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cs

@cs@mastodon.sdf.org

Overeducated, underqualified. Always a dabbler, never a professional. He/him/his. I am in #Denton TX USA

#sdf #powerpop #pcusa #economics #geography #cartography #transportation #ActiveTransportation #policing #SocialJustice
I love #cars but would rather be riding the #bus and #trains

Just an opinionated SDF member for 18+ years.

[Profile header is version of The Fight Between Carnival and Lent, Pieter Bruegel]

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cs, to glass
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Just saw a video on Superfest glass, which used ion exchange to produce stronger glass. The process was developed by Corning at about the same time. While there was a ready market in DDR for , there wasn't much market for either in the West. Superfest closed in the early 1990s, and Corning shelved their product, until smartphone manufacturers came looking for tougher screens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfest

cs,
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This is the video: https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=vEvBpjCOBu0 (invidious)

cs,
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Oh, and went searching for glasses on eBay only to find out they go for $25-$50 ea for beer glasses.

cs, to random
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What killed Red Lobster? Sure, blundered promotions, but that is not the big thing--they might have recovered from that. The big thing is PE & their propensity to kill things off, sucking marrow from the bone of generally productive concepts. Debt loading is one way, but also real estate shenanigans. Don't come in and pretend you're helping a company grow by selling off assets then making the lease them back at above-market rates.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/21/business/red-lobster-endless-shrimp-bankruptcy/index.html

cs, to Geology
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East Coast has a giant under-seabed freshwater aquifer. How did it get there?

#Hydrology #geology #waterResources #ResourceGeography #Geomorphology #freshwater
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/what-put-huge-quantities-of-freshwater-under-the-seabed/

cs, to Youtube
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Good job #Youtube! There is no indication that this set of buttons can be swiped left to reveal more items. #UI #UX

cs, to Sports
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I am not a guy, but the is so well constructed that I just can’t stop it. It really gets you emotionally invested.

curtisysmith, to random
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How was my weekend? I went to an alt country show with an old friend, a very Trumpy dude.

I saw a lot. lol

Interesting crowd. The headliner, Race Ricketts, opened with the lyric, "Imma pacifist.... pass a fist right through your jaw." Crowd was whooping and hollering. Gotta admit, it's a good line. I'm still humming it in my head lol

A 'drop to his knee, ring on her finger' engagement happened right next to me, at the front of the stage, during the song Honky Tonk Hell.

An hour earlier, the prospective groom started talking to me on the patio at Dan's because I had a Cubs hat on.
"Holy shit! Are you a Cubs fan?"
"No"
"Are you a baseball fan?"
"No, it's just a hat that fits"
"Well, I'm from Illinois, but don't tell anyone I'm really a Cardinals fan."
"Ah, my dad's family is from St Louis"
"You seem like a pretty cool guy. Can I give you my mom's phone number? She gives the best blowjobs in the history of the world"
"Uh, thanks, but I'm good on that right now"

I took their engagement photo on the patio after the show. Early 20s probably. Dude-o asked if I had a dollar, rolled it up and they kissed, with the rolled dollar stuck up both their noses. I didn't ask for my dollar back. Then he asked me if I wanted a bump. Still good, dude-o

cs,
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@jetsilver @curtisysmith 😳 I can’t even…

cs, to random
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Unexpected trip to Carlos E. Queijo

cs,
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Ice cream machine displays $1 ice cream but says you have to go to front counter. So we go to front counter and order the $1 ice cream. They said they don’t have it, but they have a $3. So we order that. They give us a beeper for our order. Then the guy comes out from the back and opens the vending machine with a key and gives it to us. 😝🥳

cs, to random
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Someone at church has updated this poster using Post-It notes.

cs, to random
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AFC Helmold has played in the same grounds since 1878.

Me, wow, that sure doesn’t look like an old stadium. Look at Wikipedia… Updated 1900. Expanded 1936. Refurbished 1958. Rebuilt 1979. Remodeled 2019.

So it’s really a Stadium of Theseus thing…

cs, to mastodon
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Just noticed that @Chron stopped posting to at the end of February. 😢

cs, to austin
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How did the rumor get started about Steiner Ranch being full of ? | KUT Radio, 's NPR Station
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https://www.kut.org/austin/2024-05-16/how-did-the-rumor-get-started-about-steiner-ranch-being-full-of-swingers

cs, to baltimore
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Much of the crew remains on board seven weeks after the collision with the https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/18/us/baltimore-bridge-dali-ship-crew

cs, (edited ) to MandelaEffect
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“I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.”

Nelson Mandela: Maybe Not a Saint, But He Kept on Trying and Gave Us All He Had - ABC News (2013)

https://abcnews.go.com/International/nelson-mandela-saint-gave-us/story?id=19369750

fmhilton, to random
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"Kilroy was here" was found on an ancient castle walls.
From about Napoleon's time.
Some things never change and bored soldiers with knives is one of them. Graffiti is their hobby when not fighting..
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/17/travel/graffiti-english-castle-napoleon-scli-intl-scn/index.html

cs,
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@fmhilton Nomina stultorum semper parietibus haerent. and Nomina stultorum ubique locorum scribuntur. Sometimes translated as "The names of fools are written on the walls." And I found a related English proverb "A white wall is a fool's paper." 😄

cs,
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@fmhilton Of course, there's this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjOfQfxmTLQ

cs, to random
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This time on One Song Diallo Riddle and LUXXURY not only tackle a song that, arguably, possesses the ultimate accolade: It is Diallo’s favorite song to sing at karaoke. “Head Over Heels” by Tears for Fears is not the British synth pop group’s biggest hit – that would be “Mad World”, “Sowing the Seeds of Love”, or “Shout” – but Diallo makes a strong case for why there’s no better song to belt out at 2am in a karaoke bar.

https://overcast.fm/+BCYuPHQoWk

cs, (edited ) to random
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Do you have your own web site? Do you use https for it?

cs,
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Read 3 as "haven't" -- it may be obvious, but maybe not.

cs,
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@bwbuhse Easy for some. My tilde site at sdf.org does it for me.

My other (hobby) sites are hosted on shared servers with registration at another company. If I did registration/DNS/hosting together, they would do it for me, but because of my setup, I have to contact support to install. Let's encrypt certs only last 90 days. That becomes a project. If you self-host or otherwise run your own virtual server, things might be different.

cs,
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Also, if you don't want Let's encrypt, you can get basic SSL for as low as ~$7.00/yr

cs,
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Here's where I get into problems doing Let's Encrypt on my shared hosting...

This means I would have to use the manual option, and that would require manually updating it every 90 days or contacting support each time.

cs,
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@rmbolger I've considered this, but there's a lot of moving parts, and as a hobbyist, this all comes out of my pocket. I just renewed my annual hosting in February, too. I put the call out in January asking folks if they had any recommendations, and no one did (obviously I don't have much reach as a mastodon user).

cs,
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