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i finally got around to looking up pictures of the floating chevron that i saw in Vancouver and it's just as cute up close as from a distance!

first pic mine, second from https://montecristomagazine.com/community/coal-harbours-floating-chevron-station-last-kind

I just asked a junior member of my team to go through some customer feedback and add the customer issue number to our relevant jira item so that it comes up in search. he, very reasonably, put them in a comment attached to the appropriate issue. JIRA SEARCH has no easy way to query for text in comments. one has to write a JQL Query each time. what the actual fuck.

how do normal people create bitmap fonts. i have images of a dot matrix display that i want to trace as references. all the workflows that i've been able to pull together are absolutely fucked, three or more different gui programs.

setting aside that most normal people do not live a life where they need to draw a raster font

table snakes #shittyPortmanteaux

something i learned recently that probably should be more widely known.

There is no such thing as a two-extinguisher fire.

In the time it will take to locate a second fire extinguisher, the fire will likely grow beyond your ability to control. If you can't put the fire out with the first extinguisher, it is time to leave.

fuck computers

@alyx@frogs.lgbt mermaids detected https://youtu.be/z7DuvWVazpk?t=597

in the state of washington coffee is a right, not a privilege

https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=70.79.095

mDNS, RTSP, and DHCPv6 are all fighting for top position as my least favourite internet protocol

M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead RET

[poll] do you have a "good eye" that you favour?

sorry for the limited choices, i only have 5 slots

dear assembled turbo nerd friends. i have reached the end of my rope. the spool is empty. somehow i have used 305m of ethernet in the past 2 years. time to pick a new spool of what i am wiring random stuff with for the next year or two.

do you like stranded cat6 cable? ive only ever worked with solid. is it time to change my ways?