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pjohanneson

@pjohanneson@mstdn.ca

Part-time prevaricator.

University webmaster, #WordPress #Multisite maven, #PrairieSF #writer, #judo instructor... dang that's a lot of hats.

Avatar: Hallie Bateman
Header image: Alex Plante (Painting of blue sky over a wheat field, in the colour scheme of Ukraine's flag; I'll keep this as my header till Russia leaves Ukraine)

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badastro, to random
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You may have heard the aphorism: There are more stars in the heavens than grains of sand in all the beaches on Earth.

Lovely, yes? But… is it true?

I did the math, and spoilers: Bet on sand.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-stars-outnumber-the-sands-of-earths-beaches/

pjohanneson,
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@badastro You talked about beaches and then calculated based on ocean shorelines. Did you include or exclude beaches on lakes, too? (Or would that be a rounding error swallowed up by, as you mentioned, the fact there's more sand in the Sahara than all the beaches combined?)

RickiTarr, to random
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New York Times articles be like:

All Experts Say Water Is Wet, But Is It? Three Unstable People That Want You To Join Their MLM Religion Disagree.

pjohanneson,
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@rooster @RickiTarr Is that the one with the song "Oklahoma, OK, sure Jan"

RickiTarr, to random
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Important Question: Why is this image so overtly sexual?

pjohanneson,
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@RickiTarr Unrelated: If you haven't read the sequel to E.T.—titled E.T.: The Book of the Green Planet—you really should.

https://ettheextraterrestrial.fandom.com/wiki/The_Book_of_the_Green_Planet

pjohanneson, to random
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Hope this holds and it's not cloudy tonight.

pjohanneson, to random
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Nicely done, 22 Minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85FD0ogBGec

pjohanneson, to random
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To the dad in front of me in the line at the checkout desk at the public library yesterday, getting cards sorted out for his four kids and who kept looking at me like he wanted to apologize for taking so long:

It's all good. I'm happy to see people getting library cards. I'm even happier to see kids excited about getting library cards. Public libraries are super important and four more enthusiastic clients can only be a good thing.

RickiTarr, to random
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What's a good movie to watch with your Mom?

pjohanneson,
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@RickiTarr Triplets of Belleville, maybe.

RickiTarr, to random
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Whenever I see "art" like this I always have to zoom in, and make sure it's AI, because the thought of an artist actually putting in effort for something like this gives me indigestion.

pjohanneson,
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@RickiTarr Someone more clever than I pointed out that Jesus' gun of choice would be a nail gun, since He's a carpenter.

zachleat, to random
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what’s the name for that feeling when a SaaS product has a delayed workflow that takes such an inconsistent and unpredictable amount of time that you suspect the automation is fake and a human is behind the scenes configuring things manually

pjohanneson,
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@zachleat Reverse Turing test

pjohanneson, to random
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Oh, The Beaverton, never change.

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2024/03/alberta-to-opt-out-of-pharmacare-renewable-energy-the-wheel/

MLE_online, to random
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I started my week going to the dentist for the first time in seven years. No cavities! Dentist says my teeth look great

pjohanneson,
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@MLE_online Did you say "See you in 2031!" as you left?

pjohanneson, to random
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VMware's blog said "the industry has already embraced subscription as the standard for cloud consumption."

"embraced" is sure a weird spelling of "foisted upon its userbase".

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/broadcom-ends-vmware-perpetual-license-sales-testing-customers-and-partners/

pjohanneson, to HashtagGames
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Not every song has to be verse-chorus-verse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4OhIU-PmB8

thomasfuchs, to random
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I believe I found a CD that’s not yet on archive.org—to the ripper, Batman

pjohanneson,
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@thomasfuchs Plot twist: it is in fact on archive.org, because you put it there in 2009, the previous time you found it

pjohanneson, to random
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grammargirl, to random
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Pro Tip: If you ever have to make up a fake company to use in a presentation, make it a dog-themed company.

It makes choosing stock art vastly more fun than choosing art for a bank or ... pretty much anything.

pjohanneson,
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@grammargirl Related: https://placedog.net/

pjohanneson,
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@grammargirl Or, if you're a cat person: https://placekitten.com/

pjohanneson, to Rabbits
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Happy leap day, say hi to Hoss.1

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1 Short for "Hasenpfefer".2
2 Blame my wife.

Alice, to random
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Don’t mind me, I’m just over here drawing Juggalo faces on Family Circus characters.

pjohanneson,
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@TruthSandwich @Alice

Can anyone?

flockofnazguls, (edited ) to random
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    pjohanneson,
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    @flockofnazguls Diskettes, I think; I remember it was Slackware.

    Edit Just checked, and it seems like Slackware's still around.

    pjohanneson, to random
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    Current status: watching the Wizard of Oz mini-episode of Futurama. Impressive how they pack a two-hour movie into like 8 minutes.

    "Who needs courage when you have a gun?"

    pjohanneson,
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    @alexstandiford "Go home to your dirt-farming, teetotaling relatives."

    pjohanneson,
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    @alexstandiford It's one of the top 3 Futurama episodes, for sure. #1 will always be "Roswell That Ends Well", of course.

    pjohanneson,
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    @alexstandiford Yeah, 300 Big Boys rounds out the top three. (That's the one where Fry drinks 100 cups of coffee, right? And stops time.)

    WorkWithKirk, to random
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    Actors whose names you can't remember

    pjohanneson,
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    @WorkWithKirk That guy. You know the one. He was... he was in Star Trek. Or was it Star Wars? The one with all the aliens.

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