Notices by Dr. Drang (drdrang@fosstodon.org), page 2

The time estimate was 14 hours about 10 seconds ago, so I assume the estimate will continue to drop rapidly. Still.

I’m so old I can remember watching NFL games and not seeing a closeup of a coach after every goddamned play. Those were the days…

Prairie plants in the Morton Arboretum. Goldenrod and two asters.

The WSJ editorial board makes it sound as if Harris used some sort of dirty trick to derail Trump and get him to tell stupid and obvious lies. Yes, they blame him for falling into her trap, but they seem to think it’s underhanded to study a problem carefully and solve it.

By the way, those of you who were joking yesterday about Grade 6 titanium need to stretch your imaginations. Try Grade 37.

Pssst. Don’t tell anyone, but Grade 5 is pretty much garden variety titanium.

I’ve said this before: Ethel Kennedy is still alive and doesn’t deserve any of this.

@ismh86 @matt I’ve found that marking them as spam doesn’t always block the inevitable followup emails. Hence this AppleScript for automating the creation of a Mail Rule to block the persistent bastards. Of course, it only works if you use Apple Mail.
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2021/06/hey-i-sped-up-apple-mail-rules/

Surely Siracusa or Gruber or somebody has talked about the 40-year history of “for the rest of us,” and I just haven’t gotten to it yet. More sacred, in my opinion, than “one more thing.”

For two days in a row, the Chicago Tribune has had stories with this language “explaining” campus protests. It makes it sound as if October 7 itself led to antisemitism.

I haven’t seen a GIF of Ternus winking yet. Am I behind?

Just read that a small Chicago restaurant group has been bought out of bankruptcy by an “Austin-based restaurant fintech startup.” This collection of words is, I believe, one of the signs of the Apocalypse.

The upper echelon reporters who are attending the Trump trial have all agreed on one thing: the courtroom is shabby and uncomfortable. They apparently have not spent much time in county courthouses, the interiors of which seldom project the majesty of the law. In my experience, dinged-up furniture, worn flooring, and cranky HVAC systems are common.

Never seen that cellular strength indicator before. AT&T is having a moment.

Four years ago, my wife was diagnosed with stage IV endometrial cancer. Today, after many treatments—some quite helpful for a while, others that just did nothing for her—she passed away. She was the bravest and best person I knew, and I don’t understand how she could possibly be gone.

You may have seen links to this story about Y2K in your timeline. It reminds me that there are people who think the dangers of acid rain and chlorofluorocarbons were overblown because mitigation was largely successful.

https://time.com/5752129/y2k-bug-history/

Colorado Supreme Court hauls out the rarely used “it means what it says” doctrine. It’s almost like they aren’t lawyers.

I’m sorry, but you can’t just redefine “failure.” The recent SpaceX test flight had many successful aspects, but it also had several failures. SpaceX may be happy that it learned a lot from this test, and it’s one of SpaceX’s best traits that it learns from its failures. But just because it didn’t destroy its launch pad this time doesn’t erase the fact that it did so the last time. Just as a Derek Jeter home run doesn’t erase a previous strikeout from the record books. https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/11/heres-why-this-weekends-starship-launch-was-actually-a-huge-success/