my experience trying to share *just* links, screenshots might be more effective. Even if it seems backwards to me.
@stefanhayden @Mastodon Just links & descriptions, I mean. Not URLs by themselves.
It’s not too late: There’s still one left!
No, really, just one: The Last Blockbuster
In 1908, a photographer strapped cameras to pigeons to take aerial photos.
Literally a bird’s-eye view of the world.
For a Brief, Glorious Moment, Camera-Wielding Pigeons Spied From Above
Link: The Giants of California: How Redwoods and Whales Got So Big
It isnât happenstance that California and the waters off our coast are home to these giants. As the new exhibit explains, bigness emerges partly from the particulars of life here â the ocean currents and our famous fog.
Surprisingly simple charts of how consistent major cities’ street layouts are based on orientation.
You can see a stark difference between cities that grew organically over centuries and those (mostly in the US) that were established after grids became popular.
https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/charlotte-nc-has-americas-messiest-street-grid
If no one has ever survived the Fire Swamp, how did its oddly specific dangers become common knowledge?
@dantebrevity I want to add something to make it FOCUS, but I have to admit FOCU works well on its own!
