Martin Jambon 🌍🌎🌏 @mjambon@qoto.org

I'm still puzzled that the phrase "I was today years old when ..." makes sense to people. Let's see what we have:
- <today> is a placeholder for the person's age;
- the grammar is wrong unless we view "today" as some sort of placeholder, making the expression funny;
- this is to hide the embarrassment of just having learned something important that they wish they had learned earlier;
- there's nothing wrong in learning something late, making it hard for me to read to whole sentence other than literally: either you think it's cool to mock the lack of knowledge and want to pass for someone who knows a lot already, or you're humble about what you know and you're ignoring grammar completely which is weird for someone who reads.

#english #grammar #learning #boring #weird

Acrylic on oil. There are no rules.
#art #artistonmastodon #experimental

Having never lived near the equator, it's only today that I theorized that although summer and winter are astronomically-speaking indistinguishable at latitude zero, these seasons receive different sun exposure than spring-fall.
The midday sun on the equator is vertical twice a year at the equinoxes. On the tropics, the midday sun is vertical once a year, at the summer solstice. For other locations between the tropics, I'm guessing it also happens twice a year sometime between the summer solstice and the nearest equinoxes.
Now, I'm curious about actual climate differences between December and June at specific regions on the equator.
#earth #climate #math #geometry #astronomy #bathroomthoughts

I try to tolerate people who are wrong or that I don't like.

Do you own a website?

1. It must be a website:
1a. It links to external websites other than commercial partners.
1b. It's accessible to all without a sign-up process.

2. It must be yours:
2a. You're the main content contributor.
2b. It may not run ads imposed by your hosting platform.

#www #web #poll #tech #freedom

Ilgomano (la pêche au thon en boîte, d’après Salvador Dalí)
April 2024
61 cm × 91 cm, acrylic and brass leaf on plywood

#art #artistonmastodon #cannedtunafishing

Here is Instagram preventing me from posting a link to the web. The "Report a problem" link does nothing.

Evil.

It's so sad that people and artists in particular are generally bad at managing websites. It's so easy to create your own gallery page with paintings of other artists, directly linking to their galleries. If everyone did this, there would be an infinite gallery of artworks for everyone to visit; without ads or other imposed content.

#art #artistonmastodon #web #www

@QOTO @paulg @marius workaround: create a post containing their username, then click on the username to show the profile without leaving qoto.org, and hit "Follow".

Dear @QOTO, I'm getting a "500" error when searching for these Mastodon users on other servers in an attempt to follow them:
- @paulg
- @marius
I use the advanced web interface (screenshot). I checked that the mas.to server doesn't block qoto.org according to https://mas.to/about.

Yhsiop, March 2024.
You saw it first on Mastodon.

#art #artistonmastodon

I just found out by accident that the A0 paper format is designed to have a surface area of 1 m²! An A4 sheet is obtained by cutting an A0 sheet in half 4 times, giving a surface area of 1/16 m².

It came up while playing with formulas to price artworks based on their dimensions. I was using sqrt(height * width) to obtain the side length of the equivalent square and I was surprised to get a round number for sqrt(21 * 29.7).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size
#paper #math #art

They say "I forgive but I don't forget" but it misses the main point of forgiving, which is to not be haunted by the memory of the incident.

I forgive to better forget.

#thoughts #psychology

The problem is that if they use political correctness, they're being shallow which is ok, but if I do, it's hypocritical.

Yes, this should work: next time I want to accuse someone of being a hypocrite (which is bad), I'll assume they're just being shallow (which is better)... as an instance of "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" (known as Hanlon's razor).