wmspringer.bsky.social
Author of A Programmer's Guide to Computer Science. My interests include board games (especially ones by Splotter), electric vehicles, photography, a11y, and having fun with my kids.
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I love a good comedy scifi. I'm still a little irritated about the last time I specifically went looking for one, though; opened up that category on Amazon and after two pages of manchest, I gave up. Romance has taken over everything.
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At least the no starch books tend to be pretty decent :-)
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I've forced myself to start using em dashes recently; I have a tendency to just use - and I'm trying to be more correct.
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They're still around! We went to a game a couple years ago.
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I always find limiting sugar to be the hardest part by far.
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This is one of those books that I always heard about and then I didn't actually get around to reading it for the first time until after Adams died.
It's not at all the "serious" scifi I mostly read at the time, but I still quite enjoyed it; it's just that good.
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I mean, if you're looking for a "foundational" book, I suppose you can start with Asimov's "Foundation" :-)
I think Asimov actually wrote a huge percentage of the books I was into as a new scifi reader.
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I think I last checked it in 2012.
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My voicemail message just says that I don't check voicemail and people should email me.
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The other day I was commenting on how it had warmed up to 40 degrees below freezing, and...yeah.
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Supposedly screenshots aren't allowed either, unless that's changed since yesterday.
Although it seems to mostly be the same few things over and over anyway. The guy who lost $700k on $TRUMP, the cops mad that Trump pardoned the insurrectionists, the newly hired federal workers who now aren't, etc.
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Yeah, that's gonna knock out the majority of their content!
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I mean, swords are cool.
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Ahh, I think I figured it out - I'll bet it's only recording games we play under my account.
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If I'm eating at Costco I'll generally go in, head straight for the food court, eat, and then shop. The FC is usually pretty close to the entrance.
....and now I'm hungry.
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...how do you eat pizza and push a shopping cart at the same time?
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I only compare them in terms of dollars per mile for propelling a vehicle.
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Right? If you tell me that the fridge uses 3 kWh per day, that tells me that it costs about half a buck per day to run. That's actually useful information.
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It's a Monday. I'll be at work.
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This one is already on my list of books to get next time I place an order with Manning :-)
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I think when I started college, usernames were first initial middle initial last name, so I just kept doing that everywhere.
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This is my problem. I hate to cook but I love to eat.
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On the one hand, I see your point.
On the other hand, two things:
1) On twitter at least, I think the spambots replying to me usually followed me as well.
2) If I've seen one post of yours I may be interested enough to interact and see where it goes but not ready to follow yet..
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However, my understanding is that the fire dept didn't actually get a cut, the numbers are just wonky due to the end of a contract.
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Before I even expanded the image to be able to read it, I just assumed the long bar was police.
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Bluesky reminds me a lot of twitter, back before twitter started to suck.
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All that for a vote that was obviously correct and will have very little practical effect.
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I sat through a presentation in Vegas years ago and got free tickets to a show that I wanted to see anyway, so it was worth it to me :)
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Disney is the only one that I would consider purchasing. Others it seems people eventually pay to get rid of them.
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Fair point! I want a second Switch, but the hardware doesn't really matter all that much to me; what I really want is Mario Kart 9 :-)
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Back when I shot Canon, my 50mm f/1.4 was my favorite lens by far.
I was really tempted when a deal came up last year on a 50mm for my Nikon, but since I'm hoping to switch to mirrorless I don't want to spend any more money on DSLR stuff :p
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What equipment did you get?
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This is one reason I don't do much work on portable computers - I need two screens.
At work it's side by side monitors. At home it's a curved ultrawide.
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Although, you can go too far in the other direction - see John Kerry ignoring the swift boaters until too late.
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I write technical nonfiction: www.amazon.com/Programmers-...
Working on a scifi series, but it's slow going (and I'll be publishing under a pen name to avoid confusing Amazon's algorithm)
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(Or even dvd and then Blu-ray, but we have very few dvds left)
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We have two or three copies of some movies, but that’s either unintentional or because we bought Blu-ray and then later 4K and 3d.
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I don’t care about streaming movies while traveling, and I wanted another backup of my main system, so I just set up the NAS to only be available locally.
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I was looking at plex, but people seem unhappy with having to rely on the central server, so I set up Jellyfin instead. But it wasn’t behaving (kept giving me the wrong language or bad subtitles) so I switched to using a zidoo player, which so far is working well.
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We pretty much gave away most of our dvds at a garage sale years ago. Still have all our blu-rays, though…
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While I generally prefer digital everything, I’m in the process of buying all my favorite movies that I don’t already have on disc and ripping them to my NAS. That way I can still stream them (maybe at higher quality) without having to worry about whether they’ll be available.