@landonhere
Ruffles, don't fall asleep here. It's not safe!
Ah, such a small delicate thing you are.
And yet, you rebooted a giant organic superstructure and brought peace between two godlike entities of which you have no understanding. But why?
I don't know if I'll ever understand, but in any case, you're always welcome here.
For now, though, I still have a lot of information to catch up on.*leaves flowers on Dragon System’s grave*
TOP 10 FUN FACTS:
DRAGON IS FULLY UNRESPONSIVE AND IS CONSIDERED NO LONGER OPERATIONAL
NO BUFFER REMAINS
[[EDIT]] FALSE ALARM, SORRYIf you really think about it, elevators are more than a little nightmarish. There are three ways to die by elevator, but many lesser tragedies can arise from their misuse, intentional or otherwise . . .
One day, someone delivering a large package came through the lobby, unknowingly dropping packing material from a hole in the box all over [Coworker]’s lobby and one elevator. [Coworker] came to the Human Resources department to borrow their (brand-new) vacuum. About fifteen minutes later, he brought it back, apologetic that he’d broken it. The power cord was pulled apart — completely severed — about ten feet from the plug.
Me: “How did you do this to the power cord?”
Coworker: “Well… I plugged the vacuum into a power outlet.”
Me: “Yes… that’s how they work.”
Coworker: “I used the power outlet in the elevator lobby. And then I started vacuuming inside the elevator.”
I could see where this was going, but I hoped it wasn’t.
Me: “Okay…”
Coworker: “And then the doors closed…”
Yes. He LET THE DOORS CLOSE and, elevators being elevators, it headed up to the top floor — severing the cord in the process.
- Can We Sever The Cord On The Vaccum In His Brain? from Not Always Right
"Is that supposed to make me feel better? If you lost a puppy, and someone said 'well, we still have a big chunk of it!', would that make YOU feel better?"
- Sisudatu, Raya and The Last Dragon
“This is no constitutionally governed state; this is a land of rhinos! This is legalized robbery by police. I’m surprised they aren’t allowed to shoot you, too. But of course, if they shoot you, they cannot get any money out of you.”
- Keijo Kopra, a very angry man bitterly complaining after being fined $47,000 for speeding. In Finland, in what the government says is an old Nordic tradition, traffic fines are based on a person's ability to pay. If you're pulled over doing 60 in Helsinki, the traffic cop will punch your ID into his cell phone and instantly receive on his screen your monthly income and an appropriate fine. Kopra was originally fined $14,000 for going 14 MPH over the speed limit. He challenged it in court, but the judge got mad and eventually more than tripled it.
- Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! from National Public Radio
Hot take: Fines should be based on your income. The bigger your income, the bigger the fine.
Fines are something used to discourage someone doing something, but it’s hardly discouraging for a millionaire who can happily take a parking ticket whenever they like, they aren’t above the law.
You never know when you’ll need an HDMI capture card. I wish I had gotten one much earlier, when I wanted one so I could freely record video from my Switch and stream it in Zoom meetings. The low-tech approach of jamming my phone between the couch cushions is no longer good enough.
Can anyone recommend a capture card that converts HDMI to a USB-C or USB-A audio and video input, is recognized as such by a macOS device, and works with Zoom?
I'm currently reading the results of my recent educational evaluation. It’s interesting to see myself analyzed from the perspective of someone else. I'll consider broadcasting an annotated selection of it over RW-570.
I just finished watching a documentary about the behind-the-scenes of Walt Disney’s production studios in the 1940s, back when the company's namesake was still alive. Now my chest hurts a little . . .
Bald-faced hornets are only a 2 on the Schmidt pain index, so I shouldn't complain. The tennis ball ejected from the dryer exhaust vent could have ricocheted off the nest of a much higher-scoring insect before knocking me off the ladder. Really, I'm lucky.
- xkcd #2590, I Shouldn't Complain ( https://xkcd.com/2590 )
______________________
/ relay \
| the signal gets stronger |
| the further you go |
| but you know |
| it's not up to you |
\ /
| switch off |
/ \
| the signal is gone |
| the moment has passed /
| but you know /
| it could happen again /
\ and again /
\____________________/Icelandic Waters: “You know, you should’ve made this in the Box Stacking game instead of typing it out here . . .“
FACT: The calculation features of Math Notes extend beyond the hand-drawn formulas demonstrated at WWDC24. On Apple devices running betas for iOS/iPadOS 18 and macOS Sequoia, typed calculations will also be automatically solved after an = sign is dropped. This functionality is enabled by default and can be set under General → Keyboard → Show Math Results.
Icelandic Waters: “The answer to life, the universe, and everything is . . . sixteen.”
Cantiviler: “Excuse me! Life is not a question. There does not need to be an answer.“
Imagine if the Lunch ARG had been real . . . actually, don't.
ENTRY 8.5.F - The Lunch Truth
I had a dream that I had noticed an abnormal client in #MineralFish. Some time later, when I was using Shellfish from my phone, it returned and started bubbling about the Lunch. I tried to defuse the situation, claiming that I had a BBIY level pack to play (which I did). The client said "Oh, really?" and an audio clip resembling lunchluncheatmypuppyyumyumyum started playing. I opened my laptop and joined Shellfish from there, and discovered a video clip playing in a VLC window, depicting Jacky walking through an outdoor area at night while talking to himself about the Lunch. I opened the Apple dropdown menu and discovered that the "shut down" option had been replaced with "lock out right click". The right side of the control bar lacked any icons to suggest that it was being remotely viewed or controlled by conventional system functionality. I clicked the "lock out right click" option just to see if it helped the situation. The video clip displayed a picture of RivaPuppy with googly eyes and nothing else happened. I clicked the restart option and booted into Windows, and the curse of the Lunch did not follow. Later, I returned to macOS and discovered that the malware had passed AND the audio and video broadcasts had both been saved to my downloads folder! Sweet!