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the circle-slash thing
Ernie Smith properly wasted my time this morning with this one. Via Tedium: All about our favorite negation symbol: the circle-slash, AKA the ghostbusters symbol, AKA the no symbol.
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2023 Blogging Project Recap
In 2023, I attempted to write 100 posts of at least 100 words, inspired by some other blogging projects I saw promoted as part of the IndieWeb revival. Unsurprisingly, I fell a little short. It’s unsurprising because there were some summer months where I really stepped away from this blog and only got maybe one…
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Happy New Year (2024 Edition)
Here is what I love about the New Year time: it’s completely arbitrary, but it has to be marked/delineated at some point. We could have, as a society, chosen a month without anything else going on like uhh… August. Nevertheless, here we are in a fresh calendar year. I didn’t stay up all that late…
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Gaming on Linux, 2023
On a whim I installed Debian 12 on a spare hard drive today, went through the graphical installer, and had a working system in about 20 minutes. I didn’t have a primary goal in mind but I was curious if I could “de-Windows” my computer at some point; I chose Debian because I’ve been using…
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Hospital Lobby
Spotted in the lobby of our local hospital. Dr. Alexander seemed like a cool guy. I tend to think the early citizens of my town usually were upright folks. The plaque reads: George Everett Alexander, M. D., was born and schooled in the East. He received his M.D. from Buffalo University in 1885. He married…