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bk1e

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Everything is going wrong / All my songs are coming true
Software engineer - Austin, TX - he/him

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futurebird, to random
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This diagram from a paper on ant sleep is very important. It shows how queen ants in Solenopsis Invicta colonies sleep in plies like puppies.

When they are awake they like to have a bit of distance between them.

https://faculty.utrgv.edu/george.yanev/Papers/JIB_2009.pdf

bk1e,
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@futurebird scrolling through my feed Ooh, new xkcd comic

Sylvhem, to random
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Fediverse, I have a slightly unusual request for you. Can you recommend me video games where the main setting is a library, where the main character is a librarian or where the plot revolve heavily around libraries in some way?
Thank you.

bk1e,
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@Sylvhem Scarlet Hollow may not be quite what you’re asking for, but one of the characters is a librarian and the library is important to the plot (not just as a generic place, but as a source of historical info).

https://blacktabbygames.itch.io/scarlet-hollow

mntmn, to random
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ominous comment in one of my kicad documents

bk1e,
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@mntmn Once I returned a new PC to Dell because it failed to power on and displayed a certain diagnostic LED combination. When the replacement arrived, the same thing happened again. The problem was that my DisplayPort cable connected pin 20 straight through and this was tripping some sort of soft fuse on the motherboard.

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    bk1e,
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    @amyfou I thought so too, but apparently the saying was originally “the proof of the pudding is in the eating.”

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/the_proof_of_the_pudding_is_in_the_eating

    bk1e, to random
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    “All these letters are backwards, it looks like Russian. No other possible explanation.”

    bk1e,
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    “Before us lies millions of years of unrecorded history.” And why is that, pray tell?

    bk1e,
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    Jack Taylor, the actor who played Olsen, was in a bunch of Spanish thriller/horror/exploitation movies in the 70s.

    bk1e,
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    “Whatever you do, don’t touch the mush—“ BOOM

    bk1e,
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    “What a strange looking fish, do you think it’s edible?” “I don’t see coela we canth.”

    bk1e,
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    Shepherd whose flock of sheep was struck by lightning: “not this again!”

    bk1e, to random
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    The sun has shut us down
    And its flares are interfering
    And the tractors are dead at the end of their rows

    The sky was beautiful on fire
    All shimmering curtains stretching upwards
    Everything washed in bright neon shades
    https://mastodon.social/@jasonkoebler/112428463835646083

    bk1e, to random
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    RIP Roger Corman

    onelson, to movies
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    Poltergeist II (1986)

    Realized just now I have logged the first and 3rd of these in my Horror Satisfaction spreadsheet, but not the 2nd.

    bk1e,
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    @onelson I had so many questions about the tequila worm scene when I saw it as a child. Starting with why is there a worm in the bottle.

    bk1e,
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    @onelson Wow, it sounds like that was the plan. 🧐

    “In fact, eventually, so many of the dark elements were removed because Spielberg wanted a PG rating so that the film could run as a double feature in theaters with the concurrently released E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)”

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084516/trivia/?item=tr2968623

    bk1e, to random
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    Has Torchy’s Tacos ever had a taco of the month named “The Grackle”? Just thinking of something Maciej Cegłowski once wrote about how tech companies have a tendency to name products after their worst externalities.

    bk1e,
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    I realize tacos are not tech, but I think any sufficiently advanced taco is also indistinguishable from magic.

    BeachsideReader, to random
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    There can’t really be only 10 people on Mastodon who toot their way through . Which means there’s something wrong with how I’ve got this set up, right? Horror.hub alone should have hundreds. Anyone have any ideas/suggestions?

    bk1e,
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    @BeachsideReader Mastodon dot social shows 23. Perhaps the server isn’t aware of hashtagged posts from accounts that no one on the server is following?

    thomasfuchs, to random
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    Just read a take that “30 years ago we’d have to wait days for pictures of the Aurora”.

    I think this is a case of “mysterious old technology mythical tales”.

    First of all, digital cameras or the ability to convert analog video to digital stills existed, widely, since the 1980s. For consumers digital cameras were available in 1994.

    For film, the fact is that in the 80s/90s there were 1-hour photo places literally everywhere.

    Newspapers had photos of current events since the 19th century.

    bk1e,
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    @moftasa @thomasfuchs Here’s a newsreel about it from the 1930’s. I like how they use a coil of string to represent converting each scan line to and from an analog signal. https://youtu.be/cLUD_NGE370

    bk1e, to austin
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    Texas sky update

    #atxwx #Austin #aurora #solarFlare #hopeItsNotLensFlare

    More pink glow, farther from streetlights
    Fainter pink glow

    bk1e,
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    I took these with my iPhone camera between 9:45pm and 10:05pm. The pink glow was only visible in long exposures, not visible to the naked eye. I walked to a darker location and still captured a pink glow, but it was fading.

    I assumed the pink glow was lens flare until I saw similar photos posted to r/Austin on Reddit.

    bk1e, to random
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    Did he mention Demons 2? I guess that was last season.

    bk1e,
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    That computer monitor is in an incredibly unergonomic position.

    bk1e,
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    This is a lot like that X-Files episode about “scruffy minds” (Ghost in the Machine, 1x07).

    bk1e,
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    “Laura, it’s nice to see you,” while she stands there with bandages over her eyes. Awkward…

    bk1e,
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    Pretty sure I had a Trapper Keeper with the same print as those shorts.

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