@84896ee6 

That's smart. I imagine salt-air and seawater would destroy most tools pretty quickly. 

 @7bf1d442 

Then I would suspect that John de Lancie was on the school's board of regents.

https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/112/083/415/449/744/537/original/a04cfb1bb2455f2f.png 

 @0b13872d 

I think they're working with Putin's definition of suicide.

It was "self-inflicted" in the sense that he brought this on himself by causing trouble. 

 @a27db0dd 

I realize this is late but Happy Birthday to you indeed! Yet another successful trip around the sun!  No small feat. Best wishes for many future orbits. 

 @a9ea1942 

This certainly seems to check out. 

 @97965f52 😆 😂 😆 

 @f6300c6e 

I'd forgotten that TV show was set in Chicago. That explains a lot actually. 

 @d3ec015d 

It seems like I'm always doing the important things backwards.  At least I'll get those hours back when we travel back home. 

 Also - and this is IMPORTANT!!!

3. *EVERY* Chicago driver has seen the movie "The Road Warrior" and accepted it as an instructional video on driving technique. 

 @f6300c6e 

I'm 100% certain I would have made the same choice you did. Who could have known french construction workers would be so careless with electricity? 

 @f6300c6e 

Except now it's still dark and it's 7am?!?  How does anyone get anything done when it's still dark at this time of the morning? 🙂 

 @134318c2 

I don't have an answer to your questions but I can give you an additional data point. I was often mistaken for an extrovert at work because I engaged so easily with anyone I needed to talk to. I'm actually very quiet and most comfortable alone in my private life.  Now retired, I can still speak to strangers or initiate a conversation if I think it will make a situation more comfortable. It's not my preferred or even default setting. I find interacting with people exhausting. 🤷‍♂️ 

 @f6300c6e 

I love the idea of an auditory receipt. I'm stealing that. 

Also, a police department that feels under-appreciated is a good problem to have.  We were in Rochester, Minnesota last night and spotted no less than eight police cars in a 2 mile area. We wondered if we'd wandered into a bad part of town for dinner or if there was just that many police on duty.  Of course that then begs the question why? 

 @f6300c6e 

It was amazingly good. 

 @84896ee6 

Wait... I thought vacation road-trip calories didn't count... 🤔 😆 

 @8b5eb59f 

Yeah, we thought so too. 

 @cc5f5990 

Agreed, it *looks* like M&C but the Alfredo sauce is scratch made (with lots of garlic) and the noodles are longer. Not sure what they call them. 

 @cc5f5990 

Their rest areas and visitor's centers are first rate as well. 

 @dd5af755 

Isn't she?  She's located at a visitor's center so it's completely free to walk around and admire all you'd like. She's 50 ft. tall. 

 @84896ee6 

Apparently, some others are not happy with the rate of progress on the monument either:

'Jim Bradford, an Oglala Sioux rancher and former member of the South Dakota Senate, criticized the foundation, saying "one non-Indian family has become millionaires off our people"'.

They've accrued $77 million in assets as of 2018 so he might have a point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Horse_Memorial 

 @ToxicFemininity 

In order to save time I'll just ask - are you trolling or just making a really bad joke? 

 @5007938a 

That's a really good point. Although politically speaking, South Dakota is just as conservative as Wyoming.  That might explain why the chair is still here in the first place. 

 @c047f0b1 
I will absolutely post a picture of any cheese cow we manage to secure. 

 @751811d0 

Quite the image, isn't it? 😆 

 @751811d0 

Republicans in Wyoming (a heavy fossil fuel state) don't believe in no 'lectric.  I'm surprised they don't have gas-powered shavers. 

 @cc5f5990 

Of course I say his name en français. To do otherwise would be disrespectful and wouldn't sound as cool. 

 @f4dace84 👍 

 @f6300c6e 

I can't help thinking the sunk-cost fallacy was involved. 

 @f6300c6e 

I watched the first season and regretted it. 

 @a27db0dd 

😆 

I have learned to hide the comfy clothes with holes in the bottom of my dresser rather than risk direct confiscation. 

 @72b07117 

😆 😆 😆 

 @48471ca1 

She makes me use a  small suitcase.  She's afraid people will mistake me for a homeless person otherwise. 

 @58f2b9db 

My eyes have been this way for about twenty years and I kind of hate it. I'm always closing my right eye to read a book or the computer screen and my left eye when I need to see something in the distance. 

 @58f2b9db @f6300c6e 

Thank you.  I was a SysAdmin for a large development shop back in the late 90s early 00s and it's inspiring to see that the emergency fail-over processes twenty+ years later work about as well as they did back then.

I lost count of the number of times the power didn't fail-over to the batteries/UPCs/backup generators. I spent a lot of weekends recovering UNIX servers and workstations that lost power and had their filesystems corrupted. 

 @2b728e45 @f6300c6e 

I've gone with a permanent state of bewilderment. It's easier on my blood-pressure and I don't have to keep a list of all the wrongs done me. 🙂 

 @2b728e45 @f6300c6e 

Hahahaha.  I guess that could work as well. 

 @e004bbbf 

I met her in a Phoenix hotel lobby in the 70s. She's unfailingly polite and kind to everyone. Truly a class act. I would listen to her sing scales.  Nice cover. 

 @f6300c6e 

Seems to render fine. Laptop running the Linux Mint OS and using the firefox 118.0 (64-bit)

https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/111/140/861/634/071/728/original/f3447f1c0e042d38.png 

 @a27db0dd 

Can confirm. I found a serious defect with a storage product the day before it was due to be released. The behavior resulted in data corruption 100% of the time due to in-flight data de-staging issues. The fix was expensive. My boss's boss accused me of waiting until the last minute to find the bug to sabotage the product. It was not the reaction I was expecting and it didn't exactly inspire me to work harder knowing I would likely be treated like the skunk at the garden party. 

 @f6300c6e 

I never heard, what happened to cause the outage? Does anyone know? 

 @7e75a0c6 

Thank you for the tip. I think our friends are planning a weekend exploration of the UP country over the weekend that we're there. I'm anti-fish (yes, *all* fish) but Mrs. Miasma likes them for some reason. 

 @24e795b3 

Thank you! I'll check it out. 

 @f4dace84 

I was there on a work assignment during the "Big Dig," you're right - it was horrible and I wasn't even doing the driving on that visit.  It seemed like everywhere we went we did it at a crawl. 

 @a27db0dd 

I wish I better understood the need for some of our fellow citizens to believe in conspiracies when the science for immunity is both solid and indisputable. Then I see a story about the "flat earth" and I realize I'm yet again, giving us too much of the benefit of the doubt.