I Run and Want to Know Things

Husband • Dad • Steely-eyed missile man • Beer & coffee aficionado • Runner • Weightlifter • 1985 Baer Ave foursquare champ • Unix enthusiast • Technologist • Renaissance man • He/Him

I Run and Want to Know Thingsirongeek@indieweb.social
2024-09-21

lol @ NYMets

I Run and Want to Know Thingsirongeek@indieweb.social
2024-05-14

Nordic curls = no joke.

I Run and Want to Know Thingsirongeek@indieweb.social
2024-05-11

Unbelievable. You need to be a special type of ignorant to support this. Oh, it is called a racist if you are wondering.
cnn.com/2024/05/09/us/shenando

I Run and Want to Know Thingsirongeek@indieweb.social
2024-04-29

IBM Slide 1979

IBM Slide 1979 via MIT CSAIL
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jimrayjimray
2024-04-23

NASA successfully debugged a 46-year-old computer that has a latency of nearly two full days. That is truly awesome.

blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/04

I Run and Want to Know Thingsirongeek@indieweb.social
2024-04-10
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Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to
2024-03-12
irwin @irwin I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Gopher, Netscape with frames, the first Browser Wars. Searching for pages with AltaVista, pop-up windows self-replicating, trying to uninstall RealPlayer. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
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Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:luckytran@med-mastodon.com
2024-02-25

Moon Lander is all of us!

Moon Lander Is Lying on Its Side but Still Functional, Officials Say
I Run and Want to Know Thingsirongeek@indieweb.social
2024-02-24
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Slashdot :verified:slashdot@mastodon.cloud
2024-02-23
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2024-02-21

To celebrate Presidents Day, here are the number of felony counts against ex-presidents:

Washington - 0
Adams - 0
Jefferson - 0
Madison - 0

Kennedy - 0
LBJ - 0
Nixon - 0*
Ford - 0
Carter - 0
Reagan - 0
Bush Sr - 0
Clinton - 0
Dubya - 0
Obama - 0
Trump - 91 and counting

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2024-02-09

Jury awards climate scientist Michael Mann $1M in defamation lawsuit
L: apnews.com/article/climate-cha
C: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3
posted on 2024.02.09 at 09:53:06 (c=0, p=3)

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2024-02-05

If Apple Vision doesn’t have a #TheyLive app then I’m not interested.

Stills from the John Carpenter movie They Live juxtaposed with pictures of Mark Zuckerberg, making it look like Roddy’s alien sunglasses are revealing Zuck as one of the aliens.
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Matt Pottermattpotter@c.im
2024-02-05

A 639-year-long piece of music being played in a cathedral in Germany has just changed a chord for the first time in 2 years - after letting that previous single chord drone out day and night - as crowds gather in anticipation.

bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68

#music #johncage #asslowaspossible #doesitdoom #avantgarde #installation #experimentalmusic #halberstadt #doom #drone

John Cage: Organ playing 639-year-long piece changes chord • 1 hour ago JOHN CAGE ORGAN PROJECT The composition plays on a specially built mechanical organ in a church in Germany The longest - and slowest - music composition in existence had a big day on Monday - it changed chord for the first time in two years. Crowds gathered at a church in Germany to witness the rare moment, which is part of an artistic feat by avant-garde composer, John Cage. The experimental piece, entitled As Slow as Possible, began in 2001.
I Run and Want to Know Thingsirongeek@indieweb.social
2024-01-31

youtube.com/watch?v=8xI10SFgzQ This all looks as terrible as I imagined it would be. Why would I want to work with that thing strapped to my skull instead of having multiple monitors? Other than entertainment, I do not see the point of these headsets. And that price, no thanks.

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2024-01-31

Microsoft Edge now steals your data from Google Chrome after an update
L: 9to5google.com/2024/01/30/micr
C: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3
posted on 2024.01.31 at 02:54:30 (c=0, p=4)

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