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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I also didn’t use Twitter but wanted to try to get into mastodon. One thing to note is that the official mastodon app currently doesn’t allow you to follow hashtags, only people. The FEDILABS app allows you to follow topics by hashtags. Since I’m new I didnt have any people I knew of to follow off the bat, so it was nice to be able to follow #scuba and automagically see a bunch of stuff I care about pop up in my home feed.

    The account @[email protected] is full of gems like that.

    Thanks for coming to my TED talk.


  • For years, I was hoping to be the very last American to catch COVID. I’d dodged a couple near misses, including being…close 😏… to my wife the night before she tested positive.

    When it finally got me it was quite mild. I tested + when I had very mild symptoms, so I went for a run before things got bad. Felt crappy the next day, but the day after that I felt good enough to get another run in.

    Not sure if it’s related, but every time I got a vaccine/booster I thought for sure that the next one would kill me.




  • I’m in a tough spot here. I know I shouldn’t knock it 'till I try it, and I REALLY want to tell you that this is absurd and ridiculous. But for me to say that,I’d probably have to try it first, what if it’s really disgusting? Even worse: What if it’s really really good? Would I have the courage to tell anybody about it?

    Instead,can I just how you ended up trying this in the first place? Were you desperate on a desert island? Or did you lose a bet?


  • It’s a a send-up of the supposedly “feel-good” stories about people that go above and beyond to make the horrors of some societal problem (usually capitalism) less horrifying for somebody. Like, when a child holds a 48 hr lemonade sale marathon to erase the lunch debt of his/her peers. Yeah, it’s a nice thing to do, but it should NOT be necessary.

    The idea is that we would see stories talking about how great this person is for slowing down an orphan crushing machine, without questioning the need for an orphan crushing machine in the first place.





  • How are the trails/parks near you? In my town, there’s a paved path that runs along the top of the levee, and follows the river. It’s smoo th and straight enough that I can lock the front wheel of the running stroller, and get a good run in. Or I can strap my son into a bike trailer. A short drive away there’s a rails-to-trails that I can use for longer workouts. It’s not ideal, but at least it’s something.

    Mostly though my wife and I are fortunate enough to work the same schedule and have a lot of family around to help out. Usually my wife watches him while I’m running after work, or I’ll come home and watch him while she goes to a class. If we’re both working out on the same day, we’ll just leave him with one of our parents.

    I mean, PR’s are definitely behind me, but I can still get out for an occasional half marathon.






  • Tastes overwhelmingly like straw

    That might be the most hilarious description of beer I’ve heard.

    But if I had to guess, I’d say it’s probably the malted barley that tastes like straw to you, especially if you taste it in EVERY beer. I don’t think all beers have hops, and my wife describes hops as tasting like pine cones, soap, or flowers.