Notices by Strange Attractor (strangeattractor@refactorcamp.org)

Excellent, the jalapeño plant is growing peppers! So is the bell pepper plant. Weird but true fact: these are two cultivars of the same species. The two plants are right next to each other. What are the odds they cross-pollinated? If I plant the seeds from one of these peppers next year will I get a weird spicy/sweet hybrid?

Growing potatoes for the first time, I was taken by surprise how beautiful potato flowers are!

i'm sorry, every fantasy novel with dragons since 1960, but i'm a furry and the phrase "dragon rider" has Implications

Amazon committing idolatry by spreading images of my new god.

I have been playing video games longer than most of you have been alive. And my goal is to be playing them long after most of you are DEAD BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHAHA(H) cough sorry what were we saying?

Colossal Cave Adventure
Galaxian
Zork
Wizardry
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Infocom)

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RT @jakeregal
What were the five most important video games to you throughout your youth/teen years? No curating to look cool/interesting please
https://twitter.com/jakeregal/status/1260449257821216768

I built a solar + wind power plant in Animal Crossing #ACNH

I just saw a beautiful (and very thoroughly backed) illustrated tarot deck project on Kickstarter and it reminded me that I've always wanted to get a deck of cards printed. Maybe something with @pomological images? Tarot is (probably?) not my style... is there something other than playing cards that makes sense to print?

this evening's sunset was magic.

#sunset

The seeds I planted are starting to sprout! These are Hopi sunflowers, Anasazi beans, Strawberry Popcorn just starting to come up in the yogurt cup, and in the back, some garlic that sprouted on it's own in the kitchen so I decided to give it a chance in the garden.

me and my wife have a system where, if one of us wants our back scratched, we can describe the exact back location by reference to the Breath of the Wild world map. So, like, "Please scratch my Hyrule Castle" or "Please scratch my Great Deku Tree" and the other one instantly knows exactly where. it's great.

Here's a new thing..(to me, at least). It's a GPi case. Stick a Raspberry Pi Zero W in it, create or otherwise obtain an image for the SD card, and go.

Learned about it on the Pixel Gaiden podcast. https://pixelgaiden.podbean.com/

Doing some long avoided housekeeping since we're stuck at home, and I came up with a good self-brain-hack.

For each object, ask: "Pretending I don't already own this thing, would I buy it for 25 cents?" The answer is usually no.

Otherwise the implicit question is "Can i think of ANY conceivable scenario where I need this thing someday?". That answer's always yes. Thus, hoarding.

I think this is what Marie Kondo was getting at, but "would buy for a quarter?" works better for me personally.

My community orchestra is meeting tonight via Jitsi! Nervous and excited!!! I *know* I will need to adopt a completely different approach, and have been thinking on this for several days. - the silent rehearsal where only I speak/play. Going to be so tricky!!! 7pm BST (I'll keep you posted how it goes)

I hadn't gotten through all of my feed reader last week, so I missed this utterly spit-take worthy sentence in Webshit Weekly:

"Microsoft, having previously embraced Github, extends it." 🤣🤣🤣