A friend sent me this message today:

> So a coworker had a bear break into his house and shit in the kitchen this morning. So that pretty much ruins that expression.

I should probably remember to take off my magnifier headset before going outside into the sun. I'm gonna set my hair on fire one of these days, and I'm reaching an age where I can't afford the loss. 😬

@Holberg
You boosted the extinct media museum in Tokyo. I know you have contacts in the Denver area. Next time you're there, see if you can get to the @mediaarchaeologylab on the CU Boulder campus. It seems to be pretty similar to that Tokyo museum, and certainly a lot closer.

I was playing with flip phones and typewriters and all kinds of retro equipment. Fun place!

still tickled by those supercomputers from the 90s that had the red LED panels on the front that didnt really display anything. they just beep boop pretty lights. we need more cases like that.

@_elena @eff

@deviantollam
Okay, fine. Here's my elevator pet peeve at a Colorado IKEA.

Wayfinding says I want to go to Level 1. Elevator buttons disagree.

I can't.
I won't.
I have a tiny fist and I must shake it.

What kind of marketing failure are you if you get your fancy keto ice cream bars shelved with the dog food?

Everyone knows that an SSH key needs to be very long to be secure. But what if ... no?

Sadly, even an 8-bit key has a ton of protocol. I was really hoping to have keys that a human could memorize, but they still end up being more than forty characters long.

-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
MB0CAQACAgFDAgEFAgIArQIBEwIBEQIBCwIBDQIBCQ==
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----

-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----
MBswDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEBBQADCgAwBwICAUMCAQU=
-----END PUBLIC KEY-----

I refuse to purchase things from lockup. I will do completely irrational things to avoid it. I'm **thrilled** that they're feeling it. Walgreens has closed up two or three locations near me, and the remaining one looks to be on life-support.
Meanwhile, a few blocks away, Safeway has torn down their baby-jail. You no longer need to go through security to be near diapers.

See? Alice knows what I'm talking about.

https://digipres.club/@foone/116898732148556875

Macintosh's Hypercard and it's style of triggering OnMouseup explained a subtle trick that has saved my ass a number of times:

UI elements usually activate when you let UP on the mouse, not when you push down.

Have you ever clicked on something you shouldn't have? Well, if your brain catches up with your fingers fast enough, you can usually keep holding the mouse button down, push the pointer off to a safe place, then safely release the mouse button.

My little greasy-spoon restaurant has a switch of immense power just casually out in the open.

The "STOP TIME" button on my mom's stove is still probably a bit more catastrophic, though.

Hey chooms, it's Friday!

You know what that means. The Ramsimobil is rolling again to hand out free coffee!

Here you can see where the Ramsimobil is currently located (live!): https://ramses.coffee/ramsimobile/

A large wildfire is bearing down on my hometown, and the county office of emergency management's only information outlet is a Facebook page that requires a Facebook account to view.

Let me say that another way: access to vital life safety information is gated on selling your PII to Meta.

Edit: https://app.watchduty.org is a very good alternative.

we're always finding lovely little textual gifts in the typewriters, but this one from @mdwyer was especially sweet

I'm finally catching up on Ask Hank Anything, and this question comes up:
"What is a floppy disk?"

I'm thinking fondly of my friends at the Media Archaeology Lab @mediaarchaeologylab , the SDF's Interim Computer Museum @icm , and the Connections Museum @connections

I'm surprised at how quickly knowledge can pass away and I'm valuing what these organizations are doing for us today.

https://youtu.be/39KyWSyGfjY?t=2804

But also, gawd, I feel old.

WFT is the point of a customer feedback form, If all of the questions are about how well the call was handled by "name" and not why you contacted them in the first place.

She was brilliant, but you don't let her deal with any of my complaints, or take them on board.

This stance characterised by the "We are unable to respond directly back to you or your comment" in your feedback form.

This really sends out mixed messages.

Normally, I'm very positive on devices that let us see the invisible. I think everyone should have access to an IR imager. If nothing else, people can see where their energy is leaking in their homes.

But I'm less certain anyone needs to see UV.
If you aren't a clean-freak before you've swung around a UV source, you might be after. Nobody needs to pile that anxiety on themselves.

By the way, if you think I'm overreacting then you might not have used a very capable UV flashlight. If it had a clear lens, it probably output far too much visible light, which swamps the fluorescence. A GOOD LED UV light has a purpleish-black passband filter that only passes light near 365nm.