UX Web Services Librarian at a large Canadian university. Reader, cyclist, text-based lifeform.
@sundogplanets Personally, can't claim anything much older than 1960...
But my father, a physicist, cited a paper from 1675 (I know because he asked me to go and copy some pages from it in our university library, because theirs didn't have a copy and these rare books aren't really available for borrowing).
It was the oldest mention he could find of acid rain, in case anybody wonders.
“Five Guys are zero-indexed” is probably the most trivial technical fact I will learn today.
Me: It doesn't have a tail, so I'm pretty sure it's a hamster.
Tech support: “sigh”
Fine. Right click on your hamster...
Why it might be handy to have Mastodon in #emacs
I keep my reading log in a plain text file. This means that I can write some code so that when I start reading a book, the message "I just started reading [title] by [author]" can automatically be posted to my Mastodon account by mastodon.el.
Happy Firday the 13th.
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1910 Postcard.
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#Postcard #VintagePostcard #fridaythe13th #retro #vintage
Ok folks, I never do this, but I am in a bind right now and shit is gonna start getting shut off tomorrow if a couple of invoices aren't paid before midnight.
I need some sales badly. Please boost for coverage.
Big packs of bonus freebies to all buyers and 20% discounts on everything in the store - https://www.galactic-stone.com
"Oh, well, I disagree with fash, but in this particular case I think they have a point".
No. Fuck that. Fruit of the poisonous tree - they didn't make that policy in good faith. They made that in service of their broader agenda of power and control.
"Well, maybe fash have a point rhat this DEI stuff and moral purity testing has gone too far"
No. Fuck that. Even when we examine our communities for how to keep them together and healthy, we don't adopt their language and euphemisms. We consider the people involved, who is being hurt, what are the relative privileges involved, and carefully and strategically manage the community to serve the needs of the community we want to see.
Just found out that my library has a poorly advertised lending library of things (games, toys, musical instruments, kitchen stuff). How cool!
We recently learned that the Western Pacific Railroad Museum has a Run-A-Locomotive program where you actually get to operate a steam (edit: not steam, diesel!) locomotive, and I think about that a lot. Like, A LOT.
Marie Curie's notebooks present an unusual challenge for archivists and researchers--a century later, they're still radioactive. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250605-the-hunt-for-marie-curies-radioactive-fingerprints-in-paris via @metafilter
Never thought my ability to describe conventional grain farming practices in Saskatchewan would be a vital part of astrophysics research, but my life is weird.
@Trishh @copystar à propos library tourism, the Quebec public library association just put out this handy travel guide: https://www.abpq.ca/guide_touristique.php
Soooo...less than a year before the federal accessibility deadline, Clarivate's releasing an ebook app that isn't fully accessible. Great.
See 7.a.ii here: https://clarivate-p.allego.com/tKyxMsFniqNn8qt?ct=d1rf6Wyi61d
Un paracetamol equivale a 6,022 × 10²³ paracetas.
Enviar toot.
Thus, then, in our hearts’ honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg—a cosy, loving pair.
@adr @redlibrarian yes, but the things that the province are responsible for are enumerated in the constitution. The feds had devolved those responsibilities to Nunavut (maybe?) but it could claw those back if it wanted to.
Go look at the U.S. federal vaccines hub -- do it now
ADDING: It's a DNS hack, pointing that .gov subdomain at an AWS site.
Just scroll down a bit. And I'll add, at the moment those pages are NSFW ... only the best people running stuff there now!
Speaking as the #BSDCan con chair, I can honestly say that the first day of the pre-con meetings and tutorials is going fine. Everything is fine.
EVERYTHING IS FINE.
