Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
Probably the desk I’m sitting at right now, that used to belong to my great-grandmother.
The oldest item I received new that i use regularly…I’ve probably got some scissors or coat hangers or something from back in the day, but it’s probably my dresser, which I’ve had since I was…I don’t know, 10 maybe?
Saw this while walking around the other day. I, um…well, I guess it is…?
I dreamed that Jean Valjean convinced Javert to rescue an injured goose like he helps rescue Marius in the original. Javert took the goose to the station, issued it its own photo ID (it was a modern retelling), and the goose proceeded to follow Javert around everywhere for weeks until it got homesick and wanted him to take it back to the lagoon where Valjean had found it. Somehow it managed to convey this to him and he brought it back.
Nice comparison of turbulence in a Baltic Sea algae bloom and storm clouds on Jupiter showing the same structures
Planetary.org: Algae and Storms
#space #ocean #turbulence #physics #nasa
A recent news article with photos of a local park that doubles as a flood control basin.
Polliwog Park in Manhattan Beach protects homes by collecting rain runoff
Polliwog Park did what it is designed to do during Thursday’s heavy rain, by collecting rain runoff, and providing food and a resting place for local and migratory water birds.
And some photos I took after storms in 2017 and 2019 (since I can’t exactly go out right now)
This is why I like carrying around a camera with optical zoom. Good luck spotting the hawk in the third photo.
Ad for a restaurant: “Why drive? We deliver!”
Me:
Yeah, I could use one too, but it turns out they don’t have any at this time of day.
Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve had a donut since last March. I used to only have them when someone brought a box in at work, or occasionally I’d stop by a donut shop on the way to work. Neither of those have happened for a while.
I do miss having a keyboard, but I don’t think I should hook up an Android 2.3 device to the internet 😬
Found the ancient G2 (HTC Desire) phone (back when there were Android phones with actual KEYBOARDS!). It still runs. Wondering if there’s something I can put on there that’s newer than the ancient version of Android it has, but it’s too old for LineageOS.
Anyone know what might run on it?
I saw this #squirrel from about 20 feet away. It slowly moved toward me, pausing to pose every few feet. I think it was hoping I would feed it.
A Cooper’s Hawk I spotted on a walk around the neighborhood.
I heard a *lot* of sparrows chirping in a tree behind a house. Then this hawk flew up and perched on the nearest telephone pole and the sparrows all just dropped silent. It stayed up there for a few minutes, then flew to the next pole, then flew off out of view.
The photos aren’t great, but I like that I managed to catch it this clearly. The last one I saw, I only had my phone with me.
On Photog.Social
Perched on Flickr
Liftoff on Flickr
As I was walking through a residential neighborhood, I heard a *lot* of sparrows chirping in a tree behind a house. Then this bird flew up and perched on the nearest telephone pole and the sparrows all just dropped silent. It stayed up there for a few minutes, then flew to the next pole, then flew off out of view.
In response to a complaint by InvaderXan about in-your-face recommendation engines
Ugh, yes! It’s like starting up my coffee maker in the morning and having it ask me if I’d like to order an iced tea.
No I don’t want iced tea right now, that’s why I’m starting up the coffee maker!
There’s a cloud-based music player that I keep getting mad at because we have different ideas of what it’s for. To me, it’s a way of listening to music I’ve already chosen. To the publisher, it’s a way for them to sell me additional subscriptions.
As if I didn’t already have enough reason to distrust the MS app store, it spontaneously uninstalled the kid’s copy of Minecraft. Which also deleted all of his local worlds.
Fortunately most of the persistent worlds he plays are either on Java Edition or on a realm, and we had a backup of the local Win10 worlds from a couple weeks ago, but WTF, MS – you don’t fucking DO that!
Best guess is it downloaded the latest update overnight, failed to install, and messed up the rollback.
When we were trying out the Minecraft beta a few weeks ago, we noticed there’s this weird thing where the MS store thinks he doesn’t own a copy of MC until you click on “Buy” at which point it realizes he does and starts downloading it. It could be a problem with that.
Or it could be a mismatch with Xbox Game Pass, which we just got.
Either way, though…
WTF…. apparently an interrupted update from the MS store translates to an uninstall
WHAT IDIOT CAME UP WITH THAT DESIGN
wait, that’s in the xbox forum…not clear whether that applies to microsoft store apps on windows 10 too, but given the ridiculous folder structures, I’d guess it’s probably the same thing under the hood.
After getting the nice new card for the gaming PC, I was hoping to just shift everything downward, but its old card made my main desktop really unstable, and my desktop’s old card physically wouldn’t fit in the ancient box we have hooked up to the TV for media.
Old card is now doing Folding@home in the gaming PC. Medium card in my desktop has been replaced with a compatible one & I plan to sell it since it worked fine in the other box. Left the media box alone.
It’s weird, the Radeon card that was in the Windows 10 gaming PC worked great – no problems at all. I only took it out to get a more powerful one.
But when I moved it to my dual-boot system, it worked immediately on Linux, but it kept freezing Windows whenever I tried to update the driver or tools. And I’d get random crashes during games that had been totally stable on my old, less-powerful Nvidia.
Indications pointed to chipset compatibility problems with the mobo.
Between all the crashes and knowing that I couldn’t update the drivers, ever, it became clear I’d need to either replace the motherboard & hope that fixed it, or just replace the card. Back to the old one? Not after a month of awesome graphics performance! So I looked for a comparable Nvidia. Not as good (or expensive) as the shiny new one, but a lot better than the old one.
Once it arrived, I think I had everything working on both operating systems within 30 minutes.
Slightly related: Took the kid to meet-and-greet/supply pickup with the new teacher, which was all done as drive-through in the school parking lot.
1.5-hour time slot per grade, with each teacher camping out under a different awning next to the parking lot with grocery bags of books & supplies for each student. Drive up wearing masks, go to the right teacher, roll down the windows, say hi, pick up the supplies, stop by the PTA awning on the way out & go.
Online classes start tomorrow.
Discovered that the 404 page on npr.org features stories about Amelia Earhart, the Watergate tapes, Jimmy Hoffa, “your luggage,” Atlantis, and Waldo. 😂
