Thank you, brain, for reminding me just how catchy 99 Red Balloons is.
I always thought that was irony. But thinking about it now, it occurs to me that it may be part of the point.
Category: Wandering.Shop
Still not ready to go back to cons yet
Still not ready to go back to cons yet (and I might want to start with something smaller when I do) but at least WonderCon is taking things seriously.
https://www.comic-con.org/wca/covid-19-faq
They even have a COVID refund policy: if you can’t attend because you catch COVID before the event, they’ll issue a full refund if you show them the positive test.
I’m morbidly amused by “Please do not bring your proof onsite.”
I mean, it *should* go without saying, but you just know someone would do it and expose everyone in the check-in line otherwise. 😬
I just tried to put my spare reading glasses on over my regular reading glasses….
I just tried to put my spare reading glasses on over my regular reading glasses.🤦♂️
Kid had yesterday off but i didn’t. It feels like 2 Mondays in a row.
Kid had yesterday off but i didn’t. It feels like 2 Mondays in a row.
I wonder if Cafe 222 in San Diego is offering some sort of special tomorrow….
I wonder if Cafe 222 in San Diego is offering some sort of special tomorrow.
If it’s still there anyway
They are in fact still around!
The place is freaking tiny, though. And the outdoor seating they had last time I was there is in an alcove surrounded on three sides, so while it’s outside for temperature, I’m not sure I’d consider it outside for ventilation.
Well, it’s not like I was going to drive 100+ miles for breakfast anyway.
Spent the entire afternoon trying to get a project to build. I would have been …
Spent the entire afternoon trying to get a project to build. I would have been better off working in one of the other two high priority projects.
My sense of time is so wonky I thought *today* was 2/22/22 (or 22/2/22).
My sense of time is so wonky I thought *today* was 2/22/22 (or 22/2/22). Then I realized it was tomorrow.
Or I guess I should say two-morrow?
Wait, it’s already tomorrow in UTC, isn’t it?
Recycling EV car batteries:
I really need to finish some projects before I start any new ones
I really need to finish some projects before I start any new ones
I pulled over because there was a whole…duckload of mallards just grazing their way down the street along the grass.
Context: I was driving past a park that has a pond with a year-round population of ducks and geese and attracts other waterfowl. Usually near the pond.
This isn’t. It’s at the edge of the park. I pulled over because there was a whole…duckload of mallards just grazing their way down the street along the grass.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/106648161
Me: Hmm, what’s a flock of ducks called? Kid: A duckload.
Me: Hmm, what’s a flock of ducks called?
Kid: A duckload.
(He looked it up. Apparently it’s a “paddling” of ducks, but I think I’m going to go with duckload.)
Most of what’s left is refinements, but I still haven’t decided how to handle comments. …
Most of what’s left is refinements, but I still haven’t decided how to handle comments. I’ve got a simple structure for *displaying* comments, but no way to accept new ones yet.
Static site generators inherently can’t process input. If you want comments, you have to hook something else up, or offload them entirely.
The original posts didn’t get many comments, so I might just leave it at the mailto link for now. (Talk about flashbacks…)
Here goes: I’ve taken the troubleshooting posts that I already put on #gemini and set …
Here goes: I’ve taken the troubleshooting posts that I already put on #gemini and set up a web mini-site with them. I figure on adding more as I go along, redirecting some blog posts and linking others.
https://hyperborea.org/tech-tips/
Digging deeper into #IndieWeb and #Eleventy/#11ty, trying to make it both light and responsive, and building a reusable template setup.
Once I’ve refined it a bit more I plan to generalize it & post a git repo of the structure & styles
I think I found that superb owl I keep hearing about.
Building a website with 11ty is like using Linux back in the 1990s: once you …
Building a website with 11ty is like using Linux back in the 1990s: once you have it set up and tuned it runs great, but it takes a lot of tweaking to get to that point.
“You had to do what with the seat?”
https://fossbytes.com/what-if-operating-systems-were-airlines/
Yay for appliances built with standard parts!
Yay for appliances built with standard parts!
Apparently Fedora has a Brainfuck interpreter in its repository
Apparently Fedora has a Brainfuck interpreter in its repository.
Accidentally typed “bf” and it offered to install the package.
What is Brainfuck, you ask? “Code that was designed to hurt” is a good description. https://theoutline.com/post/825/brainfuck-coding-languages
The entire syntax is made up of +,-,<,>,[,],. and ,
Ah, this looks like the description I saw way back when
I really love how, judging by the fan noise, Windows alone keeps the processor as …
I really love how, judging by the fan noise, Windows alone keeps the processor as busy as Linux plus several CPU-based BOINC tasks.
Coffee maker started leaking a few days after we descaled it
Coffee maker started leaking a few days after we descaled it. Just a little at first, then more each day. kid opened it up. One of the water hoses has a crack in it surrounded by mineral deposits. As near as we can tell, the minerals were probably blocking the leak. 🤦♂️
No luck finding dedicated replacement parts, but we found a 5′ length of high-temperature silicone tubing in the right size. Here’s hoping it arrives soon. And works.
More rethinking my website in the #IndieWeb context. The “garden and stream” metaphor…
More rethinking my website in the #IndieWeb context. The “garden and stream” metaphor brings up a good point: Not everything we put online is sequential.
I have a lot of stuff on my blog that doesn’t belong in the middle of a long stream of time-based posts as well as it would in a topic-based collection. Heck, I already reorganized the tech troubleshooting when I mirrored stuff to #gemini
https://indieweb.org/garden_and_stream
gemini://hyperborea.org/howto/