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lemay, 2 days ago to retrocomputing

I cannot date this, but apparently some time in the distant past (possibly 80’s?) the International Harvester tractor company used punch cards for inventory and parts ordering.
#retrocomputing #farming

cstross, 8 days ago to random

TFW your spouse's iMac has 20Mb(!) free out of 2Tb because they tried to use Adobe Cloud for something and now all attempts to reboot keep hanging (filesystem is okay, though) so the next step is to try for Target Disk mode and a cable to a laptop in order to delete cached junk and logfiles until it will boot enough for them to clean up properly …

UNIXen have never been great about coping with full disks/SSDs, but this is a new nadir, and fuck you very much, Adobe Creative Suite.

lemay, 9 days ago to gardening

Iris season! Bearded irises tubers seem expensive when you first buy them but then they just keep growing and growing and multiplying and five years later you have way more than you wanted and you're giving them away on street corners. A+ garden investment.

I bought these white ones before I knew what a "rebloomer" iris was so they flower only once a year for a week or so, but it's a really nice week.

#Gardening #BloomScrolling

ai6yr, 10 days ago to coffee

Interesting, the alcohol content in the hard cider served at La Crêperie de Paris at Epcot is only 3%. Going to brew up a batch of some kind of hard cider here today, probably, and all the recipes seem to be double that. #alcohol #brewing #homebrew

lemay, 11 days ago to animals

The Void insists on helping put away the groceries.
#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

lemay, 14 days ago to gardening

Guess what? Bee butt!

(on a meyer lemon flower)

#Gardening #BloomScrolling

lemay, 23 days ago to random

It has been ̶7̶ ̶ 0 days since a Tesla ran a red light and tried to kill me in a crosswalk

lemay, 24 days ago to Bloomscrolling

Not a bloom but I think it properly goes in #BloomScrolling anyhow.

fraying, 26 days ago to random

The neighbor got ducks. I am going to try and befriend them through the fence.

lemay, 1 month ago to Bloomscrolling

Calla lily: the sexiest flower. There is no photographic angle at which this flower is not a total thirst trap.

#BloomScrolling

lemay, 1 month ago to random

A Tesla narrowly avoided flattening me in an intersection again as I was walking across the street early this morning, which is kind of common. 🙄

Except this one was making an illegal U-turn through a red light before they nearly flattened me. 🙄 🙄

lemay, 1 month ago to animals

Max (a tabby cat) likes Eric (food guy) much more than he likes me (taxi driver to the bad place) but he REALLY likes Minna (a smol void cat, highly-skilled ear licker).

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

lemay, 1 month ago to random

@cstross I dreamed last night that you and I got together to save the world by trapping an angry elder god in an old NeXT machine. You thought the NeXT machine was too expensive but I volunteered to pay for it given the whole saving the world thing.

We thought we had trapped the elder god and all was well but then it turned out said elder god freed itself by oozing out in the spaces between the strands of the ethernet cable.

You died messily as I ran away. Sorry about that.

lemay, 1 month ago to animals

When the cat is so happy to see me he does the Big Dramatic Flop ™️ and then gets up and does another Big Dramatic Flop ™️ just in case I didn't see it the first time.
#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

lemay, 1 month ago to cars

We saw this beautiful 50's Nash yesterday parked in front of the hardware store, and stopped to gawk. The rear badge said “Nash Cooper" and we were all 🤔 no such thing?

Then we looked inside. It is actually a modern Mini Cooper with a vintage Nash shell. But SO well done, the entire interior had been painted and upholstered in the same mustard color as the outside. A near-perfect retro-mod.

Googling turned up this (too short) description: https://poeschloncars.blogspot.com/2017/06/your-grandpas-nash-re-imagined-nash.html

#Cars #Vintage #Retro

The rear end of a vintage 50’s Nash car in a two-toned mustard color with a white roof and a small roof rack filed with vintage suitcases. It’s parked on the side of a suburban street.

gknauss, 1 month ago to random

“I hope you get everything you deserve” really changes meaning based on tone.

lemay, 1 month ago to animals

Me, reading on the internet: Cats don't like peppermint, so you can put peppermint essential oil on stuff to keep cats away from it.
Me, the next day: (applies peppermint essential oil to the doorway where Minna screams for no reason half the night)
Minna: (approaches the doorway while I'm standing there, sniffs the peppermint bottle, takes a big lick.)

Internet: 0
Cat: 1

#CatsOfMastodon #Caturday

ai6yr, 1 month ago to random

LOL The other "wrong key" story for me was in 2018 or 2019, when I ended up driving to a motel along old Route 66 and got room "6", took a shower, and collapsed in bed exhausted. A couple of hours later I was woken up by someone who ALSO had the key to room "6" and it ended up I had actually checked into "Room 9" but the key also worked for "Room 6". We just traded keys (not that we needed to, LOL).

#keys #locks #Route66

ai6yr, 1 month ago to gardening

Oxalis is underrated as a landscaping plant! The bees love it. Edible (in small quantities... though probably wouldn't eat these, the dog also likes marking it, ha ha) #gardening #garden #flowers

lemay, 1 month ago to animals

Lies my Cats Tell Me

I'm so hungry.
No, I have not been fed yet.
If you do not feed me right now, I will DIE.
I did not know standing on your bits would hurt.
I did not know that was your food.
I did not know your foot was under there.
I can't hear you yelling.
I never touched her.
It wasn't me.
I'll never do it again.
OK, I did it, but! look how cute I am!

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

lemay, 2 months ago to gardening

These are my cancer daffodils. I bought a bulk-pack of bulbs (“Ice Follies”) in September of 2022, and then I promptly got a cancer diagnosis.

By the time I was done with treatment and had enough energy for gardening it was March 2023. Many of the bulbs were dry and dead, but I planted the rest of them because I figured I had nothing to lose.

That spring they came up but did not flower, but this year they are doing just fine. Just like me. 😊

#Gardening #BloomScrolling #DailyDaffodil

lemay, 2 months ago to Bloomscrolling

Today's daffodils. I keep meaning to pull that orange one. #BloomScrolling #Gardening #DailyDaffodil

coffeegeek, 2 months ago to coffee

I cannot express enough how much promise this grinder from KitchenAid had in 2004, and how much of a disappointment it was.

ALL KitchenAid had to do was put a good burrset inside, and reduce the static problems. But they did neither. They used a pressed-metal burrset.

It had almost everything we like in grinders today: direct down path, auger, powerful motor, all metal construction, the works.

Let down by the burr set (mostly) and the lack of any kind of anti-static system (a bit).

So sad.

cc @coffee
#coffeegrinder #grinder #kitchenaid