Congratulations! I hope you plan to have a nutty day.

Interesting. For me (Midwest US), “stroke” was always a “Britishism” (or “Irishism” I suppose). Took me a while to figure out if stroke was intended to be - or /. I probably knew / as “slash” since the 1970s, probably under the influence of my system programmer mother’s terminology.

Bingo. It was people vocally pronouncing web addresses like "whatever dot com backslash specialoffer" that moved me to post this. :D Anyone who has had to navigate both DOS and *nix knows the distinction is significant.

Was this a specific "yikes" or just a general "yikes" into the abyss?

Also, though this was ripe for some kind of 9-dimensional joke (tying together you remembering, my having forgotten, AB thanking me for remembering, my questionable truthfulness, etc.), I completely failed to recognize the opportunity. Anything 9-dimensional that happens to be there was unintended.

Alton Brown replies on Twitter to my mentioning to Bill that AB was director of photography on TOIL. "That is true. Thanks for remembering." written on a post-it note stuck to AB's screen.

By Jove, you are correct. I had completely forgotten about that.

I think I had LRP first, but it didn't really click with me until after Document. And I kind of fade out after Green. Sort of a normal distribution with Document at the peak, for me. Probably well-known trivia: Alton Brown was director of photography on the The One I Love. Inescapable on MTV.

Fact fairly neutral in its entertainment value: The amp appearing in the lower left corner of that photo is presently sitting around 10m away from me in the corner of a room. Somewhere around 36 years after having been caught on camera here.

It was Michael Halliday who worked at the Lowell Inn. We didn't interact too much, he worked in the kitchen and I worked in the computer room. He did give me a VHS tape at one point with videos on it. I wonder where that is. I don't really know anything about the making of the LITL video though.

Fair point. Like how I draw backsixes, backeights, backnines, backsies, backgees, backjays, and backesses. :D

Linguists describe language and its use, rather than prescribe its use. I understand. Nevertheless, for the love of all that is holy, this thing / is not a "backslash." Come on, people.

Yep, off to the right.

Hyphen

Yep, that's an Apple II+. With I think the Applesoft manual open on the left, and the groovy Pong paddles. And yes a sweet-ass TV.*

*xkcd.com/37/

Well, to be fair, for all of us there was a day just prior to the first time we'd ever seen a FireWire 800 port. If I were ever going to recycle one of my Apple ///s, I'd absolutely bring it to the Apple store to do it.

Meet Christian Uffmann! #phonology YouTube video by HHU

Christian Uffmann wins linguist prof of 2024. This video is iconic. Definitely worth watching and I say this as someone who is terminally not interested in watching video content.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSOl...

Washington's Dream - SNL YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

Which then winds up reminding me of Washington's Dream. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYqf...

:D I initially thought "wow, that seems susprisingly warm" and so didn't really understand your quiet gratitude. But that's what I get for getting used to having my phone readout set to °C.

Place These Exercise Balls On The Mat At The Top Of The Hill - FULL TASK YouTube video by Taskmaster

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gznD...

I edited that too enthusiastically. Osman = Richard Osman, book tour for We Solve Murders. Though I know him mostly from Pointless and Richard Osman's House of Games. Haven't really read much of the Thursday Murder Club books yet.

I've only just discovered Taskmaster. I saw Osman recently on a book tour, and he touted his performance on series 2 task (balls onto a yoga mat) as being perhaps his proudest achievement. Seems like a pretty amusing show, though, I intend to watch more at some point.

If you can keep up this resistance, you'll save big money.

I've now verified myself in the prescribed way, which has led to me having a handle that ends in .com. I wonder if I should start producing merch.

System settings -> Keyboard -> App shortcuts, showing some shortcuts I set up to mimic Mail Act-On

Revealing the Help menu and typing part of a mailbox name brings up the Move to > command.

Mail and macOS itself (in Sonoma) can actually come pretty close to Mail Act-On. In System Settings -> Keyboard -> App Shortcuts, you can set up quick commands, and for moving selected message to an arbitrary folder, use "Show Help menu," type part of the folder name, arrow down to move.

It's just too big a project for too small a team, when things break after the initial release, I don't see how they'll be able to react in a timely way. So, I've begun migrating away from tags and going back to folders, but it's disappointing. These plugins saved me a lot of time back in the 2010s.

I've used SmallCubed's MailSuite plugins for Mail for almost 20 years. I feel loyal. But when Sonoma Mail broke compatibility, they chose to write their own mail client (MailMaven). Sonoma came, Sonoma went. And still no news of a release date. By nowI fear I won't trust it even when it's released.

Avocado’s Number Guacamole from Trader Joe’s

Wow, this is some totally esoteric naming, even for Trader Joe’s.

Recycling bin featuring a box that looks pretty unhappy to be there.

It's hard not to feel sad for this box. Cheer up, box. You'll be doing your part for the world that comes after you.

But it definitely makes you feel quite pleased with yourself for getting what is essentially an inside joke when you see what they were going for! Kind of made my day the first time I saw it.

I am not planning to cancel my advanced syntax class on eclipse day. But the topic of the day will be ellipsis.

Clear enough. You started when you start college.