Karen C🥨👵🏻🌲🏖️ @gamehawk@mastodon.social
Wandering ex-Jayhawker (not the same as a Jayhawk, but close), currently in Jersey (Philly area). Freelance Perl coder. She/her.
DANGIT UNICODE
Yesterday we went to a giant art festival in Manayunk, a hipster neighborhood in Philly. It was an exceptionally muggy day so towards the end we started looking for a place to grab a drink. We ended up outside a Persian teahouse (https://www.safateahouse.com/) and it wasn't busy, so we stepped in. I tried sekanjabin, something described as a cucumber/honey/mint tea, and...
... oh... em... gee.
Turns out it's a new place, apparently a mother-son venture. Sadly (but not for my budget), an hour away.
"He has an especially strong dislike for dogs in sweaters."
MALL. HAWK.
"Remmy the mall hawk..."
REMMY THE MALL HAWK
When your community #Minecraft auto-sorted inventory is so huge you have to have a little rail to carry you along the stacks:
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... hashtag #perl
Me: ARGH WHY IS RDF::QUERY SO DANG VERBOSE
<digs into code>
Me: TRACE? WHY WOULD YOU MAKE YOUR MODULE *DEFAULT* TO TRACE? Oh well, guess it's time to enable logging on my own stuff.
<looks at tenth line of own launcher>
`Log::Log4perl->easy_init($TRACE);`
... oh.
Hey look, when you change that line, the RDF modules get a lot less chatty. 🙄
My new office building is lit entirely by motion-sensitive lighting. TIL all the basement cafe sensors are near the doors, and if you sit at a table long enough with nobody coming into the room, all the lights go out while you're eating lunch, and no amount of arm-waving turns them back on.
Said cowpathing also leads to fun intersections at the landmarks: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9163159,-74.9252757,219m/data=!3m1!1e3
. That one is relatively sane, as things go. Sometimes fiveways have zero through streets *or* right angles.
Also there is no church there and I am not sure if it's just a historic leftover, or if the two Church street names refer to two different churches.
(All of the roads around here are cowpathed and named for whatever is/was at one or both ends - town or other landmark. Sometimes said landmarks (or towns! I'm looking at you, Smithvilles) are insufficiently disambiguated.)
@noiob Heh. I was exaggerating for effect.
Dear Sandisk: Would it *really* be so hard to not put a stupid blue LED on your thumb drives, or at *least* not make them "breathe" while idle?
Pretty sure the "80% of the world's power is consumed by Bitcoin" would drop to like 5% if every single piece of hardware in the world didn't have to light up. And I'm pretty sure my Pi needs a bigger AC adapter before I plug this thing into it. Furrfu.
Me, a year ago: "Man, I'm so glad Linux sound finally settled down, it's nice to not have to fight it all the time."
Debian: "HAHAHA we're switching to Pulse Audio."
Me, today: "WHY DOES MY SOUND STOP WORKING FOR NO REASON?!"
Today's Preet Bharara podcast was entertaining: must admit I laughed out loud when a guest, talking about her first year as line prosecutor, said, "I did everything from shoplifting to prostitution to drug possession..." 😲
Soda-can Jenga is a regular thing at Costco. This week's game is looking extra-risky now that they've switched Pepsi from flats to boxes.
I would mock Amazon for this but then I realized that I bought four or five IPs a couple-three years ago and eh, I guess I can't blame that on the algorithm.
(It was my go-to gift.)
Running a SPARQL query successfully against the data store MUAHAHAHAHA MINE IS AN EVIL LAUGH
Clearly it's my day to exercise bugs: whenever Tusky gets a notification while I'm *on* the notification screen, it blanks the entire phone screen and drops out to the lock screen... and shows me the notification there. 🤔
UGGGGHHHHHH
https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/9533
Was all happily using Atom on both the desktop and the Pi (via X forwarding) and now the desktop has decided that all Atom windows need to be open locally only. 🤷♀️
"East Coast RepRap Festival." http://eastcoastreprapfestival.com/
Huh. That's this weekend, and like two hours from us.
