Stewart C. Russell @scruss@mastodon.social

/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Toronto: symbolic link to Montreal

Sometimes, it's *still* Constantinople, not Istanbul …

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/05/ukraine-new-orthodox-church-gains-independence-from-moscow

memorial for a much-missed catfish

Things you can do in the Terminal on a Mac:

say -v "Good News" "butts lol ha ha ha ha"

raw power

This derailment of vinyl acetate tank cars happened about 100m from my house last night. Apart from idling diesel engine annoying, I heard nothing: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/train-derailment-scarborough-kennedy-eglinton-no-injuries-no-hazardous-goods-1.4901077?cmp=rss

Bought and assembled a Creality Ender 3 3D printer today to temporarily replace my ailing home-built one. The Ender 3 is pretty great for under $300 🇨🇦

Centre construction, Palace of Westminster tower clock

So I (reluctantly) got Amazon Prime to get components for work in a hurry, but it seems that many same-day delivery items magically become 2-3 day delivery items once you get to the order page. Hmm

The opening paragraph of Dickens "A Tale of Two Cities", run through the unicorn name filter (`s/[aeiouy]/inkle/ig;`) and read by flite - https://soundcloud.com/user8899915/a-tale-of-two-cities-or-inkle-tinklelinkle-inklef-twinkle-cinkletinkleinkles

Princess Leia or OCS THC effects icon: You decide - https://ocs.ca/blogs/cannabis-anatomy/THC

btw, pcboard.ca has these little ESP8266 boards for very cheap. I got 6 fro $30 shipped. Note that they're 32Mbit flash, though ...

“Bitcoin is a very effective way of turning crypto libertarian daydreams directly into climate change” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3ipFvD8wt4&feature=youtu.be&t=1559

𒐳 / ༳ == ( ⑽ – 𐹭 ) * ( 𒐲 / 𐅉 ) is valid Perl 6: http://scruss.com/blog/2018/10/08/%f0%92%90%b3-%e0%bc%b3-%e2%91%bd-%f0%90%b9%ad-%f0%92%90%b2-%f0%90%85%89-of-course/

Roky Erickson - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDRMTHQfeec

Thanksgiving plot

more plotter art: this for my dad's 80th birthday

Louis

I'm building a PDP-8-compatible single board computer!
http://scruss.com/blog/2018/10/03/sbc6120-build-day-1-ish/