NASA's Mars Rover Comes Across Formation That Looks Like the Scales of a Massive Cosmic Reptile NASA's Curiosity Rover discovered a large cluster of polygonal rocks on the planet of Mars, which may indicate evidence of water.

Dragons On Mars! ;-)
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Not that that's a very high bar. But at least when Franken was funny (much as one might argue about the frequency), it was (almost always) *on purpose*.

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

Yuri's Night - Wikipedia

Happy Yuri's Night! Especially now that humanity is FINALLY starting to work again on what we threw away over fifty years ago. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri's_...

It's at:

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CfPs (Calls for Papers) closing in 30 days include:

- Elixir confs in the USA and Sweden
- Python confs in Armenia, Cameroon, Portugal, and Singapore
- JS confs in the USA, Bulgaria, Mexico, and Ukraine
- Tech-agnostic confs all over the world

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Ya punks!

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We are moving far away. Just like any home improvement project involves at least two trips to Home Depot, moving involves at least two donation trips to Goodwill, plus an extra per time zone difference or similar change of latitude. I feel like we should be getting some kind of loyalty rewards.

Five rather clear bottles of mead, slightly darker than white wine, illuminated from behind by light through a kitchen window.

Today’s #Mead Adventures: First, bottled the Acerglyn from a friend’s honey, so I can give her some before leaving! Second, I will soon give away all my brewing equipment and supplies, other than honey. The move to Portugal is slated for July, so probably no adventures until August or later. ☹️

Today’s #Mead Adventure: Racked the cold-crashed Acerglyn to a new carboy, and backsweetened with 8 oz of syrup. Now at about 1.021 SG and 15.5% ABV.

“Someone told me that his name was Tenderlove, Ayayronronron Ayayronron!”

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CfPs (Calls for Papers) closing in 30 days include:

- Python confs in Austr[al]ia and Switzerland
- A JS conf in the Netherlands
- Ruby confs in Kenya and USA
- An FP conf in Spain
- Tech-agnostic confs all over Europe and the USA
- And more

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Unless you count the makers, especially those who share. I even shared some of mine with Zach and Kelly!

What about mead?! ;-)

Another interesting Wordle pattern today, starting with a lucky guess:

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Today’s #Mead Adventure: Finally racked the acerglyn from primary to cold-crashing, stabilized, back-sweetened with half a cup more syrup, and made up racking losses with another half cup of water. Anticipated SG 1.013, ABV 15.5%. Didn’t start another batch since we’re moving soonish.

Yeah, but generally you want to turn it only in the lat/lon plane (close enough to a plane, locally), not decrease the elevation to below the local surface. ;-)

We broke the monolith into microservices to improve reliability.

Now, instead of one thing failing…

we have twelve things failing in parallel with better metrics.
#GeekHumor #RockYourCode

Sounds like a description of an ignoranus — an ignorant @$$hole

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CfPs (Calls for Papers) closing in 30 days include:

- Python confs in Austria, Estonia, and Poland
- Ruby in Bulgaria and the UK
- An Erlang/Elixir/BEAM in Sweden
- Tech-agnostic all over Europe and the USA, plus Australia and Mauritius

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I stopped posting about my Wordles a while back, but thought I'd share this one for its interesting pattern:

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Always remember to bring flares, jumper cables, and Kleenex!

Looking for FT or contract. LDN based.

I'm a web engineer, front end specialist & tech lead. React focused for a good while but tech agnostic, regularly picking up new frameworks, even languages on the job.

Design background, experienced in backend, DBs, SysAdmin/DevOps. Love TS & TDD.

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PyCon Lithuania (pycon.lt), happening April 8-10 in Vilnius, is looking for more speakers, so they have extended their CfP to Jan 31, at pycon.lt/call-for-pro.... I spoke there in 2024 and had a blast. Tell them I sent you!

By maybe 200%, 300%, who knows, maybe even 500%! ;-)

I would say Pelican but I suspect there would be a snake hiding in it.

Reasonable conclusion, though not well supported by the premise (even though it is largely correct).

Great news, though I might be unable to travel at that time. Are some of those days devoted to Nerves, or workshops, or whatever else, or are those all general conference-talk days?