Notices by Jeff Miller (orange hatband) (jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io)

@inthehands POP DROP ROLL

@thomasfuchs Tucson was the best place I ever lived for sky shows, from thunderstorms to rainbows and bright stars if you go over one hill from downtown. It's a very green and lively desert, with wildlife more visible than I had expected.

@thomasfuchs @ehproque "Going nocturnal" in Tucson was another summertime strategy for goths and hipsters, but yes, A/C. Historically there were screened sleeping porches for hot nights, or some older houses have basements. Some passive solar design. But mostly shade, water, and A/C.

@skinnylatte <3 San Francisco has that for me, just walking the streets.

Reading "Octopus Pie", remotely attending the Recurse Center, and hearing your report makes me curious about Brooklyn (which I have traversed via black car service but never really set foot in).

@inthehands A hot tamale cart in the Best Buy parking lot, point to the one you want, cuss at it while you put on the toppings until it looks like yours, now you're an indie web designer.

Oh and ask for SVG ("Savage"), if you want vector graphics, it's on the secret menu. You might not even need any hot tamale!

@skinnylatte Tommy's Joynt! I went there after a day on a sailboat excursion as a teenager. I remember my dinner from, goodness, decades ago now. My dad got a picture of a golden lit SF shoreline from the sailboat with his Nikon and got the print framed.

@thomasfuchs when one coerces a missing value to (DateTime) ?

@thomasfuchs BASIC, using the People's Computer Company games listing, then TRS-80 and IBM PC BASIC. A smart kid around the block showed me how to change the offset for the PC memory mapped character glyphs to animate the typeface. l

I also learned alongside my stepfather who was doing Z-80 FORTH for instrument control. My first assembly program from his copy of the Peter Norton Guide to the IBM PC was to fix CapsLock to avoid rEVERSE cAPS. Like a typewriter. Isn't that how it should behave?

@skinnylatte I recall Bezos with pennies over his eyes on a modified billboard in SF, so it's a familiar pattern.

@thomasfuchs I brought watermelon to a neighborhood 4th of July block party, chatted with neighbors, and watched kids having fun in the blocked off street. I ran back home to refill the watermelon platter. Someone had put up flyers and I decided to get the watermelon, prepare it, and walk three blocks on the day.

@skinnylatte I rediscovered some mathematics education online activities that way when searching for "monte carlo methods". Some of them date from the 1990s!

I really miss the University of Minnesota Geometry Center but other sites still persist.

@skinnylatte @RnDanger Escape rooms at Mox are news to me!

There are Seattle (on Leary in the Ballard neighborhood) and Bellevue locations of Mox, of which Seattle's used to be the Card Kingdom storefront, rebranded to be less specific to MtG cards.

@skinnylatte OHAI waving from across town!

@thomasfuchs O Fortuna!

@thomasfuchs The little ones had a warren under discarded concrete bridge sections on the construction dump site east of Tucson. Pretty hard to dig out a warren from above.

The big jackrabbits I don't recall seeing when I lived in Tucson, but in the low flat ground next to the southern part of the San Francisco Bay.

Other Tucson wildlife: a tarantula on a stucco house wall in the Foothills; a transparent gecko clinging to our windowpane near the University of Arizona, a roadrunner by the Desert Museum, a dramatically colored black and yellow horse lubber grasshopper in the Smith's grocery parking lot, crickets in the house, a coyote behind the KFC, and cicadas, many cicadas.

@thomasfuchs Took me a while. Could have missed the bun-bun in real life if it just sat still.

We have wild cottontails roaming the streets and yards of Seattle, but they're a little less cautious and easier to spot.

@thomasfuchs I must say that "Hugging Face" gives me ALIEN vibes.

@thomasfuchs Financialization ate us for lunch.

@thomasfuchs ; DROP TABLE STUDENTS --

The guerrilla integrity testing that keeps on giving. Especially when control and data are fatally intermingled.

@skinnylatte Shiny happy people ringing bells!

And chalkboard painted art.