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Was it Baudelaire?
Negative space, interstich'
Gaps? What we don't see
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mastodon 4.5.18I've written about electrical safety since the late 1980s: articles, columns, newsletters, books, slide decks. I'm updating Old Electrical Wiring, my first book, and seeking a new publisher. I'm also working on, and pitching, a broader lessons-learned, provisionally Safer Home Repair: do it yourself without killing yourself. My third book, Behind the Code: NEC History, I decided to stop adding to at ~450pp. It talks about the reasons behind U.S. wiring rules, and that's plenty.
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@haikudiem@mindly.social
Doggy nuzzles thanks
Lies down, curled. Pollen descends.
Doggy doesn't mind.
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@haikudiem@mindly.social
Butt no Spring butts, bro
Hesitation has its place
Pity poor doggy
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@haikudiem@mindly.social The "runs forever":
Has dog truly been relieved?
Dog's butt burns bright n-ow!
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@perlucidus@mindly.social I respectfully challernge your perspective. Honorable service is noble, whether they who serve carry job titles that imply public service or no. Cruelty, egocentric indifference, and aggrandisement are dishonorable in schoolyard bully, minister, officer and ruler alike.
@deliaturner@mindly.social I wonder why people take the class of someone with so poor an attitude.
I'm wonderfully fortunate to be taking a class from a 26 yo MFA sme, an encouraging enthusiast. While I'm the only geezer in the class, we're learning together and from each other. This poetry class is one of the most positive experiences I'm having currently.
Last semester, I took two classes: one in the history dept, one in the dance dept. Again a kind enthusiast, a grad dance TA, taught the one class, movement integration: the student body consisted of one gimpy 75 yo man and a bunch of mostly 19 yo women who'd been training for their athletic career for years and years. The history prof, unfortunately, had problems teaching his subject: I withdrew after weeks and weeks.
We don't have to stick around!
#linux #tyro #troubeshooting
Here's an amazing find/ discovery:
My keyboard's gotten so unreliable, and my mouse input as well, that I've been using an external keyboard for some time. I finally went back and disabled the stylus input--on this machine xinput disable 20--and damned if the wonky keys seem to have unwonkified. The next step will be to see whether crontab -e @reboot xinput disable 20 worked, as i've never pulled a crontab before. No idea what I'm doing there.
#University #Libraries I'm psyched about access to the local university library. UMaryland-College Park has greatly reduced costs for geezers who apply to fill unclaimed seats.
Today I was able to find and legally download the full text of the 2009 English translation of Dialogues of Love, written by Abravanel, a.k.a. Leone Ebreo, in 1535. Here's Renaissance discourse,, admixed with a Sephardic perspective. Imagine meeting such a mind.
Later, I was able to determine that the answers I sought to make UL943's new threshold specifications safer might be had. (I just withdrew a proposal, not having the biomedical engineering savvy, nor access to source data, to intelligently harmonize conflicting numbers.) I learned of a 2025 article in Health Physics, which I'll look up Monday, if the university's libraries are open.
All this, and I'll sit down for my first-ever poetry class, with a highly engaged instructor.
Psyched!.
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@vowe@social.heise.de Even so, there's less Whoops! when I draft, put to bed, and revisit another day. Also when I draft in my text editor, then copy to mail or post. Most of all, when I draft, print, and mark up.
And most email survives being sent without any such fussing.
#HealthyBaking #Improv #DiabetesFriendly Monkfruit #non-pet chia
These worked fine. WW flour, greek yoghurt, some fresh lemon zest and ginger, bicarb, baking powder, egg, peanut butter, chia seed, monkfruit extract, and just a little butternut squash. Light, tasty, and given the baker, of course freeform rather than constrained by muffin tins. I punted an overstressed friend's call while I popped them in the oven cleaned my hands, and emptied my bladder. Then I called her back to reassure her about the likely minor import of her plumbing problem (10:1 odds the drain for her washing machine was clogged, rather than anything more dire), gave her contact info for a reliable plumber, got back downstairs to check the oven and find them just about done. Cool.
@deliaturner@mindly.social soem clothes get stiff if not agitated whilst dryiing. If you dry those indoors, what do you use? A portable fan?
#spam At one point, months ago, I ordered wholesale dentifrice from an outfit called US Dental *. They sent me many emails inviting me to reorder. Earlier today i asked them to take me off their email blasts. This evening i received two emails from them, selling autoclaves, or purporting to do so. This time I decided I had to set up a filter to block them. It took a little doing: I discovered that these last two messages were disguised as coming from my edress. What a nasty business.
#poetry #limericks A llimerick takes the form AA BB A, okay. Do the BB shots need to be shotter, or rather shorter? Do they oughter?
#poetry Do the lines of the final couplet of a sonnet have to be ~even?
#Uber workings:
Do you understand their scheduling? I need to get gimpily downtown (for an appointment to have my operated-upon foot put back in use) Wednesday, and don't have a ride. I've a few questions.
1. Uber, unlike Lyft, seems wiling to pre-schedule a pickup, online, without needing to go cell phone. However, the software says "5 minutes from your location." Does this mean I have to locomote five minutes to get to them, or just that the driver would be starting out near me?
2. Can I say I wan't to get to my destination at 10:15 a.m., and leave the driver to decide the pickup time, or do I need to say, "Pickup time 8 a.m." to be sure that whatever route they take, there'll be loads of time.
3. Does the answer change if I select the shared-ride option? Is the latter viable given that I'll have a collapsible knee scooter to stick in the trunk?
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@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org I used to use IA till I learned that you adamantly violate active copyrights. What a waste of potential to stick to the position that authors' rights are less important than the public's right to know without paying the creators.
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@Alleycats@mindly.social What you missed is that if you tap the three little dots, a menu opens that includes "Edit" among the options.
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@MikeGorse@mindly.social Yes and and. Yes; and LLMs commonly build on IP piracy; and assorted other AI systems are resource hogs; and much AI, using LLMs or not, is used ignorantly, with poor control.
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@no_anions@mindly.social Are you able to step back and assess? I mean anything from how they sculpt their books to what kind of characters you enjoy or shun identifying wiith to learning more about your values from your agreement and disagreement with the authors' mouthpieces.
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@otterX@mindly.social Looks and sounds fab. i find sauteeing eggplant a bit fo a challenge, to get it the way I want it. Tell me, please, about erygii shrooms; I don't remember seeing them on offer. They're not mentioned in Larousse or Joachim, and anyway, I'd rather ask someone who enjoys them,
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@Bette@mstdn.social @SecondStix@mindly.social
On swift second* thought, that does not apply
*or secant