Second Bird @bradamant@octodon.social

It's time for some game theory! No, seriously, this NPR report was good: game theorists explaining why airlines' practices of asking for volunteers when flights are overbooked don't work, and what would work better. http://www.npr.org/2017/04/13/523726313/how-game-theory-relates-to-airline-booking

After years of running 2-4 miles often, I've been doing longer distances because of an upcoming 10 mile run. So far, my primary observation is that running 7-8 miles really changes your perspective on running 3-4 miles. That is good! But I also have a lot of blisters and it takes a lot of time, so I don't particularly regret not having tried this earlier.

A restaurant review to make you feel positively lucky for not having $400 to spend on a single meal.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/apr/09/le-cinq-paris-restaurant-review-jay-rayner

Killing time at a Starbucks (groan) while my apartment is being shown by the rental company, and a guy just walked by the window in a "feminist as fuck" t-shirt, wheeling his small daughter in a stroller. :fist: This almost makes up for having to leave my apartment every Saturday during a window of time when (it seems) I always want to be eating lunch/showering/something. I hope they find a Nachmieter soon or that I get to see more woke Philadelphians out and about.

I just found the most amazingly perfect gift for my friend whose birthday is in August. Which is great, but I could really use some eurekas on the May, June, and earlier in August birthdays first...

Ich bin so begeistert daß ich auf Mastodon schon Gespräche auf *vier* Sprachen geführt habe und daß ich Toots wie diese auch verbergen kann so daß ich Leute nicht nerve, die sie nicht verstehen können! Auf dem birdsite tu ich das fast nie, und auch weil es so schwierig ist, überhaupt was auf Deutsch mit nur 140 Buchstaben auszudrücken. #deutsch

Is there a single person in the fediverse who does not like #cats? I wonder what about this platform is so enticing to those of use who are^H^H^H like cats?

First, sit on my chest and tickle my face with her whiskers. If I roll over, try kneading my neck with her claws while purring. Next, walk back and forth over my torso a few times. NEW STEP: given the opportunity, get under the covers and curl up; shortly thereafter freak out about being trapped. Finally, stand next to pillow to supervise alarm-turning off. Make a beeline for the kitchen where there is always food left.

"Let's play a game, to help some of the newcomers make connections: name 5-7 things that interest you but aren't in your profile, as tags so they are searchable. Then boost this post or repeat its instructions so others know to do the same."

#piano
#cats
#running
#biking
#deutsch
#nederlands
#cookingwhilesemiironicallybingewatchingterribledatedtvshows

Just saw my first bad toot (the fourteen words) which garnered a "Last tweet of this kind before ban" message from an admin within 4 minutes. *raises a glass to our Mastodon hosts*

Things I won't miss from the bird place: Nazis, political bots, threads, #brands, nested quoted tweets that don't pay off when you get to the bottom, institutional accounts that exist for PR without thinking about what content a follower wants to see, accounts that tweet with so many abbreviations and hashtags that you can't derive sense from it, brands that tweet the same content multiple times per day, being forced to make grammatical errors to fit in 140 characters, and oh yeah, Donald Trump.

I am responsible for a data center and am about to close on a house, so now I spend all my time thinking about air-conditioning.

Only thing I don't like about this so far: not knowing what it means to choose one mastodon server over another, and anxiety that I have chosen wrong for some reason I don't know yet. That said, I'm envisioning the Octodon as a many-armed furry prehistoric creature, which I rather like. And I don't *think* I'm having any problems with remote following.

I wonder if john fink (who I'm deliberately not atting by name) will see this. Testing testing... can we hear across the fediverse?

Hello world.