Andrew White @awhite@mastodon.social
Web guy in Toronto, ON, Canada
Unrelated to previous message, have you folks tried Zevia sweetened sparkling water with fruit essence? It's really good.
Basically...I'm exhausted. I hate getting in to arguments, or wanting to argue with someone. I hate being deluged with negativity. I hate being negative. And I don't want to cede that that's just how being on the internet is.
Hello, Mastodonians. I'm wondering: do you have a strategy for keeping up a high level of interaction with people on the web while keeping things pleasant and positive? Are there things/places you avoid or emphasize? What do you do to put your voice out there, but try to reduce negative and ultimately pointless arguments and interactions?
I'm a bit late on this, but my story, "The Observation Log of Ms. Grace McKillip, Retired" is now available free on the Brick Moon Fiction podcast.
The narrator, Sarah Golding, did a brilliant job of bringing my characters to life, resulting in a really special piece of work between the two of us.
#mastoart #creativetoots #writing #audiobook #freefiction #fantasy #urbanfantasy
Spotify's offline mode is HORRIBLE. I wish it worked more like Apple Music.app, where you can just tap through to a list of available content through any view (Artist, Genre, Album, etc.)
Where's your God now
I saw Ready Player One. I liked it. I kept wanting to say "Oh, that's an X from Y" whenever I recognised someone's avatar.
Russian trolls, US pol, Furries Show more
TIL Microsoft uses a set of fictional companies to illustrate their products https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_Microsoft_companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contoso
mouse lemur achieves escape velocity
Sounds like Homepod is worth it, audio-quality-wise.
http://www.loopinsight.com/2018/01/24/on-homepod-and-audio-quality/
Humanity Star seems like a nice thing. And I read about it hours ago, and no one's had anything negative to say about it. Wish they had a notification email about visibility like NASA do for ISS. https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/24/16926426/rocket-lab-humanity-star-secret-satellite-electron-test-launch
Is there a Raspberry Pi distro that boots right to a full screen BASIC repl like the C64, or other computers of the days of yore? RiscOS Pico used to do that, but is discontinued.
Canada Post guy just said he was never delivering to my office again, because stairs. Seriously. Told me I was lucky he didn't just send the package back to the depot like most guys would.
If anyone is looking for anything to do in Toronto tonight, you could do a lot worse than this: http://www.tiff.net/films/stalker/
...so my ello notifications have really woken up these past few weeks. What's that about?
@awhite I'm pretty fond of the Big Cat Rescue videos on YouTube. Though obviously the name tells you that it's not ALL sunshine and daisies. But that'd be my dream gig: caring for big cats who are finally taken away from abusive environments.
I'm going to be moving my web presence in 2018 away from A Small Orange, who are now *garbage* since the EIG buyout. I'm hoping to find a data centre that is Canadian, and a worker's co-op. I'm a bit cost sensitive. Anyone know of anything?
Bandcamp.com is pretty nice, too. Talented people doing what they like.
