I was impressed by how many categories I made about cheese.

7 days off a month, as in, accruing 7 days each month that you can take off later (in a bigger chunk, for example)? Or like, 3 weeks on, ~1.3 weeks off, repeat…?

If we were talking about soluble rocks, we also probably wouldn’t be talking about a product recall.

This isn’t entirely a novel idea. This has been an academic goal for computing for decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_computing#History

The term grid computing originated in the early 1990s as a metaphor for making computer power as easy to access as an electric power grid. The power grid metaphor for accessible computing quickly became canonical when Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman published their seminal work, “The Grid: Blueprint for a new computing infrastructure” (1999). This was preceded by decades by the metaphor of utility computing (1961): computing as a public utility, analogous to the phone system.

It sounds to me like he’s just envisioning his product being a special case of that concept.

It seemed every cat I ever picked up was cool with cradling. Then for years it seemed like not one cat would put up with it. Now I have one who is more tolerant of scoop/cradle than of any other method. It just seemed weird that it kind of went different ways in phases for me. I thought it would be more random.

Was Last Action Hero good? I never saw it, but the soundtrack is loaded with 90s music.

Hmm, I don’t see how semicolons work in this sentence.

Marking up the sentence with extras to help visualize:

Buffalo-buffalo (who) Buffalo-buffalo (do) buffalo (in return also) buffalo (the other) Buffalo-buffalo.

A sentence of similar structure, subbing components for others of the same language parts…

• Buffalo buffalo → other nouns qualified by adjectives
  • Foreign cars
  • Austin techbros
  • big money
• buffalo (verb) → other verbs
  • covet
  • cost

… would be:

Foreign cars Austin techbros covet cost big money.

(edit: I couldn’t quickly think of a location adjective for the last noun, which would have stuck to the pattern more closely, but “big” is still the same role, an adjective.)

Ok, but it’s also actually incorrect to call a plain cheese pizza “margherita”. And I learned that while in Italy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_Margherita

Have you thought about installing a giant blur filter in front of your property so it matches the image? Or maybe a good artist can give it a faux blur with some paint and other effects?

Not every. Many have continuously existed long before the US. When establishing the US, you’ve got those major themes of separation of church and state and no taxation without representation. It naturally intersects that these actual religious organizations shouldn’t pay taxes if we don’t want the government getting into their business and vice versa. And there are plenty of those.

The tax loophole ones, on the other hand, that end up as memes–the ones with flying Santa and Super Mega Jesus™ with web 3.0 NFTs to fund the Salvation Aviation™–yeah, those are similarly ridiculed and rebuked by the real religious people. It’s not just atheists that call b.s. on those “churches”, it’s also churches.

A friend once pointed out you can replace the words of any country song with “dingle dangle doo” and it works just as well as the original. It’s how I cope when Achy Breaky is inflicted.

Here are my new words.

Ding dangle doo
A-dingle dangle doo
A-inky dinky dingle dangle doo

An’ if ya dangle doo
My dingle dangle doo
A ding dang dingle dangle doo

WOOOOOOooooOOOO

Making valuable things in a professional setting is resume material for climbing to the position you want. If you have some mobility to seek other jobs (at the same or a different company), be sure you’re looking for a role in a team where you can contribute with what you know while learning things from the others.

You gotta wam me before you make me laugh.

Wasn’t meant that way. Meant it like, everyone slowly realizes how great the joke is, applause builds…

slow clap

Google Wave tried to replace email with a come-and-go / bulletin board / long-form chat kind of thing. I’d still like that for occasional things, like organizing holiday get-togethers with the family, but that has been the only time I think about using something like that.

For most personal communication that isn’t biz-to-biz, it’s chat nowadays. And the rooms/teams/channels concept (like IRC) is the main medium for what I used to want Waves to be. At least on Teams, it still supports more than just a “tweet”, and people can come and go on those threads, and depending on the service, you can pin messages, associate a wiki for persistent content, etc.

But all those still require people to be on that particular chat service.

Perhaps that’s the end result for personal and group communication. The format feels pretty right for the job, to me. I just hope it eventually morphs into a federated system like email and Lemmy, as I just don’t imagine everyone agreeing to sign up for yet another chat service every time someone else wants to start a group chat. Then instead of “did you add so-and-so to the group chat”, we’d just pivot the problem to “oh, we were discussing this on the Slack group, but on the Teams group someone else said blah blah…”. Same problem–fragmentation.

I don’t have all week.

I’m amazed that so many people have thought about all this with a term for something I’ve wondered about, and yet I still think this is the wisest branch of the comments.

I’ve been more careful in the shower lately, especially since ours is all stone tile. It’s got good traction, but I keep wondering what happens when people fall in showers–whether it’s usually a traction thing, or whether it’s significantly an orientation thing (due to temperature change, scalp massaging , head angle, etc. affecting blood pressure and equilibrium…).

Every time I saw a roadway accident in bad weather, I thought of it like something that wasn’t going to happen to me, until I had my own moment and realized my traction on fresh rainfall wasn’t what I thought it was.

Showers seem like the next “oh, that can happen to me” thing.

Ah goddammit, yeah, this is the right prediction. Shit.