I came home with a tenor banjo today, and it was with great self restraint that it has neither a resonator nor a "renaissance head" 😆
(actually the dealer I bought it from suggested against it when I was talking about what I wanted to play and how)
Funky Kong, but luckily not enough folks follow me who care 😆
Other anti-kid features include: making the "kid friendly" character Nabbit or Cranky Kong (the only characters in each respective game no kid wants to play), however they thought the hat was going to go down in Mario Odyssey, and not supporting split screen free roam in Mario Kart.
Everybody: "Nintendo is kid friendly"
Me, dealing with yet another anti-kid feature: trying to avert a full on meltdown because of the Animal Crossing Island Transfer Tool and Nintendo's inexplicable non-support of save data cloud in this one game
I bought a fake chef's knife as a silly joke, which has backfired in a way that's going to make the true life mystery version of my death hilarious.
![You'll Be Back - Hamilton (Original Cast 2016 - Live) [HD]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uv5kvjd2gjbl7j43fjoyy43m/bafkreiatbqkfrv4gkbbmb34f5ihqo37hw533grax3ogktnuvrntapy6sea)
How it feels when you get a "parcel" from "the Royal Mail"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5JA...
Why has no one told me about NSWindowShouldDragOnGesture?
With all the apps invading the titlebar in macOS so you never know how to drag windows, you can use this to force ctrl+cmd+click to drag!
```
defaults write -g NSWindowShouldDragOnGesture -bool true
```
Now I kind of want keys (enough for the G# in St. Anne's Reel) or kind of want a lighter flute. Which would either change which M&E flute I got or make me go Carbony (living in Colorado, avoiding wood for maintenance reasons). But both are unnecessary luxuries for what and how I play 😆
I wish I knew why Hall Crystal flutes are recommended more for learning the Irish Flute. I think the best place to start is the pennywhistle, but then the Hall Flute is easier to play than my M&E (the beginner flute I was recommended) and much cheaper.
hallflutes.com
It is great having so much self hosted... unfortunately my router forgot to keep my server's DHCP address pinned and I'm still leaning what partially/fully broke.
Call me old fashioned, but I feel like online newspapers should have a "no paywall/lightbox over articles about nearby wildfires" rule.
y'all.
Hi Patrick! OPML import is something we are working on (we don’t have a date to share yet though)!
I kind of wonder if there's a good way to integrate @surf.social with my RSS reader.
I have a freshRSS instance with sources dating back to Google Reader, and want to fold it in without manually copying all the things 😆
I should've started with "the Way of Kings" since this series is only on my radar after folks saw me at the ren faire with a folk flute and started asking pointed questions 😆.
"Is this a talisman flute? I don't know, maybe?"
On a whim, I let a Brandon Sanderson novel jump to the top of my reading queue...
...and I can't believe it took me this long!
I'm normally a sci-fi fan and have a harder time with fantasy, but am immediately loving Tress of the Emerald Sea.
Earth and Moon from DSCOVR NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured this unique view of the Moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. This view shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible from Earth. Ian Regan processed this version of the image to account for the Moon's motion. NASA / NOAA / Ian Regan
I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable.
Earth and Moon in one NASA photo.
ht @astrokatie.com
It's wild how I won't even make big purchases or send emails on a phone due to imprecise inputs (accidental weird punctuation, autocorrect breaking addresses, accidental clicks while scrolling). Then folks I know are just planning whole holidays with LLMs as if the hotel they booked even exists.
Tech companies: "what if we tracked everything you did and tried to guess what you want, served in an infinite scrolling feed"
Me: "What if instead I just told surf.social what I want, and occasionally I refresh a feed and read a few posts?"
Me: Neil Armstrong was walking on the moon at 38, what am I doing
Kiddo: you can die!
(She did mean it as concern for my well-being, but that phrasing 😆)
Today's installer recommended NewsBlur for Android
www.theverge.com/tech/906873/...
Might I also recommend Capy Reader
Free, open source, and runs great on all the wild Android devices I get to test: capyreader.com
github.com/jocmp/capyre...
I pair it with FreshRSS
An image of the entire Earth, with Northern Africa and the North Pole visible at the lower left. It looks like daytime but it is actually illuminated by moonlight. There’s a bright arc along the lower right where the sun is coming through from behind. There’s a bright dot on the lower right (Venus) and a glow (zodiacal light). A few stars can be seen in the dark beyond the Earth.
An image of the entire Earth, with Northern Africa and the North Pole visible at the lower left. It is dark with muted colors. There’s a very bright arc along the lower right where the sun is coming through from behind. There’s a small dot on the lower right (Venus). The background is dark with a few faint stars visible.
The whole-Earth-at-night photo from the #Artemis II mission was brighter than many expected. That was mostly due to camera settings; here’s another pic taken just before with diff settings. Digital photography is always subjective—even before processing! (HT @swapnakrishna.com @jasonc0.bsky.social)
"Oh right, I'm not asking a question to a specific group or the question isn't being asked to specifically me!"
The hardest thing about 1::many conversations online is remembering that even though the algorithm/feed gave a question to you, it doesn't mean it wants an answer from you.
"Has anyone experienced <x>?"
[on infinite loop] "No, but I do <y>"
And I've been on both sides of this by mistake XD
Space happened!
SPAAAAAAAAAACE
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_U...
If I just figure out how to play brass instruments: I'll have everything I need to make my own (really bad) ska, bluegrass, Celtic fusion band!
Unless my travel saxophone is enough to count...
For our Playdate game based on Firewatch, we wanted some collectible Forrest Byrnes posters with a creepy and threatening 60s-70s Smokey Bear aura. Scaring kids into not starting fires.
So I made these.
This is my complaint so far. I would be very hype on ai code if the output were validated composable blocks that I could then iterate on outside of the agentic space rather than a pile of JavaScript that I don't understand because I didn't agonize over each line (as a non js dev)
I feel like how low Hypercard is rated and how excited folks are about GenAI coding is related:
www.theverge.com/cs/tech/9004...
I suspect AI coding is best when tools, libraries, &c are lacking. And we collectively unfairly shamed all the Delphi, VisualBasic, and DarkBasic programmers.
