@ericg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy
Retired computer nerd. Aspiring luddite.
Stuff I like: #Travel, #ScubaDiving, #Food, #Cooking, #Coffee, #Booze, #Cats, #Dogs, #Whales, #Birds, #Horses, #Goats, #Wandering […]
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@ericg.beige.party.ap.brid.gyI would like to tell my 16 year old self that the dissolution of ego practice needs to start a whole lot sooner and is really important. I'm only just starting to understand it.
@ericg.beige.party.ap.brid.gyLast week, the Spanish Embassy in Bangkok was kind enough (after months of paperwork) to paste a long-term visa into my passport. In a few weeks, me, my wife, and our very patient cat will be pulling up stakes to move to Galicia. The time here in Thailand has been both lovely and difficult and […]
@ericg.beige.party.ap.brid.gyTo be perfectly honest I'm just not ready to rock. Can we try for Thursday?
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@lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @ericg.beige.party.ap.brid.gyGetting married to this gorgeous girl tomorrow, so I'll see you folks later.
@malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gyReposted by @ericg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy@ericg Hmmm, I thought a lubrican is a container for lubricant. Though usually we order it in lubribarrels.
@ericg.beige.party.ap.brid.gyPersonal lubricant implies personal lubrican.
@ericg.beige.party.ap.brid.gyA #BurningMan essay that brought it all home for me: https://medium.com/@paradoxpollack/the-trouble-with-burning-man-is-that-it-worked-54b1571d6269
@ericg.beige.party.ap.brid.gyToday's pet peeve: if you are going to use an invective, use the damn, fucking invective. Replacing characters with punctuation marks to soften it is stupid. There are plenty of actual softer words that can be used instead if needs require.
@ap.exch.grReposted by @ericg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy@ericg.beige.party.ap.brid.gyI'm not terribly musical but I think it might be possible to sing 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer' using the Hawaii Five-O theme music. I call on the fediverse to prove or disprove this and to provide the appropriate supporting evidence.
@ericg.beige.party.ap.brid.gyI must say I'm really enjoying this but I'm fully reminded of my major gripe: array flattening. I understand the whys around this (I started on Perl 4) and can sling refs like a boss but my self-imposed aesthetic sensibilities often trigger lots of gratuitous and noisy de-reffing. Perl's […]
@srdas.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyReposted by @ericg.beige.party.ap.brid.gyThe Halal Biriyani Cart at the Beginning of the Universe
@ericg.beige.party.ap.brid.gyA fine #Caturday indeed.
@ericg.beige.party.ap.brid.gyFine. Fine. I need to dig this out.
@ericg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy@PricklyPam I never made it to punch cards myself but I was able to share your fascination with the sorter. A friend of mine did a dramatic demonstration where he took his Fortran deck, tossed them into a cardboard box, shook it rather vigorously, gathered up the result and put them in the card […]
@pricklypam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @ericg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy@ericg What fun!! I kind of fell into programming. Started as a keypunch operator. Remember those? Sorted big stacks of cards through a mechanical sorter. Big tape drives and huge disk packs. Dumb terminals. Then COBOL, then Assembler. Figuring out errors by computing the hex offset from the […]
@ericg.beige.party.ap.brid.gyI was about eight years old. A friend of my father's showed me his work. I don't remember the name of the company. At his desk were dozens of reels of paper tape wound on spools. Some contained only a few inches of tape, others contained more. He ran a short reel through a reader. The reader […]
@j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @ericg.beige.party.ap.brid.gyHeute @conjugateprior
@ericg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy@Htbaa I was just looking at that yesterday. I agree that it will take a bit but it does seem compelling.
