Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

@freemo Nope!

Steve is still alive?!

From the engraving, you'd think this is a combination Viagra / Ambien.

Care to hazard a guess what it's actually for?

#pills

We've reached the strange time where someone flying a huge American flag on their truck is likely to support violently overthrowing the democratically-elected American government.

OMG, are they parading #Pelosi around to prepare her for a Presidential run?! She's 82 years old!

#uspol

I can't believe we got all the way through the 80s without a slasher movie called Jazzercide.

(A quick eugooglizing shows that several other people have arrived at this #pun but used it for other purposes.)

#horror #80s

@alexandra Writing a Scheme interpreter in Scheme is a gentle start.

If it hasn't happened already, someone is going to try to "solve" the academic publishing problem by putting papers on the blockchain.

#facepalm

@bovaz @FediFollows @godotengine I'm not seeing any models here -- at most textures and materials (plus a lot of programmatic tools).

As someone who can program but not really do art, Godot doesn't seem to be an option.

You know when you find out a company you buy from is doing something horrible?

Refreshingly, Synty (who makes art assets for #videogames) has a pleasant surprise in their EULA:

END USER will be prohibited from using the asset license for the following products:
* Creation of Non-Fungible-Tokens (NFT) and/or use in Blockchain based projects or products.
* Creation of content for Metaverse-related and/or game creation software and products.

#unity #unity3d #unreal #gamedev

@rythur That was shorthand -- it's really a computer lab classroom we're using for summer research, but the effect is the same. Faculty (here) do have real offices with doors.

@FediFollows @godotengine If only Synty assets were available for Godot.

Trying to hold a hybrid (in-person/Zoom) meeting while in an open-plan office where there are other conversations going on.

No, we tried headsets. The microphones pick up other people talking 10 feet away, so there's a hideous echo.

Once again caught by the unsearchability of Mastodon. I saw a toot about a week ago that just came up in conversation, but now I have no way to find it again.

#uxFail

@nasa_bot Cosmosplay

Started teaching my almost-8-year-old twin nieces to spin practice fireknives.

Our last 2000 piece jigsaw puzzle had two extra pieces.

This one was missing a piece.

Based on this sample (n = 2), the average puzzle has 0.5 extra pieces.

Plugging it into an online calculator, I get a 95% confidence interval of 1997.560 – 2003.440.