Link: 16 Real Places That Look Like They’re From the Future https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/places-that-look-like-science-fiction
Category: Wandering.Shop
I use Keepass and its variants…
@cooper I use Keepass and its variants. GPL. Local DB, not cloud, and you can sync the DB file using whatever solution you want. There are applications for Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android, and probably iOS too, though I haven’t looked.
The kid is playing a game where one of the vehicles you can unlock is …
The kid is playing a game where one of the vehicles you can unlock is a “Cluster Truck.” đđđ
weird dream
Dreamed I was taking a programming class. The TAs were TV Supergirl and a darker & edgier AU Supergirl who’d mellowed to just being sarcastic, but still had cliche signifiers like a darker costume. Sarcastic SG was showing off her Kryptonian tattoos to explain TCP/IP.
It was also high school student visit day, & one of the prospective students was a villain trying to get close enough to SG to trap her in a time warp. She needed a pre-STAR Labs Cisco to help her get back.
@Satsuma Interesting – I wouldn’t have expected two separate paths for that!
@Satsuma Interesting – I wouldn’t have expected two separate paths for that!
@Satsuma I can’t think of any English words ending in v that aren’t abbreviations (like …
@Satsuma I can’t think of any English words ending in v that aren’t abbreviations (like improv). give, strive, love, prove, trove, leave etc. all have that e.
Maybe they just really didn’t want to end words with a v?
git merge monster
git merge monster
Yay morning.
Yay morning.
Wife has a cold (on Mother’s Day), we’re both exhausted, kid is insisting on playing “Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes” and accusing us of deliberately sabotaging him whenever we tell him to do something that doesn’t work, and I haven’t had any coffee or breakfast yet. But I’m also acutely aware of how badly things could have gone and didn’t. So, um, definitely aware of food allergies.
@OldBrushNewPaper Thanks! Seems to have cleared up enough to sleep, at least, so probably no …
@OldBrushNewPaper Thanks! Seems to have cleared up enough to sleep, at least, so probably no more updates until morning
I really don’t want to go to the ER the day before Food Allergy Awareness …
I really don’t want to go to the ER the day before Food Allergy Awareness Week starts.
Hoping I won’t have to.
Though I suppose if I do it’ll make a good awareness story.
The last time I went to the ER with anaphylaxis, I took an ambulance from San Diego Comic-Con. A few month later I got a $1500 ambulance bill. And that was with insurance. The next time I needed to go to the ER for something, I took a taxi. Maybe not the best idea, but it was a hell of a lot cheaper.
So I’m sitting here in a room with everyone else, waiting to see if the reaction stays it the current plateau or gets worse, with the epipen next to me in case i need it. Going through photos I took today because I need something to do. Charging my phone just in case. While my kid nervously shreds junk mail.
So far, so good. Hasn’t gotten any worse. Kid’s gone to bed. I ate some rice (a safe bet!) without difficulty.
Reaction seems to have subsided! Still not sure what it was… Best guess is a garbanzo bean fell into the wrap by accident.
But I feel safe going to sleep now, which is good because I’m totally exhausted.
What the… There is a freaking Bitcoin kiosk in the mall.
Who would have thought Salvador DalĂ could still get even *more* surreal?
Who would have thought Salvador DalĂ could still get even *more* surreal?
A museum has (with permission from the DalĂ Foundation) put together a life-size interactive video exhibit using deepfake editing, actors, real footage and audio from interviews to get his expressions right. As part of the interaction, he takes selfies with visitors, which you can have texted to you.
#art #video #ai #museum #wtf #SalvadorDali
So true… XKCD/Disk Space
My kid’s elementary school uses the opposite bucket metaphor…
Bucket theory, for the rest of you, is the idea that everyone has one bucket. Stressors add to the bucket. Some things like sleep and relaxing drain the bucket. But when the bucket is full, more stressors canât fit and it overflows and gets everywhere.
I like to call it âthe cope bucketâ
— @InspectorCaracal@tootplanet.space
Interesting. My kid’s elementary school uses the opposite bucket metaphor, though it’s more focused on how you impact other people’s buckets than how you can handle your own: Rather than a bucket of stress it’s a bucket of positive feelings, and you can either contribute to your classmates’ buckets with kindness as a “bucket filler” or empty them out with hitting, rudeness etc. as a “bucket dipper.”
“Customs officers do not like it when you try to bring a duffel bag full of 40 vacuum-sealed, frozen piranhas into Los Angeles.”
“Customs officers do not like it when you try to bring a duffel bag full of 40 vacuum-sealed, frozen piranhas into Los Angeles.”
https://www.latimes.com/food/la-fo-virgilio-martinez-central-piranhas-lax-peru-20190508-story.html
Perspective: “A life insurer says you should stop eating out (and buy life insurance instead)”
Perspective: “A life insurer says you should stop eating out (and buy life insurance instead)”
Crazy idea: carbon capture systems need to move a lot of air around. Air conditioning …
Crazy idea: carbon capture systems need to move a lot of air around. Air conditioning and heating systems already move a lot of air around. Put carbon capture in the HVAC loop!
Could Air-Conditioning Fix Climate Change?
Researchers propose a carbon-neutral âsynthetic oil wellâ on every rooftop
–Scientific American
It gets crazier: they’re talking about converting the captured carbon into synthetic fuel on a per-building or neighborhood scale.
All my Firefox add-ons are disabled…
Ah, so that’s what’s going on. All my Firefox add-ons are disabled because the intermediate signing cert expired, so it can’t verify ANY of them.
Not too thrilled at having my privacy add-ons remotely disabled, mind you. I appreciate checking signatures on installation/upgrade, but that shouldn’t introduce a remote dependency on a single point of failure to keep using things that have *already* been verified.
https://www.engadget.com/2019/05/03/firefox-extension-add-on-cert/
Followup article:
Balooon-based floating telecom relays always make me think of an element in Robert Charles Wilson’s “Spin”
Balooon-based floating telecom relays always make me think of an element in Robert Charles Wilson’s sci-fi novel, “Spin,” in which a mysterious membrane appears around earth that drastically slows down time inside. (A simulated sun maintains the day/night cycle) This effectively cuts the world off from outer space, including orbiting satellites. The world settles on high-altitude balloons as a replacement.
It’s a really interesting book, especially once people realize that they can still launch probes or spacecraft out, just can’t receive any transmissions back. And when they realize that they can take advantage of the different rates of time on Earth vs. outside.
There are two sequels, Axis and Vortex, which are very different. Worth a read, but I think Spin was the best of the three.
@hafnia Yeah, they had some interesting ideas – the chain of worlds, the floating civilizations, the different ways of linking people together cybernetically – but IMO the stories weren’t anywhere near as good.
The headlines keep getting better: “Alleged Russian spy whale is refusing to leave and is seeking attention…”
The headlines keep getting better:
“Alleged Russian spy whale is refusing to leave and is seeking attention, authorities say”
Re: “at least it’s not a sea lion” –bv
Now that you mention it….