Ben Zanin @gnomon@mastodon.social

Went for a night walk. The skunks are out in force. I startled this one by stepping on a crunchy leaf. "Hello, skunk," I said in my most soothing voice. "It's all right, skunk." It went back to snuffling around in the grass.

#parkdale #smallstories

This is whats on my mind Mastodon. Thanks for asking.

The sky is on fire tonight.

this is just to say
i have looked upon
your vast and trunkless legs of stone

which you were probably
saving
for ye mighty
to despair

forgive me
their decay was colossal
so boundless
and so bare

food $200
bulwarks against the ravages of time, made manifest by the desert sand encroaching on my works and empire $150
plinth durability research $6000
utility $150

someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. nothing beside remains

I'm honored to have been invited to speak at this year's Ancient Land Monument Symposium about my lab's latest research in inscribed plinth durability. *advances slide* Look on this pedestal, ye mighty colleagues, and despair!

"Ozymandias" is often read as a warning on the hubris of desiring immortality but it should be read as being about how good Ozy's workers were at making durable pedestals

tired: bloated parser generator

wired: thicc yacc

@Felthry there's a decent explanation at https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/understanding-ip-addresses-subnets-and-cidr-notation-for-networking, or I have a writeup in "Networking for Systems Administrators," https://mwl.io/nonfiction/networking#n4sa

Monday marks a quarter century of classless routing, or CIDR.

25 years since Class A, B, and C addresses were the standard.

On #CIDRDay, saying "class C address" outside a historic/ironic context is a request for enthusiastic wedgies.

Otherwise: cider!

How will you celebrate? #sysadmin #netadmin

Reupping Minimum Viable Context, because I needed to: http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2017/07/05/the-minimum-viable-context/

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/09/ranked-10-paintings-of-judith-beheading-holofernes

(I love the listicle format pointed at obscure, classical topics.)

using a twitter cross-poster and posting a bunch of stuff that people here usually put behind a CW out of courtesy is kinda the masto equivalent of having a loud public phone conversation in a cafe, please put a tiny bit more effort into your presence here.

Is there an open standard for sharing book highlights like Amazon’s proprietary Kindle highlight-sharing system?

I like this idea for every city.
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I think all the @toronto mayoral candidates should have to perform a commuter challenge. One week by bike (on Shaw), one by wheelchair, one by transit and one with a stroller. Then I’d like to compare their plans to fix navigating the city.

#bikeTO #a11y
https://twitter.com/erin/status/1018887554576158720