Some useful tips from India via NPR on staying cool without AC:
Asides
Just enough breeze to sit outside in the shade with the work laptop.But I …
Just enough breeze to sit outside in the shade with the work laptop.
But I swear, the next time I spot one of these not-mosqiuto flies holding still, i need to snap a photo before brushing it away so I can ask iNat what the heck is biting me.
INat says they’re stable flies.
Actually it only flagged the genus, but they do look almost like house flies, which don’t bite.
I couldn’t help adding snarky comments to the observations.
“Apparently the way to catch them standing still is to take a picture *while* they’re draining my blood. Even through a sock.”
“I didn’t plan on being an all you can eat buffet today, but here we are”
It’s even better because I started the day getting blood drawn for a medical checkup
Wow, McAfee’s uninstall survey actually has a *specified option* for “I kept getting too many …
Wow, McAfee’s uninstall survey actually has a *specified option* for “I kept getting too many notifications from McAfee”
If you have to put it in the uninstall survey, that should tell you something.
Or maybe they know it, and the customer retention team is passive-aggressively trying to get the marketing team’s attention…?
“Your subscription is expiring” kinda implies something different than it just being a few days …
“Your subscription is expiring” kinda implies something different than it just being a few days before the monthly auto-bill goes through.
The “sound” of a black hole: pressure waves measured in observations of the interstellar gas …
The “sound” of a black hole: pressure waves measured in observations of the interstellar gas in a distant galaxy cluster, converted to sound, then transposed upward by 57 octaves into human hearing range.
“A scientist behind the project likened the sounds to ‘a beautiful Hans Zimmer score with the moody level set at really high’”
#astronomy #weird
Kid was in an angry mood all day. We started watching the first episode of …
Kid was in an angry mood all day. We started watching the first episode of She-Hulk, which he emphatically did NOT want to watch.
2 minutes in, he walked into the room and proceeded to watch the whole thing, laughing hysterically at the jokes and slapstick.
And he was in a great mood afterward.
That’s…a little more meta than I was expecting.
Death is perfectly cast.And they found a simple, elegant way to work around the …
Death is perfectly cast.
And they found a simple, elegant way to work around the timeline mismatch with the Hob Gadling story that adds another layer to the resolution.
Damn, 24/7 was just as disturbingly fucked up as it was supposed to be.
Gotta love it when expiring-in-minutes 2FA codes show up an hour and a half after …
Gotta love it when expiring-in-minutes 2FA codes show up an hour and a half after you needed them
Anticipating interruptions is almost as distracting as the interruptions themselves.
Anticipating interruptions is almost as distracting as the interruptions themselves.
Hey, sites with restaurant listings? It’s good to know whether the place is open now, …
Hey, sites with restaurant listings? It’s good to know whether the place is open now, but please show the rest of the hours too. I might be planning ahead.
Headlines
Political upheaval!
Celebrity car crash!
Nuclear doom!
Celebrity attacked!
Political accomplishment!
Radicalized gunmen!
Afghanistan!
Charlottesville!
Megafloods!
What is Splooting and why are NYC squirrels doing it?
Wait, what?
(TL;DR: spreading out flat on the ground to cool off.)
#Gemini question: about a year ago I settled on LaGrange and Amfora as my main …
#Gemini question: about a year ago I settled on LaGrange and Amfora as my main Gemini clients after trying out a bunch of what was around at the time. And then I kind of stopped paying attention.
Now I’m curious: have any particularly interesting client applications come out of Geminispace since then?
COVID, death (last year, but really f’d up)
I just found out that someone I went to high school with lost both her brother and father to COVID last fall because her cousin convinced them not to go to the hospital and only take quack remedies for things that definitely weren’t COVID, all while she and her brother’s friend tried unsuccessfully to get them to seek *real* medical treatment.
Ah yes, my favorite audio track: “Not Provided” by (Unknown).Awfully quiet, though.
Ah yes, my favorite audio track: “Not Provided” by (Unknown).
Awfully quiet, though.
Oh jeez, the kid is starting to ask about driving
Oh jeez, the kid is starting to ask about driving
He can’t even get a learner’s permit for several years yet, but he’s starting to ask
dubious accomplishment
Got a gold badge at a Pokemon Go gym before someone tells Niantic that the landmark has just been demolished.
TFW you realize you didn’t need the socket wrench after all, you just needed to …
TFW you realize you didn’t need the socket wrench after all, you just needed to move a wire clip out of the way
Updating my anti-procrastination setup before I get started on this.#irony
We already have one of those.
Read an op-ed about how we need a new party that’s in between the right-wing extremism that is now mainstream in the GOP and the left-wing extremism that exists, if at all, on the fringes of the Democratic Party.
We already have one of those. It’s called the Democratic Party.
To mix some metaphors, we have a tiny left wing, an oversized right wing, and a center that the right wing likes to think is on the left.
No wonder we keep going in circles.
It’s this article about a “Forward party” https://wapo.st/3OKLlFq