Notices by petabites (houstondog@mastodon.world)

@CStamp @persagen

Fire Departments stopped responding to calls to rescue cats around 1975 ... when they realized nobody ever saw a skeleton up in a tree for at least a century 🤷

@carlmalamud

Harris County (4.5M residents) in Texas, is allowing the sale of fireworks this month for that holiday.

* Currently under a burn ban here 😬

@GossiTheDog

Intel made their offer a full 2 days before that McAfee incident. 😳

There is a full dive article being released later today from the author of the original article, going into the details of that.

Party of the first part, like it's 1999.

#InsuranceASloganOrPoem
#HashTagGames

Festivus Festus

#BankHolidayAFictionalCharacter
#HashTagGames

@mattblaze

I think that such "internal levers" are quite underrated.

There is a #MathGrenade auction on Ebay right now (in its final day, up to $550 currently) of a 1964 CURTA hand crank mechanical calculator

__www.ebay.com/itm/226066922742

* complete with metal case for this #PepperGrinder design, from a WWII Concentration camp (Buchenwald) survivor

@youronlyone

Good to know which is free, there.

(still ... text message 2FA is the one that many of us push hard for family to use, since it's a big improvement for their PW usage methods)

* their one unchanged, shared password they keep using even after breaches at T-Mobile, Comcast -- and Yahoo 10 years ago 😬

@youronlyone

one of the two levels of the Xitter paid #BlueCheck gets you 2FA as well 🙄

@jwhevans

my IOS mail client is now back-dating 6pm to midnight mail, after its last update. Everything after sundown timestamped yesterday 🙄

#Spark #GMT

@jwhevans

16:8 means eat while you are awake; do not eat while sleeping?

<serious question>

@gramesy
@jwhevans

there was a great 40 yard dash anecdote about Chicago Bears head coach Abe Gibron, from the Dick Butkis and Gale Sayers era.

the dude was *wide* at the very least, and in earlier years when the team cut rookies during tryouts there was an option to first go head-to-head with former guard Abe (which ended poorly for them)