toynbee, toynbee@piefed.social

DNS ad blocking doesn’t work on YouTube.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=kwfA1UB2Je0

edit: Yes, I realize the irony of linking YouTube here.

My previous house apparently only existed because the neighbor of the building in the lot before it objected to the sexuality of the owners of said building and threw a molotov cocktail at it.

There was only one casualty of that event. Sadly, it was a cat.

I don’t know how to respond to that.

Maybe you’re my old co-worker.

Regardless, I appreciate the detail! Thank you for elaborating.

I don’t have any experience with “CFD results” but the two sound similar to me. The ellipsis might have made it seem sarcastic, but that wasn’t my intent.

That’s … Basically what they said.

I remember this smell.

I also remember that once I went to a Denny’s and my dad drove us home during an unexpected blizzard. I don’t go to Denny’s often but now, every time I do, even if it’s in the middle of August, I hope for snow.

I once worked tech support for people who ran physics simulations. They said that sometimes they had to rerun the simulations if they didn’t come back accurately. I asked how they could tell if they were accurate.

They said it was based on whether it felt right. I still hate that response, but I guess I can’t come up with a better idea, other than doing whatever they’re testing in real life.

A long lost friend of mine introduced me to the term “Hammerspace."

But let you take a picture?

Sort of. I have a “catch-all” address (that’s just the most legit looking result to a search for the phrase, I won’t vouch for whether it’s a good site). Basically anything@domain.com goes to spam@domain.com. It’s a bit awkward if you need to respond, but otherwise, it’s good for signing up to sites and it makes it easy to filter out ones that spam you and don’t provide a good unsubscribe link.

I always thought the library near where I grew up would be a near ideal environment during a zombie apocalypse. It was a repository of knowledge and entertainment, of course; it was in a fairly small city, meaning that while there might be more zombies than in the countryside, there wouldn’t be as many as in a large city - but there would be resources nearby; there was an armory nearby; there was only one relatively-easily-fortified entrance (to my knowledge); and it had a fully enclosed courtyard which, while it ended up being kind of depressing in real life, could give you a garden in a theoretical apocalypse.

The first and last were most of what I considered when I was a kid.

Weren’t they trying to establish that in the first Rincewind book? I thought they determined it to be unknowable, but it has been a long time since I read it.

My parents had to explain this detail to me while watching the movie Hair, IIRC.

Take the time, watch the movie. Will not disappoint.

And that’s coming from Captain Mal, so you know it’s good advice.

What about the big breath you take because you’ve forgotten to inhale for a while?

To be fair, they didn’t ask.

One highway, zero city.

Hey, I think Futurama made a documentary about that.