PyWoody

I knew someone that actually got a degree in like letterprinting with a minor in menu design. She went from town-to-town creating these beautiful chalk menu designs and lived a pretty modest life.

One day a tattoo parlor asked her to make a sign. She did. They asked if she had ever thought about getting into tattooing. She hadn't. They gave her an apprenticeship.

After completing her apprenticeship, she's now booked so far into advance that she closed her book to the public.

I think about her all the time now, what with software engineering going the way that it is. What lateral like passion could I transition to, as she did?

Wow, almost unchanged from 2005[0]. Impressive. I miss the weird web.

EDIT: Here's an Atlas Obscura article about the museum itself[1].

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20050613084710/https://moisttowe...

[1] https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/moist-towelette-museum

Scottish Elevator - Voice Recognition - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMS2VnDveP8

  But why, some say, the Moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask, why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas? We choose to go to the Moon. We choose to go to the Moon... We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win, and the others, too.

  - JKF, 1962

If you haven't read it, I think you'd enjoy The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster. It's amazingly prescient, given it was written in 1909.

It wasn't until college did I realize that "fill up on water" wasn't a normal response to a kid who says they're hungry.

My town of <1k population had their fireworks tonight. I want to say at least half of the fireworks rattled your bones and jimmied your organs.

You're off by 10.

Roll tide.

There was a TV show, Our Hero[0], that aired in the 2000s that was about Zines. I can't say I've ever seen a "zine" irl so I can't say how accurate of the "scene" it was, but it's definitely a blast-from-the-past.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYzXlo7zHY4

Aren't buybacks the new dividends?

Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia

  - Kurt Vonnegut

Yikes. I hope you got your chimney swept annually.

Seasoned firewood will burn cleaner, longer, and more efficiently.

If you're chopping wood in the Fall, I sure hope it's for next year's winter.

I tried to visit your link but failed to verify I'm a human to CF. Bit ironic, innit?

What you're describing sounds like what we call "in current use" in New Hampshire. I know Maine has something similar but I can't remember what they call it.

You don't pay taxes on land in current use, but, if you or whomever you sold the land to, wants to build on it, they have to pay the back taxes first. It's a great for conservation.

Beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

Also check out All Birds Are Cats by the same duo.

They'll be outraged about the environmental damage from mining and manufacturing needed for panels, but ignore the orders of magnitude worse damage from burning fossil fuels.

I always try to point out that, after all of the "environmental damage" done to create the solar panels, the panels will exist for 30 years before they can be recycled into new panels. Whereas, after all of the environmental damage done to produce gas and coal, it will lead to a one time use only energy output that has to be repeated until the end of time.

It makes zero sense environmentally or cost-wise to prefer fossil fuels.

Buddy, I hope you have a glove on because you're about to catch these fists!

  Does Microsoft understand consent?
  
  [ ] Yes
  [ ] Ask again later

A few days ago someone on HN commented that a teammate uses Claude to search for text in files on their own computer. Buddy... There's Command-line Tools Can Be 235x Faster Than Your Hadoop Cluster and then there's Command-line Tools Can Be ∞ Faster Than Your AI.

The Merlin App[0] created by Cornell works wonderfully for tracking bird calls. I like to sit by the river near my apartment and watch in realtime as the app updates while the birds are talking back-and-forth.

If you do start tracking birdcalls, I think you'll be surprised at how many you start hearing that you tuned out before.

[0] https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/

Yes, I just saw that in the other thread. I still stand by it!

In New England weather that could be an hour. Just this week, we've had Spring, Summer, frost warnings, and 75F+ days.

I'm not sure where this false premise started but alot of people believe it.

It being the driving plot behind Double Indemnity probably started it. I always thought it was true until your comment, too.

Kant was so famous for taking a daily walk at precisely 3:30 p.m. that the residents of Königsberg could set their clocks by it.

I wouldn't start a company behind it but tkinter is perfectly fine for basic guis. It has its quirks but who doesn't?

Python has sqlite3[0], curses (tui) [1], and tkinter[2] in the stdlib.

[0] https://docs.python.org/3/library/sqlite3.html

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/curses.html

[2] https://docs.python.org/3/library/tkinter.html

I've had people relay conversations to Claude irl.

You say something...pause while they look at their phone...they give a response that is out of their depth, etc. The last time it happened I just up and left.