Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@social.cleverlibre.org

August 7th:
Feast day of Dometius of Persia and Donatus of Arezzo; in deference to vulgar practice now merged and observed as the feast of Dominos of Pizza. To those still groaning under the yoke of bitter servitude: if you're not delivered in 30 minutes, you're free.

@cherold Fair enough, but honestly I see "Caught Up In You" as a 70s tune that got off to a late start. (Didn't eat right or something. I blame its mother.) Very much in the 70s Americana roots--rock tradition and that's who'd connect with it. (Bob Seger ditto)

@cherold (the age range is an idiosyncratic choice of my own, of course. 15 is about the earliest age with which I feel much connection to the popular music of the time, and 35 is about the point when I largely stopped feeling much one. Your mileage may vary. Not all stocks go up: some go down. Ask your doctor if highly subjective pop culture generalizations are right for you.)

@cherold We've both deleted our but I think you're missing a term in your algebraic expression. Let's try it as a story problem:

"Ed really likes a song that came out in 1982. What year was Ed born?"

Aa you see, unresolvable. I associate that particular song with people who'd have been somewhere between 15 and 35 or so in 1982, most of whose birthdates fall well inside the baby-boom period of 1946-64

In case you didn't know and were wondering, that latin text on your diploma simply authorizes you to speak with specious confidence about things entirely outside your area of study that you don't know anything about.

@pzriddle @JohnShirley2023 @vvandinsky

Not many people realize that Gardener's Monthly was taking SF submissions in those days.

@pzriddle @JohnShirley2023 @vvandinsky

I think it concludes with him realizing that the bright blue manda grass suggests inadequate nutrients in the soil, and him donning his space overalls and digging in a soil amendment.

@MishaVanMollusq @JohnShirley2023 @vvandinsky

Which parts of him weren't in Tangier?

I'm sorry I'm a miserable bastard

@daviddlevine @JohnShirley2023 @vvandinsky

Here's one from 2006, and he references a printed work from 2002.

https://scottwesterfeld.com/blog/2006/01/writing-advice-3/

@daviddlevine @JohnShirley2023 @vvandinsky

I have occasionally wondered if Google's name wasn't inspired by it. They have their own story about the origin of the name, but there's a lot of retronyming going on in the interwebs. Debian and PHP are a couple of examples of institutions that tell a revisionist story about where their name came from.

@MishaVanMollusq @JohnShirley2023 @vvandinsky

Forgive my silliness. I'm interested in listening to it.

@MishaVanMollusq @JohnShirley2023 @vvandinsky

Yeah I admit the vast smorgasbord of the unrestricted multiverse has made me spoiled and lazy

@MishaVanMollusq @JohnShirley2023 @vvandinsky

If I trigger the quantum uncertainty neuron in my forebrain can I innately comprehend it in its entirety by a full universe-comprehension inference?

@MishaVanMollusq @JohnShirley2023 @vvandinsky

That is genuinely new to me. It looks intriguing. Where do stream/download/incant by moonlight it from?

@mjausson @ct_bergstrom @joplinapp

My rule of thumb: If PHP and MySQL are involved the authors are either under 12 or over 90 and you're in for a rough ride.

@mjausson @ct_bergstrom @joplinapp

I wish I could find a straightforward #selfhost alternative that didn't require 30 wodges of #Docker #bloatware and more free time than it takes to earn a doctorate from Carnegie-Mellon.

I'm using #TiddlyWiki with #WebDAV, plus the venerable old #Webnote for lightweight things, and I'm probably going to have to settle for that because I agreed to cook dinner at least four nights a week.

@ukrinform Sending everyone off to die will do that.

@anna_lillith Much as I love the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts of Europe, the fact that every other restaurant is serving a sapient being is very hard to take. I do a lot of cooking at home when I'm in Spain.

@MishaVanMollusq @JohnShirley2023 @vvandinsky

I downloaded a set of Nero Wolfe radio dramas from the 1940s and was listening to them on a tablet I keep by the bedside for that purpose. I was pretty delighted at the end of the first one as they read out the credits, to hear that it was written by Alfred Bester. Later I listened to the last bit of each of them; that was the only one, unfortunately.