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Makin' Masks

New research shows that wearing masks makes a difference. But we all have to do it!

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RIP Joze

Last month, when the weather in Petaluma turned nice, I started riding my e-bike to work every day. Until last week.

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Five Years Later: The TWiT.tv Web Site

Exactly five years ago, we debuted the “new” TWiT web site. I wrote the following post shortly after. It’s buried somewhere on the site (that’s one part of the design I wish we’d done better) so I wanted to “resurrect” it here. The annotations are from today.

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It’s a story as old as time. Well at least as old as HG Wells…

The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine we own.

– H.G. Wells

Sigh.

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Petaluma During the Pandemic

Pictures of Petaluma during the height of the quarantine. An historic record.

Downtown Petaluma Mural Looking down what used to called Main St. Lisa on Kentucky Street The Mystic Theater The main intersection downtown Burning man sculptures Leo plays in traffic. (Picture by Lisa Laporte) They call it a river but really it's a tidal slough. Lisa under the the cherry tree in front of the Carnagie Library The road goes on and on. A perfect place to watch the world go by Lisa and Michael on a walk in our neighborhood A few of my home made masks. A 165-acre bird preserve and wetlands just outside town Lisa eases on down the road Waiting for a child And we never saw him again
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Fame is a Vapor

I use fortune and cowsay1 to spit out pithy sayings when I launch my terminal2. This morning’s seemed very apropos.

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

– Mark Twain

After the game the king and the pawn go in the same box.

– Italian proverb

The universe speaks.

And now, a little movie3 to demonstrate. Pay no attention to the locomotive.

  1. Mac users can use brew to install the fortune and cowsay programs. Arch users can combine both with cowfortune in the AUR. And for extra fun, install lolcat and get rainbow fortune cookies. I’ve posted the fish shell code I use in the comments below (the footnote formatting mangles code blocks). ↩︎

  2. From xkcd #196: Command Line Fu Thank you, Randall! ↩︎

  3. This movie brought to you by asciinema. Install on macOS with the command brew install asciinema. ↩︎

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And this is why I love living in Petaluma.

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Definitely confused.

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Noon In Valencia Spain

Outside the beautiful cathedral. They hit the bell with a massive hammer.

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And off we go to Barcelona.

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Oops. letsrobot.tv/robocaste…

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Come control robots in our studio live. letsrobot.tv/robocaste…

Watch from the other end live on the New Screensavers. TWiT.tv/live

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Am I misunderstanding something @manton? Leo.micro.blog has everything I post. Micro.blog/Leo does not.

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Micro.blog Conundrum

I’m setting things up for my vacation but some of my posts aren’t appearing in the timeline. They DO appear at Leo.social which is my micro.blog site. Maybe there’s a lag?

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Triple threat: toot, tweet, and micro.blog… all from my Apple Watch. Technology, what a concept.

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Let’s try this again. Drafts ➡️ micro.blog.

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brew install bat alias cat=‘bat’

mind = blown

remysharp.com/2018/08/2…

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Spent an excellent Friday with Apple legend Bill Atkinson. We talked for five hours about Lisa, Macintosh, Hypercard, psychedelics, the Iboga ritual. General Magic, and neuroscience.

Part one is out now at twit.tv/shows/tri… Part two in a week or so.

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Drat. I keep accidentally posting the micro.blog token when enabling Drafts. (@agiletortoise does Drafts eat the token before it posts to micro.blog? Am I doing this wrong?)

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So I’m using Drafts on my Apple Watch to post this to microblog. Does that count as crossing the streams @agiletortoise?