And the expendable sunglasses have done their job. I’m torn between “Great, now I don’t have sunglasses for a few days” and “Good f*ing riddance”
Asides
In other non-alcoholic beer news, Stella Artois makes a surprisingly good one. Which is probably …
In other non-alcoholic beer news, Stella Artois makes a surprisingly good one. Which is probably why I’ve only seen it on the shelf once.
Reminded me of the time I actually did get carded for buying root beer, back …
Reminded me of the time I actually did get carded for buying root beer, back in the day.
Um, yeah, i can show you my id, yes i’m over 21, no i don’t need to be to buy anything in my cart
Apparently you can’t buy “non-alcoholic dry hopped brew” at the self checkout either, I guess …
Apparently you can’t buy “non-alcoholic dry hopped brew” at the self checkout either, I guess because the word beer appears on the label after the words “not a” instead of “root.”
Crickets
This cricket hitched a ride inside on a jacket. I snapped a picture for #iNaturalist (yes, really), then started to pick up the jacket to take it back outside. It jumped onto my other hand. But it stayed there while I walked to the door and opened it with my other hand…and it jumped off as I was stepping outside.
Just Desserts
Kid: I hate this almond milk non dairy version of Phish Food ice cream!
Same kid: keeps sneaking the non-dairy phish food while we’re not looking.
Apparently Skechers has a hiking shoe called “Terrabite”
Apparently Skechers has a hiking shoe called “Terrabite”
“Hey mom, ask me something in Spanish!””Um…. Dónde están mis pantalones?”Phone: “I’m not …
“Hey mom, ask me something in Spanish!”
“Um…. Dónde están mis pantalones?”
Phone: “I’m not sure how to respond to that.”
After losing two pairs of sunglasses in as many weeks, I wanted a cheap pair …
After losing two pairs of sunglasses in as many weeks, I wanted a cheap pair that I wouldn’t miss if it fell into a marsh while I failed to duck under a tree.
Well… I can’t say I didn’t get what I was looking for.
And yeah, that’s what I think happened to the pair i only had for 2 weeks. I put them in my shirt pocket when I went into the wooded area, and didn’t have them when I left the preserve.
In between, I hit my head on a branch and nearly went sprawling. Managed to catch my balance without landing face first in the mud. Picked up my hat (which managed to save me from any cuts on my scalp – my shoulder wasn’t as lucky). But I think the sunglasses must have fallen out when I stumbled.
GLOWING RECTANGLE OF DOOM
FOOLISH MORTAL!
Do you DARE look into the GLOWING RECTANGLE OF DOOM?
— Um, can I turn the brightness down? Or maybe switch to dark mode?
ALL IS DARKNESS
— Wait, I thought you said it was glowing?
THE GLOWING RECTANGLE OF DOOM CAN MULTITASK
— Ok, got it. Doom, glowing darkness.
— You *did* say it could run Doom, right?
IT IS *OF* DOOM, NOT *FOR* DOOM.
(the glowing rectangle prefers to avoid dependency loops)
— So what kind of doom are we talking about here? Classic, like fate? Or modern, like impending disaster?
— And why am I getting so many notifications from it?
FOOL! The GLOWING RECTANGLE OF DOOM TOOTS AS IT PLEASES!
Les Mis, goose, dream
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.
Kid printed out ASCII art of a still from “Never Gonna Give You Up.” …
Kid printed out ASCII art of a still from “Never Gonna Give You Up.” We dubbed it “Rick ASCII.”
He’s going to mail it to some family friends so he can Rick roll them by mail.
(AFAIK they aren’t on Mastodon, so it should still be a surprise.)
How did we get stuck with “web browsers” instead of “web surfboards,” anyway?
How did we get stuck with “web browsers” instead of “web surfboards,” anyway?
There’s a street in town called Axenty. I always misread it.
There’s a street in town called Axenty. I always misread it.
Glanced at this while passing a store the other day and had to do a …
Glanced at this while passing a store the other day and had to do a double take because the first time I misread it as ALIENS FOR EVERY CONDITION.
#signs #misread
Thanks, autocorrect, but “hitting booze” is WAAAAAAY different than “hitting snooze”
Thanks, autocorrect, but “hitting booze” is WAAAAAAY different than “hitting snooze”
Apparently I walked 1.4km just doing laundry, gardening, and cleaning up the patio?!?
Apparently I walked 1.4km just doing laundry, gardening, and cleaning up the patio?!?
I used up so many round tuits today.But hey, the laundry’s done, some boxes …
I used up so many round tuits today.
But hey, the laundry’s done, some boxes are cleared out, and the patio’s…well, still an awful mess, but a lot less of an awful mess.
Interesting thought:Back in the 80s and 90s, X Windows enabled Unix systems to run GUI …
Interesting thought:
Back in the 80s and 90s, X Windows enabled Unix systems to run GUI programs remotely. Because bandwidth was low and scarce, the server would send the drawing commands across the wire and the client would render as much as possible itself.
Now a lot of systems have more bandwidth than rendering power, and services like GeForce Now and Stadia are rendering entire detailed game sessions on a server and just streaming the video to the client.
It’s kind of a wild reversal.
Re: Fluffy Clouds Search
Fluffy Clouds is an ancient Perl script that i started using back in 2001 or something. I’ve tweaked it a bit to limit searches to parts of the site, normalize Unicode, etc. I’m not surprised the developer abandoned it. I keep thinking about switching to something more capable, but every time I look, i mostly find things that are way more complicated than I need.
As for how it actually works:
One script crawls all the html files within a folder and builds an index of words. I have it on a weekly cron job.
The other reads an html template with header and footer, searches the index, and plugs the results and search form into the template.
IIRC it skips meta robots pages on indexing and reads the file title and description at display time.