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Old Grey Troll
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Nik Hughes. Retired computer developer. Volunteer Ranger. Volunteer Naturalist.
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Old Grey Troll
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One does not simply walk into Mordor.
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I have a browser window open with the description of the Auto-da-fé. Project 2025 wants to bring back the Spanish Inquisition. Be afraid. Very afraid.
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Old Grey Troll
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Liz woke up and chose violets.
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Seriously this is not how hexadecimal works. Although it feels like it. These glyphs are way cooler than the "A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F" we currently use. How do you pronounce them?
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Old Grey Troll
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Ladies, Gentlemen, Both, and Neither
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I now have a video memory of an RCA plug for a 70's microphone unplugging. With a pop from the speakers. The feel of click as it disengages. And the smell of recording tape. Amazing what one word can do. Enjoy the break!
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I had one stop by the Nature Center last weekend. Sweet dog. Seemed interested in all the displays. Had a good conversation. I vaguely remember there were two women with the dog.
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Ahhhh! The Law of Home Projects encroaches on computers. "Any home project will require three trips to the hardware store before it can be completed."
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Insurance is becoming the go-to method of enforcement for unpopular restrictions. Car insurance to reduce driver recklessness. Insurance companies moving out of Florida because of global warming. Suggestions to force police to carry insurance to cover bad behavior.
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Calls to mind the old Thieves World series of shared universe short stories. They started out with explicit rules that you could have other authors' characters in you stories, but you couldn't inflict life altering changes to them.
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Back when Object-Oriented Programming was just coming into vogue we were taught that you interacted with the objects by sending them messages. Design of this was important. Assume a Cow object which provides a Milk object. A possible message was Milk.UnCow_Yourself. So Untap is fine.
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Drive around the area of the 13 British colonies and marvel at the number of variants of "Gunpowder Mill Road" there are. (Or Google Maps...) Evidence that the people were really big into homemade explosions.
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russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2024/07/03/j...
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"Surely the leopards won't eat MY face!"
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Time to write a historical retrospective on how the court building cafeteria coffee and food has changed over 35 years. Extra credit for "When I was young, the coffee..."
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I wouldn't worry about. Go ahead with the new name. It isn't like cats actually listen to us anyway....
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Well, obviously Bred Zeppelin. Maybe Emerson, Lake and Cruller.
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I want one to come to me!
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Too bad the parrot fish gender changes doesn't show up on camera well. It would be a nice addition to the story.
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The rhyme I learned as a kid: When in panic, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout!
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Old Grey Troll
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Also: Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.
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HA! I know exactly where my copy is! Now all I have to do is figure out where the DVD player is....
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Old Grey Troll
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When your best friend is going to 1-up you because his flies.
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Wahl shoot! Teach a programmer about "depth-first searches" and all of a sudden they base their whole life on it. Come on! Give "breadth-first searches" a chance.
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Barry White Whale
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I first read that as "Old and Strangle". Which seemed reasonable. Is Septuagenarian Murder Mysteries a thing?
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From the article: More than 60% of those surveyed said they posted fake jobs “to make employees believe their workload would be alleviated by new workers.” Sixty-two percent of companies said another reason for the shady practice is to “have employees feel replaceable.”
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Welcome to the hobby of "Rabbit Holing".
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And my vet tech asks me if I'd like to get her claws trimmed.
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I just got a call from my in-laws asking me to explain offsides and reviews thereof. I seem to have been clear as they avowed understanding.
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Sadly, I am really bad at relationships. So I never learned the other rules. I do however try to treat my computers and machines as friends. And animals as I do machines. And people as I do animals. Machines and animals live me.
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Rule#1 of Relationships: If one eats garlic, both eat garlic. Corollary: Expand universe of edibles as necessary…
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Little known fact: pigeons act as scouts for vultures.
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Many, many years ago my dad took a kids suction cup feeding tray toy and stuck it to his forehead to entertain my baby sister. Sister was entertained by the bouncy toy. Mom was entertained by the big bruise. Things never change.
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And don't even get me started on gruff goats blowing past a toll bridge without paying. AND THEN killing the poor toll booth attendant. Tolls pay to keep bridges in good shape!
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Two things that help me a lot. Put things in your phone’s calendar. Link to your partner’s calendar so you can see what they have planned. Enable popup calendar reminders. Carry a pocket-sized journal/notebook. The half-filled checkbox means started but not done. E.g., ordered but not received.
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A Bad Uncle trick, for sure!
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So 324 blocks, each with at least one cat. Are you limiting yourself to genus felis? Or can we expect entries from genus pantherinae?
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Pro Tip: Get everybody on your hike their own copy of the iNaturalist Seek app. EVERYBODY will now be stopping with you to see the mushroom.
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Raise the minimum wage for everyone else and we'll consider it.
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Tell a story. With a cool picture is better. Animal pictures go over well. The story will appeal to some people, but in no way all people. Not to worry. Read a story. If you like it, read more from the same person. If you still like it, Follow them. If you don't like, Mute or Block them. Repeat
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When you say "horrible" are you thinking figures with ink blots? Misaligned body parts? Clashing colors? Characters asking to see the manager? Characters threatening voting rights? Characters kicking cats? All of the above? I'm not sure that you've really limited your universe of subjects.
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My experience is limited as a tourist diver. This is the only forest model I’ve seen. I’ve also seen a couple of plant the little coral bits in a garden structure. I’ve also seen an electrified wire used to collect and encourage coral to grow sculptures.
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No. I remember it as the target looking pattern. But that may be a memory overlay.
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Breezing right past the relationship stuff… I’m with the husband on this. When my wif abandons me I can eat all the things she refuses to even try. So meat loaf and green beans. Tonight was homemade split pea soup. Absence rounds out the diet.
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I remember waking up to watch the test pattern until Felix the Cat came on.
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You are never too old to learn. You are never too young to teach.
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Which sounds an awful lot like a recipe for chronic traumatic stress, nicht war?
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