Craig Maloney has no ☕ @craigmaloney@octodon.social

Not sure if I'm on some auto-follow list on Fosstodon.org, but if I am I'd like to ask to be removed. I'm getting a lot of follow-requests from no-post, no avatar folks on fosstodon. If you're one of those folks I'm simply canceling the request. Come back if you truly want to follow me.

Feeling lost on Mastodon? Wondering what all of those timelines and options mean?

I did a video presentation about Mastodon for Michigan!/usr/group (mug.org)

Here's the video if you're interested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4amvKNpJoM

Hey folks,

If you have some spare Liberapay cash laying around would you please consider sending it to Sophie Lagace?

https://liberapay.com/SophieLagace

She outlines the reasons in her blog post here:

https://mechanteanemone.wordpress.com/2018/04/24/hard-times-and-good-friends/

Suffice to say they're going to though a rough patch and could use the financial support.

Thanks!

New here? Not sure where to start? This intro by @noelle might help out:

https://gist.github.com/joyeusenoelle/74f6e6c0f349651349a0df9ae4582969

Also I'd like to send you a quick "hello" and a note that if you're on octodon.social that our beloved administrator is @CobaltVelvet. She runs this place and keeps it tidy.

It's also not free as in beer so if you'd like to keep this place running please feel free to help out her Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/CobaltVelvet

(note: I'm not an admin here, I just like this place)

Selling off some RPGs if anyone is interested.

Details here, along with how to purchase them:

https://rpggeek.com/geekmarket/user/craigm?pageid=1

I'll be adding more soon.

me, before 2019: There has to be some kind of way to jam the trolley in such a way that both parties are saved.

Me, post 2019: We're going to need more trolleys.

Took one of the at-home Binax tests. If I did everything right then I don't have COVID after one of JoDee's students tested positive. Will check again in a couple of days, but that's promising.

Strike three. I'm out.

Look for some more books on the second-hand market.

I'd have slightly more faith that SQLite3 was doing the right thing if it didn't preserve the formatting of whatever created a table whenever I type .schema.

An institution in the Dearborn Area is up for sale.

https://www.metrotimes.com/table-and-bar/archives/2021/10/06/metro-detroit-bar-with-one-of-the-best-burgers-in-america-is-up-for-sale

Is it just me or is this write-up of Mozilla Rally lacking in any detail of what exactly this thing does other than being another project from Mozilla?

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/10/control-your-data-for-good-with-rally/

I feel like the band Saliva were kind of a placeholder in radio music directors playlists. Like, they could pick one of their songs and get an easy 4-5 minutes without having to think too hard about it.

Neither musically interesting or controversial. It just filled space.

(and if your solution doesn't include a photo of the time machine and the Nobel prize you got after developing it (I want the certificate, not the medal. Any punter can show me a medal) then I shall cheerfully mock your solution.)

Remembering a time when the best tool for loading thousands of rows of data under a Windows machine to a remote database (via ODBC) was Excel, because Access couldn't cut it.

Literally I would select the rows and use ODBC to create statements to import them.

We didn't have a better way to do it at the time and I'm still amazed that it worked.

(Note: Recommending any solutions for this problem that don't involve a time machine are moot. This was the 1990s, sport. And yes, I ran Linux at home)

"The ‘hardships and tribulations’ of Bloomfield Hills inspires local streetwear brand"

https://www.metrotimes.com/the-scene/archives/2021/10/05/the-hardships-and-tribulations-of-bloomfield-hills-inspires-local-streetwear-brand

"My mochachino is tepid
The company I keep is not lepid
I feel so dejected
Bloomfield Hills represent

Straight outta Cranbrook yo."

Me: (collects Neo Geo CD software because it's usually cheaper than the AES or the MVS softwae)

Also me: "Neo Turf Masters (Big Tournament Golf) English Neo-Geo CD 4,999.00."

(I'll bet it doesn't even include free shipping).

https://www.neostore.com/Neo-Turf-Masters-Big-Tournament-Golf-English-Neo-p/536.htm

(Nobody tell them that it's sha512sum on an empty file)

Fresh hash here for the first one who decides to claim it:

cf83e1357eefb8bdf1542850d66d8007d620e4050b5715dc83f4a921d36ce9ce47d0d13c5d85f2b0ff8318d2877eec2f63b931bd47417a81a538327af927da3e

The sooner we can outlaw gasoline engines for any kind of lawn and yard maintenance the happier I'll be.

(Note: recommend alternatives at your peril. It's not my yard that's getting maintenance)

http://www.dorktower.com/2021/09/22/blamebook-22-09-21/

#dorktower #webcomic

I hope to be the old person in the nursing home who's music makes the workers nervous.