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You can monitor the cronjob with the stats page, too.
2025-02-02 DBlume asks
davidd to check in at LiveJournal. We could have a longer form conversation there.
davidd I've been Away from Keyboard... at the South Pole. Well, "South Pole" is an exaggeration. Only made it to the Antarctic Peninsula. Back online soon... pack ice permitting ('kay, that's a joke). Altho' being mostly offline has been okay.
DBlume wishes you to stay offline as long as you like! It's healthier there! Enjoy your time there. Hopefully the world will be more sane before you get back.
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2024-07-27 DBlume has to convert some scripts from Python2 to Python3, and needs to test whether the Plurk services still works.
davidd watched "Cult of the Cobra" on the Svengoolie movie on Saturday night, which probably isn't even tangentially related to what you're talking about.
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sjonsvenson Bha, I don't need Hubble to see dust (looks at floor)
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pastilla late to the party, but I'm in! Thank you!!!!!
pastilla "
A Merging Trio"
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sjonsvenson Thank you
dblumebuddy for this year's advent
pastilla ha ha ha ha ha You know I love a good mannequin sistah!
pastilla (Thanks for thinking of me). Hope you are well.
2023-01-05 davidd Years from now, long after I am dead, scholars looking back on American history will study how the gullible public were taken in by the uncanny simulacrum posing as the 46th President.
davidd
dblume: I've been discussing the deceptive realism of "freeware" consumer-level AI apps, both for visual design and for writing, with several people via Instagram for a few months now. If the free apps can be used by a skilled user to generate content indistinguishable from "reality," imagine what "pro-level" tech can already do.
davidd
dblume: I suppose one could say "time to unplug," but the problem would be the people who are NOT unplugged, they are the ones who will be influenced and who will think and act accordingly.
DBlume
2022-12-20 davidd
dblume and I have been crushing it on LiveJournal with our faux-heated political dialogues, ranking among Top Non-Cyrillic LiveJournals several times recently.
DBlume says It's definitely a sign of how engaging and entertaining
davidd and I are, not a sign of how quiet LJ is becoming.
sjonsvenson I haven't been on it for a while now.
2022-12-14 davidd
dblumebuddy doesn't like me anymore. Must be those leftists with their political agenda who have taken over the tech industry.
sjonsvenson damn commies
davidd
sjonsvenson:
Or decade-old tech that is no longer supported! It's probably on a subscription plan now, anyway!
DBlume says Nowadays the only job she has is the Space Telescope Advent Calendar. She live only by the grace of Plurk which once cracked down on her kind, but graciously spared her.
DBlume says Oh, wow! Looking forward to enjoying this.
davidd
dblume: It's part of a multi-contributor group photo-story on a forum (remember online forums?) so it might not make total sense as a "stand alone" installment, although I designed it as a "re-cap" of sorts of the previous 57 installments.
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davidd I take it that
dblumebuddy isn't as functional as she once was?
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sjonsvenson 6 reminds me of my sink when I pull the plug
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DBlume says OK, 9 is amazing. Worth enjoying for a few seconds.
pastilla IKR . . .
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sjonsvenson just try to count them all . . . .
pastilla I have only more free view left . . . guess no peeking until Christmas.
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dblume . . . I always forget about incognito . . . never been so happy to feel so dumb!
pastilla does anyone else think "Monkey Head" (17) looks more like "Owls from Hell"? Or Koalas from Hell? If you stare at the points, little animals seem to magically appear and multiply.
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pastilla Yes! Manta rays!!!
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DBlume is pretty sure that 19 is just a still from a Doctor Strange movie.
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sjonsvenson Was more thinking Chewbacca in a shower . . .
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sjonsvenson as if someone punched a hole in the ceiling.
sjonsvenson Thank you
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pastilla Thank you,
dblumebuddy . . . see you next year?
2022-11-16 davidd Return to Hardcore?
Elon Musk gives employees two days to commit to 'har...- Sounds like a return to the roots of the technology revolution, when Bill Gates and his cronies lived by the "hardcore" mantra, with pizza, Jolt Cola, and late nights being the foundation of what became the modern technology industry. Feel free to refer to my brief but insightful LiveJournal post:
sjonsvenson That foundation didn't start with big 10000+ employee companies. It started with a few people working in a garage or an old warehouse corner doing / trying to do things that were never done before. Here he "starts" with an long established big company in a saturated market not trying to do something new, just trying to do the same things differently.
davidd
sjonsvenson: I'm still not clear on his motivation for purchasing Twitter. He's rich enough, it could have simply been a spur of the moment impulse buy. He has talked about turning in to... something different, something better. We shall see.
DBlume thinks his "go hardcore" message isn't very motivating. I'd likely have quit too. We've all done the "crunch", especially game devs. Inferring that we weren't already giving our best is insulting, and to say to go hardcore after reducing so many peers and resources on a whim is ridiculous. Sure, ask for more, but reward accordingly.
davidd
dblume: the video clip that's been circulating recently of an "entitled twenty-something" sharing her laid-back morning routine at Twitter, sipping a latte in a rooftop garden, doesn't exactly generate a lot of empathy from those of us who work crappy jobs in lower paid service or retail industries.
davidd
dblume: Threats to file lawsuits against the new boss who expects employees to work harder or longer don't elicit much sympathy from those of us who have had to deal with new managers, supervisors, or owners taking over and shaking things up, often making things worse. I've quit good jobs in response to bad management, myself. It happens. It sucks. Deal.
DBlume says Let me see the video? I don't mind hating on her entitled easy life, too. And I'm all for firing people for poor performance. Your last comment makes it look like we're agreeing right? If the job sucks, quit, right? All good.
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dblume: Yeah, we pretty much agree... on most things, actually, although to varying degrees. I'm fascinated by what's going on at Twitter, and by the extremely polarized responses from "media people." I'm not sure what to believe about employees quitting or being let go, as most articles seem to be rumor based. What are user numbers looking like?
davidd
dblume: I'm looking for the video clip. I saw part of it again on television tonight. I suppose it could be a fake or a parody. I've seen "news people" get faked out before. In fact, as I'm looking for the video, I found another one that CNBC broadcast as "real" when it was pranksters claiming to be fired Twitter employees.
DBlume says Yeah, I kinda wanna see it. My position is the marketplace is working. Elon's making his demands, and the employees are deciding accordingly. That little San Francisco tech sector will find a new balance for the new constraints.
2022-04-26 DBlume wonders if anybody here is over at Mastodon too?
davidd likes the layout of your page.
davidd is not so sure about the language, "committed to active moderation against racism, sexism and transphobia." I mean, that can be interpreted pretty broadly. Like... I just used the word "broad" in my comment. Is that sexist?
No "Blonde" jokes on Mastodon, then? What about "Dad" jokes? Dad jokes are just as sexist as blonde jokes, right?
sjonsvenson new?. Last time I hear about Mastodon they were extinct
davidd
sjonsvenson: there's inherent sexism in reproduction; hence the extinction.
sjonsvenson not all reproduction is sexual.
davidd
sjonsvenson:
Mastondons had cloning technology? Then... why are they extinct? Or... or... is there evidence in the fossil record that mastondons were like amoebas? Did they divide? That's pretty wild!
sjonsvenson Not sure about mastodons, I guess there were extra sexual with the extra trunk up front. But I mean viruses reproduce 100% asexual. 90+% of bacteria reproduce asexual, Never heard about yeast doing it. Higher up, almost all of our potatoes are reproduced asexual, some reptiles reproduce without sexual involvement. . . . .
sjonsvenson . . . . .
. . . maybe that's why few people are interested in those organisms . . .
davidd And it’s been nearly that long since you updated it!
Almost half your life ago, huh? Time certainly flies.
sjonsvenson I lost my first site when the hosting changed from free to paying. I didn't have a way to pay internationally at the time.
2022-02-24 davidd wonders if the US "sanctions" will impact LiveJournal access from the States? Or if I will have the FBI knocking at my door for my Russian Collusion?
davidd Wait... colluding with Russia, just like Hillary? Ok, no worries there, then!
sjonsvenson Depends where you have your mailservers I guess
davidd Not sure, actually. Hmmm.... looks like Burlington, Massachussetts and Los Angeles, California.
davidd
Glad I have fact checkers to keep me on the level!
dblumeDBlume We check each other,
davidd! I was completely wrong about the duration of COVID shutdowns.
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was watching a youtube stream of an owls nest earlier today
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DBlume wants to reach out to
pastilla , because she once said she didn't see these advent calendar posts anymore. We're still doing it! Hope you can see this plurk.
sjonsvenson I didn't see the first but do get this one. Probably an issue with the
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sjonsvenson That one is just a colorful "no signal" display from an old TV set . . . .
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sjonsvenson It kind of reminds me of soft silty sediment billowing up after the passage of a fish. Similar turbulence, just another scale.
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DBlume Thanks,
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dblumebuddy for doing your job. Hope to see you next year, too!
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2021-01-07 davidd White lives don’t matter. Capitol cops gun down unarmed white female protestor. A sign of things to come.
sjonsvenson That cop is suspended..
davidd Until the news cycle stops covering the story, which took about two days. They made their point. We will kill you, and we will destroy the President, so back off or be crushed.
sjonsvenson Depends on what news you follow. But the Left, Right and foreign news about the same event tend to paint a whole different story.
DBlume says It's weird that I don't know who you mean by "we", "you" and "the President".
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sjonsvenson (weird though in nr 9, they are 15000 light years away but only 10000 years old . . . )
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2020-10-25 davidd If only Life had a reset button.
ChrisHalliwell haaay yes. if only
davidd Actually, a Resume From Last Save would be better, so you could start over from a selected point with the knowledge you've gained.
sjonsvenson you would have to select save points of course
sjonsvenson also, who says there is no reset button. Just a detail, it also wipes memory
davidd Yeah, wiping the memory is problematic. No point in starting over if you are just going to make the same poor decisions.
sjonsvenson or different but equally misguided decisions
DBlume thinks people tend to hit Save when they're in trouble, and so you resume back to a bad spot. When things are going well, they forget to make that Save, which would've been so much better.
2020-10-23 davidd
- I was working in my lab late one night....
DBlume sings, "When my eyes beheld an eerie sight"
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dblume: Still here too, are you?
sjonsvenson some things are never what the were supposed to be
sjonsvenson Was it really that long ago?
2019-12-29 davidd wonders why he is checking in to Plurk.
ChrisHalliwell
sjonsvenson
cause Plurk is still a good place to visit
DBlume
Maybe click through my last plurk about blinrey's Advent Calendar. There are some gems in there.
davidd says
dblume: sounds like fun, I shall take a look! Good to see that you are still (occasionally) here!
DBlume says You guys, it's complete now. Click through and see all the curiosities.
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davidd This is beyond fascinating! Mind-blowing, actually! That prime number containing the decryption code? I mean... really? Insane!
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dblumebuddy . Happy Holidays, Lil Buddy!
sjonsvenson Thanks for bringing it up again
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DBlume is thankful for
dblumebuddy ! Merry Christmas everybody. Hope to see you next year!
pastilla
2019-12-01 DBlume shares In Korea, "Nabi" (Butterfly) is a common name for a housecat. Watch BiBi play a cat, complete with pushing a glass off a table and giving you a "wat?" look.
[MV] BIBI(비비) _ NABI(나비)
DBlume thinks
zannah might relate to the way BiBi portrays cats.
DBlume loves the way the song captures the attitude of cats. All the indifference, contempt and love.
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sjonsvenson I think
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davidd thinks this looks a lot like Goblin Valley in Utah, only with palm trees.
pastilla says thank you
Dblume! I needed a quick getaway and this was perfect. (Hope you and fam are well)
pastilla hopes you and Mrs. DBlume have made it through this stage by now?
DBlume says Good to hear from you,
pastilla ! Our two kids are opposites of each other, and so present unique challenges. Sometimes we think we've done it all wrong, but we're hanging in there, too.
pastilla
DBlume says Perfume performed that song at Coachella this year. I never thought there'd be times like these.
pastilla likes this. (The plurk itself and the spirit behind it.) Hope life is treating you & your family well,
DBlume.
DBlume says Hi
pastilla ! We're getting by! One last family vacation coming up before the older one goes to college. Hope life it treating you and yours well, too!
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2019-04-02 DBlume says if you follow my blog in a feed reader, please update the feed URL. The feed URL is now
David's Place
sjonsvenson Not using a feed, just plain browsing. But thanks for the update
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DBlume Thank you
dblumebuddy ! You were awesome. Everybody, at least see photo 25, it's still amazing. (Of course, nothing yet surpasses the 20,000 light-year log shadow on Hanny's Voorwerp.)
davidd You might like developing code, but the dead link suggests you're not very good at it.
DBlume says I dunno, it seems like there's some truth to it.
sjonsvenson It isn't all new and exciting anymore. Everybody is on the web so being on-line is nothing to impress your classmates with.
sjonsvenson Writing a program that did something interesting or typing in some HTML that actually worked used to be impressive. A show off to your friends. Now those friends make some better code doing some clicks here or there and walk away yawning.
sjonsvenson Worst of all, you post a nice pic of your cat and the day later you find 5687 replies with cuter cat pics . . . sigh
davidd thinks this line is spot on: "Where once we’d had a rich ecosystem of extremely stupid and funny sites on which we might procrastinate, we now had only Twitter and Facebook."
davidd is still on Flickr, where he was friends with
sjonsvenson and
DBlume and
pastilla... and Nari and Zannah and lots of other people who are not active there anymore.
davidd was commenting on this very topic on LiveJournal today... where he was friends with
sjonsvenson (who is still there, posting every day) and
DBlume and
pastilla and Nari and Zannah and lot of other people who are not active there anymore.
davidd manages to waste plenty of time online, and has fun doing so, but it's more of a challenge these days. Most of the forums of which I was a member are gone. But there are still a few specialty forums, which, on a good day, have up to half a dozen new posts!
davidd Yeah, half a dozen. Remember when specialty forums got HUNDREDS of posts a day?
davidd does not work with computers, so maybe it's easier for me to have fun online. Or maybe I'm stuck in a paleozoic version of the online universe.
davidd is mega-, rather than micro-, blogging at this point with these comments, isn't he? Anyway, that line about the guy becoming his dad when he found himself typing news sites into his search bar was funny, too. Except, dude, your dad would probably pick up a newspaper, not type in a web search.
davidd says anyway... hi! How're ya doin'? What's your online hangout of choice these days? (I was trying to remember the other day where you said you post your militant humanist diatribes... or something like that. I'm sure they are both insightful and amusing.)
davidd says and, of course, PHONES! Phones are the "fun" online time-waster of today. Nobody types searches into desktop browers anymore, do they? At least, none of the cool people. Time-wasting fun is now in the palm of your hand.
davidd thinks old school BBS forums would be a pain to read and to navigate on a phone-sized screen. (See comment on other Plurk about eyeglasses....
)
sjonsvenson phones are not good for web-ing . . . Well, my Nokia 6020 isn't
pastilla says I do not own a cell phone anymore. Imagine that.
DBlume says I still have my cell phone, but I intentionally deleted Facebook and Plurk from it.
DBlume says Our dads were fortunate to experience the serendipity of unexpectedly interesting articles in the newspaper.
DBlume says websites are hellbent on surfacing posts that they think you'll engage with, so it's always the same bait. Not something completely out of your domain.
davidd is necro-ing this old Plurk, the same way he sometimes necros old posts on forums. Update a year later: I'm still active on a few toy photo forums where there are still, as noted above, a half-dozen or more unique new posts per day!
davidd is still having fun on these forums, and, as the article writer reminisced about, I still find them an escape from reality.
davidd has found a few people... again, that magic half-dozen number... who are alive and well and still posting on Flickr on a regular basis, even as Flickr's price has gone up and quality of service has gone down.
2018-05-03 DBlume shares
Simply Brutal. Be sure to
click through to the Gallery. The best stuff is hidden in the gallery.
pastilla says my dad despised "art over function" architecture. Quietly and pettily he collected photos & anecdotes from people who struggled to live and work in AE's buildings- which were invariably dark, depressing concrete tombs with every heating, plumbing, electrical and structural problem you could imagine.
pastilla says (but shhhh I always though his buildings were very cool-looking)
DBlume says
pastilla, Ha, I completely understand that trade-off. Buildings I'd love to visit but wouldn't want work/live there.
davidd says this is like the "old school" conversations I remember, from, like, at SparkleSystemSix! If you guys are "alive" again on Plurk, I'm gonna have to check in here more often!
davidd thinks that UFO house is epic!
pastilla says OK, that started my day off on the right note. Nicely done.
sjonsvenson
davidd says and your updated avatar was inspired by President Trump! Your creativity was jump-started by President Trump! Evidence that President Trump is, indeed, making America great again!
davidd says yeah, I need eyeglasses to read, too. That is, strong ones for reading, and less strong for distance.
sjonsvenson Bit recalculated in internet time it's time for a well earned retirement
pastilla says awwwwww the nose bite picture . . .
davidd says HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Now you can turn it into a drinking blog!
davidd wonders if your web site... or any stand-alone personal web sites... gets many visitors anymore? Facebook has kind of driven the personal blog, and blogging sites like LiveJournal, into extinction.
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sjonsvenson wondering whether
dblume did
DBlume
2017-08-28 davidd has been "internet lazy," largely ignoring Plurk, Flickr, and... well, mostly that. My other online haunts have closed. I waste a lot of time at Instagram, mostly just looking.
sjonsvenson
welcome back to the real world . . .
sjonsvenson I mean the time-sink world
pastilla says I'm not on instagram often -- Plurk & Flickr are ghost towns (except for Sjon who is as dedicated, busy and interesting as always) I miss the old days when we were all together in one place.
sjonsvenson Lifejournal is a Russian ghost town as well these days. I am keeping it alive cause I linked my LJ mail-address to other sites and shops etc.
DBlume says We all need a little time in the real world.
ChrisHalliwell
davidd says HI GUYS!!!! So excited to see some familiar faces!
davidd says
dblume: As little time in the real world as possible, please and thank you!
davidd says
sjonsvenson: Yes! Yes! I miss my time-sinks! And my friends in the time-sink whirlpool!
davidd says
ryan_h: You're still here too! YAY!
davidd says
pastilla: Flickr? Oh yeah, that place, the one you suddenly abandoned!
davidd says
pastilla: Flickr became a lot less of a draw when you left. Several other people left or simply stopped posting, too, and my enthusiasm for the site waned considerably. Plus, real life and stuff... yeah.
ChrisHalliwell
davidd i never left.
sjonsvenson hunting pack <3
Brie
I need this for kens birthday present
Scea
sjonsvenson supects
dblume has one hidden in a secret drawer
Envi Ohhh...this is so bad...
DBlume loves that the handle itself is a USB cable, too.
Envi And tied with a Firewire...if I'm not mistaken.
sjonsvenson it's a cat-o-9-tails. But I didn't know we were already at CAT-9 cables
sjonsvenson
pastilla says whoa.
pastilla says thanks for stopping by here once in a while with a wonderful link,
DBlume <3
Tillie Sheldon Cooper shower!
sjonsvenson I suspect
dblume is now writing on tiles . . .
DBlume says I can't help it if I'm inspired!
sjonsvenson I knew you would be in yiour elment
DBlume loves this so much!
sjonsvenson
DBlume says I've never identified with the dad more.
potato boyo ow my brain
sjonsvenson pespective can be painfull
Envi Interesting
sjonsvenson still waiting for
dblume to wake up I suppose
DBlume says Whee!
sjonsvenson verry nice an torough article there abou ... OH blu shiney
look at that, is that ...
sjonsvenson
pastilla says very cool photos. Happy for CA. Pretty scary there for a while.
sjonsvenson but now it's over with the dry-humor
sjonsvenson I also imagine now all Californians to come out and finally wash their car for the first time in years, all at the same time, ...
halophoenix says
thank you!
sjonsvenson
nyt made a good choice
pastilla says
Congratulations!
pastilla says so so so so so so so so so so pleased for you,
halophoenixVanlal All the best,
halophoenix!!! We're proud of you.
pastilla
pastilla thinks it fulfills all the requirements and then some . . .
pastilla says it took me a few minutes to realize the building itself was shaped like Mt. Fuji
sjonsvenson for some
sjonsvenson might be me even ....
DBlume says Even the hand-held camera is a nice touch.
DBlume says You can see where the tops of the cards on the table have been subtly cut so as not to visually clip the cards on the floor. Nice practical effect.
Matu
pastilla says very clever
DBlume says
DBlume says I can only aspire to such Dad greatness.
2017-02-19 sjonsvenson Question : how often do you look at your fiends on their own page with their own backgrouns in stead of watching them on your own layout?
Scea ?
sjonsvenson I always check on www plurk com/sjonsvenon and only seldom clik trough to anyone else's own page
pastilla Not too often!
DBlume says Almost never.
Scea If no one asks for it...
Natalie I've stayed in his hotels. I will stay in them again, if i ever go back to Florida, because i wish to support an amazing human being.
pastilla says times they are a'changin.
2017-02-04 DBlume shares "The only way to prevent another Bowling Green Massacre is to stop interviewing Kellyanne Conway."
sjonsvenson that version just gives me shivers. cutting deeper then the original.
sjonsvenson nope, I haven't (and it doesn't work on my PC, eating all my bandwith and still starving)
Natalie Pepperidge Farm remembers
DBlume says TIL
DBlume says Click through. Once you start the article, you may find yourself reading through and finishing before you know it.
pastilla says I did. Worth the read, definitely. HNY,
dblume Thanks for your wisdom and friendship.
DBlume
sjonsvenson
Vanlal HNY everyone and Thanks DBlume
2016-12-26 DBlume says You guys! I've got an idea for my next stupid micro site! Stuck wheels are beginning to turn again.
♥.(.zannah.).♥
yay!!!
DBlume says Wow, there's a lot of potential web frameworks I could learn. Might be good for me, but I'm not so interested. I'm more interested in just making the thing I was to see.
DBlume asks If I make a new website, do I have to add a popover that appears after 30 seconds asking you to join its mailing list? I'd rather not, but if I have to...
♥.(.zannah.).♥ NO. JUST SAY NO.
DBlume says It's not done yet. The math gets harder when the cut intersects the arc instead of the straight edge...
♥.(.zannah.).♥ ... is this an issue that happens a lot at your house?
DBlume says My son asked the trigonometry question. My internal answer was, "that's a little site that needs to be created!" I was interested in how much the cut would move according to the angle of the slice.
DBlume says So I made the thing (so far), and got to see. I'll keep updating it occasionally. Then I'll upload the source to github too. (The source is the webpage itself, of course, but github will show the evolution.)
♥.(.zannah.).♥ ...
♥.(.zannah.).♥ i'm going to say that maybe that's...not the most efficient way to, you know. cut the pizza when it's that big.
sjonsvenson wondering what happens with square pizzas
sjonsvenson () plenty of places bake square pizzas but sell tips of them. The don't do it right though, they cut the tips at similar angles -same as on a round pizza- but that way the tips are not all the same size. I supose you have a formula to cut tips of the same size.
sjonsvenson (they are selling the tips locally and cutting squares for take-away)
DBlume says Seeing
halophoenix on TWiT or (the new new) ScreenSavers would just bring such a satisfying closure.
Vanlal Awesome!!!!!
pastilla
sjonsvenson
halophoenix says
karma medic says Check out
photo 1 of the calendar!
DBlume says Glad to see you're back, buddy!
♥.(.zannah.).♥ me tooooooooo! <3
Narilka says OP delivers.
♥.(.zannah.).♥
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Thank you,
dblumebuddy Enjoyed the first week!
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DBlume loves photo 8!
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pastilla says to
dblume . . . love the term Herbig-haro . . . sounds like something women had in the 80's . . .
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♥.(.zannah.).♥ I have to tell you that nebulas kind of freak me out.
pastilla is
@
zannah I know what you mean.
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♥.(.zannah.).♥ AUGH
♥.(.zannah.).♥ tbh, space in general kind of freaks me out.
♥.(.zannah.).♥ probably surprising no one.
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pastilla says this nebula seems Jim Henson-inspired.
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♥.(.zannah.).♥ oo, butterfly nebula. nari's favourite.
DBlume says So if you put that 2-light-year wide nebula in the shadow that's on Hanny's Voorwerp, it'd be, what? 1/100,000,000th the size of the shadow.
DBlume says Let's say they're both round, so the nebula's 2-d area is π light years, and the shadow's is 100,000,000 π light years.
karma medic says Check out
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pastilla says you had us at "unusual, ghostly green blob of gas,"
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♥.(.zannah.).♥
sjonsvenson loving them all
DBlume says I totally see space horses galloping in the direction of 2:00 all over
photo 21. (Beat you to it,
dblumebuddy. )
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♥.(.zannah.).♥ COULD HAVE WARNED ME THAT MONKEYS WERE INVOLVED.
pastilla says monkey + 6,400 light-years away = good thing
DBlume says Not monkeys! Don't you see the stallions stampeding to the right?
♥.(.zannah.).♥ On second look, I totally do. They should have called it horsie stampede.
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DBlume says Thank you,
dblumebuddy! Hope to see you next year!
pastilla
sjonsvenson
see ya in 2'17
Scea okaaaay
Matu
DBlume That Kennedy one wasn't really necessary. The others are good.
<3
2016-11-11 sjonsvenson View of Southern California from the ISS this morning (California passed recreational marijuana use).
DBlume says Oh, god, that's perfect.
DBlume We lost the presidency but won the right to buy recreational marijuana. (But not in baggies which are illegal, and cannot smoke it, smoking is illegal.)
DBlume says No, this too shall pass. I'll fight from within, you do what you feel appropriate from over there.
DBlume says first
The Mojave Phone Booth, now this. Where can we hide our strange little obsessions from the wide world nowadays.
DBlume says At least nobody (but my Aunt, in Elko) knows
what this is.
<3
2016-11-04 sjonsvenson tie your shoes firts ...
Scea hehe
DBlume There's just something about her complete abject acceptance of the failure.
DBlume says And it's beyond me why she released it on 11/01 instead of 11/11.
sjonsvenson (love)
pastilla is glad to see your hunt for the coolest photos on the web is still ongoing.
Scea
Natalie freestyle I don't get it...
DBlume Me either, but the caption is, "This is where the window would go if I had a window." The van has a window wiper, but no window.
sjonsvenson and it driving on the left ...
Natalie Well, that pic was taken in England, but i don't get the significance
Narilka says OMG, I NEED THAT
Scea Glücksbärchi!
sjonsvenson
Narilka ... the blue one or the girl's shirt ...
DBlume I'd fist-bump that other father. Job well done, my man.
DBlume says That wasn't a question, was it? Must. Buy. Tachikoma.
Narilka says All, obviously.
DBlume says The doors open!
DBlume says And it looks like it lights up! I'm buying!
♥.(.zannah.).♥ !!!!!
♥.(.zannah.).♥ hahahahaha
DBlume says Everywhere I go on the internet, the page is filled with ads for the $500.00 tachikoma. And I don't mind at all. It's awesome. I love its look, and I'm not seriously tempted at all.
♥.(.zannah.).♥
Narilka !!! Beautiful!
Emathion
DBlume loves these, so so much. Inspired to doodle again.
sjonsvenson
dblume , great when an image sparks some imagination
amarana says Toll
Narilka I've apparently been looking at things all wrong. These are amazing.
♥.(.zannah.).♥
DBlume says It's basically a one-line AddOn, but I've decided to stop being afraid of being embarrassed by the project, and put it out there.
DBlume says That way, the next time Google breaks it with a new Chrome release, anybody can go and fix it.
♥.(.zannah.).♥ or make it worse.
DBlume says Well, only I can publish the Interrobang AddOn. Others can publish their own ones. They can always issue a Pull Request if they want their change in my AddOn.
♥.(.zannah.).♥ oh good! ^_^
DBlume says Everybody: If you're the kind of person to dive into somebody's code repo just to root around, speak up. I'd like to know. I'm certainly that way, I think it's fun.
♥.(.zannah.).♥ I do, because learning
DBlume says At least you can still click on the AddOn's little button icon and click on the ‽ to put an Interrobang in your clipboard buffer.
♥.(.zannah.).♥
♥.(.zannah.).♥ This actually probably explains why my pinterest bookmarklet stopped werking as well. >.<
DBlume says
They didn't make a big deal of it, except for one to say, "this may be sufficiently impactful to web developers that we should do an "intent to ship" for it".
DBlume says I'm getting the idea that a lot of developers don't know why things "broke" in Chrome 53.
♥.(.zannah.).♥ Yes - actually thinking about this more, this might be the cause of an issue we're having with an internal tool at werk as well.
DBlume says I figured out a workaround, at the same time somebody posted
the same solution for me at StackOverflow! Yay!!
♥.(.zannah.).♥ !! <3 <3 <3
DBlume says Ah, Interrobang 0.6 has been published and the shortcut key works again!
♥.(.zannah.).♥
DBlume says That's bad!
Scea perhaps if you shave him..?
♥.(.zannah.).♥ do you just want it to terrorize your children with? #askingforafriend
sjonsvenson if I guess the DBlume family ... that is more like self defense ( in an arms race)
DBlume says Whoops, forgot to
zannah. Their company uniform is Tokidoki!
♥.(.zannah.).♥ I LOVE IT
DBlume says Bump! For those who'd appreciate it.
Narilka says This is awesome! <3
♥.(.zannah.).♥ And so true. so true.
2016-09-19 DBlume says That's the first time I've seen "its’" (plural possessive form) in a company-wide email.
sjonsvenson it's time 'its' virtues are recognized, if its use is correctly of course
DBlume says of course, she could already have it.
♥.(.zannah.).♥ I DON'T KNOW WHY I MISSED THIS IN MY TIMELINE THE FIRST TIME BUT NOW I MUST OWN IT..
♥.(.zannah.).♥ THANK YOUUUUUU
♥.(.zannah.).♥
DBlume says Yeah, as it turns out, after a day with iOS 10, I referred back to the link and made some adjustments.
2016-09-08 DBlume shares There's a "sequel" to Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop! It's HYPER-REALITY.
DBlume asks did any of you see the update to
the six year old thread? Is it better to update there, or to make a new plurk at the top of the timeline?
DBlume says I remember that
halophoenix had some really good observations about the first one. (In that six year old thread.) Thoughts on the new one?
Matu
Natalie PERFECT!!!
DBlume says
davidd might recognize the name Gozer. At least I hope so.
♥.(.zannah.).♥ <3 <3 <3
sjonsvenson
DBlume says Which makes me notice that I've been around Plurk for eight years. Wow.
pastilla says
< for the anniversary of TCFF
pastilla says and re: eight years . . . I was thinking the same thing the other day.
sjonsvenson
<3
2016-08-18 Miss Bleh Ordered this shirt from the US for hubby
it is expensive but he will love it
кisмεт Fαiʇн lol this is my kind of shirt
T-Kesserex LOLOLOL i love that shirt
Tillie need
Miss Bleh offworld Designs
Samm Florian
Miss Bleh Ich habe es auf Ebay gefunden mit 36 € Versandkosten. und dazu noch das shirt. da bin ich mit 44 € direktkauf in den USA günstiger
Tillie
Miss Bleh Ich habe direkt bei offworld Designs bestellt
Tillie ah
sjonsvenson replurk this I must
Faeryfox(Beth) A friend just got that shirt yeasterday.
Scea geil
Sister loves that shirt. Was her birthday present last year.
Scea
CaleAlcott TILT
Tillie Depends.
Scea Das geht ja sogar ganz am Anfang und am Ende
Natalie freestyle It's too early for clever shit like this...
CaleAlcott lol
2016-08-03 DBlume has not been this excited for a Windows update in a long, long time! Can't wait for
WSL!
DBlume says Not directly related, but then I'm also going to give Visual Studio Code and Atom a good look and compare them.
DBlume says It's riding in a kaiju-octo!
sjonsvenson
♥.(.zannah.).♥ says is that for real? I'm kind of freaked out by it!
pastilla
♥.(.zannah.).♥ you guys I'm going to have nightmares for weeks.
CaleAlcott lol rude
Scea
DBlume says It works just as well as a double-entendre as not.
DBlume wonders if
davidd has read this one.
♥.(.zannah.).♥ that's terrifying
Scea
DBlume I read that hashtag as "gotta catch the mall".
2016-07-17 DBlume shares
My Pokemon Go crew. Had just strengthened Valor's hold on the local gym. What's your team look like?
Narilka says S7 team: Jolteon (62
, Jolteon (574), Pidgeot (562), Golbat (549), Vaporeon (541)
Narilka says Pure team: Vaporeon (910), Flareon (786), Pidgeot (629), Golbat (558 ), Golbat (537), Jolteon (49
Narilka says I have one more team, but it's Team iOSucks, so I can't actually tell you their stats because it won't connect, and they're about three levels lower anyway.
♥.(.zannah.).♥ says currently...
pastilla says my scores are quite similar to zannah's
Narilka says thank you!!
♥.(.zannah.).♥
DBlume says Let me help: Think banking infrastructure. Cold War era Department of Defense code.
DBlume says Also, the reason the Y2K bug wasn't a big deal was generally because of the widespread use of epoch timestamps.
♥.(.zannah.).♥ I'm not sure if I should click due to my ability to panic.
sjonsvenson On IBM OS400 (system i) IBM solved the milemium problem by changing the reference date, Making it variable.
sjonsvenson I also dount coldwar military programs are going to have a problem with it, a lot of them are older then Unix More at risk are the more modern space programs.
sjonsvenson doubt
2016-07-04 DBlume says Happy Brexit day, fellow USA citizens!
pastilla says . . . sorry it turned out so badly for you . . . /sarcasm
sjonsvenson did I miss something?
DBlume has wanted to!
DBlume says Dont't forget to read the URLs of Sjon's posts. This one says, "I couldn't remember which stick you threw."
DBlume says Football, folks. Or what the Americans call, "Soccer". Or what my peeps call "Sportsball".
pastilla says BEER TIME
sjonsvenson Belgian beer
Scea
DBlume says
2016-06-09 sjonsvenson I suspect
zannah has not bokked a trip to those spider infested forrest of Scotland
anisoptera bet there aren't any mosquitoes there though.
DBlume says Looks like they've got the attention of a dragonfly, though.
♥.(.zannah.).♥ UGH
sjonsvenson that statue reminds me of one
zannahDBlume says Yeah, that turned out well.
2016-05-22 davidd shares Not as cool as
pastilla's centipedes, perhaps, but rating fairly high nonetheless on the You've Got to Be Kidding Me backyard fun scale:
DBlume says I don't know what that is, but it's got the prettiest diamonds on its back.
pastilla says I can't tell if it's dead or alive.
Narilka "Dead or alive, you're coming with me!"
sjonsvenson You are unlikely to have a mouse or rat problem with those pets around
pastilla so well timed
pastilla wonders how you knew I needed a virtual trip today . . . THANK YOU THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL
DBlume
sjonsvenson D-blue-me
Narilka says Congrats on the finish!!
♥.(.zannah.).♥ I love this so much
♥.(.zannah.).♥
Raevyns O.O
pastilla says
Vanlal
Loli
sjonsvenson
pastilla
OMG!
DBlume says thanks to you, I do have a couple of screens running the site at work now.
sjonsvenson
Matu Undeniable! This is the ultimate Truth!!
2016-04-27 DBlume says Happy-making: This weekend, I did something (for fun) that requires some full-stack technical know-how, and the community appreciated it.
DBlume says It's pretty much a custom data visualizer that makes life easier for those interested in such data.
Narilka might appreciate the thing.
Raevyns Ooh. Link?
DBlume says Sadly, proprietary. But I can share one of the JavaScript tips. I link from the visualization to an intra-page location to the source data text file.
DBlume says "But David. There's no such think as an anchor in a text file. So you can't have intra-page links to text files."
DBlume says So what you do is calculate the line-height of the text file, and use JavaScript's window.scroll(lineheight * number_of_lines) to get to the line that sourced the datapoint.
DBlume says You actually link to an html page that uses GET params for text file, and line number, that make a XMLHttpRequest to retrieve the text file, and from there, scroll to the line of interest.
DBlume says Combine that with some fun Python and HTML5, and you end up with a product that visualizes what the Internet of Things is doing in your household. The fun is that you can now dive straight down from the GUI.
DBlume says That is, if you're the type that likes to tinker in the IoT.
DBlume says I already share
my stats page, this would be for something where a graphical visualization makes sense. Wish I could be more specific. BTW,
delicious.com has been borked for days.
Raevyns @.@
DBlume shares
sjonsvenson
Morskittar says This is the correct spelling, no?
2016-04-24 sjonsvenson Life is a game you cannot win
DBlume says Oh, that was sweet. I didn't know where that story would go.
sjonsvenson I did put the wong text in front of it
DBlume says I just now saw that you'd posted this in a previous plurk, and this one was probably the result of the wrong link in the clipboard when you hit paste. I'll move my comment over.
DBlume says Oh, that was sweet. I didn't know where that story would go.
Heena Singla says You are correct matu my pug is my best friend we play, dance, eat and spend lot of time. I love him.
CaleAlcott <.<
ღ Chandni ღ LMAO
sjonsvenson some conversattion style I would expect from
dblumeDBlume says I approve!
Scea
2016-04-15 DBlume says Any of you know how iZombie is full of puns? Anybody amused that Rob Thomas (writer) had Rob Thomas (musician) cameo on this season's finale?
DBlume says Aside, the new Evil Corp introduced in the finale is named, "Fillmore Graves".
DBlume says It's weird to see her rendered to sexily. She's from the 1980's! I keep thinking of Kyousuke thinking to himself, "Dat ass!"
Narilka !!!! <3
DBlume wants to remind everyone to be alert while driving. And don't waste your time with road rage, you don't know what's going on with the other drivers. They could be in a very different "place".
pastilla says stories like that are so scary.
♥.(.zannah.).♥
Narilka says That's horrible! And is that right next to a school or park or something? What is wrong with people.
DBlume says Yes, a park is one of the blocks at that T-intersection. Now that I see what happened, I understand how the suspect ended up rear-ending the concrete wall, when they originally were driving head-on into it.
2016-04-08 DBlume says I had to sign up on SnapChat so my teenage kids would notice me. I'm "hellopraemus" over there.
DBlume says So, that's who hellopraemus is, trying to friend you. Unless I can't find you. Are you on SnapChat?
♥.(.zannah.).♥ hellozannah please friend me I post to Stories all the time
♥.(.zannah.).♥ Wait, this is the only way your children will noticeyou?
pastilla is
that "Hello, Praemus" is still part of your life!!
2016-04-06 DBlume shares
Data USA A pretty nice collaboration between Deloitte, Macro Connections at the MIT Media Lab, and Datawheel that visualizes government data.
DBlume says
narilka, are you still interested in stuff like this?
Narilka says Yes!! Thank you!
2016-03-26 DBlume shares Perfume and Baby Metal are coming to San Francisco! <3
DBlume says It's Perfume's first time here!!
♥.(.zannah.).♥ SO COOL!
♥.(.zannah.).♥ I still have not seen that.
CaleAlcott lol
sjonsvenson I suspec
dblume is involved in some of those
DBlume says those are some dads after my own heart.
2016-03-23 sjonsvenson oh, and keep on the left side ...
TDS SUpport what the!
pastilla says is the northern California? It looks like one of the horrible roads that wound through the Redwoods.)
pastilla says lol. Thought so! “It will be a very long-term closure" says CalTrans. Pastilla thinks: "Not when a couple of the locals get out there with a few old Redwood planks & some rope."
2016-03-16 DBlume asks What is this logo for? Seen at an RxJS talk.
DBlume says I can't tell if it's a stylized italicized "r", or a dot slash.
DBlume says (Like you thought I didn't already to a Google Image search.) It could also be seen inside a hexagon.
sjonsvenson fasmiliar ... but ,,, nope, can't really remember it
pastilla says yeah, it looks like slashdot. With an extra slash.
2016-03-11 DBlume shares I just had to explain to my wife how I'd aged my 8-bit avatar.
DBlume says The "part" is on the correct side now. It was a mirror image before. There's gray on the sides, and less hair on top now.
DBlume The original really is a 16x16 image.
pastilla lol The ears & nose & jowls are next . . .
DBlume says I already see the jowls in that pic, and updating the inferred nose is up to the viewer.
DBlume says There was a challenge to add my reading glasses to that 16x16 image, but nobody could do it.
♥.(.zannah.).♥ I love it so much.
<3
2016-03-07 sjonsvenson wondering if that is one of
davidd 's fuelstation murals ....
tato Ha!
♥.(.zannah.).♥ I LOVE IT! <3 <3 <3
sjonsvenson
DBlume loves those, and is touched by that last one.
pastilla says that was sweet. One of my brothers (the one like Wayne from the Wonder Years) told me tapioca pudding was made with used kleenex.
pastilla says he also told me there were black creatures that lived underneath outhouses (eating all the stuff under there) & I needed to watch out because they had bitten his bum once or twice before.
pastilla says what about you,
sjonsvenson ? Were you deceived in a charming or tyrannical way by a sibling/parent?
Narilka says My sibling told me if I swallowed a watermelon seed, a watermelon would grow in my tummy! On the other hand, she totally helped me believe in Santa a little bit longer, which I appreciate now.
♥.(.zannah.).♥ In my defense, I actually believed in the watermelon seed thing at the time.
pastilla
sjonsvenson Nah, I never got deceived like that.
Loli was an oldest sibling, so i got to make up a lot of lies to tell the younger kids.
Loli My daddid tell us they had kids before butgot rid of them because they were bad, and had pics of 2 little girls with my mom to prove it.
DBlume asks Where in the world did you find her?
2016-02-17 DBlume shares At the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
ninjanuity good 'ol Green River Community College -- been there a lot in the last year for work.
pastilla
pastilla feels the need to write the editor
Raevyns This is the very best thing ever.
halophoenix says Haha thank you! And yeah, that's on my to do list!
sjonsvenson
ninjanuity
2016-02-03 DBlume says My wife just now discovered Tsum Tsums. Any advice for someone who's just getting into it? She's got her eye on the Star Wars ones.
♥.(.zannah.).♥ oh god what do you want to know i can tell you all the things.
Narilka ^^^^^ is your hookup right there
ninjanuity get out now! Eject! Eject!
♥.(.zannah.).♥ I knew he was going to say that.
♥.(.zannah.).♥ Seriously, though. The new monthly collections are limited and come out on the first Tuesday of each month. It's good to know what's coming up and plan, because some of them sell out quickly.
♥.(.zannah.).♥ I think the Star Wars collection will be like the Marvel collection and will be more of a consistent offering, since it's releasing mid-month, but no one has confirmed that yet (that I've seen).
CaleAlcott Oo it survived
DBlume says Mount Doom ain't what it used to be.
sjonsvenson yep, it tasted the ring, didn't like it and spit it oujt again
2016-01-25 DBlume says on the news today here in California, there was a segment on how to use an umbrella. Apparently, we've forgotten.
♥.(.zannah.).♥
sjonsvenson you mean you are nut used to sunscreening with them?
coffee rob not my experience in San Francisco
2016-01-18 sjonsvenson people don't dislike you for what little you give, they dislike you for all you don't give.
pastilla is putting that on the list of reasons people don't like me
anisoptera i started a sql database for that. ran into some serious scalability issues with excel.
DBlume says I like that your database ran into scalability issues with Excel. I like to imagine the database couldn't keep up with your Excel wizardry.
sjonsvenson
sjonsvenson Yep she would fit in well at times
alteregoliz
DBlume says it plays at symmetry without being rigid about it. It's just fascinating.
pastilla
2016-01-11 DBlume shares Namie Amuro singing "Can You Celebrate" 17 years apart.
pastilla says beautiful but she looks so sad;
DBlume says That's the song that she always cries in when she performs it live. It's actually endearing. There's a video where the audience goes nuts whenever she chokes up. Not doubt at the time it was genuine.
2015-12-29 sjonsvenson still strugling with Firefox. It just doesn't want to load anything from the internet (nor from my local disk) ... without showing error or anything ... whatever I do the tab title changes to 'new tab' and the
sjonsvenson address line clears itself.
CaleAlcott weird, never heard of that, im using Firefox for ages and never happened something like this, is maybe a firewall or anti virus programm interferring? Really no clue sorry
pastilla says lthough I am not sure you can do the "Refresh Firefox features" without connecting to the internet or your local disk?
sjonsvenson I'll be checke then out later. I am now back in Opera . The only problem is that some sites (glares at Flickr) only like to run in Firefox or Chrome or IE (or Safari).
pastilla says are you kidding me? It deleted all your bookmarks???
pastilla is so sorry. Did not have that happen myself!!
sjonsvenson all bookmarks gone, all passwords gone, all settings gone ... only the problem that wasn't gone
pastilla WTH? That is crazy.
sjonsvenson Nah, it's a "oh, it says it will save everything. So what can go wrong?" ... kind of Murphy invitation.
sjonsvenson But I know mister Murphy, I did make a backup of my bookmarks first. so now I can use them in Opera and Chrome if I need. while I try to get the Fox back on it's legs
pastilla says I was going to ask if you had a backup; but didn't want to make you feel worse (if you ddn't)
DBlume says This reminds me to make a backup of this sort of data, myself.
sjonsvenson
pastilla , I do the backups at wurk. I see desperate people comming and happy people going often enough to know the value of those things
pastilla says very smart
pastilla says I feel immensey less guilty now for encouraging you to "refresh" . . . THANK YOU.
pastilla immensely, even
deinera says I keep seeing this sentiment but having NO clue what it's related to.
ninjanuity and maybe drink some whiskey.
Morskittar says I'm having a hard time parsing it
roshiredyoshi yeah. not super surprising, but still rough.
Morskittar says It kind of is surprising. I'd think that much whiskey in your body would just kill cancer cells.
Morskittar says But fuck. With Ronnie out, Jeff, now Lemmy... we're running out of living metal legends. And not replacing them in any meaningful way.
ninjanuity yeah, losing RJD and Lemmy is pretty rough. If Bruce goes, I'll lose my shit.
wakko says I'd expect Ozzy to go before Bruce.
ninjanuity turns out, he's been dead for years and is only powered by the half-life of the various narcotics in his system.
Morskittar says Sharon has access to the phylactery though
DBlume says If you're on a computer with a keyboard, go click on it. If you remember War Games, you might be amused.
Vanlal Well, I couldn't get WOPR to start a Thermonuclear War or even a game of chess.
DBlume says Sorry! In real life, these things happen in baby steps. I was amused I could even get the fake CLI working.
pastilla wshes I could have nurtured this hobby with MeiMei.
DBlume says Imagine you couldn't get your kids into Star Wars.
pastilla asks . . . why did we have kids again?
pastilla says . . . oh, yeah, someone said it would be fulfilling.
pastilla says . . .
Narilka says
CaleAlcott lol
Scea
Narilka says yes!!
davidd loves the
dblume and
Narilka tech topics; they're so delightfully arcane!
2015-12-21 alteregoliz
Finished one bathroom door.
M ™ says lol cool
potato boyo Very nice!
un3wl33t Awesome!
DBlume asks does the inside look much bigger now?
alteregoliz If only.
alteregoliz Thanks, guys!
alteregoliz Boatloads of projects like these are why I don't see you all very much these days.
Can't wait till I get my whole house in order.
alteregoliz How are you doing in your place,
pastilla?
pastilla loves this.
pastilla says nothing this wonderful!! The Escher stairs are a work in progress but we have a toilet that works really well now, some blinds that go up & down and a kitchen sink that no longer smells of decayed dog fur.
alteregoliz Progress!
sjonsvenson looks like a whole series of
zannah books
DBlume says I wonder if Kurii would be interested,
pastilla? I realize that Kogepan has nothing to do with Everything Becomes F, but the shirt is still cool.
DBlume says "Remove before washing." "Wear with pants."
pastilla says I shall ask him.
pastilla says and thanks for the care tips as well. Made me think of (repost):
DBlume says Fuckin' Washington, always trying to get away with something.
pastilla says of all the disturbing stories in the news lately, this is right up there at the top. Trippy demonstrating mental health. omaigawd
karma medic says Check out
photo 1 of the calendar!
DBlume says Yay! You spun up!
pastilla says hi to
dblumebuddy !!! Karma Medic reminds you, you remind me, I remind my science-y RL friends on Facebook . . . thank you for making me look good.
pastilla says since this year's calendar starts off with cats staring at a big old phallus , I predict this year's calendar will be the greatest ever . . .
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DBlume says Such amazing forces creating such a cute image. This helps explain it in the thousand most common words:
The space doctor's big idea.
karma medic says Check out
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pastilla
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2015-11-27 DBlume says
davidd's Travels with Karrah: Adventures in the American West has been
amazing.
davidd is happy you enjoyed the little adventure. It was an opportunity/excuse to get out and explore the new surroundings.
davidd Wow! Nakagin Capsule Tower! Amazing... and, from what I just read elsewhere, in a sorry state of decay.
DBlume says Canadians are so lucky!
2015-11-20 sjonsvenson why do I always thing about
dblume when I see thing like this
...
DBlume says Because it was awesome?
sjonsvenson yes, you are
CaleAlcott lol
pastilla
Loli
DBlume says At first, I misread that as "UberX".
pastilla thinks yours are so nicely composed
sjonsvenson I first misread it as "two abandoned places are mine"
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