Notices by Dan Ports (dan@discuss.systems), page 2

I suspect I am going to get a lot of use out of this new sticker design.

continuing to enjoy how my German-manufactured doorbell interacts with me in exactly the way one would expect a German doorbell to

“This meeting could have been a nap.”

#cats #catsofmastodon

@irene and I hired professional organizers a while back, but I'm just now noticing that they set aside (and labeled) a designated space for googly eye storage.

the fluffiest of loaves

#cats #catsofmastodon

Two of the most important lessons I learned in grad school:

1) you can register anything you want as a fictitious business name and get an official looking logo and letterhead and credit card

2) if a conference rejects your paper, your business can book the next conference room over at the same hotel and hold your own workshop and present your paper anyway

Can’t wait to find out how this upgrade enhances my dishwasher’s performance.

At least it’s not adding new AI features, I guess…

Pixel would like to wish everyone a happy Chinese new year, and would also like to speak to the manager about this affront to her dignity.

#cats #catsofmastodon #lunarnewyear

currently obsessed with the chonky orange cat who lives around the physics building at UC Davis, who not only has a department webpage and a Wikipedia page, but also has a RateMyProfessor page with 331 ratings for his course Loaf 101.

https://hpc.ucdavis.edu/people/cheeto-cat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheeto_(UC_Davis_Cat)
https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/3028076

(via @sharon and @amanda; photo from Wikipedia)

#cats

@skinnylatte I feel like there are a number of people in my life who I could absolutely see buying a 140lb wheel of cheese but they would all be much better at planning out what to do with it

Bench press? They have opted for bench rest instead.

#cats #catsofmastodon

@skinnylatte *monkeys paw curls* the only food available to you is now French tacos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_tacos

Thanks to a combination of antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications, Minion, our fluffiest and most neurotic cat, is now willing to settle for hiding in the middle of the closet, rather than under the dresser.

#cats #catsofmastodon

Oh no, @irene’s new boss is a real micro-manager, always hovering over the keyboard

#cats #catsofmastodon

Max is enjoying a cozy 17th birthday today!

#cats #catsofmastodon https://discuss.systems/@irene/115867119395335143

@irene @skinnylatte also don’t forget that time we were at a fancy restaurant (was it SingleThread?) and the guy at the table next to us was trying to impress his date with the size of his database

(I don’t think that was a euphemism but I don’t know which would be worse.)

@ricci @fuckfetish @mayintoronto ask and ye shall receive

(This is an Arista shop, default MTU is 9214)

@ricci @fuckfetish @mayintoronto the administrator adjusting the MTU

@ricci @fuckfetish @mayintoronto here’s a jumbo Maximum Tabby Unit

@skinnylatte I'm especially fascinated by the Taiwanese Doritos because American Doritos have successfully found an artificial simulacrum that is almost, but not completely, unlike actual cheese... so what must Taiwanese food engineering have wrought?