Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
Somehow – probably because I learned the word sarcophagus long before I learned much in the way of Latin/Greek suffixes or prefixes – it never occurred to me that it literally means “flesh eater”
Apparently Pliny the Elder thought limestone dissolved bodies and was well-suited for stone coffins:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sarcophagus
Every time I see the word “crudite” I think it ought to be the name of a mineral made of crud.
Going to have to go outside to warm up. In freaking November.
Argh. It’s 75°F outside, which is fine, but inside it’s cold enough that my nose & fingers are going numb. I don’t know who controls the thermostat here but the AC is up waaay too high.
…Reminds me of the time the kiddo wanted to put the integer limit as the upper limit in a for loop.
A few hours later he had a better appreciation for big numbers!
@dansup Oh no! Sorry to hear that!
The whole concept of auto-unlocking based on proximity is a disaster waiting to happen, IMO.
@nolan I understand the kind of tweetstorm that’s stream of consciousness, where you just keep adding to it as you think of stuff.
But then there’s the kind that really is an article divided into tiny chunks, and it’s like…would you want to watch a movie in 30 second chunks? No, it’s terrible presentation. But that’s where the audience is. All the people who are on Twitter already and will see your thread because it’s there, but can’t be bothered to click on a link to your blog.
@nolan I’ve thought way too much about this and I’m still kind of bitter about the shift.
Realized #Flashpoint is a cosmic-level version of the trolley problem for time travelers.
#comics
@phildini Yeah….
I’ve got the LA Times fire map bookmarked now. Looking out the window and seeing smoke from the Getty fire isn’t helping either…
There’s a house in my neighborhood with #Halloween decorations that include a string of bright orange witches’ hats hanging from the eaves.
But since I learned from an episode of #Lingthusiasm that “witches’ hat” is Australian slang for traffic cones, the color seems even more appropriate!
@sohkamyung Congratulations!
@FiXato well, I had to keep my streak going… 🤷♂️
Spent the morning with the kid learning to play the Pokemon card game. After lunch he wanted to play the online version. After that I needed a break and went for a walk. I got back and he wanted to play a Minecraft mod with me that adds…you guessed it: Pokemon. And with dinner, when it became clear that there was no room on the table and we asked if he wanted to watch something, he suggested…yep. the original Pokemon cartoon.
I’m all Pokemon’d out.
Gotta love this headline:
“Plague of purple sea urchins ravages California’s offshore ecosystem, heads to Oregon”
Had to be somewhere by 9:30. Allowed enough time to be there by 9:00. Just got there.
I hate driving in LA.
I’d be a lot more interested in all the various fake meat products coming out if they didn’t all have something I was allergic to as a primary ingredient. Even the ones that are soy-free use pea protein.
Huh. MyWOT (Web of Trust, a site reputation service & browser add-on) is still around, after having been caught selling users’ personal data several years ago.
And they still have the twisted ring logo that looks like the dream ter’angreal from that *other* WOT (Wheel of Time).
2016 article: Browsers ban WOT
