The Oatmeal on why it’s so hard to accept a compliment
(possibly nsfw depending on your workplace, it’s the Oatmeal, after all)
Re: There never was an ‘open web’
responding to a link to a post about how the web never really was distributed because it required domain names and centralized hosting
I remember Opera (the original browser company) trying to address that with their Opera Unite feature…but it never gained enough traction even among Opera users, and that was small enough a group to begin with, and they dropped it even before they switched to WebKit and sold the company.
I was talking about late-90s campus network safety and how I got in trouble for “running a server”
Still working on my full post about using the Internet in the #1990s, but I found an old blog entry from 2004 where I was talking about late-90s campus network safety and how I got in trouble for “running a server” because I used Linux to avoid all the pranks and hacking going around with everyone’s Windows 95 computers.
Original blog post:
K2R: Internet Security Perspective
Imported to my Gemlog:
Gemlog: Internet Security Perspective
Funny how in 2004, seeing 3 wireless networks in the building seemed like a lot!
Writing up my experience of the internet in the 1990s. Kid’s having problems with headphones …
Writing up my experience of the internet in the 1990s. Kid’s having problems with headphones not working. We trace it to the audio extension cable…which is the same one I used in my dorm room in the 1990s.
covid vaccine (+)
Scheduled booster shots for me and my wife. Between the first and second pass through the scheduler, they dropped the eligibility question.
They must have had the change ready to go as soon as the official open-it-up-to-anyone word came down.
Of course I still had to enter all the same insurance information both times
Pretty sure that aluminum can isn’t compostable
Pretty sure that aluminum can isn’t compostable
I love how Debian has “stable”, “oldstable” and “oldoldstable” releases
I love how Debian has “stable”, “oldstable” and “oldoldstable” releases
Does anyone remember what dedicated #gopher clients were around in the early 1990s? I remember …
Does anyone remember what dedicated #gopher clients were around in the early 1990s? I remember using Netscape & Mosaic, but I could swear I used *something* gopher-specific at the school computer labs, or maybe there was an application in the collection of internet software that the school offered to students.
Heh…kid has decided the plural of dingus is dingi
Heh…kid has decided the plural of dingus is dingi
“Hello there, human.”
A California Scrub Jay and a Black Phoebe looking oddly similar this morning.
A California Scrub Jay and a Black Phoebe looking oddly similar this morning.
Black Phoebes
California Scrub-Jay (on cable bundle)
Gee, what an informative email. 🙄
It’s a lot easier than I thought to fry an LED 😬
It’s a lot easier than I thought to fry an LED 😬
plumbing snafu (improving)
So the floor is patched, the carpet cleaned, and there doesn’t seem to be any sign of mold or additional damage beyond what they found initially. Looks like we can start moving stuff back into the dining room today!
Kid (while alternating between Two-Set Violin and Electroboom videos): What note is 60Hz…?Me: Um……
Kid (while alternating between Two-Set Violin and Electroboom videos): What note is 60Hz…?
Me: Um…low?
Plumbing snafu (followup)
So, this is the dining room right now.
The best part?
There are no pipes under that part of the slab.
It turns out the leak was in the next unit over, but didn’t show up there. (Yes, the plumbers checked there before arranging with the owner to start digging.) It ran under the wall and cabinets until it seeped up into our floor.
Now we get to have a big hole in our floor until it all dries out and they can patch it.
So far it’s not as bad as the mold infestation in the kitchen a few years back where they had to rip out half the walls and we had a plastic sheet across the kitchen door that we walked through to get at the refrigerator. We did a lot of cooking in the microwave and an electric skillet.
Though I guess it’s going to depend on (a) how long the room stays like this and (b) whether they need to rip out the cabinets too.
Plumbing snafu
Looks like we have a leak in the pipes under the dining room floor. Our apartment has a concrete slab foundation. And the pipes are embedded in it.
Yay 1970s (60s?) construction.
Fortunately (no really) the leak seems to be continuous, because that means it’s probably a supply line – which they can bypass. If it’s the drain line they’ll have to jackhammer out the dining room floor 😬
Also that means the carpet’s soaking in *clean* water.
Plumber’s coming tomorrow morning.
