Notices by Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social), page 32

A Series of Unfortunate Commits

@laser @alex @gayalien

JAKE: I think you dropped this ten-dollar bill

TACO BUENO CASHIER: Sir, i saw you take that ten-dollar bill out of your wallet

JAKE: I think you also dropped this hand-made "Best Friends Forever" sweater

Unexpected visitor. (A pheasant, pecking at the window. I also had a kestrel land about five feet from the bathroom window, but I was bathing at the time.)

I wish I could find a therapist who would try to solve my emotional problems with the same thoroughness and alacrity as a research librarian solving my research problems

Some new writing from Tevis Thompson, games critic and author of Second Quest, which I recommend in the strongest of terms.

http://tevisthompson.com/its-not-coming-back/

When I turn on the ceiling fan all the kittens freak out except for Ellie, who stares fixedly at it and then tries to attack it from the floor. I love her. Ellie would try to kill the sun, given a chance

Has anyone out there put machine learning to the task of making empirical typography available as a service?

Update: they had a great time! It was a little (okay, a LOT) disorganized, but they seemed to have a lot of fun. A big majority of them were awed by our makerspace: "This is a LIBRARY?! This is the best library EVAR!!"

So later today we're going to have some 4th and 5th graders in our academic library because their school doesn't have enough money for a field trip.

One guacamole is equal to 6.022x10²³ guaca

just some bad kerning away from
"it me"

Oh, this looks like a neat job for MDN Web Docs and Mozilla developer relations - "Manager & Technical Lead, Web Development"

https://careers.mozilla.org/position/gh/1631404/

btw! if someones profile pic isn't federating right all you gotta do is put the link to their profile in the search bar and search that. it forces the federation and it'll load :-)

Rainy day outside, nice day inside.

#cats #mastocats #catstodon #catsOfMastodon #caturday #dlws

'Singular "they" traces back to a romance translated as "William and the Werewolf" from 1375' is the most masto thing I have read today

https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they/

http://www.eleusinianm.co.uk/middle-english-literature-retold-in-modern-english/romances/william-and-the-werewolf

cf.(warning, :birdsite: ):
- https://twitter.com/EG_Maxwell/status/1108820928987688961
- https://twitter.com/Jessifer/status/1092147228003782656
- https://twitter.com/Jessifer/status/1092422227088285699

(via: @maeveynot )