more computer things should be called “hints”
posts from 2021 / 09
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i got this one, toot toot
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everloving nurse wife just said, “as they say in Epic (godawful medical software), ‘hover to discover!’” about some unrelated thing
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i got this one, toot too
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people say to clean while you cook to make the dishwasher’s job easier but i do it to find entire ingredients i prepared but forgot to put in the dish before it’s too late 🤦🏻♂️
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cat
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hot air balloons in your area 🎈💭
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boing! boing! boing! [falls off the bottom of the level even though there are no enemies in the screen] [exit music] [GAME OVER]
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growing italian basil in a pot inside and this is what the growth on top looks like, uWu
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space force please offer me a commission thanks in advance
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landlord might bump us out in six months so we are considering getting out of this game and into a dumber one, working with a realtor. the first set of things they suggested included three fifty alabama number nine
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my week is so upside down from clean living and an A+ cave day yesterday that after an hour mentally planning out my work day it took the damned good morning sunday morning bot pointing out that it was sunday for me to realize i’m not working today after all
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police have found a cache of “strike anywhere” matches near the site of todays unrest. agitators often use matches like these to give law enforcement officers the old hot foot, which causes them hop up and down and say “ow! ow! ow!” and then dunk their hot feet in troughs of wat-
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ok, just the second half of this closing graph though
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the one after, The Man In The Steet On Strike, is great too. copyrights suck
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Barthes’ Mythologies, The Batory Cruise. This stuff never changes, but, at the risk of sounding like Shirky, it feels like the tech we now use to rapidly deploy evidence counter to “tourist” reports might start to change things?
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reading a bunch of Graeber and then Fisher because capitalist realism was in the discourse this week, as the middle management bureaucrat that I am, thinking to mysef, “I could manage these guys successfully. I could manage Žižek too. At the same time. Yes.”
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[bob vila after programming his office number into an AT&T Genesis and placing a call with it] “Super.”
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kid has another cold practically back to back with the last cold he was still waking us up all night with but mostly over, probably just a cold 😗
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“Quid quid latinum dictum sid, altum videtu” but instead it is quid-quid slapping really big huge logos on your personal .com, and self, even, as if your identity was wrapped up in some kinda fortune 500 polycule
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immediately after posting this I took a prankster’s stopped-up playground water fountain blast to the face in front of dozens of 10 year olds, ggwp
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more like playgroaned a i r?
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United Farm Equipment Workers of America workers on picket, Runyonesque
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otoh, ehhhhh
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“We deny the right of any portion of the species to decide for another portion, or any individual for another individual, what is and what is not their “proper sphere.” The proper sphere for all human beings is the largest and highest which they are able to attain to.”
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had the time to read “Enfranchisement of Women,” by Harriett Stuart Mill (1851) this morning (having skipped the Thoreau essay before it). lots of great revolutionary demands 69 years before the nineteenth amendment was ratified in the US. ( https://archive.org/details/enfranchisemento00mill/page/n3/mode/2up)
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wok point of contact on ceramic top stoves: about a quarter of an inch 🤷🏻♂️
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lets go!
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also, got to take the kid into “three gems” in the sculpture garden by the deyoung; reverb, echo, and then a cool room ( https://www.wescover.com/p/sculptures-by-james-turrell-at-barbro-osher-sculpture-garden-deyoung-museum—PHylGxbFm7M)
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most of the roses in the golden gate park rose garden are well past peak blooming but is still smells amazing and most bushes have a flower or two on them
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“politicians on buses and bikes”
“politicians on buses and bikes”
“politicians on buses and bikes”
“politicians on buses and bikes”
“po s h u t t e r s t o c k es”
“politicians on buses and bikes”
“politicians on buses and bikes”
“politicians on buses and bikes”
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BREAKING: Area man finds missing puzzle peice in the bottom of a drawer across the room while looking for an unrelated thing.
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o/ to whoever cuts whoever Jeopardy! is “also bright to me by” at the end of the show, it’s brought to me by you. 🤗
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working my way though this nyrb book of political essays and just read http://thomaspaine.org/major-works/american-crisis/the-crisis-vii.html
twenty pages to “the people of england” right after the american revolution to say “damn either your plan was bad or you are bad, lol”
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BLACK STALIN, “Da All Season Man” https://youtu.be/HWpdh2S1ssk
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this old columbo spends a full minute framing two separate cuts of a new type of guy in the reflection of his own glasses over a still of his face to the sounds of someone banging around inside an upright piano with synthesizer patch cables
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found a local, used, entry level jazz box and put flatwound 12s on it. it completely rules, i love it!
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Cretian Enterprises SR3 takes a rotting boat and progressively rots more boards. It then “reverses” this process, replacing the rotted boards to crate a a Nimitz-class, nuclear-powered supercarrier.
