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shayman

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Musical Dictator, Argonotes, the Until Recently Toronto Argonauts Band. And I work at that fruit company you might know.

I took the photo above when I was 9. It's Apollo XI, on the way to the moon. (I have a better camera now.)

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shayman, to random
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What an amazing treat to learn that InfiniteMac.org now has versions of NeXTSTEP that run in your browser. Amazing.

https://blog.persistent.info/2024/03/infinite-mac-nextstep.html

Of course I had to fire up NeXTSTEP 3.3 to see if this was still in there ... I wonder what happened to that other guy?

shayman, to random
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i'm going out on a limb here and guessing that this user has 247,986 unread email messages

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/mozilla-firefox/firefox-user-loses-7470-opened-tabs-saved-over-two-years-after-they-cant-restore-browsing-session

shayman,
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@JohnJBurnsIII Or even - hear me out here - what if the browser just automatically kept a sort of historical list of sites you had recently visited.

Cdespinosa, to random
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— “Our junior programmers don’t know how to escape and normalize metacharacters in database queries of our GIS”
— “I’ve got it: why don’t we just change all the street signs?”

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68942321

shayman,
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@Luke @Cdespinosa Canadian road signs have plenty of punctuation.

opencage, to random
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🚨 The April 24 game begins 🚨

Today we consider country calling codes - the phone number prefixes used to route calls to different countries. For example +49 for DE 🇩🇪, +61 for AU 🇦🇺, etc.

What is the longest chain of countries such that each successive country/territory in the chain shares a land border with and has a calling code greater than the previous one?

Example chain: FR 🇫🇷 (+33) - ES 🇪🇸 (+34) - PT 🇵🇹 (+351)

You may use maps of calling codes

1/

shayman,
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@opencage Tried hard to find one that started Canada > Denmark (thank you, land border on Hans Island) and was then going to argue for "greater than or equal", so you could start USA > Canada > Denmark but .... Can't compete with these other winners!

shayman,
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@opencage Also it is definitely time for the USA to get its own country code and stop borrowing Canada’s.

shayman, to random
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ugh. Three years of traffic chaos has just started. Why don't we incent construction companies to work 24*7 with big bonuses for getting the work done quickly? Surely that would be worth it on key infrastructure projects.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/this-was-worse-than-i-was-expecting-gardiner-construction-snarls-traffic-on-nearby-routes/article_c8037d8e-fc18-11ee-9a94-cba8a3438a00.html

shayman, to random
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Today I learned from a travelling friend that Delta hands out trading cards like this to kids with details of the airplane you were on. What a great idea! (And she tells me the pilots of DL1368 were great to the kids too.)

On behalf of the frequent flyers of the world, I would like to urge all airlines to hand out collector cards like this to all of us!

The front of a trading card showing a Delta A321

shayman,
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Not that they'd ask me, but they could print a few tips on the card to explain how to spot that kind of plane - look for these engines, or these winglets, or this arrangement of windows or whatever. Help raise the next generation of plane-spotters who can tell an A321 from a B757.

It's a lot harder than it used to be, since so many jets are just "one engine on each wing" now. So little variety.

shayman,
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@NeadReport "rubber band"? help me out here, not familiar with that usage.

shayman, to random
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I admit I was surprised that during the eclipse, the moon passed in front of the sun from bottom to top because I was sort of expecting it to go left to right because that's how the universe works, right? north is at the top, and things generally go left to right?

perhaps I should not admit this

evan, to random
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Friends, I need your help. What songs should I add to my eclipse-watching playlist?

shayman,
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@evan Moonshadow - Cat Stevens, or my preference, Mandy Moore's cover. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk6agQYcxyw

shayman, to random
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My Visit to the Dentist.
Part 1: The dentist is doing really well! He says "Your teeth are pretty clean, good job."

Part 2: Dentist notes "Hmm this filling is pretty old, it should be replaced."

Part 3: I ask "How old do you suppose it is?"

Part 4, where all the good will built up in Part 1 evaporates: "Oh, probably from before I was born"

shayman, to random
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Chatted with some young scholars at the Science Fair today who had built a nifty 3D-printed gadget to attach to your glasses so they wouldn't slip around too much.

So of course I asked them if they'd seen Steve Martin in "The Jerk", a relevant film that came out a mere 45 years ago.

shayman,
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They hadn't, of course, but I hope that some day, years from now, they'll see it and they'll vaguely remember that some weird guy at the Science Fair asked them about it and then when the Opti-Grab scene happens, I hope they'll think: "Oh. That's why."

shayman, to random
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Watching "Canada's Got Talent" and remembering when we went to a taping of an earlier version of this show a decade ago .... and they pre-taped all the audience reactions before a single act had appeared on stage. "Now cheer!" the director would say, and we did. "Now everybody go 'Awwwww' as if you saw something cute."

it looks like that's happening again

shayman, to random
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15 years ago today, we did an Apple event at a Bank of Montreal conference facility, and the catering people knew Apple was presenting there and totally outdid themselves with a glorious display of every possible variety of Apple dessert. Apple pie, turnovers, strudel, etc.

At the time I mentioned "I'm glad we don't work for Lawrence Livermore Labs."

Got no reaction at all. The failure of that joke haunts me to this day.

shayman, to random
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It seems like the right place to play this song.

shayman,
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@JohnJBurnsIII we sure did. Sailed all the way around Hornos Island (Cape Horn) — not many get to do this!

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    shayman,
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    @schwa does this help - Tap your profile image, then Settings, then your account, then “Reset account cache”?

    shayman, to random
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    also 15 years ago today, a career highlight: I had to temporarily suspend a seminar on Applescript programming because a herd of Reindeer was strolling past the conference room window.

    shayman, to random
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    I think you'll all be grateful that I did not live blog my particular experience today, but Dave Barry sums it up very well.

    Get checked. Be an adult here. Quit being squeamish. It's better to know that everything's fine, or to know that there's an issue so it can be dealt with, than it is not to know.

    (Dave's article on his colonoscopy made me laugh dozens of times this week and that really helped me quit worrying.)

    https://www.miamiherald.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/dave-barry/article1928847.html

    shayman,
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    @bynkii I know that NOW :-)
    thought I'd sleep through it but woke up part way through. It was ... scientifically kind of interesting, for the first few seconds.

    shayman,
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    @bynkii I have never felt so much better, so quickly, after a period of gas-passing some time after this procedure concluded

    gedeonm, to TheAmazingRace
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    Another great episode of . Really enjoying S35! Also, Slovenia is a BEAUTIFUL country. 🥰

    shayman,
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    @gedeonm You’d think people would practice this skill before going on the race. (And also driving a standard.)

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