Here’s to automatic soap dispensers that take just long enough to respond that you figure it must be broken or out, so you’ll use the other one, but as soon as you move your hand, it squirts soap on the floor.
Category: Wandering.Shop
Over on birdsite, I just read a thread about people not bothering to look outside …
Over on birdsite, I just read a thread about people not bothering to look outside their bubble to see the general discourse* that the OP was complaining about.
Over here, I’ve seen a few complaints over the last day or so about *something* in the general discourse here…but because of the way Mastodon is structured, I don’t know *how* to look for it other than to ask.
(*Also, I’m not sure I’m using the term “discourse” right here. I mean the overall conversation on each platform.)
I mean, I get that the point of a subtoot is to *not* call attention to something specific when you feel you just have to say something, and figure those who know about it will understand.
But when it’s clearly commenting on a problem with the platform or community, I kind of struggle with:
– Is this something I should be aware of?
– Is this none of my business?
Inventing or instigating a crisis, then taking emergency powers to solve it, is *literally* a …
Inventing or instigating a crisis, then taking emergency powers to solve it, is *literally* a tactic from Palpatine’s playbook.
I’m getting alerts from two cities on a road closure due to a sinkhole along …
I’m getting alerts from two cities on a road closure due to a sinkhole along the boundary between them
It’s kind of amusing that each of them is giving a different set of cross-streets, because it’s also the place where two grids meet. Gotta use the cross streets in *our* city for the notice!
Also, it’s right next to a flood control basin. That’s… not a good place to have a sink hole.
Laundry in ancient Mesopotamia
A clay tablet reveals:
1. How cleaners did laundry in ancient Mesopotamia.
2. The trope of customers who think they know how to do your job better than you do is really, really old.
Field Museum: Too. Much. Coffee! 😆 ☕☕☕☕☕
@sohkamyung@mstdn.io wrote:
Bwhahaha! More ‘coffee emotions’ in the twitter thread. 🙂
“Field Museum @FieldMuseum
Too. Much. Coffee. 😳”“These watercolors were painted by Chinese artists during the mid-19th century and sold to Western customers in port cities of Hong Kong, Macao, and Canton. They’re imaginary birds but with some real #MondayMood feelings.”
These are great!
I live near two oil refineries that use modified HF. Ever since …
@InvaderXan @hafnia @Zuph I live near two oil refineries that use modified HF. Ever since an explosion at one of them narrowly missed the HF tank a few years ago, people have been trying to get them to phase it out.
Fortunately it wasn’t one of those two that was struck by lightning last week…
Downloaded MCEdit so the 8YO can edit Minecraft world’s. He used it to fill 10 …
Downloaded MCEdit so the 8YO can edit Minecraft world’s. He used it to fill 10 entire chunks with TNT. Then lit one of the edges. The chain reaction has been going for at least 10 minutes, punctuated by periods of major lag.
@cryptovexillologist That’s the thing I miss most about the 1990s: the optimism for the future.
@cryptovexillologist That’s the thing I miss most about the 1990s: the optimism for the future.
“Use a static site generator so you don’t have extra software running on your server!”
“Use a static site generator so you don’t have extra software running on your server!”
“Run your static site generator on your server so you can automate it!”
🤔
@OldBrushNewPaper Heh! It’s at least a more interesting explanation than “No one’s paying close enough …
@OldBrushNewPaper Heh! It’s at least a more interesting explanation than “No one’s paying close enough attention to realize they ought to turn it off!”
I wonder how many people on Google+ will sign on the last day to see who else is still there. It doesn’t seem like the kind of place where a lot of people would want that last chance before the lights go out, but there’ve got to be some communities on there that will.
Why is Google+ still showing “You may know…” suggestions?
Why is Google+ still showing “You may know…” suggestions?
There was a study last year on how/why crater rays form. It turns out …
There was a study last year on how/why crater rays form. It turns out that when you simulate an impact on an uneven surface instead of a smooth one, the material splashed out of the crater is blocked in some places and is able to get through in others, forming rays just like the ones seen on the moon.
Very cool! A view of the far side of the moon and Earth beyond it…
Very cool! A view of the far side of the moon and Earth beyond it, from the Chinese Longjiang-2 satellite in lunar orbit.
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/the-earth-peeks-out-from-behind-the-lunar-far-side
@FiXato Ugh, that’s got to have been a real pain.Yeah, some sort of in-between …
@FiXato Ugh, that’s got to have been a real pain.
Yeah, some sort of in-between approach like that for existing accounts would’ve been better.
Or at least giving people more time (measured in months) between locking new uploads/hiding old pics and flat-out deleting.
Flickr Hot Take
When Yahoo realized they’d missed the smartphone shift, they tried to make Flickr something it wasn’t suited for (Instagram! Look, filters!) & couldn’t sustain (cloud storage for ALL your photos, just like FB!) Maybe chasing FB kept them alive for a while, but it put them in a bind down the road.
It sucks that SmugMug is deleting pics, but taking it back to basics might make it more viable long-term.
Maybe they can become a 1st-rate Flickr instead of a 3rd-rate Instagram or FB.
Expanded on my blog:
How did I not know there was a stage musical of Evil Dead?…
1. How did I not know there was a stage musical of Evil Dead?
2. Why am I remotely surprised that it exists?
Rain: *hasn’t started yet* Me: “I’m going to do a grocery run this morning.” Rain: *starts*
Rain: *hasn’t started yet*
Me: “I’m going to do a grocery run this morning.”
Rain: *starts*
I was thinking I should convert my Les Misérables commentary blog from WordPress to something …
I was thinking I should convert my Les Misérables commentary blog from WordPress to something static, since I’m basically done with it and won’t need to be able to post from anywhere.
And I realized:
I have to use Hugo.
I feel like I still have a lot of comic boxes cluttering up the place. …
I feel like I still have a lot of comic boxes cluttering up the place. My project to sell off the ones I don’t want anymore kind of stalled a year or two back.
But I stumbled on an old post and realized: Despite continuing to buy new comics, I have *half* as many now as I did when I moved into my current apartment.
I’ve made a lot more progress than I thought I had!