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  Who can forget the joy of scrolling usenet groups alphabetically to find alt.fan.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk

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  Please remember to turn the shadow rendering back on after the equinox.

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  My last clock project didn't work, but this time it's different!

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  @jwz@mastodon.social NYC cut down on idling trucks by offering a hefty bounty for shooting a three minute video of the running vehicle and its license plate. I wish they would have done the same for cars in the bike lanes! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/22/nyregion/they-earn-tens-of-thousands-by-turning-in-idling-trucks.html

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  How much will the 8 tooth gear rotate when the two teeth of a 64 tooth wheel turn past it?

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  Hope you're having a better day than the folks at Ziggo who pushed a remote firmware update that bricked eleven thousand customers' cable modems. https://tweakers.net/nieuws/251384/ziggo-vervangt-11000-modems-van-zakelijke-klanten-vanwege-technisch-defect.html (in case you were wondering why we were offline for much of Monday...)

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  A very quiet Sunday morning in Amsterdam.

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  Today's #CarryShitOlympics entry is two hundred and eighty liters of dirt.

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  Is this the right size flower vase for my bike? #CarryShitOlympics

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  #Fensterfreitag

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  This is what peak train performance looks like

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  Hackerbrücke hangout

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  Had a good nights sleep on the way home from Germany in a NightJet quasi-futuristic "MiniCab" capsule

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  Emily Wilson, who produced an excellent iambic pentameter translation of the #Odyssey, has harsh words about Nolan's version's lack of depth (and also its lack of nudity). https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n14/emily-wilson/an-uncomplicated-man

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  Sometimes I don't understand merchandise branding deals.

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  Sending postcards from the top of Germany.

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  You say that like it's a bad thing.

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  Yesterday at the Hoorn Weversmarkt I bought a big skein of undyed Polderdraad yarn, made from Texelaar-Swifter sheep's wool. It's super chonky and has an amazing aroma that reminds me of being aboard old ships. I'm hopeful these fingerless gloves will be very warm and robust for my next voyage!

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  Special thanks to the crew of the Draken! #Odyssey

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  First attempt at shaping a heel is coming together.

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  Deutsches Bahn "on time": my arrival in Duisburg was three minutes late, but so was my departure onward to München.

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  Would you buy yarn from these goats?

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  While we use our bakfiets several times a week, it's not my everyday ride and I'm always glad it gets more use when our neighbor borrows it for a picnic.

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  Microsoft Security stops attacks two out of three times, and that ain't bad.

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  Is there anything that can't be improved by googly eyes?

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  Do any infrastructure nerds know what these sensors on pipes all around Iceland are for?

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  I adore book scans that include ephemera like library due date cards. Makes me wonder what happened in 1996 to make this otherwise unloved book so popular.

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  I would pick the smaller one on the left because you must always choose the lesser of two weevils.

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  Can you do math twice as fast with a dual cursor sliderule?

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  A gouden koets just went by, with bicycle riding attendants.