Even with smoke dulling the sky, the moon’s still visible.
Parakeets in Pine Trees
I don’t usually think about parakeets spending time in pine trees, but the feral population around here isn’t exactly particular about what types of trees they perch in.
#birds #photo #nature #parakeets
2020: Seems about right.
Gee, maybe running a critical service “like a business” isn’t such a good idea. Or institutional knowledge shouldn’t be thrown out over top-management penny pinching. Or the cutbacks to long-standing policies are active sabotage. Or all three.
Gee, maybe running a critical service “like a business” isn’t such a good idea. Or institutional knowledge shouldn’t be thrown out over top-management penny pinching. Or the cutbacks to long-standing policies are active sabotage.
Or all three.
‘Like Armageddon’: Rotting food, dead animals and chaos at postal facilities amid cutbacks
Steve Bannon, shadenfreude
Steve Bannon and 3 others arrested on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud & money laundering for skimming money from a border wall gofundme campaign. He was taken into custody while on a 150-foot yacht owned by his friend, a Chinese billionaire who is wanted by Beijing on fraud, bribery and blackmail charges.
TBH, that seems pretty much on-brand.
We have liftoff!…
dream/covid-adjacent
Dreamed I went into the office with several co-workers to fix some problem on-site. When we finished, I decided to grab some things I’d left at my desk back in March.
Found 3 pairs of reading glasses, 2 pairs of sunglasses and a Coraline figurine that I don’t actually have, a desk fan that I do, and 2 computers, a printer, and a fax machine that had been moved onto my desk and left powered on but unused for months.
Fortunately, no 6-month-old banana in the drawer.
Guess there’s some anxiety about electricity use going on…
Also, IRL, I really was worried for a while about whether I’d left a banana in the drawer. I was out with the flu for the week before the office closed, so I never had a chance to go in and pick anything up. Fortunately I always take my laptop home anyway, and even if I didn’t, we’d been directed back in February to start taking them home nightly. I did have to buy & expense a charger, though.
Wtf? How does a rock end up in the garbage disposal?
Wtf? How does a rock end up in the garbage disposal?
Best guess: it was rinsed out of vegetables.
Seems ok now that it’s out. Yay for tongs.
Slugging through.
Slugging through. https://somethingpositive.net/comic/slugging-through/ via @choochoobear
Yesterday’s California power demand vs. forecast graph & how effective the 3pm Flex Alert was
Fascinating to look at yesterday’s California power demand vs. forecast graph & how effective the 3pm Flex Alert was at getting people to reduce power usage during peak hours. (That forecast demand peak was very close to the forecast supply peak.)
https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/default.aspx
9YO is very upset that people are playing PVP in this PVP game… 🙄
9YO is very upset that people are playing PVP in this PVP game… 🙄
I’m going to go take a walk (or not)
Me: OK, done with work. I’m going to go take a walk to preserve my sanity for another day. 😃
Kid: Wanna play Roblox with me? :blobaww:
Me: …sure… 😅
On the plus side, if I wait until later to go for a walk it’ll be cooler.
If this game ever freaking loads…
Summer Succulents
The city has been working on improving the sections of a bike path closest to a major street. The rest of it is just a concrete path in the middle of an unmaintained greenbelt under power transmission wires.
They’ve put in drought-tolerant landscaping, some dirt/clay paths, bike racks, benches, and a small public parking lot over the past year or so. I’m not sure how much they slowed down during the shutdowns earlier this year, but it’s finally open.
I must have taken a wrong turn at Albequerque.
I took a walk. I saw a hawk.
I took a walk
I saw a hawk
I took a walk
and then I got to see a hawk
I swear this raid screenshot is not altered in any way.
Aaaargh! I was expecting trouble putting the AMD card in the dual boot system, but …
Aaaargh! I was expecting trouble putting the AMD card in the dual boot system, but I figured it would install fine on Windows and I’d have trouble on Linux, not the other way around
It just worked in Linux. But while Windows was able to find a driver eventually, I’ve been unable to update the driver or install the AMD software without the machine freezing. Even in safe mode.
Well, games I’ve tried so far seem to work ok without the extra software, so I’ll just stick with that for now
Yes, but is it Phil Collins Genesect or Peter Gabriel Genesect?
Yes, but is it Phil Collins Genesect or Peter Gabriel Genesect?
Not mincing words: “PDF: Still Unfit for Human Consumption, 20 Years Later”
Not mincing words: “PDF: Still Unfit for Human Consumption, 20 Years Later”
Great for printing. Terrible for online reading.
And that’s just on desktops! Let’s not forget that most people are using the internet *from their phones*.
Ever tried to read a PDF article on your phone? I bet you have. And I bet you wished they’d taken 10 seconds to export the thing as an HTML page so you didn’t have to zoom-and-pan the whole thing.
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/pdf-unfit-for-human-consumption/
9YO and friend are repeatedly shouting “Hiiiiiii!” at each other over voice chat.
9YO and friend are repeatedly shouting “Hiiiiiii!” at each other over voice chat.