Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
#reintroductions #introductions Hello, my name is Kelson. I’m a computer programmer in the #LosAngeles area. I like #scifi, #fantasy & #comics (behind on a lot, keeping up w/ #TheFlash, Saga & #JessicaJones). I tend to talk about #webdevelopment and #tech, and I still have a #blog.
I also talk about #books at [edit: @KelsonReads@Bookwyrm.social ] & post scenic #photography at @kelsonv
Saw this on birdsite:
Scientists Slowly Reintroducing Small Group Of Normal, Well-Adjusted Humans Into Society
ITHACA, NY—In an ambitious attempt to revive a population long considered to be on the brink of extinction, scientists announced Friday they have slowly begun to reintroduce normal, well-adjusted human beings back into society.
7YO is experimenting with HTML and Notepad++: “There. Now I can see the crulfs.”
Me & wife: “Crulfs?”
I look over at the screen. “Oh, CRLFs!”
@Einahpets Same here. I go for the porters and stouts, my wife goes for the IPAs, and waiters often switch them when they bring the glasses to the table.
I saw a new Lamborghini this morning, gliding through traffic like an orange cross-section of airfoil, barely inches off the road. Behind it rolled up a raised F-150 pickup truck, tires almost as high as the car in front of it.
Suddenly that airfoil looked more like a mobile speed bump.
@nev @DialMforMara Yep…and now they’ve got you back while you write that link post, and they can try to keep you there long enough to see some ads before you go.
It’s amazing how desperate FB is to keep you engaged. If I’ve been away for 24 hours, they start sending me “So and so posted something! Don’t you want to look?”
Had a conversation this morning on the importance of not shaming people for learning new things that they “should have known already.” It reminded me of this XKCD from a few years back.
@stefanhayden @andeluuu @Mastodon We have book clubs at https://booktoot.club ! #sffbookclub, #nfbookclub, #storyclub & a few others.
@andeluuu @stefanhayden @Mastodon Just check out the hashtags to see what people are reading. There’s a master list at https://fediverse-reads.dreamwidth.org
Joining the specific instance isn’t required, since hashtag columns will federate.
@andeluuu @stefanhayden @Mastodon I mean each server will be able to see tagged posts from others, so you don’t have to move to a specific one to participate in a conversation around a hashtag.
I’ve made a point from time to time of linking to Mastodon posts from birdsite & FB. Not sure how many people followed.
That said, I’m not a huge fan of the “screenshot of text” phenomenon. IMO text should be quoted so it’s accessible & searchable, not photographed…but based on my experience trying to share *just* links, screenshots might be more effective. Even if it seems backwards to me.
@stefanhayden @Mastodon Just links & descriptions, I mean. Not URLs by themselves.
It’s not too late: There’s still one left!
No, really, just one: The Last Blockbuster
Link: The Giants of California: How Redwoods and Whales Got So Big
It isn’t happenstance that California and the waters off our coast are home to these giants. As the new exhibit explains, bigness emerges partly from the particulars of life here – the ocean currents and our famous fog.
Surprisingly simple charts of how consistent major cities’ street layouts are based on orientation.
You can see a stark difference between cities that grew organically over centuries and those (mostly in the US) that were established after grids became popular.
https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/charlotte-nc-has-americas-messiest-street-grid
If no one has ever survived the Fire Swamp, how did its oddly specific dangers become common knowledge?
@dantebrevity I want to add something to make it FOCUS, but I have to admit FOCU works well on its own!
I think it’s been about 2 weeks since I last logged into FB. Every email or other notification they send me just reminds me how long it’ll take to catch up.
Seriously, what’s the opposite of FOMO?
@Einahpets I haven’t been back to SDCC since 2014, though I’ve been to several medium-sized cons. I’m starting to miss it.
Here’s hoping you get to do a significant amount of what you’re aiming for!
An article on a recent incident where a college student died from peanut allergy got me thinking: most news stories about people dying from #anaphylaxis are about kids or teens. You rarely hear about a 40-year old or even 30-year-old dying from a #foodallergy. It happens (which is why I still carry an EpiPen everywhere), just not as often.
I couldn’t find any solid numbers, but wrote up some speculation in my blog: https://hyperborea.org/journal/2018/07/age-food-allergy-death/
It occurs to me that the impending start of #SDCC is probably another factor in why I started thinking about this, as it’s coming up on 5 years since my “adventure” leaving Comic Con in an ambulance due to a peanut-laced mocha from a nearby cafe. I could’ve been one of those rare cases in my late 30s.
Half-following the build up to #SDCC. I haven’t been to #ComicCon since 2014, though I’ve been to WonderCon & Long Beach every year. The first year I couldn’t get tickets I shrugged. It’s exhausting, and there are other cons. I didn’t even try this year or last. But now I find I’ve started to miss it.
In the past 2 weeks I have had to patch both of my bike tires and replace one of my son’s tires. (And he’s only been riding a month.) Some plant along the local bike path produces seeds with thorns that we keep running over.
I spent yesterday’s ride (after fixing both our bikes) looking at all the plants, trying to figure out which ones produced the thorns. No luck.
So I searched onlineby describing the seeds. Looks like sandburs, and the plants do look familiar.
I’ll be on the lookout.
There are a zillion Starbucks in walking distance of work, and one Coffee Bean. I generally prefer the Coffee Bean, but it’s got a TV that’s *always* showing cable news. Even muted, it’s a job to ignore it, and sometimes it seems like it adds back as much stress as the walk and coffee cuts down.
