Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
I must have seen at least 100 squirrels just walking down one block in Irvine. That’s the EDGE of the lot. There must be even more inside.
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Observations uploaded to iNaturalist in 2019:
There were a *lot* of squirrels in the hedge and lawn between an empty lot and the street. I posted on Twitter at the time that I’d seen at least 100 along the edge of the block.
Lovely. A bunch of people refuse to vaccinate their kids, and what happens? Outbreak. Of whooping cough. Jerks.
Interesting analogy: web services as governments.
Tip for when you ask someone for tech support: If they ask you a series of questions in response, there's probably a reason for each question. Please try to answer *all* of them, not just the ones you feel like answering.
Santiago Canyon after Rain, originally uploaded by Kelson.
Looking roughly southeast on the side of Santiago Canyon Road, somewhere between Irvine Lake and the turnoff for Silverado Canyon. The peaks of Saddleback, with a dusting of snow barely visible at larger sizes, are shrouded in clouds.
Taken between rainstorms last January.
Oh, great, the new Flickr/Facebook integration posts an update for *every single photo* you upload instead of sending out one notice for the whole batch. Sorry about the picspam.
Um…what? (The actual stories seem to be dealing with real-world stuff like the Twilight *ahem* DieLite craze and zombie crawls, but still…)
ICV2: Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys with Vampires and Zombies
The car companies’ offices are all getting taken over by restaurants. First Taco Bell took Ford. Now Yard House has Daimler-Chrysler.
Ah, software naming schemes! Fedora has an update to “glib bindings for telepathy.”
Nikon camera lost at sea found 1000 miles away
Complete with video shot by a sea turtle!
Reminder to self: do not upgrade ANYTHING optional, no matter how trivial, at 1AM.
I need more coffee. I misread “The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice” as “The Libertarian…”
My calendar lists last Tuesday as “Election Patch Day.” I guess you could consider elections to be patches keeping the government up to date
Can we finally bury the SCO case now, or will it once again rise from the grave as a shambling undead corpse? http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100610161411160
Awesome photo: skydiving past a shuttle launch https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/diving-into-and-out-of-the-sky
Solar Powered Shrub Car is Not Your “Garden Variety” EV
The things you find on Slashdot. This is like something out of a spy spoof. Or maybe The Tick.
I like open primaries in theory, but what CA just passed actually *reduces* choice on the final ballot: only the top 2 from the primary. How long until the first election where both candidates are the same party?
Simulating HTML links with Javascript is like taking the bus to get from one end of the couch to the other.
Oh, those Falcon UFOs
Yesterday, a lot of Australians reported seeing a bizarre UFO. Just before 6:00 a.m. local time, numerous reports came in about a spiral of light in the sky with a bright central spot. The light was actually spinning around, like a pinwheel!
Sightings line up perfectly with the Falcon 9 launch.
I hate misleading ad campaigns. CA Proposition 16 is NOT about “your right to vote.” It's about keeping local govermnents out of the electricity business.