They may not *talk* about Bruno, but my brain has been *singing* about him for days.
(We finally watched Encanto last week…and again…and again…and the kid has been watching every remix he can find on YouTube. Repeatedly.)
Birds of Madrona Marsh
#Birds of #MadronaMarsh. There were a zillion red-winged blackbirds, at least one group of goldfinches, some starlings, and of course the usual geese and ducks.
#nature #Blackbird #RedWingedBlackbird #Goldfinch #Starling #Goose #CanadaCoose #Sparrow
The pharmac on the tarmac has the pills for your ills.
Fantasy maps, spoilers for Middlegame
The quadrants of mythical fantasy worlds are important to the alchemical geography. There’s a remark about switching west to east from Oz to another author’s world. That confused me, since the text of the books and all the maps I’d seen in them clearly showed it matching:
East=Blue/Munchkins,
West=Yellow/Winkies.
Turns out the Oz map was printed backward the first time it appeared.
Switching directions is real-world canon!
Tor is offering a free e-book of Seanan McGuire’s Middlegame this week!It’s really, really …
Tor is offering a free e-book of Seanan McGuire’s Middlegame this week!
It’s really, really good. Sort of a modern horror fantasy focusing on alchemy and time loops with characters who have been created to be superhuman at things like math, language, order, chaos, etc.
Possibly my favorite of her books that I’ve read. Definitely recommended!
“I want another pony!”
“I want another pony!”
Wondering how many times we need to do the “look, you already have one of these and it works fine”/”but this one’s BETTER!!!” dance
So, picking up my glasses from my desk was enough to jostle the mouse and …
So, picking up my glasses from my desk was enough to jostle the mouse and wake up the computer, but not enough to knock over the quarter that I stood on edge last night right next to where I set my glasses down.
Found this tip jar at a coffee place.
I love how ClamAV is still on a 0.x release after a decade and …
I love how ClamAV is still on a 0.x release after a decade and a half of active development and wide use in production environments!
“No, we are not putting Swedish Fish in banana bread.”
“No, we are not putting Swedish Fish in banana bread.”
Oh fun…some spammer used their mailing list email as the reply-to addressWhich means all …
Oh fun…some spammer used their mailing list email as the reply-to address
Which means all the autoreplies and bounces and complaints and challenge-responses and everything are going out to the same list.
And they’ve got a lot of website contact emails on the list too, so I’m getting random tech support ticket confirmations and thanks-for-your-interest and so on along with everything else.
Big difference between a signed document and a singed document, thank you typing fingers.
Big difference between a signed document and a singed document, thank you typing fingers.
Found an eBay seller who’s selling off the individual keys from another model that *might* …
Found an eBay seller who’s selling off the individual keys from another model that *might* fit.
I have no idea how I managed to lose my sunglasses halfway through a walk …
I have no idea how I managed to lose my sunglasses halfway through a walk without stopping to set anything down.
Thinking about this, I did take them off in the shade. I probably put them in my pocket and then they fell out somewhere along the way.
It should not be this hard to find ONE replacement key for a desktop keyboard.
It should not be this hard to find ONE replacement key for a desktop keyboard.
I saw one of these birds fly out of a bush, across the trail, and into a tree. I stopped. I waited. I looked, but couldn’t spot it.
I saw one of these #birds fly out of a bush, across the trail, and into a tree. I stopped. I waited. I looked, but couldn’t spot it. I took another, slow, careful step. Another #sparrow flew out of the bush, across the path, and into the tree. I stopped again.
This went on for about FIVE MORE ROUNDS before a couple of them flew into another bush and stopped where I could SEE them!
Then one of them flew off while I was aiming. 🤦
No, autocorrect, neither “shrine cheese” or “syringe cheese” is a thing.
No, autocorrect, neither “shrine cheese” or “syringe cheese” is a thing.
As far as I know, anyway
I don’t know, what do you think?
I literally received a bill for 2 cents from one of the cloud providers
I literally received a bill for 2 cents from one of the cloud providers I was trying out in December & January. I must have missed end-of-month on the last server I turned off by like 10 minutes or something
“The last packet successfully received from the server was 239,231,785 milliseconds ago” – …
“The last packet successfully received from the server was 239,231,785 milliseconds ago” – Um, thanks. Maybe those aren’t the best units to use here, though?