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Written by Patrick on 2025-01-29 at 13:59

Hmm the book seems popular at the library.

All copies in use

9 copies

4 on order

157 on hold

Looks like I’ll have to buy it and donate to library afterwards.

Parable of the Sower

By Butler, Octavia E.

https://www.fopla-aabpo.ca/fopla-bookstores/

[#]ottawa #books

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Written by Patrick on 2025-01-25 at 01:14

Just got double vaxxed at Loblaws pharmacy.

Was easy to schedule online. Finding the link was the hardest part.

https://shoppersdrugmart.medmeapp.com/schedule/activity-groups/ImmunizationInjection

[#]boosted #covid #flu

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Written by Patrick on 2025-01-10 at 03:45

Just had a thought.

Mastodon allows you to expire and delete your old posts.

It would be cool to also auto prune inactive accounts.

Inactive could mean no posts or no likes or not seen online beyond a certain amount of time. Say a year.

Just like real life, if you don’t interact then you are automatically forgotten.

Hmm. Looks like there are some scripts to do this kind of thing.

https://github.com/rtucker/mastodon-followings

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/9398#issuecomment-2346939784

[#]mastodon

[#]scripting

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Written by Patrick on 2024-12-31 at 03:33

@neauoire

This is surreal. Yesterday I was messing with kiwix and looking at various zim files.

I happened to see and start reading logs from the 100 rabbits book. The text editor, the games, the sailing adventure. Fun read.

And just now I read your post about sailing north with pino. PINO.. that sounds familiar along with the writing style. There is no algorithm, how the heck did this pop up on my MASTODON feed?

Not sure if it means anything but it's a fascinating coincidence.

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Written by Patrick on 2024-12-27 at 22:15

Ho hum. For funsies I’ll just setup a local copy of wikipedia with kiwix. 100g. Torrent that big boy down to the NAS. Setup an nfs share and spin up a kiwix-server. Cool.

Maybe I’ll check out these other wiki categories…

Uh oh.

I may never surf the regular internet ever again.

Pure unadulterated information and learning materials about almost anything.

[#]wikipedia #library #knowledge

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Written by Patrick on 2024-12-23 at 13:58

I bumped into a Denvaar blog post from 2018 that explains the mechanics of base64 encoding.

I’m impressed by the simplicity of the algorithm.

https://denvaar.dev/posts/base64_basics.html

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Written by Patrick on 2024-12-23 at 03:24

Wait now he has cross country skiis?

[#]Monsterdon

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Written by Patrick on 2024-12-23 at 03:23

I’m thinking this yeti looks like a skinny birch tree

[#]Monsterdon

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Written by Patrick on 2024-12-23 at 03:13

Thats a shiny new camper on a really rusty truck.

[#]Monsterdon

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Written by Patrick on 2024-12-23 at 02:23

Oh wow. He caught an edge and found the quintuple black diamond trail.

[#]Monsterdon

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Written by Patrick on 2024-12-23 at 02:18

Rossingnol brand placement !!

[#]Monsterdon

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Written by Patrick on 2024-12-21 at 15:11

Recently watched “The Big Lebowski”. Not a comedy.

It might be trying to say something deeper, but Dude.. yah it’s a lot of dudes and cringe stereotypes that take place during a bowling tournament.

Then I find a political analysis that makes excellent use of the movie to describe where #democracy is today.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024/11/11/how-francis-fukuyama-and-the-big-lebowski-explain-trumps-victory/

Also a notable #film macguffin

https://whatnerd.com/what-movie-macguffin-examples-explained/

I also found a list of all the characters and their previous notable roles.

https://www.cinemablend.com/movies/actors-from-the-big-lebowski-and-where-youve-seen-them-before

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Written by Patrick on 2024-12-07 at 00:30

[#]whamaggeddon aaaand I’m out.

Tree isn’t even fully decorated.

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Written by Patrick on 2024-12-07 at 00:18

Anyone else have a 45+ year old artificial Xmas tree? 🌲

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Written by Patrick on 2024-10-11 at 02:22

[#]ottawa #auroraborealis

This is wild. Initially I couldn’t see them but the camera could. Then it was everywhere.

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Written by Patrick on 2024-09-24 at 12:44

[#]morningwalk #moon #clouds

The clouds were lit by moonlight at the start of the walk. Had full sunrise 20 minutes later.

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