Tim Plas

A rare and beautiful moment. A Piper Super Cub returns to the nest to feed her young. In only a few weeks, the Piper hatchlings will be ready to take their first flight. Nature is amazing.

I have one tattoo; it's one pixel in size.
(It's green; resulted from a finger poke while assembling an artificial Christmas tree decades ago.)

Even AWS is still learning that "It's always DNS."

All that basically just so customers can try to deal with SQL Server licensing, eh?

The hole in a guitar is traditionally used to store soft cheeses and dried meats which are fed to the drummer when he does a good job

"Electricity is really just organized lightning." — George Carlin

My AI girlfriend's rack is 42U

Sometimes I feel like my theme song should be
"They call me debris"

So they're talking about re-opening the Appleton MN private prison, as an ICE detention facility. Well of course Minnesota would have the nation's largest ICE house.

And now ladies & gentlemen,
a bit of a different take on
“Free Bird.”

Dry white toast? (per Elwood)

classic "flat earth" illustration with water falling off the edge, into space

when the AI datacentres are done with their cooling water, they pump it off the edge of the earth. it's cheaper to get rid of it that way, rather than shipping it back to the water factories. it looks like this:

TANSTAAFL

Latex allergy makes you allergic also to bananas and kiwi fruit.

Two photos. In the first, deep in a conifer forest a man in winter clothes holds a reindeer and sprays something from an aerosol can on the antlers. The second photo is of a small town street in the dead of night. Little shops and dim street lights. A deer stands in the middle of the road. It's barely visible, just a feint silhouette. But, its eyes and antlers glow like something ancient and supernatural.

To prevent deer from being hit by cars Finland has tried using reflective paint. (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/avoid-deer-strikes-finland-painting-deer-antlers-reflective-paint-180949792/)

File this under "solutions to modern problems that summon the old gods."

“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including yourself.”

Anne Lamont

my new theory is that once you have a certain amount of money and wealth you start to go crazy and detach from reality. that number is different for everyone. for me it's $20

Ruin a movie with a kitchen utensil

Bram Stoker's Spatula

F111 ? F117 ?

What about some of their earlier predecessors?: F86, F111, F101, F100, F102, F84, F104, F82, F117 (and many others) --definitely NOT strictly linear ascending series. But interestingly enough, this does appear to be the only # used so far in the F40-F49 range.

Installing OSes and using OSes are two different hobbies

Great way to answer "What have you been smoking?"

I thought they were mutants.

Carl Sagan wrote this in 1995 and it lives rent-free in my head 🤯

I saw those graphs also on DownDetector. Then noticed the scale: dozens of reports on AWS, Microsoft, etc. But 10's of thousands of down reports on X/Twitter.

Popular Electronics magazine cover, w Altair 8800 computer - Jan 1975.

50 years ago this month!

Nice! One of my Christmas presents was a multi-segmented dragon. Turns out it was a 32-hour 3D print job.

The top trending gif page has some ladies dancing outside in short sleeve dresses captioned “happy solstice” and I just gotta say if you’re dancing outside in short sleeves tonight you’re probably not living at a latitude where the solstice affects your life in any way

Imagining a "fun" post-apocalyptic far future where monks hand-scribe illuminated copies of Wikipedia.