Someone asks “what’s up?”

Answer: “the cross-product of forward and left”

(the popularity of this joke in engineering school trained me to never ask “what’s up?”)

B: was nice for copying things onto a second floppy.

It also tastes like soap to me, but apparently I like the taste. (I don’t know if I have the cilantro soap gene, just that cilantro is super tasty and tastes like soap)

I dreamed my small elderly terrier jumped into a wide stream and sank to the bottom and didn’t come up as soon as I expected him to. I jumped in, found him tangled in water weeds at the bottom, and pulled him out. I held him upside down to let water stream out of him. He coughed up a silver-green frog.

My dog IRL hates water.

yes, but how do I compare my resting heartrate to someone else’s without someone borrowing someone else’s sandglass? Is 130 beats per glass high or low?

A basis for comparison is very useful.

My library has a quiet floor, but the rest are good places for students to get together to study and do group projects.

There’s also study rooms you can borrow if you need a door between you and the world.

no, no, kissing leads to dancing which leads to babies

Minutes are a useful concept when I’m measuring my heartrate. Otherwise, I wouldn’t know how many beats per … something … I was hitting.

I appreciate the suggestions, but last I heard we were looking at the sort of basic battery-operated doorbell you install using 3m strips at your 1890s triple-decker college apartment, no camera or anything half as fancy. I’d be happy with a door knocker (low tech and reliable) if the HOA wouldn’t have kittens.

(I know, I know, HOA, but the condo is so much cheaper than renting, and shared governance makes sense when you share a roof.)

I have a ring camera. It came with the townhouse and it sucks. We’re considering replacing it because it doesn’t even consistently work as a door bell because either we keep needing to charge it or it’s on too crowded a wireless band, not sure which.

Did you know you have to subscribe to even record videos? Screw that.

Also the privacy concerns, but that ship has sailed in my particular case because both my nextdoor neighbors have ring cameras, as well as at least 3 units across the street.

Lady in front of me at the checkout line took forever, had very precise ideas of how things should be bagged, waited until the end of the transaction to pull up the store’s app, was upset she couldn’t use X, Y, or Z discount, in general made it all take much longer than it should. I kid you not it took her 20 minutes to check out. (I would have moved lines, except I’d already unloaded my cart and it kept looking like she was almost done.)

She ended with a schpiel about how sometimes it’s good to take a break, slow down, we don’t have anything to rush for.

At this point, I pulled out my phone and showed the clerk “here’s my pup waiting for me at home”. She seemed appreciative of a distraction/someone recognizing the absurdity of the first person, so I told her about my pup and was pointedly cheerful about seeing him soon.

I was at a conference for librarians and I had a great time. Venders loaded me down with swag (books, totes, stickers, pens, chopsticks) and I attended several eye-opening sessions. We might implement a Library of Things at my library, I’m looking into a vender that simplifies statistics-gathering and -presentation, and I’m generally happy seeing all my fellow library folks.

Oh yeah, I was teasing about the php. From what I’ve read it’s wicked hard to real-world implement an attack using it.

Scrapers, I’d believe. They’ve been fierce lately.

So you’re saying this might all be because of AI (which found the security flaw in PHP, which caused the maintenance, which happened sometime around when the server went down). Sounds fair to me.

💕 Seriously, thanks for the update and I know sysadmining can be a stressy job. Take care of yourself.

Well, I was thinking of moving to Linux full-time anyway now that my Windows install is obsolete. Any reason to avoid this distro? Past experience is with Ubuntu, Gentoo, and SuSE. I mostly game.