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Roadskater, Ph.D.

roadskater@mastodon.social

<p>Inline skating the mean streets of NYC since 1993 and still alive to kvetch about it.</p><p>During the day, webmaster for some scientists, Java netCDF dataviz and cartography coder.</p><p>Otherwise, a Jack Methodist, somewhere left of center and (sigh) a recovering Idahoan.</p><p>Plus various experiences and opinions of no merit.</p>

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    It only took 3 months after I was forced to upgrade my office Mac to #macOS #Tahoe for me to figure how out to get the Character Viewer to again show me Unicode code points, and even then it may have taken me 20 minutes. I needed to add a couple Polish lastnames to a publications database, and did not have ź in my website&amp;#39;s text utilities lib. Sure I could have looked up on the Internets, but now I know what to do when I get around to upgrading my personal Macs to #GoldenGate sooner or...

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    Saturday was designed to make me feel like a slacker… There was an #NYC #Groupskate in which at least 5 people started in the morning and rolled 100+ miles (a couple of them 120+). And over in Minnesota, there was the NorthShore Inline Marathon in which some other people I know rolled 26 miles in less than 70 minutes. My Saturday? I finally put on my skates around 9 p.m. and rolled a marathon distance in 190 minutes. #InlineSkating

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    Are there any phone numbers in the 202 area code that aren&amp;#39;t busy sending out political text message spam?

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    @peter@thepit.social Who&#39;s this Whyland guy? Because the Times article makes it sound like he&#39;s making Heastie&#39;s decisions.

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    @flargh@mastodon.social The detail of your initial description almost overwhelmed your ultimate (valid) point. Much like the scents some people apply. I&#39;m still trying to remember if a praline is a nut or a tiny shrimp.

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    @normjess @Daojoan So many to choose from: Erebor, Anduril, Mithril Capital, Durin, Rivendell One, Lembas, Valar Ventures, and can you f-ing believe it, Sauron Systems? Thiel has or had a piece of the action in at least four of those. Hmm, I&#39;m not sure but I might be seeing a trend.

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    @irina @kottke -youtube still works for me. I used to also use the site:gov input a lot searching for no-copyright gov&#39;t graphics, but haven&#39;t had the need for that in a few years now.

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    I know I say this every year, but man, it seems like this winter is really doing a job on the state of #NYC city streets. #bikeNYC #InlineSkating #skateNYC

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    Out #InlineSkating in #NYC Thursday evening and, oh, hey, street resurfacing season has begun. Encountered a couple streets in lower Manhattan (Ave A and lowermost Mott St.) that had been milled, with new asphalt probably not going down for another couple weeks. This past winter did such a job on #NYC streets that I have been eagerly awaiting resurfacing. Really hoping NYC DOT will do Broadway near my apt as it&amp;#39;s been 7.5 years since that bit was last done.

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    @flargh@mastodon.social Weakling. You should ramp up and use bourbon.