Notices by Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 (shayman@cosocial.ca)

@stevegis_ssg @mattl I forgot this detail until just now for some reason - but in the aftermath of the steve@next.com thing, we used to have a "steves@next.com" alias that went to everybody named Steve.

everybody except one person, of course

@mattl This is crazy, it's been translated into Japanese now. https://gigazine.net/news/20250509-message-from-steve-jobs/

Well, my little "I was 'steve@next.com' story escalated quickly. 105,000 views so far.

Thank you to @mattl for the Hacker News bump.

And thank you to I'm-not-sure-exactly for retelling the story in Japanese on GigaZine. https://gigazine.net/news/20250509-message-from-steve-jobs/

More here - https://blog.hayman.net/2025/05/09/well-that-escalated-quickly-on.html

on monday I thought, i should try putting some analytics on blog.hayman.net. I wonder if it gets more than a dozen hits a day.

tuesday: 85 hits
wednesday: 350 hits
today: 24,108 hits (so far)

(Someone posted a link to my steve@next.com story on hacker news, it turns out.)

@evan Also the writer - and portrayer of Ned Schneebly - in "School of Rock", one of my favourites

Bold ad from our local Ford dealer: "Trade in your Tesla ... drive away in an EV you'll be proud to own."

here at the hipster hotel, a quiz: What room numbers are indicated by this sign? (3-D digits, poorly illuminated with shadows from an overhead light, but I bet the designer assumed they'd win an award.)

@evan Very sorry to hear this but I'm glad you're being well-cared-for.

@evan Moonshadow - Cat Stevens, or my preference, Mandy Moore's cover.

also 15 years ago today, a career highlight: I had to temporarily suspend a seminar on Applescript programming because a herd of Reindeer was strolling past the conference room window.

Hello Mastodonians from the 110th Grey Cup! #CFL

The final tally:
Chocolate bars: 28
Potatoes: 13

That was lots of fun. (Especially for the parents on the sidewalk shouting "Potato!" when they heard me describe the options, and the two teenage girls who said "Oooh, now we can make poutine!" - and it would have been closer if one young lad had not been forced by his mom to put back the two potatoes he chose.)