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chris

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Infrastructure geek. Award-winning journalist. Full-stack developer. Pro-democracy.

Eats, shoots and leaves.

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chris, to california
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Back in , DTLA to be precise, for Youngest Daughter's graduation, then back home to Santa Cruz.

Staying in the Biltmore, which is the LAist place ever.

Expect to see a gumshoe walk in and slap a cheap gunsel around while letting an insult float by with the breeze before asking a frail dripping with diamonds for a light.

tomjennings, to random
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Oh no! A review from a customer of 30 years ago!

A pleasant assessment of The Little Garden ISP from a customer POV. It skips over the parts where I/we would be up at 4am sitting in the dark in my underpants in front of a terminal solving panics but hey time wounds all heels or something.

https://blog.dshr.org/2024/04/the-little-garden.html

chris,
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@tomjennings

Good times.
We used a $1200 Telebit Trailblazer to connect to UUNET in Virginia at a blazing 112k three times a day back then.

We eventually had 20 phone lines dropped to our house in Santa Cruz and one day got a knock on the door from Vic, the local PacBell installer wondering what in the world we were up to.

Later we moved to the same building downtown as scruznet and shared their T1 connection to TLG.

chris, to random
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"Bladeless Swiss Army Knife"
Wut?

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/08/1249961060/swiss-army-knife-victorinox-bladeless

chris, to Energy
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Renewable energy grows to 30% of world supply. Yay.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/renewable-energy-passes-30-of-worlds-electricity-supply

chris, to random
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Related to absolutely nothing in the news today:

Checkov: Keptin! They poot creatures in my ear!

Wileymiller, to random
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It's SO obvious. The Deep State planted the worm in RFK jr's brain.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/rfk-jr-brain-health-memory-loss.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qU0.NUj_.8YmHTC3F9nfd&smid=url-share

chris,
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@Wileymiller
Thanks for the gift link!

ai6yr, to Software

😅BBC: North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs😭
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68942321

chris,
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@ai6yr

Error: divide by '

MostlyHarmless, to random
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chris,
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@MostlyHarmless
@ai6yr

Throwing down.
Show me what ya got, fediverse:

Said a sign outside John Limerick Station
"Look, my people need a vacation"
...?

ai6yr, to Gambling

Dave & Buster's Casino, coming near you soon? https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/05/dave-busters-is-adding-real-money-betting-options-to-arcade-staples/

chris,
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@ai6yr

Can't wait.

Ima skeeball wizard.
There has to be a twist.
A skeeball wizard's
Got such a supple wrist.

chris, to random
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The news is full of history loudly rhyming and people being on the wrong side of history today.

exador23, to random
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Another addition to the #DIYArmsRace #TankBling #CopeCage collection.

A log cabin tank. Seems to make it a little top heavy.

Video of a Russian tank outfitted with large wooden logs around the turret and a cope cage above that. shows the tank maneuvering, kind of sways a lot from being top heavy. the narration is in russian without translation of subtitles.

chris,
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@exador23
If nothing else, it increases the tank roof insulation to R49.

chris, to random
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Happy Beginning of Fire Season to those who celebrate.

CalFire permits are required for most outdoor residential burns starting today. 🔥

Nonilex, to america
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What emerged in 2 interviews w/ , & conversations w/more than a dozen of his closest advisers & confidants,were the outlines of an imperial presidency that would reshape & its role in the world. To carry out a operation designed to remove >11M people from the country…he would be willing to build migrant detention camps [] & deploy the …


https://time.com/6972021/donald-trump-2024-election-interview/

chris,
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@peterbutler @Nonilex
The transcript is painful to read, because if it were my grandpa, our family would be having a difficult discussion on his future care.

One can only imagine his advisers appalled at him doing this interview and trying to talk him out of it, but he wouldn't listen because he spent his entire life wanting to be on the cover of Time.

ai6yr, to random

Sigh, the right wing is all on the bird flu in dairy as a massive conspiracy to make you drink soy milk. 🙄

chris,
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@ai6yr @exador23

Geez. Don't remind me.
I still have a warehouse full of nacho cheese flavored fish tank cleaner and no buyers.

bikemonterey, to cycling
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"On my way out of I passed a Salvation Army truck dispensing a hot lunch to the homeless, including quite a few bike hobos. They hailed me saying there was plenty of food. The ham and scalloped potatoes and broccoli was as nutritious a meal as I’ve had.” George Christensen, from his 3/1/19 blog post on visiting Monterey County and neighboring locales https://georgethecyclist.blogspot.com/2019/03/gilroy-california.html


"George Christensen, age 73, of Countryside, Illinois, was traveling west on Highway 34 in Ridgeway, SC when he was struck by a truck [driver] also traveling west on Highway 34." https://chi.streetsblog.org/2024/04/24/legendary-chicago-bicycle-traveler-and-writer-george-christensen-killed-by-truck-driver-in-south-carolina

chris,
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@bikemonterey
Thanks for posting this.
RIP George.

ai6yr, to H5N1

AgWeb: USDA Now Requiring Mandatory Testing and Reporting of HPAI in Dairy Cattle as New Data Suggests Virus Outbreak is More Widespread https://www.agweb.com/news/livestock/dairy/usda-now-requiring-mandatory-testing-and-reporting-hpai-dairy-cattle-new-data

chris,
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@ai6yr
I'm H5N1 intolerant so goodby dairy. And chicken. And beef.

What's left?
Mmmmm. Cordyceps.

chris,
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@ai6yr
First, thanks for posting all the updates.

I was cogitating this morning on going back to vegetarian.

Feeding cow brains and spines to other cows led to prions in the food chain, now we learn "chicken litter" is fed to cows and suddenly bits of H5N1 are showing up all over the place.

We'll be back in Cali soon, land of the ubiquitous certified organic farmers market.

exador23, to random
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One more

Not exactly a tank, but look at this beast of a cope cage. lol.

Makes me want to do that on my little Ford . It's small enough that I could have a cope cage in the size and shape of a GMC Yukon XL or Chevy Suburban SUV, or maybe a cybertruck to protect me from all the land yacht death machines on SoCal freeways.

Some sort of wheeled military truck with a massive cope cage frame around it covered in chicken wire and with dangling chains mounted to the front bottom.

chris,
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@exador23
Years ago, got to tour the Littlefield private collection of tanks and other military vehicles in Portola Valley. Included were a selection of various old RPG launchers with dummy rounds and vehicles which had been hit by RPGs.

Now drone delivered anti-tank ordinance?

No way I want to be a tanker.

chris,
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@exador23
Whelp.

ai6yr, to random

USC's Alumni Park getting a wee bit out of hand today... #protestors #usc https://ktla.com/news/local-news/pro-palestinian-protesters-police-scuffle-on-usc-campus/

chris,
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@ai6yr
What joy.
Our daughter is graduating from USC on May 10 and we're flying into LA to attend. Already bummed their admin cancelled the valedictorian's speech.

chris,
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@ai6yr
We're in NYC right now and the Columbia protests are happening a few blocks away.
Loud young adults peacefully protesting abuses is not a problem for our family.

Who knows? Maybe we'll get kettled and tear gassed.

chris, to random
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Is nothing sacred?
Now they're fucking with Scooby Doo.

chris, to random
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Looks like it is.
https://www.montereyherald.com/2024/04/23/avian-flu-outbreak-raises-a-disturbing-question-is-our-food-system-built-on-poop/

ai6yr, (edited ) to H5N1

Bird flu virus found in grocery milk as officials say supply still safe (Gift Link, thanks @firefly !) https://wapo.st/3JxBHpf #birdflu #h5n1 #hpai #cows #milk

chris,
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@tiamat271 @ai6yr @firefly

Ah yes. The scene from 2012 where John Cusack busts into his ex-wife's place to scoop them up into his limo and yells "When they tell you not to panic THAT's WHEN YOU RUN."

(Rodney Dangerfield chuckle while adjusting collar) Right?

exador23, to random
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Oh geez. The British and their tabloids...

EXCLUSIVE: Chilling warning UK super rats addicted to kebabs and fried chicken now 'impossible to kill' https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/chilling-warning-uk-super-rats-32522683

A top pest controller revealed the most common mistake people make that will cause an infestation in their homes or gardens - and it's creating a generation of super mutant rats.

“I’ve seen big beasts before with really thick and absolutely huge tails. When they are around fast food places, the rats are able to eat pure protein from items such as burgers and fried chicken which makes them grow bigger.”

chris,
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@exador23
NYC Pizza Rat: Hold my beer.

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