I think the headline says it all: “Dropbox had to evacuate its headquarters when an electric scooter caught fire”
Category: Wandering.Shop
This is cool: researchers have developed a “soft” robotic lens that can change its shape …
This is cool: researchers have developed a “soft” robotic lens that can change its shape in response to electrical generated by eye movement. Potential not just for replacement lenses, but also contacts or glasses that adjust to distance, or even zoom.
Well-titled article on the incredibly cryptic (and still unexplained) VoynichManuscript: “Why do people keep convincing themselves they’ve solved this?”
Well-titled article on the incredibly cryptic (and still unexplained) #VoynichManuscript:
“Why do people keep convincing themselves they’ve solved this medieval mystery?”
I have been pulled into the alternate reality of Pokemon Go. And now I have …
I have been pulled into the alternate reality of Pokemon Go. And now I have a research task to add a new friend. I’ve seen people on here talk about the game, so if anyone’s willing to add me on the game, please DM me. Thanks!
Oh geez…yeah, I sang a lot of stuff to my kid when he was small, but not the one about how he was going to fall out of a tree in a storm.
@naugeleh @nonphatic Oh geez…yeah, I sang a lot of stuff to my kid when he was small, but not the one about how he was going to fall out of a tree in a storm.
Had to drive into LA this morning. For a city built around cars, you’d think …
Had to drive into LA this morning. For a city built around cars, you’d think it would be easier to get around in one.
Literally confusing hawks and doves.
Usually #iNaturalist’s AI is pretty good at narrowing down to a genus, but sometimes it can get confused. Like this #pigeon sitting on a silk floss tree branch. It was “pretty sure” it was a *hawk*.
Um, nope!
I can sort of see that with the first image, but the second one makes it blindingly obvious!
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/30408488
@KelsonV I just realized it’s literally confusing hawks and doves.
@Satsuma Huh… I thought that was some sort of sealant on PVC, but now I’m …
@Satsuma Huh… I thought that was some sort of sealant on PVC, but now I’m not sure. It makes me wish I had a closer photo, but this was >10 years ago in another city.
Now I’m even more confused about what it was! 😃
Rube Goldberg plumbing?#weird
Apparently their neighbors reported them for renting it out as Airbnb or similar (which the …
Apparently their neighbors reported them for renting it out as Airbnb or similar (which the city doesn’t allow). Then they painted the house bright pink with giant 😜 and 🤐 emoji on it. Now the neighbors are complaining about the mural, but the city says it’s on private property 🤷♂️
Honestly I’m surprised – it sounds like the kind of area that would mandate specific shades of beige paint.
(LA Times, paywall)
‘Emoji house’ feud erupts as frustrated residents urge Manhattan Beach to take action.
#EmojiHouse #weird #LosAngeles #California
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(conversation includes link to The Guardian article) It made international headlines?
@OldBrushNewPaper It made international headlines?
Oh, of course it did. It’s a weird story with emoji. 🤦♂️ 😂
@OldBrushNewPaper It’s not really the kind of area where people would respond with better murals, though. I could see that happening in neighboring Hermosa Beach, but Manhattan Beach is…how should I say this…stuffier?
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Wow, I should have gone looking for the Easy Reader to begin with. (It’s one of the two local papers in the area.) The owner comes off a *lot* worse with the additional background of how she allegedly treated the last long-term tenants.
The Emoji House war: A neighborhood feud erupts in El Porto
Susan Wieland had been away for a work conference since the end of May, but neighbors sent her the photo. Even so, upon returning to her home in the El Porto neighborhood of Manhattan Beach on the night of June 8, she wept when she actually saw her neighbor’s house. The house, a two-level…– Easy Reader News
Mandating removable batteries, hell yes! Standardized batteries across the board? I’m not sure …
replying to post about possible regulations
Mandating removable batteries, hell yes!
Standardized batteries across the board? I’m not sure we’re there yet. Battery life and charging speed are still things the industry is trying to improve, and if we lock in a particular size/shape/etc., I can imagine that making it harder to make better batteries for the next generation of devices.
@sohkamyung @KelsonV Yeah, even *knowing* that’s the only way this can work, my brain wants …
@sohkamyung @KelsonV Yeah, even *knowing* that’s the only way this can work, my brain wants to see the shadow as being behind the contrail!
Minecraft: [Player] was shot by Arrow. Me: YOU HAVE FAILED THIS VILLAGE!
Minecraft: [Player] was shot by Arrow
Me: YOU HAVE FAILED THIS VILLAGE!
#minecraft #arrow
Ah, yes, the famed Western Alligator Liza.#FunWithTruncation
Another oddity found in my 2008 phone photos. My wife took one look at it …
Another oddity found in my 2008 phone photos. My wife took one look at it and said, “What were they trying to summon, the nineties?”
Found among my phone photos from 2008. I’m not entirely sure what they meant. I …
Found among my phone photos from 2008. I’m not entirely sure what they meant. I mean, even assuming there’s a missing “from,” there’s no indication of what it’s referring to.
#Huh?
@mjd yecccchhhh! I’m ok with most bugs, but centipedes? No thanks!
@mjd yecccchhhh! I’m ok with most bugs, but centipedes? No thanks!
Question for those of you who prefer CWs on pictures of insects. Does that include …
Question for those of you who prefer CWs on pictures of insects. Does that include butterflies?
[ ] No, butterflies are fine
[ ] Yes, please hide them too
@GreenandBlack There’s a brutalist office building-turned-hotel near my workplace that tried to jazz things up …
@GreenandBlack There’s a brutalist office building-turned-hotel near my workplace that tried to jazz things up by adding color and banners during the conversion, but this is so much better!
@GreenandBlack I should’ve said “tried to spruce things up.”
You would have to create a new user if you want to set up on another server…
@natharari You would have to create a new user if you want to set up on another server. But you don’t need to set up an account there to interact. That’s the great thing about Mastodon being federated. I mean, we’re on different servers right now!
That said, there’s something to be said for joining a smaller community when you find one that fits. When I was on mastodon.social, the local feed was just too big and fast to follow. Here on wandering.shop I still take a look there from time to time.
@natharari And depending on what you want to do, there may be a use case for juggling IDs on several servers. I have one here that I use for most stuff, and one on photog.social that I use for photography. Other people will split one personal account and one project-related account. Or have an account that they want as their public face, and a locked account for more private stuff.
@natharari My experience has been that adding more mastodon accounts is essentially the same as adding more social networks. I’ve had four since I first started (not counting bots and test accounts), and found it was hard to juggle more than two at a time.
I’ve also found that Tusky does a good job of handling multiple accounts on one phone app.