After 9/11 my workmates would nearly forcibly stop me from saying my sandwich order name. "Just don’t!” "Don’t!” But, I wanted no confusion with the order, but never used it again (often after severe warnings).
Tomorrow’s the last day of Premier League action and we’re going to make a big breakfast to celebrate. I’m betting @vanderwal is going to be watching, anyone else getting up early in my Pacific time zone?
@Luke@beep Nova has a preview side window with split pane? I use this with non-dynamically generated pages, or take HTML output and point to the CSS I'm modding and it shows changes live (or perhaps with a save)
@Luke with Coda I had it connected to my online dev version of my “CMS”. I haven’t been able to get that working (online or locally) in Nova, mostly due to I have so much dev cruft from years of trying and using things. (I know, containers)
@Luke I have used that workflow with git with grabbing the CSS from git to work on it locally with a set of pages that point to it and refresh. When done I commit it back to git and do a pull request to bring the updated CSS back to where it should be. Then trigger a script to grab it and drop it into place on my site.
I don’t have git running on my hosting server. But, I also do this infrequently enough that I don't remember my workflow the next time and come up with a new way.
@Brilliantcrank This last weekend I stopped in my local indi bookshop and they had a small book called Shopkeeping: Stories, Advice, and Observations by Peter Miller (bookseller).
I picked it up as it seemed to cover how to design and run a shop really well. Just the thing for a newstand.
Have you run across the book?
Reading the first couple chapters it really hits the mark and more from what I was expecting.
@thomasfuchs I'm just starting to pay attention to the Eurovision happenings of the week.
I through the event had started, as I hadn't sorted out the time yet, but I know it is normally an 20h British start time and 21h European start. I always things are going to change and I'm going to miss it. I've watched / followed it for about 18 year now (after being in Amsterdam in 2006 and wondered why it was empty after a dinner with friends. I had it explained to me and shown.
Seeing Dune 2 in IMAX was stunning. I really wished I had seen Dune on the big screen.
The soundscapes and the physical immersion through sound in the theater was almost too loud, but everything audibly was pristine (except for a slap in the face that didn't sound right at all).
I fell down a bit of a rabbit hole around Dune 2 and wished I had gone with another / others to chat with after.
Dune 2 seemed better crafted than the first, but trying to separate IMAX out of that perception.
@hotdogsladies You don't know how happy you just made me by seeing this in my timeline. I just booked IMAX tickets for midday showing. I made it before it left the theater.
I started watching the Danish crime series, “Below the Surface". I know about six words or phrases of Danish and it isn't a language in a language family close to know I have some understanding of. Having to read the subtitles for everything and really focus.
@hotdogsladies It is one movie that in the first 30 minutes I hit the, "oh, hell no" point and gave up not wanting to return. In the early-ish cable years the first couple of Omen movies were perfectly fine.
@agiletortoise@hotdogsladies When I was in grad school at Georgetown and lived just over Key Bridge in Arlington, those steps were the shorter path, but not the easier path to get to campus walking. Going down those steps at night it always seemed the steps tilted the wrong way, so I often avoided them.
Today, April 3, is the birthday of Brother Marie-Victorin Kirouac. Brother Marie-Victorin was a botanist who was passionate about the plants of his native St. Lawrence River valley. At a time when the Canadian scientific establishment was anglo dominated, he proved that Quebecois could contribute to science. His 1935 magnum opus, Flore laurentienne, remains the definitive guide to this ecoregion. His personal collection was the basis of the Montreal Botanical Garden.
Wired smoke (and CO2) alarms that start to die chirp really loudly every 60 to 90 minutes. They really shouldn't do this in the middle of the night, particularly if nothing can be done outside of “business hours”.
@Luke The detectors only last 10 years and the whole unit needs to be replaced. I’ve been living here 12 years. The wired detectors are connected into the whole building detection network.
This was the quickest maintenance ticket completion ever.
