Seriously thinking about putting the keyboard on the gaming computer (the one the kid uses most often) through the diskwasher
*dishwasher.
But i kinda like the typo.
Category: Wandering.Shop
WTF Roblox, gross food
Kid’s friend: “Ew, my sandwich has eyeballs in it.”
Kid: “Same.”
NAAN-COMA
Picking up Indian food from a local place. Big sign at the counter saying “Experience the NAAN-COMA”
At the post office. Again. At least the line’s moving today.
At the post office. Again. At least the line’s moving today. There’s a shelf of shipping supplies labeled “Land of the free boxes.”
Mildly gross/COVID adjacent:
Inhaled a bit of spit & tried to stifle the resulting cough. Failed. The person behind me in line left.
Considering she was one of only 2 people in line not wearing masks, I can’t feel too bad.
COVID measures:
County has had an indoor mask order for months now. State has just imposed one over rising case rates. Curiously, LA county’s rates are a lot flatter than the state as a whole.
I can spin the PokeStop in the lobby again, but my item bag is full.
USPS/uspol:
“The job got so big, Santa asked the USPS to find volunteers to help!”
Um, seriously. Because a hatchet man appointed by the previous administration gutted their ability to actually pay people.
Oh, NOW I realize I should’ve put a lure on it
Shipped!
Now back onto the road with people who haven’t driven in the rain for a year!
Spent way too much of today’s workday trying to track down what was & wasn’t …
Spent way too much of today’s workday trying to track down what was & wasn’t using log4j.
Fun times…
Finally convinced my brain it isn’t Friday. Now I keep having to remind myself it’s …
Finally convinced my brain it isn’t Friday. Now I keep having to remind myself it’s not Thursday.
Wtf?
I finally posted my answer to @szczezuja ‘s question, “How did you use the Internet in 1990-2005?”
I finally posted my answer to @szczezuja ‘s question, “How did you use the Internet in 1990-2005?”
It ended up a lot longer than it probably needed to be, and every time I tried to cut it down I ended up adding more. So I finally decided to just post it in its current form.
gemini://hyperborea.org/log/2021-12-07-internet-1990s.gmi
For the record: lots of juncos, a bunch of what are probably lesser goldfinches but …
For the record: lots of juncos, a bunch of what are probably lesser goldfinches but could be warblers, and at least one woodpecker, and I think I caught a glimpse of a bluebird or (more likely this time of year) a California scrub-jay, but I’m not sure.
Plus a few monarchs and a mourning cloak butterfly, none of which paused while I was there.
Went for a walk at a “wilderness” park. (It’s more wilderness-themed than actual wilderness, though …
Went for a walk at a “wilderness” park. (It’s more wilderness-themed than actual wilderness, though a local conservation group is slowly replacing the “let’s put in stuff that looks wilderness-y!” plants with native habitat.)
Saw a ton of birds in one corner, but they were really good at hiding. And even when I managed to catch them on camera, most of my photos came out like this.
Auto-focus? More like oughta-focus.
🤷♂️
Saw this while walking around the neighborhood the other day. Please do not taunt it.
Saw this while walking around the neighborhood the other day.
Please do not taunt it.
covid vaccines (+)
Pfizer (among others) is gearing up to build an omicron-specific booster, but they don’t know if it’ll be needed yet.
What I find most interesting:
They developed vaccines for both beta and delta, but shelved them when beta failed to gain traction and the original vaccine turned out to be able to handle delta.
https://www.businessinsider.com/pfizer-chief-scientist-interview-omicrons-threat-to-vaccines-2021-11
And apparently #Saga is finally coming back! I’m going to have to go back to …
And apparently #Saga is finally coming back! I’m going to have to go back to my local comic shop and ask them to put it (back?) on my pull list.
If I still have a pull list!
I don’t think I’ve been there in almost a year. Most of what I’d been reading in early 2020 was either wrapping up or getting canceled anyway, and I went in a couple of times to pick up the last few issues.
An actual email I got today
“A friendly reminder that your membership at Phi Beta Kappa Alumni in Southern California is about to expire on Saturday, January 01, 2022.
Please note that there is a bug in the software that will state your renewal (when you make it) is good until January 1, 2019. In fact, the actual renewal will be good until January 1, 2020. We are trying to get the system developer to correct this bug.”
Um…about those dates…
They sent a follow-up correction, but the fact that it’s a freaking academic honor society that messed it up is kind of hilarious.
Got a shipping notice for something that arrived yesterday.It has a tracking number now!
Got a shipping notice for something that arrived yesterday.
It has a tracking number now!
How did I never make the connection to “Scientific Progress Goes BOINC”
How did I never make the connection to “Scientific Progress Goes BOINC”
I miss small electronics stores.
I miss small electronics stores.
Yes, I get it, it’s raining tacos 😱
Yes, I get it, it’s raining tacos 😱
Boosted!
Boosted!
The Oatmeal on why it’s so hard to accept a compliment
The Oatmeal on why it’s so hard to accept a compliment
(possibly nsfw depending on your workplace, it’s the Oatmeal, after all)
Re: There never was an ‘open web’
responding to a link to a post about how the web never really was distributed because it required domain names and centralized hosting
I remember Opera (the original browser company) trying to address that with their Opera Unite feature…but it never gained enough traction even among Opera users, and that was small enough a group to begin with, and they dropped it even before they switched to WebKit and sold the company.