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@kaia

These are high on my list of things I’d like to try. Last time I had the opportunity I was a vegetarian.

OH NO CARMEN SANDIEGO HAS STOLEN the least significant bit of every sixth and twelfth frame for signaling

#telecoms #deepCut

My nephew (who is 19) really likes to investigate and dig into various topics. He’ll regularly text me things like “how much do you know about the Ebionites in early Christianity?” or “have you heard of a book called Slaughterhouse Five?”

Anyway he just texted me this (well, last night, but I just saw it):

#BeOS #haiku

10yo: Do you think technology will ever get so good we could 3D print humans?

Wife: We already can, I’ve done it twice.

10yo: Mom, gross!

@GottaLaff

Remember, all you NRA types, this could be the tyranny you’ve been waiting for.

The word “liturgy” derives from the Ancient Greek “leitourgia” meaning “public service.” In Athens and the areas under its control, liturgy was the duty of the richest citizens to fully fund the state at their own expense.

The logic was that the wealthy enjoyed their wealth due to the protection of the state and the stability it provided.

#Japanese

A friend of mine knows the owners of this chocolate shop in Iowa and orders cookies from them once or twice a month and brings them to game night and they’re dogdamn incredible.

https://themarionchocolateshop.com/

#cookies #food #gameNight

The documentation for this device keeps specifying things in “Hertz per second” and it’s making my brain itch.

@jjdavis @Daojoan

“Do you want the people who run the DMV running your healthcare?!?”

I mean, last time I went to the DMV, I filled out a form, sat for a minute, got my picture taken, and left. Problem solved. I didn’t have people arbitrarily decide I didn’t really need a driver’s license because I had acne as a teenager and then get three bills from two different departments six months later, one of which was “out of network” so…yeah.

@cks

My favorite part of POSIX is how the standard notes the dbm functions are not guaranteed to be able to store more than one value because they purposely do not specify a hash function and thus a function that hashes everything to the same value is allowed.

@skinnylatte

A good jambon beurre is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

I’m a simple man. I like my beer cold, my zeros slashed, and my strokes serifed.

(Serifed programming fonts are surprisingly rare compared to their naked cousins.)

(And dotted zeros look like nipples. There. I said it.)

#fonts

@AlisonCreekside

I’m assuming that 21% all live in AB

@evan

I would like to think that if we tried to invade Canada, the northern states would rebel against the federal government and/or most of our troops would refuse to obey those orders.

I am, unfortunately, not as sure of this outcome as I would’ve been just a few years ago.

Does anyone know a good supplier of ant farms might be? My kid is suddenly super interested in ants and I want to strike while the iron is hot.

(I would like to point out I have no idea what I’m doing.)

#insects #ants #entomolgy

I’m in a meeting at work and NOT ONE OTHER PERSON has seen The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai Across the 8th Dimension.

I’m so old.

#film

@selzero

Reminds me of the old joke.

A grandfather was talking to his grandchildren. “When I was your age, I could walk into a store with two dollars and walk out with a magazine, a hot dog, a Coke, a candy bar, and still have money in my pocket! Can’t do that anymore these days, too many cameras.”

10yo is in the 99th percentile for advanced reading and 95th percentile for advanced math, which means there’s ~20 students I need to go teach 2 + 2 =4 5 to real quick and ~3 students I need to teach bad grammar to, starting with this toot.

@FlashMobOfOne

Ah, thank you.