🅸 🅰🅼 🆃🅷🅴 🅻🅰🆆.
𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍 𝖋𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖓𝖊𝖍𝖆𝖚𝖌𝖍
I’m lucky. I live in a place where stonecrop is native, and it grows like a weed. Except it doesn’t spread (quickly), and I love the look.
We had some landscaping done and they moved some stonecrop and forgot to move one back. it wasn’t even planted; it just grew right there where they’d left it!
Great plants.
Also, biological monsters would overheat very fast.
That’s why they tend to breath fire n stuff.
Old Godzilla movies got it right. He did look like he was walking on the moon. Not bouncing, but he probably had atrophied muscles from being in the water all the time.
Poor guy. Overheated and tired, no wonder he was grumpy!
Sometimes it do be like that
That’s brilliant. The thumbnail spoils it… at least, it shows me the punchline.
I don’t know why; it just popped into my head. Maybe because the float would just make snacking easier for the sharks?
Edit: because my home server insists on rewriting all image URLs to proxy requests through that server, and it often breaks things. I gotta re-home.
What almost impresses me most is the architecture of the Parthenon in Athens. Nothing in it is perpendicular. There’s a rise in the middle of the floor of about 6.5cm over a span of 30 meters that makes the floor bowed and prevents it from looking like it’s sagging in the middle. All of the columns are just slightly tilted inwards. They’re not straight-sided, either, they’re bowed. The whole danged thing is an optical illusion to make it appear perpendicular, because it’s so big that if they didn’t, it wouldn’t.
https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/6e7osxbhye9libjdlmb8std5b77rs9
It’s not pointless, but needlessly silly: as part of the alarm system, in addition to the standard siren, the home audio system turns on and plays Rockwell’s “Somebody’s Watching Me” at full volume.
At 7pm on school nights, one of a number of versions of “Hushabye Mountain” is played, if music isn’t already playing.
Ooooh! Totally not useless, but I have a version of this.
I have a cheap, but powerful, amp for the home audio system, and discovered it burns out if left perpetually on (yeah, I’m on my third). So I got a wall switch that’s turned off after 10 minutes of no audio streaming to that snapclient.
All year? Please tell me “Halloween eyes” is just “scary eyes” and that you do this all year.
Interesting. Our sensors don’t see the cats. Unless I place once of the basement ones directly opposite the stairs; it can apparently see them if they’re a couple of feet away at sensor eye level.
But the one that sees people in the kitchen doesn’t see the cats on the counters when they get up there in the night.
I think if they saw the cats, I’d have to figure something else out, because our’s get everywhere.
I want my own all knowing god.
I don’t want to be all knowing; Watchmen demonstrated how much that would suck. But having an omniscient floating ball that I can ask questions and get straightforward answers; I could abuse that capability endlessly.
I think my wife and I are both wise enough to avoid using it for spousal discovery: if she wants to tell me her body count, she will. So It’d quickly escalate from the trivial to the existential, and then we’d make a lot of money and maybe solve some world problems on the side.
i definitely want a personal, floating, omniscient, question-answering god.
That’s a lot of bloom for a little guy!
My recommendation is to put all of the variables in an environment file, and use systemd’s EnvironmentFile (in [] to point to it.
One of my backup service files (I back up to disks and cloud) looks like this:
[Unit]
Description=Backup to MyUsbDrive
Requires=media-MyUsbDrive.mount
After=media-MyUsbDrive.mount
[Service]
EnvironmentFile=/etc/backup/environment
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/restic backup --tag=prefailure-2 --files-from ${FILES} --exclude-file ${EXCLUDES} --one-file-system
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.timer
FILES is a file containing files and directories to be backed up, and is defined in the environment file; so is EXCLUDES, but you could simply point restic at the directory you want to back up instead.
My environment file looks essentially like
RESTIC_REPOSITORY=/mnt/MyUsbDrive/backup
RESTIC_PASSWORD=blahblahblah
KEEP_DAILY=7
KEEP_MONTHLY=3
KEEP_YEARLY=2
EXCLUDES=/etc/backup/excludes
FILES=/etc/backup/files
If you’re having trouble, start by looking at how you’re passing in the password, and whether it’s quoted properly. It’s been a couple of years since I had this issue, but at one point I know I had spaces in a passphrase and had quoted the variable, and the quotes were getting passed in verbatim.
My VPS backups are more complex and get their passwords from a keystore, but for my desktop I keep it simple.
I hope this isn’t a step towards replacing the native app with an SPA.
Or, in the US, you learn to drive first, at 16, but can’t drink legally until 21. So you get people who’ve been driving for 5 years and confident with their driving ability, learning what their alcohol limits are. Yes, plenty of teens drink illicitly, but I always thought Germany did it better: you get experienced with alcohol and have been drinking for 6 or 7 years by the time you get your license.
Life expectancy tended to be a lot lower, too. Once you lost your teeth, it was only matter of time. With no antibiotics, any injury that broke skin could be a death sentance, and over 30, 40 years, the odds stack up.
Childbirth was a pretty dangerous thing for women, too.
It’s space. There’s actually 28 hours in space, but she does get bathroom breaks.
Have you read any Stoic writings? That sounds like a hot take from Stoicism cliff notes.
And, no. I see no issue with Stoicism; I think it’s a very pragmatic philosophy.
Huh. All that work, just for little ol’ me? Gosh, I’m humbled. I didn’t even know that was going on.
I do try to limit thorn to my piefed account. Sometimes habit tricks me to using it on Midwest.Social, but that’s entirely accidental.