“The plague doctors. They sound like they’re meowing.”
Things you never thought you’d say…
Context: Minecraft with lots and lots of mods running at the same time
Category: Wandering.Shop
All this time I thought the “Katie Kaboom” segments of Animaniacs were exaggerated.
All this time I thought the “Katie Kaboom” segments of Animaniacs were exaggerated.
9YO is playing Minecraft with one of his classmates. Classmate is bragging over voice chat …
9YO is playing Minecraft with one of his classmates. Classmate is bragging over voice chat about how he’s hacking everything. Cause he’s a hacker.
“I need to turn on cheats on this map now, so please don’t use them, ok?”
Interesting article on how, and how quickly, plants colonize volcanic islands and blast zones.
Interesting article on how, and how quickly, plants colonize volcanic islands and blast zones.
Me: Oh hey, the clouds haven’t burned off yet. I should take a walk before …
Me: Oh hey, the clouds haven’t burned off yet. I should take a walk before that happens.
*half a block later*
Clouds: (burn off)
Every. Time.
Team Rocket grunt in a balloon, landing at my house: “What did you hope to …
Team Rocket grunt in a balloon, landing at my house: “What did you hope to achieve by coming here?!”
Um… avoiding Covid?
I literally bought a 3lb Kroger bag of onions *yesterday*
I literally bought a 3lb Kroger bag of onions *yesterday*
which, now that I’m looking at the text of the notice, is a day *after* the recall was issued.
Discovered that the 404 page on npr.org features stories about Amelia Earhart, the Watergate …
Discovered that the 404 page on npr.org features stories about Amelia Earhart, the Watergate tapes, Jimmy Hoffa, “your luggage,” Atlantis, and Waldo. 😂
Picking up Japanese again in Duolingo after reviewing Spanish & German for a while. And my brain is jumping…
Picking up Japanese again in Duolingo after reviewing Spanish & German for a while. And my brain is jumping on mixes of the other two languages. I was just asked to translate “Where are your parents” and my first thought was “Donde estan sus Eltern?”
In reply to @FiXato about doing the same thing with German & Norwegian
Heh… at least German and Norwegian are more similar than German & Spanish. Or either and Japanese!
Something I do find interesting though is when German & Spanish share something with each other but not with English. Like Möbel & mueble vs. furniture.
In related news, it’s weird how much easier it is to add accents and other marks on a phone keyboard (even without language-appropriate autocorrect) than on a physical keyboard with the US-English layout even though it’s easier to type in general on the real keyboard.
I don’t always write long posts on my phone. But when I do, the upload fails silently.
I don’t always write long posts on my phone. But when I do, the upload fails silently.
*sigh*
( For the record, it was a Flickr photo with a long description.)
You know the scene in The Iron Giant where the kid has had a cup of espresso…
You know the scene in The Iron Giant where the kid has had a cup of espresso (“It’s like Coffee-zilla”) and is zooming around and talking a mile a minute and blurts out, “gotanymorecoffee?”
That’s been my morning. Only the kid hasn’t had any coffee.
Link: Sorting out Covid-19 “super-spreaders” and “super-spreading events”
Link: Sorting out Covid-19 “super-spreaders” and “super-spreading events”
COVID-19 “super-spreaders” and “super-spreading events”: The controversy
Evidence is emerging suggesting that COVID-19 does not spread equally. A minority of infected individuals seem to spread the virus easily to many people, while most infected individuals spread it to few others or no one at all, likely through a combination of circumstance, environment, and possibly biology. Why is this, and what does it mean for coronavirus containment strategies?
In other news, 9YO used up all his coping skills for the day…
In other news, 9YO used up all his coping skills for the day at the dentist this morning. It’s been fuuuun….
Broken Pedal
Kitchen trash-can has one of those pedals you step on to open the lid without touching it with your hands. Pedal broke. Ordered new pedal. Got new pedal. Discovered that I’d ordered the wrong pedal. Sent it back to exchange for the correct pedal. Made absolutely sure I ordered the correct pedal this time. FedEx claims they left the box at the front door two days ago. Box actually arrived today.
Box contained a lid.
The Walking Bread
“The bread’s not going to have gone anywhere. It’s not like it’s going to walk away. Actually that would be freaky.”
“The walking bread?”
“I fear the walking bread!”
Saw a report of a skimming device found on an atm I used to stop by…
Saw a report of a skimming device found on an atm I used to stop by on the way to work. I haven’t been by there in months, so that’s good, I guess.
Is a Parody Error when you mistakenly attribute a song to Weird Al Yankovic?
Is a Parody Error when you mistakenly attribute a song to Weird Al Yankovic?
HOW? This is running on the same computer. No hardware changes. It’s a modern Mac, …
HOW? This is running on the same computer. No hardware changes. It’s a modern Mac, I *can’t* make any hardware changes. I don’t think I’ve even *rebooted* the machine since I last ran this VM.
Wait, there was an OS update last week. Did I last run this VM early in the week or later in the week?
I have no idea, because time has no meaning anymore.
But yeah, maybe it was early in the week and the latest point release reports something slightly differently to VMWare.
Local grocery store was running so late with curbside pick-up that they had to cancel …
Local grocery store was running so late with curbside pick-up that they had to cancel most of this evening’s orders. The system isn’t set up to just reschedule them for the next day.
Fortunately the website has an “Add all to cart” button on the cancelled order and I was able to redo it for tomorrow in less than two minutes.
I guess when DownDetector goes offline, it’s a bit tricky to figure out just how wide the impact is
I guess when DownDetector goes offline, it’s a bit tricky to figure out just how wide the impact is of an outage at a major internet service.
Cloudflare outage cuts off connections to Discord, DownDetector and others – Engadget
“In at least one case, even the status page for the status page was down.”
Cloudflare DNS goes down, taking a large piece of the internet with it – TechCrunch
Fortunately Cloudflare and others are able to get the word out on that famously reliable alternate channel [checks notes]…Twitter 😬