@lowqualityfacts Although there was that one firmware update in college...

@RickiTarr
"I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. He also called his shirt a shoit. I didn’t think anything of what he had done to the city’s name. Later I heard men who could
manage their r’s give it the same pronunciation. I still didn’t see anything in it but the meaningless sort of humor that used to make richardsnary the thieves’ word for dictionary. A few years later I went to Personville and learned better."

Dashiell Hammett, "Red Harvest" (opening paragraph)

@lowqualityfacts Things to know if you're planning to have a medical emergency on an airplane:

1. Medical professionals are trained to keep you conscious and talking, and will ask you stuff like "What's your name?" and "What do you do?"

1.b. Everyone around you is listening and will google your name and occupation.

2. Flight attendants are not trained to keep you conscious and talking. They are—or they say they are—trained to use the defibrillator, and are straight up looking for any excuse to use it, whether your heart has stopped or not.

@lowqualityfacts For very persistent viruses, you must print the Word document and burn the pages in a satellite dish.

@qboq I've had four BMW motorcycles, three from the 20th century and one from 2007 (still have that one; owned basically since new). Buying expensive parts and the occasional proprietary tool was always frustrating, but with the 2007 they were definitely trending in the "we don't want you working on it" direction. I do my own maintenance, but it elevates my blood pressure every time.

For my own sanity, I also have a Moto Guzzi, on which I can adjust the valves in my sleep, with my eyes closed, one hand tied behind my back, etc.

@iFixit

@alice We have sushi burritos in Eugene.

@cmdrmoto

Signups are open for Oregon-area motorcyclists to volunteer for event patrols for four events this year. See the link for details. I would pay special attention to the Chef's Cycle event in Bend at the beginning of June. This is a long-distance bicycling fundraiser, which brings in chefs from around the country and world and raises money to address childhood hunger. It takes place over two days, and we are lodged and fed (fed well, according to the riders who volunteered last year). Being a cycling event, it's not an overnight thing like Hood to Coast, and you will have plenty of opportunities to upshift out of second gear.

HMU with any questions.

https://signup.com/group/203312410035

#motorcycles #volunteer #pnw #oregon

@bloor So… you don't have a cat then.

@alice Pliable denausibility.

This is L, of the trio of cats whose initials are L, G, and B.

I am continually tempted to rename the dog something involving the initials T.Q.

@AndrewBC Elon probably came up with the name and the icon on two different ketamine benders.

I mean, if they wanted to be truly edgy, they'd give it a skull icon and call it FAFO.

@mathew @angusm @cstross

@Richard_Littler Here's the thing about that story. At the end, when the kid says "He's not wearing any clothes!" and the emperor is momentarily ashamed in front of his subjects, the story just ends.

And, of course, the story ends there because the obvious imperial epilogue would be: "The very next day, the emperor's finest soldiers rode into the village and burned it to the ground, and nobody had the temerity to ever speak of the emperor's new clothes ever again."

@kwayk42
"But there's an unsubstantiated rumor that eating them makes sexy time sexier somehow."

"What? I'll have a dozen!"

@OddJob