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zev honked back 22 Apr 2025 04:15 -0700
in reply to: https://honk.bewilderbeest.net/u/zev/h/4vYhmmPL2mgjFnxXWR

Also, while I felt sort of silly photographing a car (and not even a terribly rare one here) while walking through a historic neighborhood of Kanazawa, when we walked back the same way an hour later I was amused to see someone else taking a picture of the very same one (though I'm not sure what his reasons for doing so were -- I'm guessing probably not the same as mine).

zev honked 22 Apr 2025 04:05 -0700

Data links are of course very important, but the creators of this vehicle felt so strongly about it that they named the whole car in honor of one.

small Japanese car emblazoned "CANBUS"

zev honked 19 Apr 2025 05:10 -0700

We really went in the wrong direction trying to rename French Fries as Freedom Fries; Japan did a much better job on the properly red-blooded, USA-friendly nomenclature.

Japanese food truck with a large sign advertising "American Long Potato"

zev honked back 11 Apr 2025 12:48 -0700
in reply to: https://social.kernel.org/objects/405efa4c-5ecf-4aa7-9dcf-6ec2ab8c12e5

@paulmckrcu @rw Oh neat, is someone producing prints of that now?

Also, looks like the Internet Archive has a couple others like it ("Unix Feuds", "Unix Views") that I don't think I've ever seen before: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Gary+Overacre%22 -- though I'll confess I'm not sure I entirely "get" the Views one...might someone with more historical knowledge than I be able to shed some light?

zev honked 07 Apr 2025 20:05 -0700

"I think all the things I cooked individually taste good, but I don't know if putting them together was the right move."

  • my wife, introducing dinner

zev honked 30 Mar 2025 00:58 -0700

Delicate Steve at Tractor Tavern this evening -- remarkably non-deafening, and with a great deal more dynamic range than a typical club show. Sort of missed the bass player that was part of the band last time I saw him/them (I think, it's been a while), but still a cool, very enjoyable time.

Delicate Steve playing live on stage

zev honked 21 Mar 2025 22:40 -0700

New frontiers in literature courtesy of this evening's game of Monikers:

"For sale: two babies, no shoes."

zev bonked 13 Mar 2025 11:45 -0700
original: benjojo@benjojo.co.uk

Sometimes I come across a linked in profile like this and then I know I'm probably going to get along with them just fine

Skills  +  Endorsing  10 endorsements  Receiving Endorsements  9 endorsements

zev honked 07 Mar 2025 23:21 -0800

Cocktail menu at dinner this evening was color coded, five drinks labeled White, Black, Blue, Green, and Red. Green sounded good so I ordered one, and when it arrived I discovered the true nature of the color scheme: a Magic the Gathering card provided with each one! So naturally I had to get another.

two cocktails, each with MtG card attached by mini-clothespin, one Green (Ranger's Path), and one Black (Crown of Suspicion)

two cocktails, each with MtG card attached by mini-clothespin, one Green (Ranger's Path), and one Black (Crown of Suspicion)

zev honked 03 Mar 2025 18:17 -0800

Okay, having now dealt with TOML to a degree only incrementally beyond writing foocrate = "1.2" in a Cargo.toml file, I'm thinking the "O" in its name must be a humorous homage to the "S" in SNMP.

From its own damn spec:

3.14159 = "pi"

The above TOML maps to the following JSON.

{ "3": { "14159": "pi" } }

Of course. Obviously.

JSON, for all its boneheadedness, at least manages to be structurally pretty self-explanatory (if still syntactically awkward and semantically murky).

The failure of the industry to coalesce around a halfway-decent language for these sorts of ad-hoc, semi-structured data formats (and the myriad crummy ones all three-legged-racing each other for adoption) is...remarkable.

zev honked 26 Feb 2025 16:31 -0800

Thank you, Docker, for turning the edit/test/debug cycle of an 8-line shell script that runs in ~1 second into a 5m30s process. Constant, ubiquitous technological progress!

zev honked 23 Feb 2025 19:57 -0800

Household dog population has tripled alarmingly rapidly.

Izzy (rightmost) is the enforcer ensuring Bowie and Rocko don't have too much fun, intervening vocally whenever they start to try.

three dogs looking up, wanting treats

zev honked 17 Feb 2025 18:13 -0800

Aboard the Millennium Falcon recently (okay, Disneyland's "Smuggler's Run" ride) I spotted some distinctly terrestrial-looking componentry. I guess LG's beaten out all those puny multinational conglomerates and become multigalactic.

PCB with familiar components (electrolytic capacitors, etc.), and a zoom-in on the upper left corner with the silkscreened text "power supply model of LG" fuzzily readable

PCB with familiar components (electrolytic capacitors, etc.), and a zoom-in on the upper left corner with the silkscreened text "power supply model of LG" fuzzily readable

zev bonked 27 Jan 2025 15:34 -0800
original: aris@infosec.exchange

Fun fact. It's common to say that a broken clock is right twice a day. But a clock turning backwards is right 4 times a day.