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   David Penfold :verified: (davep@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jul-2026 13:19:45 JST David Penfold :verified:

   I used to work at the zoo and one time a gorilla died of old age.

   The problem was it was the only gorilla in the zoo because the zoo wasn't very profitable. The gorilla was by far the most popular attraction and they couldn't afford to go a single day without it being there.

   So the zoo owner came up to me and said, “listen, for an extra hundred bucks, do you want to just put on this gorilla costume until we can afford a new gorilla?”

   “Of course,” I said, “go on then.”

   Pretty quickly, I became the biggest hit in the zoo. Everyone wanted to see this human-like gorilla. After about a month, the craze started to die down, but they kept pressuring me to get people's attention again. So in a desperate attempt, I climbed over to where the lions were and started hanging off the net. Suddenly a massive crowd gathered and everyone looked terrified. I could feel my grip slipping, I couldn't hold any longer. I started screaming, “help, help.” Then I fell.

   The lion rushed towards me and just as I thought it was over, he leaned over and whispered, “shut the fuck up before we both get fired.”

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   Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@mastodon.futurist.info)'s status on Monday, 15-Jun-2026 18:37:18 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

   "You can't move a clock faster than it goes!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

   One of the funniest and more unusual aspects of working with your wife in a home office for more than 30 years is that you still schedule work meetings.

   For real!

   Today, we have a meeting to take a look at her latest edits on my book Being Unique.

   She's put a tremendous amount of effort into working with it, finding its flaws, discovering pathways, and knowing what to do to kick it into shape. This is book **#44** and she sure as heck knows what she is doing at this point - she's worked on all of them!

   Today is the day she'll walk me through the latest result of those efforts, and this particular book will be one stop closer to the finish line. Her skills in this type of thing are pretty deep - I've often referred to her as the 5th Beatle when it comes to the 34 books I wrote and co-wrote in the 90s about the Internet, digital technology and e-commerce.

   And with this process, I've been waiting patiently for her to finish her work.

   And I've been patient....

   I began the book sometime in 2023 - I don't remember the specific date. I went at the topic quickly, coming up with the barebones of the structure and idea. That came from the subtitle - "Turning Curiosity, Creativity and Courage into Your Competitive Advantage." Later on, I wrote a series of blog posts as a way to kick start my writing into gear. Eventually, I handed her a manuscript - and waited.

   You see, she might be my business partner, but she's also a wife, a mother, and now, a Nana! She's been very busy on the Board of a charity we have been active with for a decade (and on the side, has effectively been their bookkeep/accountant, head of IT and many other things); she has my business to run; she volunteers at a local food bank operation and does so much more.

   And so while book might be a priority, it is but one thing to fit into a very busy life.

   And with that, I've had to learn patience.

   This is a difficult for a very impatient guy whose entire motto is built around the word 'fast.'

   Her reaction to the first draft of the book was .... not great. And looking back, it was in pretty poor shape. But the idea was there.

   So I went back and took another kick at it, giving it a thorough rewrite, some more research, additional stories to fit into the theme....

   And then it went back to her....

   ....and came back to me....

   ... and so on.

   ...for quite some time.

   Which is why today's meeting is important. The book is not coming back to me, but in fact, is fully formatted and almost ready for print!

   And through this process - which has pretty much been the reality of our lies for 30+ years - I have been slowly and carefully learning the art of patience.

   Because you can't move a clock faster than it goes.

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   Futurist Jim Carroll is really proud of this latest book, and will soon make pre-orders available.

   Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/06/daily-inspiration-you-cant-move-a-clock-faster-than-it-goes/

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   Artemis (artemis@dice.camp)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Feb-2026 02:25:47 JST Artemis

   I used to go first at the potluck at church, because I observed that until someone started down the line, everyone would just stand there & wait. Everyone seemed to be under the impression that they "shouldn't" be the first person to grab food. So they would stand there.

   So I would grab a plate & dig in & the line would form behind me. I joked around & called it a public service.

   But that memory just came back to me as I was reading about religious conservatives who are "follower" types.

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   Karl Auerbach (karlauerbach@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jan-2026 04:03:32 JST Karl Auerbach

   The article below reminds me of a play that I crewed on:

   In the play the Earth is taken over by space aliens who eat people. Earth people don't like this. The aliens try to fix things by hiring a PR firm to improve their public image. But the PR firm turns out to be a front for Earth-people resistance. And it went from there.

   So here we have a couple of brothers - who have so much hubris that they are effectively space aliens in relation to the rest of us - who do bad things and then hire a PR firm to try to improve their image (and influence the jury in their criminal trial.)

   "Brothers Charged With Sex Trafficking Wage Campaign to Shame Accusers"

   https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/nyregion/alexander-brothers-public-relations-campaign.html

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   Benjamin Pinchon (mydoomfr@mamot.fr)'s status on Monday, 24-Nov-2025 04:44:32 JST Benjamin Pinchon

   in reply to

   I tried to fix it by adding a 5G router for failover. That helped a lot, but the occasional drops still happen, and the resync cost is still there.

   So for now, I’ve decided to keep all Longhorn replicas inside my homelab and just let the edge nodes consume the data over the network from home, instead of maintaining full remote replicas.

   I’ll stick with that approach… at least until I come up with a better solution.

   @homelab #homelab #kubernetes

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   rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually (rk@mastodon.well.com)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Oct-2025 14:02:44 JST rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually

   According to the US National Library of Medicine, approximately 65% of the adult human population is lactose intolerant, and in east Asia that number goes up to 70-100%.

   But I’ve eaten a whole lot of ice cream and cheese and such in Japan and there seems to be no shortage of ice cream parlors in Tokyo and all sorts of cheese and milk-based confections there.

   So, I am forced to conclude that I either do not understand lactose intolerance or that a lot of Japanese folks are masochists.

   #milk