My favorite part of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) was when Smaug says "It's Smaugin' Time" and then Smaugs everywhere
Rob Ricci
@ricci@discuss.systems
Research professor in the Kahlert School of Computing at the University of Utah. Co-director of the Flux Research Group: https://www.flux.utah.edu. I build research infrastructure: https://cloudlab.us, https://powderwireless.net, https://emulab.net .
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I'll admit that I didn't "get" Dolly Parton for most of my life - not in the sense that I didn't like her, but in the sense that I just didn't understand why she or her music were such a big deal. Why she meant so much not just to the people right around her but people of all kinds, all over the world.
But this podcast miniseries did it for me: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dolly-partons-america
I get it now.
TLS stands for Tacky Loser Sockets
SSL stands for Secure Sockets, Loser
My grandfather's business card from when he stocked cigarette vending machines
(I still have a pizza pan from this restaurant and use it regularly)
hey @dev can we get this dude for :chefkiss: ?
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I hope I don't see you tomorrow
Menus from my grandparent's restaurants, Orange County California (looks like early 70s, by which time it was probably a couple decades old)
I just knocked on someone's door to pick them up like it was 1985 or some shit
It didn't work. I had to text my kid and have them text him to come out
@gwozniak Kiki does not wait for the shelf to be clear
Saw a capitalized domain name and I'm still recovering
oh thank god, all of the Artemis astronauts are older than I am, there's still time
I think I carry an above-average amount of traffic on my home network
Oh. There's a *game* called Rust, and apparently the final boss isn't the borrow checker.
Some days are good days, and some days you have cause to reacquaint yourself with the details of ARP
@SnoopJ on the other hand, spacer gifs have predictable dimensions
@SnoopJ all other spaces are an affront to Pixel God
@SnoopJ at some point we ate the Fruit Of Forbidden Lengths and were cast out of Pixel Eden
I have a love/hate relationship with CSS
On the one hand, I hate CSS
On the other hand, I love to hate CSS