Notices by Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io), page 5

@progo I don't know, maybe that was explained later in the story. I only have this one page here on my computer.

There are times when I'd be happy to pay thirty cents an hour for this service.

North Coast News: Designing for adjustment. https://northcoastsynthesis.com/news/designing-for-adjustment/

Sheet music from 1720 complaining that girls have become more interested in the stock market than in boys.

@Nikolai_Kingsley Just like the masturbation people, these ones offer no contact information except a bitcoin wallet.

Hey, instead of the usual masturbation-blackmail spam I just got one claiming to have proof my spouse is cheating on me! I didn't even know I had a spouse, so these people must be really good.

Well, the pile of wooden chunks I had stashed in a corner of the backyard to wait until I could dispose of them, has disappeared. That saves me having to figure out how to do the disposal. If someone who actually wanted some wood chunks took them, great. But it makes me wonder A. is one of my neighbours now mad at me in the incorrect belief I was just going to leave the pile there forever? and B. if I leave something out that is not garbage, do I have to worry that that may disappear too?

@ocean What I learned from following dril in the other place is that a REALLY real man dares to never shit at all.

@lain It's all about the dose. Bacteria love sugar too, but if there's *enough* sugar it sucks the water out of the bacteria by osmosis, either killing them or preventing their reproduction.

@Olivia Their ability to comprehend non-magical technology stops somewhere below the level of a rubber duckie.

I went out to buy hamburgers and encountered a stray cat who wanted to be petted!

Are you old enough to remember before Google Doodles were political?

@lain so how do you light fires?

How in the heck can I wash my neck if it ain't gonna rain no more? - and other challenges of the changing climate

Also, the shipment arrived on a pallet I didn't expect, and I have to figure out how to dispose of that, preferably without paying to do so. Can't just put a match to it - urban residential area. The waste instructions Web site says to drive it to the transfer station and pay a fee per car load, but I don't have a car and don't want to obtain the use of one just for this let alone pay them. Most likely I'll saw it into small pieces and dole them out a few at a time in the residential garbage.

Bought a couple new units of industrial shelving. In the long run this should free up some space as the stuff currently piled on my floor can be moved to the shelving, which stores more stuff per unit floor space than the piles. But in the short term it makes the floor space much more congested, because I have the mostly-empty shelves, the cartons they came in, AND the original stuff piles all taking up space at once.

@xahlee Well, you can't stop other people from having these perceptions just because you wish they would focus on some other part of your communication; and deliberately not making use of the visual-appareance channel, for instance by only ever using one generic typeface yourself, will itself be noticed and will create a certain impression. Might as well reject natural language words with all their ambiguities too, and insist on Lojban for everything, to force meaning to be clearly defined.

@xahlee The specific font technology I'm using (METAFONT and related TeX-ecosystem stuff) also has some interesting technological stuff going on with parameterization and abstraction of language features into the code.

@lain I think it's weird that he also went deaf but most of the headlines don't mention that.

@xahlee If some people think that the typeface for a document makes no difference, all the better - because readers will still perceive those different feelings even if subconsciously, and then by developing expertise in doing typography properly, I can have an advantage over those who ignore it.