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2024-10-29

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hackers.town: 2024-10-29 Tue 07:12

Up almost 45 minutes before noticing that the shirt I chose to wear still had the tag from purchase.

Doing better than yesterday.

hackers.town: 2024-10-29 Tue 08:30

misread a “ready to deploy production” as “ready to destroy production” and I’m all “yes finally wait awww”

hackers.town: 2024-10-29 Tue 09:14

forgive me for i have sinned

it has been (mumble mumble) since my last confession

i am kinda interested in the new mac mini

hackers.town: 2024-10-29 Tue 09:27

I trained myself out of fiddling around too much with Apple hardware, so a stable useful little box that I can install services on and know I won’t destroy? Very interesting to me.

(Pi? Small-form PC? I will habitually reinstall Linux on it every month and / or unplug it to relocate get stuck pondering the perfect placement and forget about it in six weeks)

hackers.town: 2024-10-29 Tue 13:19

Kitty Jack threw up today lots of times. Lost track somewhere around seven or eight. He’s also uninterested in food or water.

Could be relatively minor, but I was worried enough that @IamMrsGeek called nearby vet and got us a same-day appointment.

hackers.town: 2024-10-29 Tue 13:48

“Chubon said she decided to shut down the form because … it became too time-consuming to sort through them to weed out duplicate requests”

Hang on this is 1999-era Web dev stuff. Are they using Google Forms to a spreadsheet or something?

1000s of Pima County voters told early-ballot requests denied after Recorder shuts vote-by-mail form

via @TucsonSentinel

hackers.town: 2024-10-29 Tue 14:51

She: You don’t know how to drive a stick shift?

Me: No! By the time I learned how to drive they were obsolete!

She: blasphemy

hackers.town: 2024-10-29 Tue 16:01

Vet provided fluids, anti-nausea meds, and a promise to check back in a couple of days. And then for the cat, they suggest –

anyways doing little steps per current budget but fluids and the medication seems to have brightened Jack up a bit.

@IamMrsGeek

hackers.town: 2024-10-29 Tue 17:01

Brain got used a lot today. Not for what I planned on using it for, but I must allow for recharge anyways.

hackers.town: 2024-10-29 Tue 17:20

Them: “It’s – different.”

Me: “That’s a printable word for it.”

No context, provided to you as an additional option for calling out excessively softened verbiage.

hackers.town: 2024-10-29 Tue 17:23

course any time I think about “printable” words, brain immediately launches two separate tangents: Unicode character sets (“can I print this word?”) and Linux printer drivers (“can I print this word?”)

hackers.town: 2024-10-29 Tue 17:33

Canvasser (AFL-CIO, on behalf of Democrat party): “I’m here to –”

Me: “Already voted, by mail, for Harris.”

Canvasser: “Oh. Nice? Can I ask why you voted for Harris in this election?”

Me: “Basically, I like the idea of continuing to have elections.”

Canvasser: “yeah me too”

hackers.town: 2024-10-29 Tue 23:51

Fun with symmetry tools in Infinite Painter for a Halloween-ish bedtime #drawing

Kalaidoscopic line drawing colored with orange, yellow, and brown tones, and white highlights throughout