adam w.k. @sabbatical@qoto.org

my dad found a pretty wild medical text at a local charity shop

all these people scrambling to back up their old google analytics data before the whole system gets deleted on july 1. makes me glad i got the process going last week. bet there’s crazy amounts of API requests slamming google right now.

@levisan there’s a reason christmas fruit cakes just have more depth with the rum in there and it’s not bc you’re getting drunk of it (probably)

@levisan it’s pretty hard to mimic the bite and aroma of alcohol in mixed drinks though, which is often why the virgin versions somehow lack something

@alan hark, the hydroone approacheth! ready thy heat pumpes!

@levisan now if you were to spell it “en root” i would judge harshly!

@hllizi @CGdoppelpunkt @shafik honestly, i’m guilty of it too. it’s all too easy to speak without really saying much.

@tchambers @dansup reminds me of path!

@levisan i dont say it, but it's literally the same thing only in english, so i wouldnt really judge someone for it. plus around here all the big highway reststops are called "ONroute"

@corbin @schizanon this was fascinating. thanks for posting!

@levisan hah, i call it a lay-zee desk (as in i lay all zee way down while using it)

one thing i really miss from twitter is the people who would do in-depth threads on history/archaeology/science/trivia topics. do those accounts exist on mastodon?

@CGdoppelpunkt @shafik problem is, “sentence-shaped sentences” is also what humans produce much of the time. chatgpt often makes more sense and says things in a clearer way than many of the people i went to school with and worked with.

@levisan they’re worth it, esp if you wait around for a deal! this one is by monoprice and was less than $60 open box via amazon warehouse. some of them don’t tilt downwards though (like the amazon basics one i had before), so watch for that

cuff the duke @ zsantuary, oakland, ontario

well, got one dvd burned. waiting on some new discs to do the others. in the meantime, putting the dvd covers together. difficult to find cases in stores nearby, so had to cannibalize some old wii games and movies

@Kancept i never had the chance to use it, but loved mimicking the be and next OS UI's on my mac with kaleidoscope themes.

i had the brilliant idea to do custom DVDs of the "tolkien edit" of the hobbit movies for a father's day gift. now at a friend's house attempting to burn dual layer DVDs on their old imac, and it's not going well. got the message "disc burning failed due to a medium write error" after spending 1.5hr burning the first.