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Art from Rick Rowley of #SecondLife.

Podcaster off and on since 2007, DJ on Second Life since 2009.

Desideratan Universalist, for the moment.

“Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Eugenics and Other Evils

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jann, to random
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Ps: hey #Newsweek: #Southwest was taking off from Ontario, California- not Ontario, Canada! 😂

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@jann To be fair, Newsweek did get the correct continent.

🙂

leo, to random
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I've completed "Step Counter" - Day 21 - Advent of Code 2023 https://adventofcode.com/2023/day/21

Oh polynomials - I dimly remember you from high school. This problem required me to reinvent calculus. Look for Leo's Principia coming soon.

https://github.com/leolaporte/aoc-cl/blob/main/2023/Day_21/Day_21.lisp

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@leo Funny thing, never learned calculus in school. Eventually I had to teach myself calculus.

Don't remember much of it, if any, which is a shame.

Grizzlysgrowls, to random
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So, @thurrott ... Windows 10 has started giving me notices a couple times a day that I should switch to Adobe Acrobat as the default for PDFs. I've had Acrobat for as long as it's existed -- but that was a bit much. I uninstalled it.

I'm still getting those notices. Thoughts?

Alice, to random
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There's the idealistic part of me that wants to buy a cheap fixer-upper to turn into my off-grid dream home and there's the realistic part of me that's like "you can't even change the battery in a smoke detector without throwing a temper tantrum."

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@RickiTarr @Alice Got a neighbor for whom you could get a surprise, anonymous gift of chickens? 🙂

Grizzlysgrowls, to random
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Watching Windows Weekly . Heard Paul @thurrott talking about CoPilot, including it having a feature to "turn on Dork mode."

But on second thought, I'd bet that's not what he said. 🙂

RickiTarr, to random
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How do you balance the needs of the person you are with, with your own needs?

Where do you set hard boundaries and why?

This can be in any relationship romantic, family, friends.

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@Gorfram @TeflonTrout @RickiTarr "Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry." Bill Bixby as The Incredible Hulk on TV

skaeth, to books
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What are your thoughts on DNF (Did Not Finish)-ing books? Do you feel guilty about it? Do you worry you missed out on something? Or are you confident in dropping a book and reaching for the next one?

At what point are you most likely to DNF, if ever? What sorts of things cause you to DNF?

My friend, book blogger Kriti, was musing on these questions a while back, and it sparked this new post: https://armedwithabook.com/dealing-with-dnf-the-practice-of-did-not-finish/

@bookstodon

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@skaeth @shauna @bookstodon Yeah. Heck of it is, I like Seth and I like Scott, and sort-of know them from when we were all on Podiobooks. If you like Their Sort Of Thing, I'd recommend either.

So I feel kinda bad, like letting down a friend. But those particular things of theirs just weren't for me.

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@shauna @skaeth @bookstodon I understand completely. I read almost all of Seth Harwood's books, mostly crime novels but not all. Then I hit one that was way too violent for me and I stopped and never went back. He's a good author and a good narrator, but hey, it's crime...

Loved Scott Sigler's Galactic Football League series (SF), and I think he's got a new one out now. Pretty violent, but made sense in the context. Tried to read other works of his -- SF horror. Couldn't.

Grizzlysgrowls, to random
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If you're wondering why I'm up at such a silly hour for the US Midwest... Remember @pluralistic Cory Doctorow's book "Eastern Standard Tribe?" Turns out my bioclock is syched to the Olduvai Gorge, as I figured out the other day. So far as my body is concerned it's 3:22 pm.

Maybe I should move to Tanzania?

ChrisMayLA6, to books
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Here's a handy guide to check yourself against; which way do you display/store/shelve your #Books?

I have so many that I fit a number of different categories depending on which part of he house you're in.... I doubt I'm alone in my pluralist shelving habits

@bookstodon
#readersofMastodon

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/17/shelf-absorbed-nine-ways-to-arrange-your-bookshelves-and-what-they-say-about-you

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@raindrops_and_roses @bookstodon
Podcast recommendations, lemme look:

Words For Granted - specifically an etymology podcast

And... Looked through my 300 or so subscriptions, couldn't find others by title. I recall @grammargirl Mignon Fogarty's podcast was often good for that, but I can't recall the title. Others cover word usage piecemeal sometimes, so no help there.

Betting Ms Fogarty would have better suggestions for podcasts about changes in word usage, nu?

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@grammargirl @bookstodon So, how do you feel about "adult" as a verb? 🙂

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@SteveClough @riggbeck @ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon I feel your pain. On the other hand, I listen to several podcasts that discuss language and old words. Don't know for sure how many words used to mean something else, but if someone determined it was over half of 'em, I can't say I'd be surprised. Or amazed, per the old Noah Webster joke. 🙂

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@grammargirl @bookstodon I read the LinkedIn article over, and I respect his views. But a million years ago someone pointed out dictionaries don't contain definitions (they're not definitive...), they contain usages. As with most things I "know," I got it from one source and don't recall what the source was. 🙂

Curate is fine with me. Reveal, well... Used to watch a lot of home remodeling shows, so, needs must when the Devil drives.

Grizzlysgrowls, to random
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Listening to the Mysteries Abound podcast from Paul Rex, one of my favorites. Spent some time discussing and describing cryptids. And I wondered from that...

Do all have glowing red eyes? Are there cryptids that have glowing blue or green eyes?

Grizzlysgrowls, to random
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Something I wondered about with heygen.ai, @jasonhowell ... @jeffjarvis mentioned using that on Homer Simpson... Would HeyGen make the cartoon's lip movements more realistic?

Grizzlysgrowls, to random
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Hey @jeffjarvis did you ever find someone good to narrate your "Gutenberg Parenthesis" book? I know a guy...

Grizzlysgrowls, to random
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Saw something on about the rise of the "Experience Economy." And immediately I thought of @pluralistic and those workers being paid in Woofy.

Grizzlysgrowls, to random
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Hey @AbandonedAmerica I finally found your podcast! Listening to the one from 01/23/2023 about the church. You sound nothing like your typing makes you sound. 🙂

Deus, (edited ) to animals
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I have no idea what’s the breed of this dog but we just call it ‘Zo Ui’ (Zo Dog). Alert, great friend (of course), no manicure or pedicure needed, zero-maintenance cost, will eat whatever the family eats, walks for miles with you when you go hunting or for a stroll in the jungle. If tired, will lie down on the leaves (stomach side up), takes rest and then catch up with you (as this guy did). Most of all, super curious.

I ask for the ‘breed’ because they’re not the same stray dogs we find in Indian cities - has this typical curly tail, is short, and the ‘real’ ones have this brown coat.

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@Deus Well, that's a good accomplishment. I'd always understood Pariah as something of an insult, but there's likely more going on there than I'd know about. "Indie dog" sounds better. Plus now you should get him a leather hat, jacket, and whip. 🙂

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@Deus Maybe what they call a Yeller dog? The original breed of Dog?

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@Deus I must admit I'd be tempted to get a Rafeiro do Alentejo, the breed of that dog that lived 31 years. Not a universal characteristic of the breed, but I'm sorely tired of outliving dogs. Lovely dog, too.

Grizzlysgrowls, to books
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@bookstodon

Currently the "Shadow Vanguard" series by Tom Dublink Michael Anderle and Craig Martelle on my . It's part of that Kutherian collection.

SF, fairly plausible, except the spymaster named Nathan Lowell. Where do these SF folks get these crazy names?

@nlowell

Emily, to random

Hello people, since this instance is fairly new (I actually created it just a few hours ago) I'm trying to get as many people as possible to follow me so I can follow back and initiate federating to grow my instance's federation and populate my timeline.

I would appreciate everyone boosting my post to help grow my instance's reach. Thanks to everyone in advance!

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@Emily Due to vision problems, I thought originally that was social. broccoli.net.

Which someone will now use. 🙂

BZBrainz, to bookstodon
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@actuallyautistic @audhd
Was deeply engaged in a difficult conversation today when a book caught my attention across the room. “Is that Unmasking Autism? I read that earlier this year.” It was an optional opening for optional disclosure. It changed the questions he felt comfortable asking, changed how I provided education, and it ended be a deeply satisfying and helpful exchange. Today was a real win. @bookstodon

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@BZBrainz @geographile @axnxcamr @addie @actuallyautistic @bookstodon @audhd

On Kindle, it's fine. I was raised by a librarian, an I can never be comfortable writing in a paper book. You spoil it for the next reader, unless it's an archaologist a few centuries from now.

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