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LoneLocust

@LoneLocust@mastodon.social

I am a retired government CIO. #Podcast host (Fusion Patrol.) Married, 25 years, kids at university. Citizen #Potawatomi Nation member. #Ebike enthusiast. #Atheist. SciFi & Tokusatsu Fan (Trek, Doctor Who, Blakes 7, Babylon 5, Kamen Rider, Ultraman, and many more.). Love a good crossword or #KillerSudoku. Recently published app in iOS App Store (Killer Sudoku Aide.) Probably other stuff but I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition.

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LoneLocust, (edited ) to Podcast
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Talk about silk purses from sow’s ears!

I take my 13yo #podcast episodes, some of which we recorded over Skype and sound pretty janky, run them through #LogicPro’s #StemSplitter, isolate the voices and process them through the #Adobe #EnhanceSpeech tool, then re-integrate it replacing the original voices and it actually sounds pretty good.

AI tools have their place (just probably not as information repositories.)

(Needless to say, I don’t have the original master recordings anymore.)

LoneLocust, to random
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I took a nap earlier and had a dream. Apparent metal thieves got into my backyard and stole the fence around my pool.

When I went to look, in amazement at their audacity, I realized they’d stolen the whole in-ground diving pool, too, and completely filled it and landscaped.

Here’s the part where it gets so crazy you know it’s a dream: for some reason, I was upset by this!

Do you know what it costs to get rid of a pool? I’d be overjoyed in real life.

LoneLocust, to logicpro
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Playing around today with ’s new .

Well, that's just magic!

LoneLocust, to random
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I tried the beef (wagyu, this time) sushi again.

I’m just not understanding this cold meat and rice concept. Feels like eating cold leftovers.

Sticking to 100% gyoza in the future.

LoneLocust, to random
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What about 💩?

donburnside, to random
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This is to certify that I, Don Burnside, can ride 20 miles on my ebike without getting violently ill.

LoneLocust,
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@donburnside Congrats on the puke avoidance!

Weird little ride pattern there, isn’t it?

darmato, to random
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This week in Rating My Impostor:

Ooo, I'm torn. Listing the number of restaurants I've visited is totally the kind of pompous BS I would do, but mine would be an actual documented number rather than pulling something out of thin air.

4 out of 10.

LoneLocust,
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@darmato I’m not convinced that just saying I’ve eaten at 200 more than you even qualifies as “pulling [a number] out of thin air.“

They’re in ass-pulling territory there.

LoneLocust, to random
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I hate door-to-door solicitors, but I don’t mind occasionally seeing how they deal with nonstandard responses.

“Hi, my company is in the neighborhood doing a couple of installs down the street, so you may see some cones around their vehicles.”

“Oh, ok, great, thanks for giving me the heads up. I won’t call the police on them, then.”

“Heh, um… thanks.”

1/?

LoneLocust,
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“You may have seen our fliers we sent out?”

“Quite likely, but I throw all fliers, unread, into the recycling. It’s really horrible how much waste companies that send fliers generate for no good result, isn’t it?”

“Um… yes, well, the reason I’ve come by…”

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LoneLocust,
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“…um, company is…” (A double-“um” in 1 sentence. Always a win.)

“Look, stop right there. I never, ever, ever purchase anything from a filer or someone going door-to-door. I research and pick companies, I don’t let them pick me.”

“Oh, we’re not selling anything…”

“Oh, that’s different. I won’t waste any more of your valuable time. Good luck just telling others you’re working in the neighborhood. Good bye.”

(He interrupted a game of Call of Duty, so I was a bit snarked to begin with.)

3/3

donburnside, to random

The sudden fascination with roller mice is strange.

Don't wish for those to come back. Especially the corded versions.

Nobody wants that.

LoneLocust,
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@donburnside @donburnside they just need to put a little cactus needle in the front and they can play their vinyl albums with them.

rebeccawatson, to random
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in your FACE people who very kindly and accurately told me this would be an incredibly painful undertaking
https://mstdn.social/@rebeccawatson/112436105096260237

LoneLocust,
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@rebeccawatson How long did it take?

LoneLocust,
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@rebeccawatson Not bad at all! 👍🏻

LoneLocust, to random
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“I pledge to use and internalize the Metric System in my own life wherever possible, so long as it does not impact safety. Further, I will not make it easy for others to cling to outdated measurement systems.”

— The Metric Pledge

LoneLocust, to random
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Oh, Taiwan…
https://mastodonapp.uk/@foreignersintw/112461569466111503

LoneLocust, to random
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Watched #Argylle last night. Can understand why it may have underperformed with theatre audiences and critics. Not unenjoyable, but a bit of a hot mess, structurally.

Genuinely surprised that the trailers didn’t give away everything.

I’ll maintain that it’s too damned long for a theatre viewing, and the wrong TYPE of movie. Should have been a 90-minute light comedy/action/romance romp. Not a 2.5 hour ramble.

jeffjarvis, to random
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It is not news to report that airlines suck. What is amazing is how hard they work to find new ways to suck.
https://viewfromthewing.com/run-to-your-gate-lose-your-seat-two-new-american-airlines-policies-leave-passengers-stranded/

LoneLocust,
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@jeffjarvis @kerim Soon, AI will make it even easier for them to find new ways to suck.

Techaltar, to random
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People who use Apple's memojis or similar as profile pictures: I totally get that it's mostly anonymous while still somewhat personal, but ... do you find there is recognizability in it? My brain just subconsciously recognizes it as a memoji but then doesn't bother to look for any features. I never actually remember or recognize them. Is that just me?

LoneLocust,
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@Techaltar people waste time giving two seconds thought to avatars?

LoneLocust,
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@Techaltar It wasn’t meant as snarky, if it came off that way. Your question caught me off guard, I’d just never actually gave anyone else’s facial avatars any thought. Especially not recognizability.

LoneLocust,
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@Techaltar Well, I do have “resting snark voice.” ;-)

LoneLocust, to Phoenix
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So, Weee! (https://www.sayweee.com/en) is an Asian grocery delivery service. (Probably not very carbon-friendly.) They deliver a lot of goods difficult, if not impossible to find in , but they also (apparently) listen.

I ordered Chashu from them a while back but, being frozen, large, and uncut it was problematic if you’re just making a single bowl of ramen.

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LoneLocust,
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I left a review of the chashu and pointed out how inconvenient the packaging was and, now, they’re selling it in smaller, pre-sliced packaging. Full marks.

2/2

LoneLocust, to random
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I woke up this morning to this alert on my phone.

My first words uttered this morning were, “Go home, Siri, you’re drunk.”

1/2

LoneLocust,
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@Ertain The emergency vehicle sirens have been happening every 5-10 minutes all morning.

It is almost inconceivable to a non-Phoenician how awful the drivers get with even that little amount of rain.

forkevinssake, to random

“There is undeniably an impression out there that [COVID-19] is no longer a major threat to human health. I think it’s largely driven by opinion and an emotional itch to move beyond the pandemic, to put it all behind us. We want to believe that it’s like the flu, and we did — until we saw the data.”

https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2024-05-15/covid-19-remains-deadlier-than-the-flu

LoneLocust,
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@forkevinssake @simonwood I just hope H5N1 isn’t standing in the wings going, “hold my beer.”

realtegan, to random
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For Americans looking at people posting in Celsius temperatures: don't try to convert, just remember this...

Zero is freezing,
Ten is not.
Twenty is warm and
Thirty is hot
(And forty is DAMNED hot)

LoneLocust,
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@realtegan Thank You! I’ve been arguing this for years! No American thinks twice about 2-liter soda bottles and never converts them in their head… they just use them.

Temperature is the same. Just use it.

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