Time for me to go. Catch you on email, http://counter.social, or mastodon.

(A similar sentiment could be expressed by millions of others, I would guess.)

Happy Execution Day to my 13th Great-Grandfather! https://twitter.com/whencyclopedia/status/1552670223248998401

Many apologies, but: "Jacques-Henri Lartigue photograph of drone pilot":

16th consecutive day testing positive following short, precaution-filled trip out of state. Symptoms relatively mild but persistent, semi-isolating due to family member at high risk. Don’t buy the “it’s over” wishful thinking and loosening of mask mandates; be careful out there.

Paper: "Although the techniques proposed in this article focus on the one-dimensional problem, their principles can be easily extended to multiple dimensions."
Me, an idiot, three weeks later:

This is fantastic https://twitter.com/BCiechanowski/status/1521870899380584449

This is bonkers: "Mitochondria in cone photoreceptors act as microlenses to enhance photon delivery and confer directional sensitivity to light" https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abn2070

Calling all RT nerds: https://twitter.com/aaronlefohn/status/1506757133903167489

Just finished Season 1 of Raised By Wolves, and somebody got Lair of the White Worm all over my Prometheus.

Coming soon: The Dutch East India Center for Tulip Studies https://twitter.com/FEhrsam/status/1502019317637943309

I made a thing -- Phits, a Photoshop plug-in for FITS images. #Astrophotography https://github.com/cek/phits

The 10yo has dubbed this kit, "Lego Harry Potter Who Has Seen Some Things."

This series, wherein the son of Dennis Davis, Bowie's drummer in the mid-to-late 70's, interviews Tony Visconti about his Dad, is great. This episode, featuring some fantastic isolated drum tracks, is gold. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gCUBRFkvvU

Wow - source code to Defender! As a kid, one of my first non-trivial programs was a Defender-inspired game that ran on early UNIX + VT100. So many days trying to get smooth side scrolling and decent looking ASCII explosions working… https://github.com/mwenge/defender

Drat, seems I’m outside the 10 day return window.

Still amazed at how far a 10W signal through a thin wire in your attic can travel.

My just-issued callsign looks cool, but “Kilo November Six November Charlie November” is a bit of a mouthful.

As @omershapira would say: This account covers computer graphics.

Driving family & dog to check out Xmas lights display. As we arrive, dog pukes up 2 apparently-purloined sticks of butter, wrappers and all, into youngest’s lap. Bail out of car, & kid takes off barf-covered pants. To the surprise of all, seems he’s gone commando. Merry Xmas!

I’ll see myself out.

Lugging a bin of busted construction toys and an old-school analog fighting game to storage, I realized I was carrying a Box of Broken Rokenbok and Rockem Sockem Robots.

Congrats, Pat! https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/technology/pixar-pioneers-win-1-million-turing-award.amp.html

Well done, Dad.

http://www.charleskolb.org/obit.html

To the few non-nerds who follow: move along, nothing to see here.

I assume that since classname Facebook has given way to enum FACEBOOK, member variable m_Facebook is next in line.

Old Man Self-Own: getting cranky about some neighbor playing music too loudly, only to realize it’s the J&MC playing a live outdoor set a few blocks away.

TFW the freeware disk cloner you downloaded is chugging away on your active install and pieces of the OS start to fail in strange ways and in a horrifying moment of clarity you hit the reset switch, but it's too late.

TV studio, NYC, late November, 1980. Local coolness gradient approaches infinity. https://youtu.be/JMDrhgV9IDY?t=212

Rebranding my fridge full of leftovers, “gastronomical debt”