Had to do a double-take when looking at the updated website control panel to realize they just had an unfortunately placed line break in the list.
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The wind keeps making this whistling noise that sounds almost exactly like the hailing whistle …
The wind keeps making this whistling noise that sounds almost exactly like the hailing whistle from classic Star Trek
Hearing fireworks!
Hearing fireworks!
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Anyway, I’m relieved at the result of the election, though in a sane country it wouldn’t have been as close as it was. Trump started his term taking a sledgehammer to the walls and when the house caught fire, he cheerfully tossed gas on it figuring he’d look better by firelight. I’ll happily take someone who’ll at least try to put the fire out, even if his repair plans aren’t perfect.
uspol
JFC there are still people who think there’s “no difference” between the two major parties? Have you fucking been paying any attention for the past 4 years????
First substantial rain of the season. That’s two things to be happy about today!
First substantial rain of the season. That’s two things to be happy about today!
History, overuse of x-rays
From the same era as radium watches 😱
When X-Rays Were All the Rage, a Trip to the Shoe Store Was Dangerously Illuminating – IEEE Spectrum
9YO has started pronouncing “XD” aloud. 😬
9YO has started pronouncing “XD” aloud. 😬
I guess it’s better than “Maniacal laugh!!!!”
Big Parma
OMG I’m looking at a takeout menu and the restaurant has a limited edition chicken burger called the Big Parma (as in Parmesan)
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Finding myself focusing on covid news/stats to keep myself from focusing on election news/stats because it’s less stressful. wtf, brain?
Covid measures metaphor
Covid measures metaphor: Think of each measure (masks, distance, limiting crowds, ventilation, etc.) as a slice of Swiss cheese. Sure, there are holes in each slice, but you stack them together and they cover each other’s gaps.
A Swiss cheese approach to pandemic safety
Also, a nice visual display of how coronavirus spreads in indoor scenarios and how different actions reduce the risk.
A room, a bar and a classroom: how the coronavirus is spread through the air
Saw someone walking down the street in an inflatable unicorn costume.
Saw someone walking down the street in an inflatable unicorn costume.
A Metro train in Rotterdam overshot the end of its track, but caught on a …
A Metro train in Rotterdam overshot the end of its track, but caught on a giant whale tail sculpture instead of falling 30 feet to the ground. No passengers were onboard, and the driver escaped unharmed. Now they have to figure out how to get the train down safely.
The sculpture, incidentally, is called “Saved by the Whale’s Tale.”
Saved by the whale: Runaway train caught by fateful sculpture
9YO found a CDRW & named it The Imposter so he could eject it.
9YO found a CDRW & named it The Imposter so he could eject it.
Ugh, going to have to look away from screens for a bit until the migraine …
Ugh, going to have to look away from screens for a bit until the migraine aura clears up. And I was hoping to read during lunch
Found the always-open-in-apps setting on Firefox for Android & thought, hey, that might be useful….
Found the always-open-in-apps setting on Firefox for Android & thought, hey, that might be useful.
But now it wants to open links with tracking parameters in Nextcloud, which of course is saying, hey, I don’t know how to open that!
Dug into the phone settings & Nextcloud says it can handle “*” – presumably because you can point it to any Nextcloud server you want. I wonder if there’s a way to limit it to the ones you’ve actually configured?
Anyway, turned off the setting for now.
Hmm, I wonder if there’s an Android-compatible Firefox add-on that strips out tracking parameters…
Argh, forgot that Firefox had limited the Android version to a dozen “recommended” add-ons. I mean they include things like ublock origin & privacy badger (and apparently there’s a privacy possum add on as well!), There’s just not much selection.
Just realized that for the past hour I’ve been wearing the new glasses that I’ve …
Just realized that for the past hour I’ve been wearing the new glasses that I’ve been meaning to take back to get adjusted. They’re actually perfect for laptop & handheld reading.
It’s just that my desktop setup is the wrong distance for them. I guess I can either move the monitor or just keep using the old glasses there.
Looking at the weather forecast for the afternoon and reading “No precipitation” in Darth Vader’s …
Looking at the weather forecast for the afternoon and reading “No precipitation” in Darth Vader’s voice
Anyone know what the dots in the upper right and lower middle of the Pixel …
Anyone know what the dots in the upper right and lower middle of the Pixel 5 camera square are? The upper middle is the flash, and the two sides are the regular and wide-angle lenses. In guessing the upper right is the microphone for shooting video with the rear camera, and the lower middle is a light sensor, but they’re not identified on the reference page I found.
https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/7157629?hl=en
How is it I never noticed before that omega & omicron literally mean big O …
How is it I never noticed before that omega & omicron literally mean big O (O mega) & little O (O micron)?