ultimitchow

I like how my 'I voted' sticker has a bull majestically sharting out the stars from the city flag.

hmm so you are un-amused by un-necessary hyphens. i don't un-derstand why.

In 1876 a Victorian banker "decided to release into the wild a pair of grey squirrels he had brought back with him from a business trip to America. Other landowners, viewing the non-native species as a fashionable garden novelty, soon followed suit."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/sep/05/red-grey-squirrels-cornwall

cold water survival

i can't think of a better way to get shy kids to engage and learn than to figuratively put them on a pedestal in front of the whole class and have them demonstrate that they don't know the answer.

彼はばかじゃない、クールんだ

i have had SMR drives slow to about 2MB/s with sustained sequential writes. "noticeably bad" really undersells how terrible they are.

the 3.5" barracuda disks are SMR. the barracuda pro disks are all CMR. https://www.seagate.com/products/cmr-smr-list/

in NC i saw a faint red/pink/magenta glow over the whole sky for a little while. it was as bright as the sky normally is about 45 minutes after sunset when you can only see the brightest stars and planets. the stars looked like they turned pink

not OP but the moon was to the Northwest around a heading of 300° and the moon is in this picture

me, myself, and I

you wouldn't understand it if you've never had enough caffeine to smear your feeble human mind across the endless plane of the past, present, and future