Crazy wind and rain in #PaloAlto took down my HF #hamradio antenna. Power is out too, with lots of very localized flooding (mostly clogged storm drain intakes)
Do you, or have you ever, used a graphical user interface? If you use #Windows, #macOS, or any version of #Linux with a window manager or desktop environment, you can thank Dr. Clarence "Skip" Ellis.
Dr. Ellis worked at Xerox PARC, the research organization that developed the modern GUI. Icons, windows, the mouse, Ethernet-based networking, laser printing - all of these (and more) came out of PARC. Dr. Ellis led the team that created Officetalk, the first program to use icons and the Internet. He got his start at 15 years old showing a local tech company how to reuse punch cards, which was a game-changer back in 1958.
Oh, and he was also the first black man to earn a PhD in Computer Science.
@drwex@aires@blackmastodon I started in 89, though I was there part time a bit while still in college. I left with Jeff and Michael Begeman to start CMSI to (try to) commercialize the gIBIS project
@Ricardus I do not. This was the built in Web view inside of of the "Toot!" iOS app, but running on my home network where I block lots of ad domains at the DNS level.
Hey #histodon, would love some reading recommendations about how #LBJ, the least likely motherfucker out there, actually worked out how to make nuclear non-proliferation happen. Like, how did he actually implement the recommendations from the Gilpatric report diplomatically.
Please assume I don’t have research library access, as I am but a humble corporate whore.
Is there a Firefox plugin that redirects Mastodon links from other instances to your own instance automatically, so that you can boost and reply without entering your domain?
@mattblaze I love the “Secular Cathedral “ idea too. Perhaps you’ve seen the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris ? Essentially a science museum housed in a former monastery.
I can't believe Taylor Swift had the audacity to be beautiful, talented, and hard-working, accumulating success, fame, wealth, and industry-wide respect, simultaneously proving her haters wrong while inspiring millions of teenage girls, and didn't bother to run it by curmudgeonly old white dudes who haven't listened to new music since the 90's.
1/4 Thanks to everyone who has wishes us well during this polar plunge in temps. ❤️ Skye is modelling her (very 🇨🇦😂) flannel in preparation for the -40C/-48C windchill tonight. #SkyeLove
