Apparently Skechers has a hiking shoe called “Terrabite”
Asides
“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.
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter stylesheet.
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter stylesheet.
That said, 3.6K is awfully short by today’s standards.
And it automatically adjusts for display sizes from phone portrait to widescreen monitor, light and dark themes (so it doesn’t blast your eyes out if you open it on a dark themed desktop), and switches the main font between serif on high-density displays and sans-serif on low density displays for maximum readability.
This stuff doesn’t require half a megabyte of frameworks and JavaScript to implement.
Oh yeah, link so you can see it actually works https://hyperborea.org/tech-tips/
At least on modern browsers.
I guess the next step is to test in older ones to see how they handle the mix of media queries. I don’t care if it doesn’t look perfect on the older browsers, but I do want it to be readable!
Wondering when it’ll cool off enough to open the windows without making the place warmer. …
Wondering when it’ll cool off enough to open the windows without making the place warmer. I don’t like stuffy air, and a desk fan only does so much.
On the plus side, this place has decent enough insulation that as long as it cools off overnight, it takes a while to warm up inside.
What I hate are the nights when it doesn’t cool off until long after we’ve all gone to sleep (if then).
Meanwhile, the kid has still been wanting ALL THE BLANKETS and we’re like, no, you’ll totally overheat. That’s what the weighted blanket is for!
At least it wasn’t this hot the night he tried to sleep in the tent indoors.
…
Ok, the window’s out of direct sunlight. Time to open it.
On a related note: today I learned it’s super easy to give your website an …
On a related note: today I learned it’s super easy to give your website an alternate dark mode theme in most browsers. Assuming your color scheme is in relatively clean CSS to start with, anyway.
Just add a @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {…} section after you define the light-scheme colors and define the dark mode colors and backgrounds there!
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-color-scheme
Why do they make displays on devices that are likely to get used outside GLOSSY?
Why do they make displays on devices that are likely to get used outside GLOSSY?
What song is playing now?This is “The Way”
There should be a word for the dissonance caused by half-hearing a song when you …
There should be a word for the dissonance caused by half-hearing a song when you know the “Weird Al” (or other) parody better than the original.