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Vaguery

@Vaguery@a2mi.social

Used to & might still: astrobiology, complex systems, agile software development, community design & development, data mining, artificial life, genetic programming (software synthesis), molecular biology (combinatorial chemistry), philosophy of science, management consulting (futurism-nobody-listens-to), open access…

Then a long disruptive break as my wife & I spent a decade taking care of sick friends & relatives.

Now, mainly: sell books on eBay; scan printed works; public domain support

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TFW you are doing a little inventory maintenance and five books in this one box are not even present in the inventory?

Have they ever been?

Are they real books, or did the Brownies create them?

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Finally got around to kludging together my page scans of this lovely 1899 catalog from the Library Bureau in Boston

It may still be pre-processing on the server, as of this writing. Give it time.

https://archive.org/details/library_bureau_catalog

peterhoneyman, to random
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vatican city

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Vaguery,
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@peterhoneyman If you spread out it'll improve your chances that one of you will find the honest dude.

Oh wait no that's Diogenes innit. NM.

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Discovered today that pork belly starts to want to float when it gets around 170°F in the sous vide bath. Went from hanging the ziplock bags from sticks to weighting them down with spoons.

Hope they're well sealed. Fingers crossed.

peterhoneyman, to random
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i think it’s this stout fellow’s last hurrah in its sixth year of service 😢

we’re fully packed, not light, but one bag each. only gifts are heavy books and mix tapes.

white luggage covered with stickers

Vaguery,
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@peterhoneyman so teeny!

eikenberry, to random
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Eclipse traffic 30 minutes before it starts is certainly Something.

(I made it to Toledo and parked at a pizza pub by campus. But it's currently cloudy.)

Vaguery,
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@eikenberry THAT WAS US

Vaguery,
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@eikenberry We were in a caravan through Temperance and other small towns for a good half hour, all Siri Tribe. The Google Tribe took different turns, I expect.

Vaguery,
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@peterhoneyman @eikenberry On the way back north we were definitely losing ground on the arrival estimate. At one point it was an hour estimate, then we drove half an hour, and checked again and it had become longer than an hour.

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I don't know the answer to this yet, but it has been bugging me since I woke up for some reason:

Is it possible to fill out a 3x3 square of cells with unique integers, such that every row and column [and diagonal?] contains a Pythagorean triple?

That is, where the three numbers {n1,n2,n3} in any row/column, in some order, satisfy a^2 + b^2 = c^2?

It feels like it depends on integers participating in many triples... but big ones do, sometimes?

Vaguery, to random
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one problem with being grossly overeducated is that the mail today included five different Viking cruise tour offers from three different universities

Vaguery, to random
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Spending much of the afternoon trying to get rid of a weird flickering in my VMware Fusion Windows emulation on my ancient laptop, only to discover that (1) there's an easy fix for that, but (2) I changed so many memory and "video" settings that it's fucked for five other reasons now

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Just watched "The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming!" and it's honestly a remarkably good film.

Norman Jewison interview on the DVD is worth looking for, once you've watched it. A lot of historical context that makes it even better in hindsight.

Vaguery,
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@gdinwiddie 19 and 65

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“The best information available indicates that this is the only facsimile edition of the Book of Kells on permanent display in a public library in North America.”

Vaguery,
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@gdinwiddie https://www.hackleylibrary.org/about/history/history-of-the-library/

Vaguery, to random
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TFW you spend 45 minutes trying to remember the Ruby syntax for doing an inject with each_with_index because Google sucks so badly nowadays.

Vaguery, to random
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That weird liminal state when you're waiting for the tradesfolk to show up within the window of time they specified, and the window is just about over.

Can't start anything, can't wander off to finish anything unfinished. Enforced sitting and waiting for outside noises.

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usually when photographers have "GAS" (gear acquisition syndrome) it's new and shiny

but not me, no siree!

i'm spending hours trying to figure out which roached out antique kodak vest pocket camera i need to buy to get the meniscus lens for soft focus

this is healthy.

Vaguery,
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@amy Me, seeing a pile of loose pages from a 19th century periodical on a "rubber band" shelf in a bookstore: "OK yeah they're mostly here, this will be fine."

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Just listened to this interview with the author of a book I confess I would not normally find of deep personal interest. But I recommend the interview wholeheartedly: it reveals an awful lot about how the Taft Supreme Court is echoed in our [US] current conservative, laissez-faire court, and more important: why.

https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-taft-court-volume-10

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If I were a human being at Amazon I would probably hesitate to ship six pint glasses mail order in a fucking plastic bag with no padding, even if I put the bag inside a much bigger cardboard box by itself.

But also because I hesitated they would fire me.

So the lesson for me is: I should never order glass from an inhuman entity whose practices assign glass (and employees) insufficient value to protect them.

peterhoneyman, to random
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The temperature is going to drop into the single digits (°F) for the next three days. I’m excited that we’re having an actual winter, at least for a few days. The snow will stick around and maybe we can go x-c skiing!

Vaguery,
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@peterhoneyman I did just break my shovel so ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Vaguery, to random
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It very much looked like a flipped Tesla in the ditch by the freeway just now

With smoke pouring out of its belly

(Fire trucks were just arriving)

peterhoneyman, to random
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oh great

Vaguery,
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@peterhoneyman Yeah but see I decided I would do it by hand and I don't even get
a progress bar....

Vaguery, to random
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Hey, Ann Arbor: WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?

Vaguery,
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So apparently based on the police scanner chatter "items exploded in the basement" of a house on Winters Lane, in Whitmore Lake—11 miles from where I am.

Vaguery,
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More info developing at reddit, including movie of smoke and such
https://www.reddit.com/r/AnnArbor/comments/18up4rc/window_shaking_boom/

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