🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇 @2ck@qoto.org

When I was 19, I impulse-bought Tuttle Learning Chinese Characters. It proceeded to languish on my shelf until I was 34 and suddenly decided to get serious about Chinese. I am now 36 and as of this morning know all 800 characters taught by this book and about 400 more besides. The final character is "win".

why are you always late for work??

#Caturday

I found where they make all the tech products

Unique, twisting dust lanes are prominent in this Hubble image—an edge-on view of lenticular galaxy NGC 4753. That dust likely was pulled in during a merger with a dwarf galaxy more than 1 billion years ago. Credit: NASA, ESA, and L. Kelsey.

I don't know who needs to hear this (yes I do), but if the "slick" UI thing you want to do creates a frustrating experience for assistive tech users, it's not slick. It's just clunky and weird, and probably creates other weird issues you haven't considered. Users don't want weird clunky new interactions you've dreamed up. Do the boring thing.

I spend so much of my time trying to stop people from doing weird things in our UI. That's like 50% of my job at this point.

New blog post: Ultrasonic investigations in shopping centres

Many PA systems emit a continuous high-frequency tone for troubleshooting purposes. It gets modulated in interesting ways by the urban bustle.

https://www.windytan.com/2024/06/ultrasonic-investigations-in-shopping.html

Dripped three drops of the brown glaze accidentally and made the cutest piece of pottery I will ever make in my life

I have loads of grading and stupid committee stuff and proposals to read and (another) thesis to read (and still that awful referee response to deal with) and my kids are super grumpy.

But I just scheduled an interview for a National Geographic article later in the week so that's pretty darn cool.

Also, baby goats are coming sooooon. First goat mama is due on Sunday!

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#FediAdmin #FediAdmins #AdminSupport #SysAdmin #NetworkAdmin #IT

The bike shop I work at, #REI, just got back to me to tell me that they are going ahead with their policy of installing cameras in the shop to monitor employees. They say these are not used to track productivity, but the CEO is a union busting ex-Amazon executive and he has given himself that power, so that's enough for me. My last day will be mid-May and I am now properly desperate to find a new job before I loose my house. Leads in the bike or software industry welcome in or around #Atlanta.

If you're willingly going swimming in the river through Paris, you're in seine.

friday night posting be like

Homemade pizza tonight, baybee

The lockdown project for one of my parents neighbours was to build a scale model of the lake district from Lego. It’s now in the local museum.

It’s #BlackHistoryMonth so it’s a good time to celebrate the extraordinary mathematician and NASA scientist Katherine Johnson (née Coleman; 1918 – 2020). One of the first Black women employed as a NASA scientist (& its predecessor NACA), she was known for her mastery of complex manual calculations of orbital mechanics & played a pivotal role 🧵1/
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #NASA #MastoArt #KatherineJohnson #mathematician #aeronauticalEngineer #physics #space

@epiceneVivant for some amazing queer figure skating I also wholeheartedly recommend this ice dance program https://youtu.be/tCugp67NNmU?si=B83UUHhGUgzbcrfr

Title: Twilight in Snow (c.1940s)

Artist: Kasamatsu Shiro

https://allabout-japan.com/en/article/10191/ #ShinHanga #SosakuHanga #KasamatsuShiro #Art #Showa #Snow #Winter #Japan