whereistanya

whereistanya, 8 days ago to random

pharmacist: "do you have a rewards card?"
me: "no I only offer my data for mining by my credit card company, their 479 partners, your payment processor, whoever's running your security cameras, and the 30 apps on my phone that, despite my best efforts, are recording that I'm in a pharmacy right now"

(I didn't, I just said no thank you.)

whereistanya, 14 days ago to random

Last day of our month of dog sitting. A smarter person would have waited until tomorrow to start digging a strawberry garden but it was a beautiful evening and I am not that kind of smarter person. Oh my god, the happiest muddiest pup.

I had to put her in the shower afterwards, which wasn’t the most fun for any of us, but she had such a good time that it was almost worth it. 😁

whereistanya, 20 days ago to random

I've learned that you can get through a lot of phone trees by just saying "Human. Human. Human. HUMAN. HUMAN." until the robot gives up and connects you. It's still not reliable but I have a higher hit rate than trying six different paths through the tree, all of which get to dead ends.

I fucking hate robot answering trees.

whereistanya, 1 month ago to random

My new #1 requirement for devices and appliances and machines and robots of every kind is “does not beep at me.”

whereistanya, 1 month ago to random

I link to this paragraph by Eva Parish at least once a week.

"One of the best writing tips I've ever gotten was to avoid using demonstrative pronouns. Instead of saying “this” or “that,” you should add a noun to spell out exactly what you’re referring to, even if you’ve just mentioned it. "

https://evaparish.com/blog/how-i-edit#repeat

whereistanya, 1 month ago to random

An old post from @lethain, but I hadn't seen it before. This post is a rollercoaster 🤩

https://lethain.com/digg-v4/

whereistanya, 2 months ago to random

Edit: apparently this is an old one and not actually this week's outage. Sorry for the misinformation!

Nice incident writeup from Facebook:

https://m.facebook.com/nt/screen/?params=%7B%22note_id%22%3A10158791436142200%7D&path=%2Fnotes%2Fnote%2F

whereistanya, 2 months ago to random

Deep in the talk-writing stages of agony and despair. Why can’t I just be effortlessly smart and insightful? 😭

whereistanya, 2 months ago to random

Ms 11 invented a game where she and I insult each other using #bird names. "Go do your homework, you meadow pipit!" "I already finished it, you red winged blackbird!" "Hey, American wigeon, dinner's on the table" "Listen up, you scarlet tanager, you kinglet, you roseate spoonbill!" And so on. It's the best.

Today I caught her doing research on ebird.org 😂

whereistanya, 3 months ago to random

Duolingo is amazing to me. I'm sure real classes are more effective, but they take time I would never spend. Being able to do a few lessons on my phone every day doesn't feel like it should work, but it builds up.

I got to section 5 of the Spanish course a few weeks ago and wondered if I could read familiar books yet. So I got El Café de las Leyendas, the translation of Legends and Lattes. It works! Slow and I have to look up a lot of words, but it feels really neat to get to this milestone.

danilo, 3 months ago to random

@whereistanya compliments from a fellow (former) Burqueño!

whereistanya, 3 months ago to random

Doing tech support for a family friend.

Login to icloud on your iphone with an appleid which is a gmail address and then into your windows account on your laptop and that's also a gmail address but ofc with a different password, and Chrome on your iPhone and Chrome on your laptop talk to each other in ways you don't expect, but anyway your iPhone opens Safari half the time and Windows will convince you to use Edge if it kills you both so good luck finding where you opened gmail GODSPEED.

whereistanya, 3 months ago to random

Waiting for a phone call, which means I'm answering unknown numbers. It's horrible.

• "hello, this is a charity you gave money to a few years ago and... " "no thank you"

• "this is your electricity company with tips about how to save m..." "no thank you"

• "hey, I'm calling with a special offer..." "no thank you"

• we're calling to confirm your kid's dentist appointment... "no th... I mean, yeah, that's fine"

Turning off the ringer again.

whereistanya, 3 months ago to unexpected

Ms 11 knows that the first thing I do every morning is make coffee and she set this up to make me laugh. It worked 😂

(Our friend here is called Slof but it also responds to Sloof.)

#unexpected #sloth #encounter

whereistanya, 4 months ago to random

Is there an easy way to buy ebooks from local bookshops these days? I'm confused by how there's no obvious libro.fm or bookshop.org for ebooks.

Searching around I keep finding references to kobo having partnerships with indie bookshops, but it seems like that program has ended?

whereistanya, 6 months ago to random

Annual PSA: if you get seasonal depression, it's about time to get your SAD light out of wherever you put it last March and set it up on your desk.

Do it now before winter-brain kicks in and it's ten times harder to go up in the attic or whatever.

whereistanya, 6 months ago to random

I'm trying out pixelfed for birding pictures. Does anyone else use it? It's another fediverse app, but sort of instagram-shaped instead of twitter-shaped.

I was trying to understand how people use it and how it's different from mastodon. The best comment I've found is that mastodon is a stream that's intended to just be of the moment (esp if you don't enable search) and pixelfed is more like you're building a photo album over time. Is that how other people think of it?

whereistanya, 7 months ago to Birding

Accidental good #birding at the #Albuquerque #BalloonFiesta when a pair of white-faced ibises showed up. I've never seen an #ibis in the US before!

Ibis in flight with several balloons in the background.
Glossy greenish bird with a long beak against a sky full of balloons.

whereistanya, 7 months ago to brooklyn

Not actually ideal.

#flooding #brooklyn

whereistanya, 7 months ago to random

I remembered to put a bluetooth tracking tag into one of the boxes this morning, instead of twenty minutes after the moving truck pulled out. Great victory! Going on my list of lifetime achievements.