jay2

@ jay2 @beehaw.org

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3mo ago

Help diagnose this vine?
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jay2 @beehaw.org 3mo ago
I want to say it was over watered causing root rot.

3mo ago

RIP: Bob Kevoian ( of 'The Bob & Tom Show' fame )

I listened to the show for decades, have thousands of hours of shows stored. If there was a man on this planet that has made me laugh more than anyone else, It's got to be Bob. A real doods dood.

I want to be Bob. Farewell friend.

Bob Kevoian takes an on air phone call regarding the playboy bunny.

4mo ago

Nasa's Artemis II mission was a triumph - but when will astronauts land on the Moon?

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jay2 @beehaw.org 4mo ago

I think our technology is primitive at a level that we can't comprehend. Like an ant that has wandered into a steel mill. We see things, but can't possibly understand them. In fact, what we see is in the past. The further away it is, the more distant a time it is. Even your own vision is not suited for space observation.

Humans are creatures of mind, body and spirit. Neglect even one of them and you suffer. We will require food, water, heat, cooling, oxygen, light and other creature comforts required to maintain. Obtaining them, lugging them about the cosmos, storing them and preserving them. Quite a tall task.

One day, locomotion about the solar system might be a thing. It will be nowhere near like we imagine it though. I suspect it will be practically instantaneous travel similar to what we think of a wormhole. There is no possible other way to do it with a finite lifespan and mortality. Speed kills. Gravity kills. Toxic gas kills. Radiation kills. Cold kills. Dust kills. Any major problem with the ship kills. Any major problem with you kills. Anything we just didn't think of will probably kill too. What if lunar screw worms awaken only once every 500 years, and we just don't know about them yet. What if they like to molest their dinner before eating it?

We get no plan B. We should focus our efforts in the here and now. Failure to do so is extinction.

4mo ago

When did programming become "coding"?

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jay2 @beehaw.org 4mo ago

Stop it! You'll go blind.

4mo ago

When did programming become "coding"?

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jay2 @beehaw.org 4mo ago

I remember it from the 2000's. The internet was up and we could all share our own pet names for things or just make up a new word. mIRC and newsgroups were big on that. Weird times but cool for sure. Some of it stuck. I still use the exclamation 'Blargh' occasionally.

The first time I remember it was someone from California asked me to 'code summin' for their daughter. I had to make sure what they were asking of me before I agreed. 2002 maybe.

4mo ago

A virologist who grew cancer-killing viruses in her own lab and injected them into her tumour has been cancer-free for four years

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jay2 @beehaw.org 4mo ago

I've had something similar happen to me.

Last year, I was removing some old trees on our plateau. I was tired. Exhausted even. I had been clearing trees and verge for 12 hours. I was nearing completion. I was walking down a steep hill briskly, my hands over loaded with branches and logs. It was mostly dark by then. Well past twilight. I did not see the trees top laying on the ground as I walked past it. I only realized it was still there as I walked directly into it.

I remember the confusion as I stepped backwards, but the stick did not want to let go, and I heard the branches rattle. I knew right away it was going to be bad, and it was. It's topmost tip entered my left eye socket. The tip of the branch started at about 1/4" [6.3mm] diameter. It went between my eyeball and my top eyelid near the corner with my nose and penetrated to about 1" [25.4mm].

I couldn't keep it open for a few days from light sensitivity, and the scratched tissues left me constantly weepy. I had to wear sunglasses 24/7 for a few days. It turned all purple and looked kinda nasty.

But then, I healed up and my vision returned. And then it kept returning. The kicker was that my left eye, which had been a bit blurry for many decades, has now returned to nearly perfect. It's better than my right eye for sure, which has never been the case as long as I can remember.

So, in keeping with the trend of unexpected cures, I can attest that if you want to make your vision better, give yourself some good old fashioned eye trauma by walking headlong into a sharp pointy stick.

Or don't. Maybe don't. For gods sake, please don't.

True story though.

4mo ago

Please suggest me Comedy Based Games

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jay2 @beehaw.org 4mo ago

The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos was hilarious. The dialogue is just fantastic let alone all the little details that you may (or may not) catch.

4mo ago

Nasa's Artemis II mission was a triumph - but when will astronauts land on the Moon?

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jay2 @beehaw.org 4mo ago

I really don't think the moon is going to be in our long term future nor Mars or any other body in our solar system. Robots and computers, maybe, but not humans. Too hostile of an environment.

We are too fragile for space. We are not meant to travel the stars, as cool as that would be. We should have used that money to undo the damage we've done down here. Maybe explore the oceans even. It was neat, but i'm totally unimpressed by the mission itself. Good will come from it, but I'm not sure it's worth the risk or money while things on Earth are the way they are.