What does the Hulk do when he gets angry at a Honda dealership?
He throws a Fit.
In “Final Crisis,” Darkseid’s death on Earth drags the planet down into a singularity, …
In “Final Crisis,” Darkseid’s death on Earth drags the planet down into a singularity, stretching time so that months pass on Earth while only a few minutes pass for the Green Lanterns arriving in our solar system.
Which fits right in with how it feels like ages since March 2020 and yet it also feels like we’re still stuck there.
school, parenting, covid-adjacent, violence reference
I’m not big on zombies, but I really like Mira Grant’s (Seanan Maguire’s) Newsflesh series. That said, there’s one story I don’t ever want to read again. The one set in a post-Rising elementary school, showing all the anti-zombie precautions the school takes…and then how they all fail horribly in an extended metaphor for school mass shootings.
This picture of individual barriers around each student’s desk…
Laminated hands and car desks: How schools are welcoming kids back
Reading up on IPFS and thinking about the old joke about how real hackers don’t do backups…
Reading up on #IPFS and thinking about the old joke about how real hackers don’t do backups, they just upload everything to public FTP and let the rest of the world mirror it.
(an internet outage a couple of weeks ago got me thinking about async schemes like that and SSB)
Black Phoebe (on top of wall)
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch (fuzzy yellow, on small cable)
I heard the squirrel chattering, then turned to look for it and spotted it up in a magnolia tree
I heard the squirrel chattering, then turned to look for it and spotted it up in a magnolia tree. Surprisingly, it held still while I walked around the tree to get a better angle. Then after I took a few more pictures, it jumped off the branch onto a nearby house-turned-museum.
One of these days, after it’s opened again, I’m going to have to actually visit the museum and not just the park.
#nature #animals #squirrel
Interesting article on going beyond nature conservation and actively helping species adapt
Interesting article on going beyond nature conservation and actively helping species adapt to introduced predators, changing climate, diseases, etc.
I’d read about the chestnut tree projects a couple of years ago, but the others are new to me.
How Far Should Humans Go to Help Species Adapt?
An Australian project to help threatened marsupials avoid predatory cats is one of a host of ‘assisted evolution’ efforts.
Apparently Doc Brown was using the correct pronunciation of gigawatt with a soft J on …
Apparently Doc Brown was using the correct pronunciation of gigawatt with a soft J
https://www.nist.gov/pml/weights-and-measures/metric-si-prefixes
How on earth did we end up with gigabytes using a hard g?
(oh no, it’s related to the GIF debate, isn’t it?)
Re-linking to this blog post from a couple of years back for, oh, no specific reason…
Re-linking to this blog post from a couple of years back for, oh, no specific reason…
Free Software and Failed Ideals
Once upon a time, the idea that “only the code mattered” was sold as a way to be inclusive. No one would be shut out if their code was good. But building software is more than code. It’s design. Planning. Discussion. It’s figuring out use cases, misuse cases, and failure modes. It’s interacting with people.
Hmm, it’s one of the posts I’ve already imported to my gemlog too…
Wow. Flying a drone over an erupting volcano.
dentist, covid stats
I’m normally not nervous about going to the dentist, but I’ve got my second pandemic-era visit coming up today. You can’t wear a mask while someone’s working on your teeth.
On the plus side, looking at the covid case rates over time makes me feel better, as LA county is back down to roughly the same rate it was at during my last visit in September (itself postponed from July, which was clearly a good decision).
If you’re not familiar with Gemini, it’s sort of a stripped-down web or souped-up Gopher …
If you’re not familiar with Gemini, it’s sort of a stripped-down web or souped-up Gopher, very bare-bones and text-oriented. Perfect for blogging.
A bit more in this post, including links to info about Gemini and related software. (You do need a different browser to access Gemini links – I’ve been using Lagrange on the desktop & Ariane on Android .)
Still a bit rough around the edges, but my Gemini conversion for my Les Misérables …
Still a bit rough around the edges, but my Gemini conversion for my Les Misérables commentary is up! The blog is now available both on the web and via Gemini.
It features commentary from two full read-throughs (in different translations) plus reviews of movie, stage, radio and comic adaptations.
Gemini: Re-Reading Les Misérables
Web: Re-Reading Les Misérables
Covid-adjacent, school
Message from school district, which has been slowly opening up on-campus classes by grade and with precautions, mentioned an upcoming orientation for high school freshmen…because they haven’t been to on-campus high school yet. At all.
Oddly specific error: somehow my blog lost the post IDs for all the comments going …
Oddly specific error: somehow my blog lost the post IDs for all the comments going back to 2002.
The comments were still there. Just not attached to anything.
I was trying to consolidate some posts earlier this week, and ran some optimizations too, so I think one of those broke it.
Fortunately I have a weekly backup of the db. I just restored a copy of the old comments table & updated the live one with the old values. Glad I know SQL. This would have been a major pain for someone who didn’t.
Incidentally…the status page is just lagging behind
Incidentally…the status page is just lagging behind
Kid checks Down Detector for Roblox, sees a giant spike in down reports. Goes to …
Kid checks Down Detector for Roblox, sees a giant spike in down reports. Goes to status page. “Wait, it’s all operational?”
Me (mumbling): “always has been”
First time I’ve noticed a Northern Flicker…
First time I’ve noticed one of these birds, but they’re apparently all over North America: A Northern Flicker, a type of #woodpecker.
(I was kind of annoyed that it was on the shaded side of the tree, but I can’t really blame it. The late afternoon sun was really bright.)
