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@peptostate After how badly the Enterprise crew handled that stupid disk and funnel shovelware, can you blame them?

@sean What's the going rate for Myspace these days? Could I buy it for $20ish?

Lately I've noticed a guy near where I work (but just far enough away that it's inconvenient to walk out and chat with him) and his thing seems to be standing in that very specific place, very still with good posture, while wearing a very nice suit. That's it, just standing there, sometimes checking his phone but mostly standing at attention, for who knows how long, in a suit.

@mwlucas I don't do enough of that to bother negotiating or having a set rate, but I've been paid anywhere from $75-$500+expenses to do talks like that about various topics in coffee. Local community groups/universities at the lower end, professional/trade groups in the mid to upper end.

The drive home had a cat sitting in the middle of the road, but it at least had the good sense to move to the sidewalk when I slowed down to navigate past it.

Saw an especially crazy squirrel on the way to work today. It darted out in front of the car in front of mine, then turned to run between its wheels before continuing to the yellow lines and then it turned again to run between the wheels on my car.

@stux I once had a hotel cat escort me from the lobby to my room at check in.

@mhoye But without the cloud, how will you manage to alert criminals to when you're not home or starve your pets when some random third party botches an update?

Discovered that Linux support for some really nice data acquisition hardware that I have may have improved to the point that it's usable on non-obsolete distros (and only a decade too late to matter!), but wow has the price of the nearest thing they still sell gone up. Is it good? Yes. Is it so good that it's worth paying nearly $1000 when there are comparable options with better support closer to $50? Not so much.

@Taweret@octodon.social I didn't think about it when it was on the screen, but apparently Big Bird was pure nightmare fuel.

Have to wake up early tomorrow to talk to a reporter about our mask requirement plans. The health department has asked the city leaders to end the mask mandate and I expect the politicians will all go along with that. Once that's official, our stand is going to be masks required for entry but optional for fully vaccinated people handled on the honor system, free masks still available for those who want them, and still no customer seating for a while.

@debugninja@banana.dog Nope, but my middle school years were the least impressive in terms of educational quality.

@Taweret@octodon.social The 2nd guy is clearly bad news, but the 1st guy is going to end up in some complicated antagonistic junk. She should really just kill them both.

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