How to feel inadequate: TIL that Michael Holding — Whispering Death — preferred being a computer programmer to a professional cricketer, and worked as one well into his career. (This is from an article about the 1976 Oval match.) #Cricket
https://www.thecricketmonthly.com/story/953181/simon-lister-on-michael-holding-s-14-wickets-at-the-oval-1976

@dukepaaron Probably painted by a white american. You know, an _actual_ settler colonialist.

An avatar of C.M.O.T. Dibbler has appeared.
https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/114655771870532917

I’m assuming Aristotle’s Comedics is first on the list.
https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/114654108656709877

@lnlyisol @CiaraNi You bough to no one.

Kobo has some book suggestions for me. There appears to be some uncertainty.

@raf I was grubbing around trying to find some Heavy Metal Klezmer the other day, but there doesn’t seem to be much around. Shame, really.

@lnlyisol @CiaraNi It took me a moment to twig what you were saying there.

@Natasha_Jay Sit quietly in a corner and read a book for the next hour!

Hierarchy of Needs

Counterpoint: one of our best developers left us three years ago. Last week he came back - because his new employer made him use Windows and he couldn’t stand it any more.
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/114636641665175908

@quinze @CiaraNi We spent a week doing very touristy things in Porto last year. Don’t miss the guided tour of the old Bourse. One less touristy thing we did was take a local bus to the beach - all the way to the terminus near the fishmarket and cruise terminal. Beautiful golden sandy beaches, mostly being enjoyed by locals getting away from the tourist crowds.

@agenderfox Maybe a little work with a mini hacksaw and you can saw that thing right off.

@dukepaaron Well … from a Jewish perspective, if an unmarried Jew has an affair with a married Catholic, is the relationship adulterous? Doesn’t that depend on whether or not her marriage is considered valid? So which non-Jewish marriages are considered valid under Halacha?

@josh0 @peribotsarah Or “oh cool, what’s your favourite tractate?”

@johncarlosbaez Is there a typo here: "One gives them an incompressible fluid with zero viscosity, the other gives them a compressible fluid with nonzero viscosity. A realistic fluid is both compressible and has nonzero viscosity." ?

@nadav Not entirely wrong there. I acquired two headsets recently and both required jumping through hoops to get them working on an ubuntu Lenovo ThinkPad. The Sennheisers needed a firmware upgrade, and the Jabra set would only work with the Jabra dongle, not the inbuilt bluetooth device+drivers.

Funnily enough, my cheap-and-cheerful Chinese earbuds work just fine.

I can hear his voice in the last sentence of his manifesto: "If Cambridge needs a high-profile or celebrity chancellor to be noticed, we might as well give up and rebrand the University as a reality TV show: ‘Keeping Up with the Cantabrigians’."

I wouldn't say we parted as friends, 35 years ago, but I have to admit he sounds like he has the right ideas for Cambridge.

Bloody hell, it’s my old housemate from St. Luke’s Street. And to think I have a vote as well …
https://wandering.shop/@nwhyte/114615912720385349

My relaxed evening stroll with my wife took an unexpected turn when we encountered a transdimensional portal.