Tara @twdockery@qoto.org

@Surasanji yes, I do know that feeling. It doesn't happen often, but occasionally, I want to curl up under my desk and cry, and have know idea why. Fortunately, it eventually passes.

@cambridgeport90 A tax day winter storm surprise?

@cambridgeport90 Thanks! What services are you self-hosting, versus using externally? Do you have any sort of NAS or SAN? What network pipe do you have? Sorry for being overly nosy, but my curiosity is based on trying to redefine my own home network needs.

I think I'm going to need to set up a DMZ to isolate a couple of Win XP systems that my sweetie insists on continuing to use.

@janellecshane strungle? 🤣

@cambridgeport90 what does your home server topology look like?

@hashtaggrammar I'm currently re-reading The Lord of the Rings yet again, as well as finishing up Little Women.
#Reading

@Trillenial I think those sort of pictures (technical term on keyboard) are the intersection of design cleverness and technical ignorance.

@Trillenial maybe the 'java' key would send a message to a hiring filter that can't distinguish the difference between Java and Javascript, and doesn't know that J2EE is now JEE.

@freemo all these emoji are great, but maybe a handful of famous women?

@mooselwhipes I expect that the efficacy of essential oils is not evenly distributed, with significant variation by essence, preparation, application, and individual. Also, never underestimate the power of placebos.

#Biology #TraditionalMedicine #PlaceboEffect #LavenderSmellsLovely

@mooselwhipes You have to rely on healthy foods to live a healthy life, too, and that is for the rest of your life as well.

Consider that there is no sharp line delineating medicines and healthy foods. It's more a continuum. Think of a range from fresh vegetables to traditional herbs to synthetic medications.

It's a matter of choosing to consume what your body needs for your current stage of life.
#ModernMedicine #GettingOld #Biology #EatYourVegetables

@freemo I saw a lot of those on the sand in Cannon Beach, OR last month. Very cool.
#bike #WhenIsATrikeABike

It's the 10th anniversary celebration at 3rd Rock Grid, a not-for-profit virtual world. Come for the music, stay for the confusion! If you've always wondered what this virtual world thing was about, take a look at www.3rdrockgrid.com.
#3rdRockGrid #3rg #opensim #vr

If you are known as the Knight with Two Swords, it doesn't do to get caught in a situation with only one broken sword! #MortDathur #Mallory #SirBalyn #BeltAndSuspenders

Sir Balyn in Le Morte d'Arthur is just about the most bad-luck prone knight I have ever read about. Don't stand too near him, or a castle might collapse on you.
#Malory #LeMorteDarthur #KingArthur #BadLuck

@tdnvl I've always said zamp, on the analogy of xylophone and Xerxes.

@freemo I love it. It's a nice balance to the techie side of my life. Probably better than using Quenya variable names. 👩‍💻

Mae g'ovannen, @LadyAnnatar

Another Tolkienista finding her way into Mastodon. I'm not so much into RP, though I do dabble online in LOTRO.

Namárië!

#tolkien #lotro #mythgard

These days I'm following along in #mythgard online discussion of Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Artur" in the original Middle English. Fun!

#kingarthur

The #mythgard community and #signum are definitely musts for fans of #tolkien or his circle of friends, the #inklings, as well as other medieval and speculative literature.

Mythgard includes free online seminars and discussions. There is also an annual conference, #mythmoot, in the DC/Baltimore area, as well as various smaller one-day conferences throughout North America and London.

Signum University is a masters degree granting online institution recently licensed by the state of New Hampshire that also offers auditing of their courses. There are courses taught by a range of scholars in things ranging from Old Norse to C.S. Lewis to Science Fiction.

Dr Olsen, aka "The Tolkien Professor" has a couple of long-running podcasts under his own name and Mythgard Academy.

See mythgard.org as a starting point.

Whew! That's much longer than I'd normally post! But you did ask, @freemo ;-)