Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

@Nekokawaigari Thanks, they said it is pretty common and the water will eventually get absorbed into the rest of my body.

Did double red cell donation today; normally this is a very nice experience because you get some saline infusions to rehydrate you, but apparently today I accidentally got a little hole in my vein and all the saline just went into the space around my veins and muscles and such.

So now one of my arms is all inflated like a water balloon 😅 I will spare you the picture, but it looks like a lumpy potato 🥔😛

@poleguy Doesn’t look like there is any Braille on the sign.

To be fair I do think these signs are primarily there to communicate that the button doesn’t affect the timing of the signal.

I don’t know how long I’ve seen these signs before realizing the fundamental mismatch between the medium and the intended audience here…

#hashtag

@kevin Yeah I dunno who these people are who think you can get from one place to another in less than 15 minutes. If you told me I could prevent nuclear apocalypse by getting from my house to the closest grocery store in less than 15 minutes I would probably just start calling my loved ones to say goodbye.

@jimray Sure, but the allergy came on suddenly, then went away immediately when we went to Spain, then came back on when we were in a different city in Spain. It would be useful if we could eyeball it and see what correlates with the attacks.

Does anyone know of a site that has historical pollen index data (just needs to cover the last few weeks)? I am trying to figure out what precisely my son may be to.

Seems to me like all the pollen sites are like weather sites, where they only enter give the current values and forecasts.

#pollen #allergies

@quentinpradet I don’t want to fly to Spain every month to buy a case of yogurts, but I don’t see that I have any other options.

This is going to turn me into one of those airline miles people who gets on random flights to Singapore for the points, except I’m going to have to set up an alert for any time plane tickets to anywhere in Spain drop below $100 so I can show up for 3 hours to buy yogurt and then fly right back.

@adamchainz Getting slightly closer to the states…

Do they have this specific brand and flavor of yogurt outside of Spain? I think it is basically Oikos Triple Zero, but this particular flavor is super good (it has little chunks of banana in it), and doesn’t compare to the banana cream flavor we have in the States.

Apparently if you filter a Danish it turns into a donut, which is something smokers prefer?

Since it came up several times at #pyconus, I thought I’d post here. The method I’ve been using to learn Spanish (and liking quite a bit), is Comprehensible Input.

A good starting point for finding information about CI, and finding materials in your target language is Compehensible Input Wiki

For Spanish, I started with Dreaming Spanish

#comprehensibleinput #languagelearning

Anyone know how I can get Github Actions to let me overwrite /usr/share/zoneinfo?

Mac OS runners install some rearguard bullshit: https://github.com/dateutil/dateutil/actions/runs/9162760198/job/25190408177?pr=1130

#github #github-actions

Very tempted to just drop MacOS builds from dateutil’s CI rather than deal with whatever is going on here.