Explaining to the kid that I learned how to close Internet Explorer way back in the 1990s, and I’ve had lots of practice
Category: Wandering.Shop
Me: Duolingo done! Hmm, Done-o-lingo?9YO (flatly): No.
Me: Duolingo done! Hmm, Done-o-lingo?
9YO (flatly): No.
I really like that the NextCloud Notes app uses a folder-and-text-file back end. I can …
I really like that the NextCloud Notes app uses a folder-and-text-file back end. I can use the nice mobile app on my phone, the nice web interface when I want to…or just open the file in a freaking text editor.
Gee, no one talked to the Enterprise computer like that… 😂”Alexa, just shut up: We’ve …
Gee, no one talked to the Enterprise computer like that… 😂
“Alexa, just shut up: We’ve been isolated for months, and now we hate our home assistants”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/07/01/alexa-siri-google-home-assistant/
The Nielsen/Norman group has a long history of finding design trends that are horrible for …
The Nielsen/Norman group has a long history of finding design trends that are horrible for usability but are absolutely EVERYWHERE and doing actual research to show that “No, you really shouldn’t do that if you want people to be able to actually *use* your site.”
I’m not sure if they’ve ever managed to slow or stop those trends, but at least they post articles that I can point people to.
I’m trying to remember where I read someone’s observation that the technical limitations of an …
I’m trying to remember where I read someone’s observation that the technical limitations of an era become the touchstones that define its aesthetics. OCR-friendly text, pixelation, synth sounds, green phosphors, etc.
Kiddo has found the April Fool’s edition of Minecraft from a few years back that …
Kiddo has found the April Fool’s edition of Minecraft from a few years back that imitates the UI of 90s-era Doom & other FPSes, complete with shareware banners & adjustable borders. He’s complaining about the audio quality of the music, but we’re finding it kind of nostalgic.
covid-adjacent, pokemon, silly
I think Koffing is supposed to look like a magnified grain of dust or pollen…but it looks an awful lot like a coronavirus, too.
I don’t have a clever caption for this one, but thought it was cool that …
I don’t have a clever caption for this one, but thought it was cool that I caught the Croagunk *right there* while trying to decide what to do with the frog statue.
Incidentally, the frog statue is a Pokestop. And so is the historical cabin in the Sneasel picture.
#Pokemon
Turtwig has found a new friend
Turtwig has found a new friend.
#Pokemon
(I had such a hard time trying to get it to face the right direction, which is why it’s still a little bit off. At least I didn’t need to worry about the real turtle wandering away while I set up the shot.)
Sneasel is disappointed that the museum is closed.
9YO has discovered that almost any short phrase can be set to the strings from …
9YO has discovered that almost any short phrase can be set to the strings from “Bittersweet Symphony” and repeated f o r e v e r.
Why, Windows? Why would you even OFFER to eject the system disk?
Got a shipping notice from “UPS Quantum View ” – I assume this means that …
Got a shipping notice from “UPS Quantum View ” – I assume this means that when you track the package, you can only look up how far away it is or how soon it’s arriving, but not both.
Hey, maybe that’s why so many online stores don’t seem to know what their inventory actually is and offer to sell me things they don’t actually have.
Hamilton literally gives two “fucks” to get a PG-13 rating so it can run on …
Hamilton literally gives two “fucks” to get a PG-13 rating so it can run on Disney+.
And yeah, kind of amused over the one they left in.
Should I be concerned that this strategy sort of makes sense?
Should I be concerned that this strategy sort of makes sense?
Interesting idea on vowel-heavy vs consonant-heavy languages and dialects being shaped by the *acoustics* of …
Interesting idea on vowel-heavy vs consonant-heavy languages and dialects being shaped by the *acoustics* of the landscape: humidity, temperature, tree types and cover, etc. and how they impact how clearly you can hear words with different types of sounds.
#linguistics
https://nautil.us/how-a-countrys-land-shapes-its-language-235852/
Let it crash
Let it crash, let it crash
Let it crash, let it crash
There will be a stacktrace
Let it crash
Spent something like 20 minutes trying to troubleshoot Minecraft Realms for the 9YO and determine …
Spent something like 20 minutes trying to troubleshoot Minecraft Realms for the 9YO and determine whether it was his account, our network, or a service outage. Seems to be the latter.
Now he’s making armor stands in a local world, naming them Minecraft Realms, and demonstrating how someone would knock one out or cover it in spider webs to slow it down.
Now he’s got a bunch of pistons pushing “Minecraft Realms” around
People who are riding out the pandemic in literal ghost towns. Park rangers and an …
People who are riding out the pandemic in literal ghost towns. Park rangers and an update on the guy who was going to stay for two weeks but got caught by a freak snowstorm and then the travel restrictions…and has decided to stay.
They Live Alone in Ghost Towns
There are thousands of abandoned hamlets in the U.S. Some people still live and vacation in them. Maybe you want to, too?