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David G.@logophage.bsky.social |
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Librarian, puzzler, cat guy, and yes, occasional logophage.
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Kingfisher & Wombat
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Crossbows were very popular among the Finns, used to hunt squirrels. They had blunt headed bolts so as not to damage the pelt. “Squirrel furs were used as currency. We have stopped because it is hard to get them out of the ATM,” she adds, deadpan.
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David G.
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An Ethical Grook I see and I hear and I speak no evil; I carry no malice within my breast; yet quite without wishing a man to the Devil one may be permitted to hope for the best. --Piet Hein
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Peter Sagal
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I honestly believe that a lot of conservative strategizing is based on the correct assumptions that liberals would never be as ruthless as they are.
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David G.
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We're overdue for a Thursday night (er, afternoon) throwback. March 2007, having just signed a lease and about to move in. Teeny cracker-box house, two bedrooms, washer/dryer hookups in the kitchen and no dishwasher. Great for us as a childless couple; we moved before firstborn came along.
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David G.
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I won't deny that they (or other obsolete formats) CAN be read/preserved/reconstructed, nor that those who are doing so are providing invaluable service. I do wonder whether anyone w/o "#retrocomputing" in their user bio would say "plenty" of people...and point out that my MOM can read a paperback.
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David G.
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Diskettes, yes. Diskette drives?
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David G.
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This is the point. Punchcards are also robust and stable, but the means of reading them is largely inaccessible any more.
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David G.
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There is no digital storage format/medium that has held up as well as even the crappiest paperback from the '70s.
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David G.
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My online TTRPG group has inadvertently managed to reschedule our next session for Thursday, starting a half hour before the presidential debate. At first I was disappointed I'd miss it, but it's not like it'll change my vote—and I can get all the postgame analysis and snark from my podcasts anyway.
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David G.
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I'm reminded of the Perry Bible Fellowship strip...
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David G.
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Anyway, I think my Debate Drinking Game rules from four years ago still hold: if the debate is on, take a drink.
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David G.
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Starting to think about next week's debate. Honestly very surprised DJT agreed to the format/rules—no audience, mic muting, etc.—all of which plays against his style. I'm beginning to wonder whether he plans to subvert the whole event, use it for an entirely different effect than the intended one.
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David G.
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Twenty-five-ish years as a librarian and I still get questions that throw me for a loop. No sir, the university library does not issue passports.
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David G.
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They forgot "Battle description is just a chaotic mess of trying not to fall down"
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David G.
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Those are the shoes Decibel Jones wore at the Intergalactic Grand Prix semifinals, and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.
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David G.
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I work in academia, I teach information literacy skills, and apparently I am unable to distinguish between Finland and Iceland. Go me.
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David G.
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Wait, apparently @caseym.org and @scalzi.com are both in Iceland at the same time? What am I missing here.
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David G.
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Update: his teacher gave him 100 points out of 50.
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David G.
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My first time signing up to vote, and I'm floored! Don't even know where to begin with this...textbook definition of choice paralysis.
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David G.
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... kind of wasn't designed for him. He toyed with the idea of choosing someone with ADHD, but decided that was hard to document. Finally settled on his own grandfather, who is maybe not a towering scientific icon--but at least there's no possible question that they share the same heritage. (2/2)
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David G.
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15yo was tasked with creating a presentation about a scientist whose "heritage" he shares--examples given included latinx, african american, female. (I think the idea was to give everyone someone in the sciences they could identify with?) Of course, 15yo is a white male, and so the assignment (1/n)
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David G.
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Thursday night throwback: May 2016, this must have been the start of summer vacation. (Yes, summer vacation starts super early in Georgia; we make up for it by starting school again in August.) visiting my mom and the kids raided her costume jewelry and scarves to play dress-up.
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David G.
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Never has "things may have changed by the time you hear this" been so apropos.
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David G.
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Amused by the custom icon option names in the Citymapper app.
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David G.
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*taps the sign*
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David G.
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Thursday night throwback: my parents on vacation in 2003. Dad passed last November, and tomorrow I’ll be hosting his memorial service.
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David G.
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Congratulations to anyone who bought puts on DJT a month ago, when I told myself it would be a good idea but didn't actually do anything about it because I don't play the stock market.
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David G.
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Thursday night throwback, eclipse week edition: in 2017 we stayed with cousins in South Carolina and, so help me, went to Bob Jones University to view totality. The day before, the kids made their own t-shirts, using fabric paint and a paper plate for a stencil.
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David G.
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I feel like it would be more...effective?...without the tooling saying exactly what it is. Kind of an IYKYK vibe.
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stacy-marie ishmael
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incredibly often the answer to "how can i help people right now" is "give money to hyperlocal organizations who've been doing the most important work with few resources and even less attention for years and years"
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David G.
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Following up on this: mostly just ignoring. You, O account that seems to have unfollowed and re-followed three times in a desperate attempt to get Senpai to notice you, congratulations. I did. You get a block.
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David G.
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Eiffel Tower. For advance sales, they only open about 4 of maybe 30 time slots. But I snagged 9:30 pm, which is just before sunset in June.
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David G.
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Having just bought tickets 60 days in advance that famously sell out in minutes and REQUIRE YOU TO SET YOUR COMPUTER TO PARIS TIME in order to purchase, I feel your pain.
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David G.
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Thursday night throwback: St. Patrick's Day, 2007. We were about to move from an apartment into a house (signed the lease the next day). I prepared the traditional Irish breakfast of green eggs, green grits, bacon, and tea.
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David G.
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Okay, question for the Skyve Mind. I've been getting follows by accts that seem pretty fakey--nothing but reposts, or random quotes from J.S. Mill, Gandhi & Machiavelli, all #hastagged out like #this. So my question is: ignore or block? Report won't do(?); they're fakey but not violating any terms.
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David G.
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The southeast corner KILLED me. Cute conceit though.
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David G.
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damn Tuesdays, publisher drops a new book and I'm all I gotta buy this now nOW NOW I CANNOT WAIT like I don't already got thirty-seven other titles queued up in my TBR pile
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David G.
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I've been digging around in my archived e-mails, and I've come across a number of 15-20 year old slide shows from class sessions I used to teach. It's interesting to see not only how the content would be different today, but how I've leveled up as a designer and presenter.
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David G.
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I have an email from Australia Post notifying me of a package coming my way, originating in Albany, Western Australia. I have absolutely no idea what this might be, and I'm puzzled and intrigued. Right now I'm guessing it's getting loaded on a cargo ship in Melbourne, and I'll see it in a month.
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David G.
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Bought myself a WSFS membership for the first time in all my fifty-some years. I blame Bluesky in general, and @marthawells.bsky.social @scalzi.com @byzantienne.bsky.social @premeemohamed.com @tkingfisher.bsky.social @annleckie.com in particular.
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David G.
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Thursday night throwback: summer 2015, kid#1 at the airport after a visit with my parents. No points for guessing what state my parents live in.
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David G.
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I’ve been champing at the bit to get an electric car for a while. Today I learned (via carboncounter.com) that my hybrid (#2) is actually…not too shabby. We should definitely replace spouse’s car (#1) first.
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David G.
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Thursday night throwback: it was four years ago this week that our part of the world went into COVID lockdown. We optimistically set up all our workspaces (2 professionals, 2 elementary schoolers) around the dining room table. As I recall, this arrangement was scrapped before it was ever used.
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David G.
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I've been in this line of work for going on 30 years now, and only within the past couple days have I given myself permission to unsubscribe my professional email from vendors' mailing lists. (It's not like we have the money to buy anything anyway, even if it were my call to make.)
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David G.
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My quirk is that when there's a book I *know* I'm gonna buy/have already pre-ordered, I try to avoid previews entirely so as to go into the full experience relatively unspoiled. I loved Andoh in the Ancillary audiobook series though!
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David G.
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Thursday night throwback, Pi Day edition: one silver lining to the 2020 pandemic lockdown was that the house we were renting had a huge back lot, absolutely overgrown with blackberries. Whenever we needed to get out, we’d grab a bucket and go pick as much as we wanted. Then we made pie.
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David G.
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I should hope not!
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David G.
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Sometimes, just for funsies, I'll type two semi-random letters into my search bar just to sample my search history. Today I got one of the more interesting juxtapositions in recent memory.
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David G.
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The Murderbot Diaries (@marthawells@bsky.social) is one of those rare series where I haven't built up at least some mental imagery of what the characters look like. I actually have more vivid images of ART's interior than of the characters. But I have no quibbles about any of this casting.
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David G.
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I am aware that this means I am deadnaming cats. I try not to think about it too much.
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