Steven Hoefer🖋 @readsteven@mastodon.xyz

I don't need to read another post-apocalyptic story, ever.

How it rains on the sun: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/unexpected-rain-on-sun-links-two-solar-mysteries

Watching David Lynch's Dune, but with the audio from Kubrick's 2001.

Kind of elevates the mess into glorious madness. Or at very least gives me another reason to appreciate how lush the visuals are.

Going to start adding, "Conspiracy theories abound." after everything I say.

Words that rhyme with Podium:
- Sodium
- Rhodium
- Plasmodium

I wrote—and deleted—a long thread about meeting a young programmer who had blind contempt for any language/framework/stack that was more than 2 years old.

TL;DW: Every language is a temporary fix for a transitory problem. It's revolutionary now, it'll be eye-rolling later.

Young programmers don't become (grumpy) old ones without letting go of the specifics, holding on to the lessons, and always ready to learn the next thing.

Anyone have any app/site/utility recommendations for cooperating on road trip planning?

What is the chance that Disney's streaming service will have a "TV" mode where it plays preselected content on predetermined schedule. No need to decide what to play! It'll be revolutionary!

Both Amazon and Google are coming out with an ad supported music streaming service that you need a tabletop device to listen to.

That's radio. They've both invented radio.

"Catholics allowed to eat muskrat during lent."

Church not making the right changes to lure me back.

https://www.apnews.com/50da18fc137b44a0ba05b9109a08eccb

Somehow missed this part of the California Gold Rush: Protein hungry miners drove the price of eggs to $1 each (in 1849 money). And so began a violent turf war over eggs on tiny, harsh, Farallon Islands 25 miles out to sea.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-california-went-war-over-eggs-180971960/

About once a year I try changing my search engine to DuckDuckGo. This year was the first time it stuck.

Not sure if that's because it improved, or I'm more concerned about Googles data collection. Suspect its both.

Oregon Trail, but told from the POV of displaced indigenous people. https://indianlandtenure.itch.io/when-rivers-were-trails