Notices by Mike Hicks (mulad@mastodon.sdf.org)

The Pratt Ice Cream Social is coming up this Friday, although unfortunately the Witch's Hat water tower won't be open this year #MNastodon
https://prospectparkmpls.org/events/ice-cream-social.html

It's still surprising to me when I see DOS systems scroll by on here that have autoexec or other batch files that did not include an "[@]echo off" line (sans the brackets necessary to avoid referencing a fedi account)

Is there a tool for scanning through the accounts I've attempted to follow to see if they are stuck in "Follow requested" state? I just came across another one, probably from ages ago

Flickr is owned by a company called SmugMug these days, but the point stands. Hopefully they can scale up some development that moves the site and app to be easier to work with. Get a Pro subscription to pay for hosting/storage and feel zero regret about using an ad blocker (I think they drop the ads when you subscribe anyway)
https://mstdn.social/@rebeccawatson/113810576088572913

The city of Minneapolis has a low-cost tree program that closes up for the year in a couple weeks. $30 per tree if you're looking to replace one taken out by this year's storms (and I think it's also intended for areas with fewer trees in general)
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2024/08/30/after-storms-topple-mature-trees-city-of-minneapolis-reminds-residents-of-tree-program

The train has a seating capacity of about 300 (4 coaches with 68 seats each plus there's a small business-class section in the cafe car), so reaching the latter number would require significant turnover (which can happen quite a lot with people using shorter segments)

I stuck around a few minutes after getting back to St. Paul, and counted about 185 people getting off.

I'm seeing two different projected ridership figures, 124,000 and 232,000, and I'm not sure which one is right. The former would be 170 per train, the latter 318 per train...

Taking a day trip down to Winona for the afternoon on the Borealis to check it out.

"Eye of the Tiger" is playing

It's ducking time

Some shots from the start of the race

Frey was there with a kid on his shoulders

There's no way for me to know if that one ultimately reached the finish line first.

Here were some volunteers grabbing the ones that slipped by the net at the end

A moment where I paused to try and get a glimpse, but I walked most of the way down the course and took a few shots a couple hundred feet from the end

Aha! There's (now?) an option to queue new posts behind a clickable item at the top of your Mastodon feed on the standard web interface, rather than having things suddenly scroll by while you're just sitting there.

@inthehands Makes me think of the time I saw a "live close" sign and was pondering what "active shutting" must be until I finally realized it meant "dwell nearby"

Good one in NUMTOT today
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/7buEViTatFhi4HTQ/

I enjoyed @adamconover's talk with @LaineNooney, author of the "The Apple II Age," which sounds like it's much more about the social impact of the software/hardware ecosystem it enabled, rather than just being about Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs and the technical side of things https://art19.com/shows/factually--with-adam-conover/episodes/3b94653f-733f-466c-a010-e883e7c168c2