Notices by Vertigo (vertigo@mastodon.social), page 21

@h Vaguely reminds me of "show codes" in WordPerfect.

@Gargron Retweeted.

TIL -- this-coming January 31 will be a super blood blue moon. No joke.

It's a super-moon, it's the 2nd full moon of the month, AND it's a moon which will undergo a partial or total eclipse (depending on your location).

@h Alas, I cannot connect to the link, because its SSL certificate expired. Not only that, but Firefox HSTS feature refuses to let me add an exemption, even if temporary.

This sucks. FF 57 is a great browser otherwise, but the fact that it's becoming so domineering is leading me to the conclusion that maybe I should look at slower, buggier, possibly even less secure alternatives.

@cypnk This explains the character set used by the TRS-80 Model I computer then. As a kid, I always wondered why it had an up-arrow and a left-arrow, but not a right- or down-arrow too. Heh.

@bootjack This never happened when I grew up, even to my parents. So I doubt it's an age thing. There has to be something else that is the causitive factor. :(

@bootjack I don't think I've ever received steroids for a cold, but I have been given some pretty strong meds otherwise in the past. Sorry to hear; my father in law was ill for about two months, and the longest I've suffered lingering symptoms was about five months.

@Azure We keep ours up all year long. Has the additional benefit of boring our cats, so they don't climb it. ;)

Going on two weeks now; would really, REALLY, like this cold to dissipate already.

Breakfast of champions: two Advil and a Mucinex 12-hour.

@EdS True; the 9900 is also a refinement of the discrete component 99000 processor too. Only the 68000 is a 1st generation part. Maybe I should've said 68010. :)

@vfrmedia @solderpunk @EdS Well, if you have 5 base-36 chars and one base-10.

@EdS @solderpunk @vfrmedia If you use base-36 encoding, I know it'll fit in a 32-bit word.

@EdS @solderpunk @vfrmedia It's only six Unicode codepoints. Surely you can remember six Unicode codepoints. ;P