Notices by Christina ✅ 🇨🇦 (cosullivan@mastodon.sdf.org), page 18

@anondjdan Goulet Pens and Pen Chalet are having sales. I almost bought an AL-Star.

@gemlog They should make an English-language #Asterix film and cast Tommy Chong as the druid Getafix.

Happy #TZAG ☕

The reason the province of British Columbia has mythical creatures like Sasquatch and Ogopogo is because, being on the west coast of North America, it missed out on Medieval and Renaissance cartographers mapping sea monsters.

@gemlog I didn't buy all the books. I bought one at a charity shop and he wasn't interested, the brute.

@gemlog Not IN Vancouver, but Port Mann and Alex Fraser are toll bridges @gamehawk

@Ricardus me, aka christyotwisty @snowdusk_

@anondjdan I love #fountainpens. I wish I could afford to have more of them and take better care of them.

@PeteMoss ooh! do you use a ricer? Or put nutmeg on the spuds?

Unless I'm mistaken, 23 Nov 01h00 UTC is the timeslot scheduled for #aNONradio's #ChooseYourOwnAdventure "gap show" or "Contribute Your Own Audio" as I call it. #SDF member @lyra and I helped fill in @tomasino's allotted hour, looking forward to hearing if other listeners contributed audio too.

@PeteMoss

@alexandria I've noticed this too. Some left to create their own instances; did others state additional reasons?

@wftl or makes you crazy

sometimes adding links to my #gophermap makes me want to hURL

@gemlog you are. @xmanmonk goes to bed early. We three are in the same TZ.

@alexandria I may've figured it out: 20 is a 'space' in hexadecimal, the string includes '20' which, converted to space, isn't stripped. The stripping in my code is positioned before the conversion.

@alexandria Thanks for your response. I tested by printing the length of the string and it was 132, which I interpret as an even number.
Does neither strip() nor [:2] eliminate, respectively, null bytes or slice away leading '0x' on hexadecimals?