Minecraft released an April Fools snapshot where putting a book in a nether portal…

#Minecraft released an April Fools snapshot where putting a book in a nether portal turns it into a portal to a new dimension based on the book’s contents. Some have been designed, and otherwise they’re generated randomly.

According to the video the kid is watching, “message” gets you a world with a giant message, written in flames, saying “WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE”
#hhgttg

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covid-adjacent/groceries

Did a mid-day trip to the grocery store. Managed to find almost everything I needed, or a reasonable substitute. Most food (except flour) seems to be either back in stock at a normal level or at the point where stock is low, rather than completely out.

The things I couldn’t find at all, or could only find a handful of one brand/variety, were mainly cleaning supplies — and flour, despite the bread aisle being full again.

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This is sorta near Los Angeles. No idea what grocery stock is anywhere else. Or even in different parts of town.

I was really expecting it to be worse based on my last two grocery runs (2 weeks ago and 4 weeks ago) and the inventory I’ve found online.

They even had toilet paper. Yeah, it was only 2 sizes taking up about 1/4 of the usual shelf space and a limit of 1 per customer, but it didn’t look like they were going to run out by the time I got to checkout.

A month ago the same store offered, I kid you not, 1 roll per customer for 99 cents while supplies lasted.

Ugh, broke mysql on my dev box when upgrading homebrew nginx, made the mistake of …

Ugh, broke mysql on my dev box when upgrading homebrew nginx, made the mistake of just installing mysql again, which upgraded it, but broke the databases, and finally ended up just uninstalling mysql completely and reinstalling it. Now Mysql runs again. No data, but that’s ok, I can rebuild/restore the test DBs anyway.

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Indian Hawthorn flowers in bloom

Indian Hawthorn flowers in bloom. The empty lot is the greenbelt under a set of transmission wires. Hawthorns will grow as bushes, and make up a *lot* of hedges around here, but they can also be trained to grow upward and pruned into trees. There are several spaced along this block at the same stage of growth.

#flowers #photo #spring

Indian Hawthorn flowers in bloom

Indian Hawthorn flowers in bloom

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Seeing a lot of these signs in front of restaurants

Seeing a lot of these signs in front of restaurants when I go walking in the neighborhood.

Most people have been really good at maintaining social distancing while out. The group in the distance seemed to all be one family.

Except for runners. Runners passing me from behind (where I can’t see them to move out of the way myself) have a 50/50 track record of dodging around vs. just zooming past at a distance of a foot.

kelsonv: Seeing a lot of thes

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