tuckerm

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New releases tomorrow! What's on your list?

Just one for me this week: X-Men #34.

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Never gotten a perfect clean plate!

Nice! I still haven't, but today was my first pangram. And apparently you get extra points for getting the pangram as your first word. It says "frik" because I was one letter away from getting down to just the one other letter remaining.

I think Smush is my current favorite word game. I like that there's a strategy to waiting for a better multiplier, but some risk to not putting a good word down right away, since you might run out of letters to make that word later.

hankgreen.com/smush · Jul 28  
346 pts · ★★ pangram first · frik! 😤 · no hints  
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[–] tuckerm@feddit.online 12 points 1 day ago

Thank you for everything that you've done! This is an incredibly featureful and mature application, I had assumed it must be more than three years old.

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Got it on my Zune to listen to when putting the kiddo down for bed.

hell yeah. How old is it? (The Zune, not the kid.)

[–] tuckerm@feddit.online 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

During the height of the crypto boom, I couldn't have afforded my own gaming PC that I built ~4 years earlier. Hardware prices have been such madness lately.

[–] tuckerm@feddit.online 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well done, this got me.

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That is gorgeous! Do you have cold winters where you live? Seems like it would be great for that, in addition to hot days in the summer.

[–] tuckerm@feddit.online 2 points 2 weeks ago

Congratulations on the bookstore! That's exciting!

  • Absolute Green Arrow #3
  • End of Life #6
  • X-Men #33
[–] tuckerm@feddit.online 38 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

Some kind of "empathy score." Not sure what the formula would be, but it would reflect how readily they feel empathy for another person, and how many other people they can care about.

A narcissist would have a 0 -- they can only care about themself. Someone with very limited empathy would have a small number -- say, they can only care about their immediate family, and they need to really get to know someone before they care about that person. People who naturally care about others, even if they don't know the other person, would have high numbers.

This number would sometimes just flat out tell you that certain people should be avoided, or certain conversations are pointless with that person. Or if you do need to try to convince them of something, the number may show you how to frame the conversation. E.g., show how it's in their own interest if they have a low number.

 

Interesting and short interview with the maintainer of frutigeraeroarchive.org.

A quote:

Does it feel more alive for me personally? I can say yes to that, as it comes from an era where we were all more optimistic about technology and what it would do in our lives. I would say our outlook in recent years has changed drastically, with companies becoming more and more greedy, more of our data being harvested, and the rise of AI. I have nothing against flat design itself however I have to admit it is more lazily done most of the time than even a basic skeuomorphic interface, and requires basically no effort to pull off correctly.

 

I absolutely love Bob Cromwell's website, where he posts regular HTML pages with photos of places he's been. You can follow his blog on the fediverse, @bobthetraveler@mastodon.world.

Some of his posts have great historical information, too, such as this one: https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/greece/korinthos/ancient-korinthos/?s=mc

The website itself perfectly encapsulates the feel of the late 90s/early 00s web for me. While web 2.0 was just starting around then, there were still plenty of personal sites like this one at that time.

[–] tuckerm@feddit.online 63 points 2 weeks ago

He's alive because he manipulated Lindsay Graham into taking his place in hell, for now, using some kind of underworld parliamentarian loophole that he learned when he clerked for Satan.

[–] tuckerm@feddit.online 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't think this counts as a leopard-face moment. That would imply that Android users (or app developers) were somehow hoping that Google would only screw over non-Android users. No one was thinking that; everyone knew that Google was screwing you the hardest if you were using an Android phone. They were just hoping that Google wouldn't go this far and completely lock down the platform.

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Only Murders in the Building features the HOA. It's a TV show, and also I haven't finished it yet, so it doesn't quite fit your question. But it's also a good show.

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This album was when I first heard of The Black Keys. One of my favorites, for sure.

 

I hope it's Bazzite.

 

Hank Green has come up with his own variation of Connections. There are only three words in each category, and one of the words will be used in all four categories. When you figure out which word should be used in multiple categories (because you've selected that word twice), that word will move to the center of the grid.

 

After trying a whole bunch of pocket notebooks, the Apica A7 has become my go-to.

It’s 2.8 x 4 inches (10.2 x 7.1 cm), which is quite a bit smaller than your typical Field Notes-sized notebook. However, I’ve come to really like it better at this size. I’m rarely writing prose in these notebooks; I’m always writing short lists. So I usually don’t take up a full line anyway. This tiny size leaves less wasted space on the page. It’s also small enough to fit in a shirt pocket, whereas Field Notes often doesn’t.

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I’ve also been using the regular old Fisher space pen with it. I usually prefer something I can use one-handed, like a clicky or bolt-action, for my daily pocket pen, since it makes jotting things down that much quicker. But the size and simplicity of the space pen’s design is just really satisfying sometimes.

 

Tomorrow is Wednesday! What's on your list? For me:

  • Absolute Green Arrow #1. Looks like another income swap in the Absolute universe... I'm in.
  • End of Life #4
  • X-Men United #3. I was on the fence about this series, mainly because it being set in their heads, in a psychic location, seemed like just an easy way to have characters join up that's aren't physically around each other in their regular series' right now. But issue #2 was fantastic, and I want to see where this is going now.
 

Some fungus gnats have showed up, and unlike what some blog posts have said, they don't seem to be attracted to apple cider vinegar. Has anyone found a trap that gets rid of these little things? I've put the plants outside for now, hoping that will dry them out and make the flies fly away.

 

Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, passed away 25 years ago today. (Maybe yesterday by the time you see this. I'm a little late.)

Here's a clip of him explaining what is now usually called "the puddle analogy," with his trademark sense of humor.

 

I solved Six Appeal #773 in 2 minutes, 17 seconds.

Real words guessed: 3 × 100 = 300
Remaining guesses: 2 × 200 = 400
Time bonus: 163

Total score: 863

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