Notices by Colin the Mathmo (colinthemathmo@mathstodon.xyz), page 4

Understand this ...

#ElderlyRelative is clever and capable, it's just that everything has an unexpected name, and there are more capabilities than they are used to. Those capabilities have all been "explained" quickly, and with little or no reference to what they already know, so there's been no chance to assimilate the knowledge.

The frustration and rage are palpable ... I can feel them ... and they are SO F'N UNNECESSARY.

This intelligent, curious, capable person has been reduced to believing they are stupid and unable to learn anything.

IT MAKES ME FURIOUS !!!

The inventor of auto-correct has died. Their funnel is tomato. -- Source unknown

It's always a joy ... and a surprise ... when software I wrote ages ago on a different computer just works as intended.

Lovely experience, but very surprising.

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with -- W.C.Fields

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

@goatsarah I can imagine it was .. hence applying weeks in advance.

I also don't know what I'm doing wrong, but I'll wait the 4 hours (or a little longer for a cushion) and see if the button reappears.

Applying for an ESTA to travel to the USA. The form is tedious but straight-forward to complete.

Click the pay button ...

Get thrown off.

I can find no way to pay.

I can't buy tickets will I've done this ... what am I missing?

It amazes me that people think of 'do-gooder' as an insult, that always blows my mind -- Kevin Bacon

Hah ... just worked out that by PhD ancestry, Oppenheimer and I are 2nd cousins twice removed ... he is second cousins with Erdös, who is my "grandfather".

Not the it means anything, but it's still kinda weird.

If at first you don't succeed, bury the bodies and sort out your alibi.

Happy Perihelion Everybody !!

@goatsarah According to https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/perihelion-aphelion-solstice.html

3 January 2024 at 00:38
Distance: 147,100,632 km

I'd trust that site more than a generic Google search.

But it's the night between midday on Jan 2 and Midday on Jan 3.

Argh !!!

I had it worked out, then made a mistake:

#CellTower 600

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬇️⬜⬜
➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️⏹️➡️➡️

https://www.andrewt.net/puzzles/cell-tower/?p=600

But maintained my streak:

Current streak: 40

Happy Solsthelion everyone !!

@clive People actively seek steel that was smelted and forged before 1944 ... old warships and the like ... to harvest the low radiation steel. After that, all steel has become contaminated.

We should download and archive as much ID the internet as possible to have reference material from before it was contaminated by "AI".

CC: @bhawthorne

Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated individual. So ... maybe calm down. -- Anon

The oxygen you breathe, calcium in your bones, iron in your blood, were created in dying stars. You are made of nuclear waste.

Fox News did to our parents what our parents were afraid video games would do to us.

-- (Edited) Full attribution complex, quoted by Stephen King.

@amin @ruario @Rana @ihabunek @vivaldiversiontracker @browserversiontracker @FreakyFwoof @rolle @GreenSkyOverMe

Toot is the client underpinning my charting 'bot ...

Calling @Chartodon spine ...

@textproof Posts from here do turn up there, but they have to have a reason. If someone here posts, but no one there follows that person, the post will never travel.

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/images/TootFlow.png

But regardless ... welcome!

Mathematics is like checkers in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state. -- Plato