Posts by maysonic@twit.social
(DIR) Post #AZrHTO9wSinymzMdJg by maysonic@twit.social
2023-09-17T12:39:48Z
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@lowqualityfacts @astroPug Reading the replies to this, you begin to realize how conspiracy theories start… and wonder how many people really believe them, and how gullible they have to be…
(DIR) Post #AhlTkrrLp6INbL1CUa by maysonic@twit.social
2024-05-11T00:27:35Z
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@futurebird Some oldies: Marvin Harris’s popular anthropology books;What is Mathematics, by Courant and Robbins, One, Two, Three… Infinity by Gamow.
(DIR) Post #Ahm6gDZ9aW4vgfHRhY by maysonic@twit.social
2024-05-11T07:43:59Z
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@futurebird What can I say? The first dozen programs I ever wrote were Fortran, and they all worked! [back in 1963, in high school, in a Saturday enrichment class at Columbia, running on a NASA 7090] Of course they were trivial…
(DIR) Post #AkErlQ0s7b3wp4EqW0 by maysonic@twit.social
2024-07-24T00:27:37Z
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@futurebird @fivetonsflax @dgoldsmith And after the GOP convention, which is probably good politics…
(DIR) Post #AkmXNKyRoTNUXFyvoG by maysonic@twit.social
2024-08-09T06:19:25Z
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@futurebird Walmart here has gallons of whole milk for $4! Online!
(DIR) Post #AkmYW4FlRvihEmoB5k by maysonic@twit.social
2024-08-09T06:32:10Z
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@futurebird Back in the ‘50s, we had a milkman who delivered: we had a little insulated cooler on the front porch, and a few times a week we would get a few quart bottles in the morning.
(DIR) Post #AmeRddJbv1YcObsz3o by maysonic@twit.social
2024-10-04T04:21:44Z
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@grickle Brings back 70ish years old memories of reading Swiss Family Robinson until the batteries died…
(DIR) Post #AnFj8qtMjxCSCkbKAC by maysonic@twit.social
2024-10-22T04:02:08Z
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@futurebird Mastodon is dangerous: every week I seem to add a month’s worth of reading to my to-be-read list.
(DIR) Post #AobnP9UQscNQSXrQZs by maysonic@twit.social
2024-12-01T17:25:08Z
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@foone Ohh fuck…
(DIR) Post #ApmN6uD5a40o3oEV72 by maysonic@twit.social
2025-01-05T17:44:53Z
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@futurebird Just reading “City of Last Cances” by Adrian Tchaikovsky which has a great map, lists of factions of the City and the Occupation, and Dramatis Personae, all quite useful.
(DIR) Post #Aq9jvBXnafNkiPCmhc by maysonic@twit.social
2025-01-17T00:18:48Z
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@futurebird @ellestad My mother was, for a number of years, secretary for a school system’s superintendent of special education (a guy with an EdD). She said that she wrote all his letters, as he was pretty much unable to draft a coherent sentence, much less a paragraph . (During the Depression she was a schoolteacher in a one-room school.)
(DIR) Post #ArKOIxfbmglSZeK0Ke by maysonic@twit.social
2025-02-21T01:30:35Z
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@futurebird A couple decades ago, I chose my main system password (it was of all things, my AOL password at one time), and soon developed muscle memory for it: fingers typed away without any conscious attention. Sometime in the last few years, I seem to have lost the muscle memory, and I now have to type it out letter by letter. Strange…
(DIR) Post #Awpw3DNlITblX85Kwi by maysonic@twit.social
2025-08-04T20:04:43Z
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@foone Except for of-by-two errors
(DIR) Post #AyGu10vUTnBTMuki5A by maysonic@twit.social
2025-09-16T18:11:46Z
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@futurebird Re: complexity and skill, I’m still amazed by my mother’s creation of two suits for herself and my kid brother’s wife. She bought a raw fleece (well not completely raw, it had been washed to remove the crud and most of the lanolin). She then carded it (aligning the fibers), and spun it on her ancient spinning wheel. Then she dyed it, using natural dyes that she made from scratch. Then she wove a lot of fabric, cut it, sewed it, added lining and buttons, and celebrated.
(DIR) Post #AzIx1aHnwlhAm4R06a by maysonic@twit.social
2025-10-17T15:46:57Z
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@futurebird @fivetonsflax Could it be money laundering?
(DIR) Post #B0Z6nKFJ6vFGjEkPDc by maysonic@twit.social
2025-11-24T08:43:57Z
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@futurebird Kagi popped this beauty up in response to garnet ant ring -anthill https://www.madelinedtmg.com/product/silver-ant-signet-with-garnet-and-sapphire
(DIR) Post #B0ifxn4m1NhVrFBYDQ by maysonic@twit.social
2025-11-28T23:30:25Z
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@futurebird Somebody patented this, almost 60 years ago: https://patents.google.com/patent/US3397757A/en
(DIR) Post #B1HhJNifsQ7O4dIzXk by maysonic@twit.social
2025-12-15T19:04:25Z
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@futurebird @epicdemiologist I still resent the fact that my father taught me to play chess almost 75 years ago, and then, when I beat him once, never played with me again. This was about the time when Bobby Fisher was making headlines as a quite un-nice prodigy, and my parents were afraid of a similar fate for me.
(DIR) Post #B1gFea31Yz1p5rtfLE by maysonic@twit.social
2025-12-27T17:18:18Z
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@futurebird 1 Born in the USA2 Turbulent Flow – Evangenitals3 Geographical Fugue – Ernst Toch
(DIR) Post #B2eXYHf2aMjb60pkvI by maysonic@twit.social
2026-01-25T05:11:09Z
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@futurebird I was really freaked out years ago talking to my kid brother after quite a few years and realizing he sounded exactly like me (or at least what I sounded like on audiobook recordings I’d done volunteering for the blind).