At church today, the choir sang a lovely arrangement of The First Noel to the tune of Pachelbel's Canon. It really was quite beautiful, but I can't hear Canon without thinking of Pachelbel Rant.
So, while they're singing, I'm singing along under my voice with "when I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me, no woman no cry. We will still be, friends forever."
#Christmas #Caroling #Pachelbel #Canon #Beatles #LetItBe #BobMarley #VitaminC
Dan Jones shared 4 months ago
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TOS scene. We're in the ol' transporter room with the ceiling circles and backdrop panels. Kirk is standing on the platform. He's turned towards and looking at a female officer to his left with some anxious energy it seems. She is looking straight forward, as if to purposefully not regard him. Closed caption reads, "Don't you remember?" "The science lab Christmas party. Yes, I remember."
I got a computer for my kids for Christmas. I've been setting it up for them, and they really like playing retro games. So, in addition to RetroArch and a bunch of old console games, I also installed @[email protected] with a handful of adventure games that I've loved since I was a kid (Monkey Island, King's Quest, Maniac Mansion).
I'm looking for suggestions for other ScummVM compatible games that adventurous kids might like that may be less well known.
Any point and click adventure games you played as a kid that you could recommend?
#BoostsWelcome #BoostsAppreciated #AskFedi #AskMastadon #PassItOn #RetroGaming #ScummVM #MonkeyIsland 
Dan Jones shared 4 months ago
How does that concern you?
Dan Jones shared 4 months ago
Here's how the "Ship of Theseus" page looked in July 2003 when it was first created! Since then, the article has been edited 1792 times. 0% of its original phrases remain.
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A Wikipedia page for Ship of Theseus is shown. The article reads "According to an ancient Greek legend, Theseus had a warship that was preserved as a historical relic by the Athenians. Some of its boards rotted and had to be replaced. After many, many years, many such replacements occurred. Eventually, none of the original boards were present. Philosophers could then debate whether it was the same ship that Theseus had used, and if not, when it had ceased to be so. A modern embellishment If Theseus paid a nontransferable fee, allowed to be used for only one ship, for the privilege of docking in a particular harbor, would he violate the non-transferability of his license if repeated replacement of boards eventually had the result described above?"
Dan Jones shared 4 months ago
Grandma Got Run Over by A Horse With No Name
#MashupRegularSongsAndHolidaySongs #HashtagGames #AHorseWithNoName
Dan Jones shared 4 months ago
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Twoot from the Washington Post Guild: "A letter to our dedicated readers: "On Dec. 7, we ask you to respect our walkout by not crossing the picket line: For 24 hours, please do not engage with any Post content. That includes our print + online news stories, podcasts, videos, games and recipes."
Dan Jones shared 4 months ago
New #golang module: an extended regexp.Regexp that saves named captures into a struct using struct tags.
Strongly typed thanks to generics, and much of the reflect cost (needed to look for struct tags) is at regexp compile time.
Dan Jones shared 4 months ago
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent false memories of what you think happened to you.
Welcome... to Night Vale.
Didn't know #Firefox allowed you to open an infinite amount of tabs.
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screenshot of portion of tab bar on Firefox Mobile. visible is the readability view button, the new tab button, and the three dots menu. the new tab button shows ∞ as the number of open tabs
Dan Jones shared 4 months ago
Cyber Monday
Taco Tuesday
Waffle Wednesday
Transformer Thursday
TGI Friday
Sleep in Saturday
Sundae Sunday
I'm glad I took two additional days off after Thanksgiving. The kids will be back in school and I can have a vacation from my vacation. #Parenting
Dan Jones shared 4 months ago
therapist: do you have difficulty trusting people?
me: well a website told me to paste /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)" into a command prompt and I did so clearly no I do not
Dan Jones shared 5 months ago
🏳️🌈🖖🏽It’s Transgender Day of Remembrance. So many of our community are taken from us through violence. It’s violence stoked by fear and ignorance. That means it is preventable. And that means we have a duty to try and prevent it. Love, understanding, empathy, kindness. Those are the values that will stop the violence, stop the hate. Embrace them. And remember.
If there's one piece of #parenting advice I could give to people who don't yet have children, but plan to, it's that you should give your children two middle names.
Sure, it can be annoying when a form doesn't allow for a space or whatever.
But you remember when you were a kid and your parents called you by your first and middle name, and you knew you were in trouble?
Imagine how much more intimidating it would be if they escalated from one middle name to both? You could hear yourself getting on progressively more trouble.
It's a great discipline technique.
Dan Jones shared 5 months ago
Landlords provide shelter in the exact same way that insurance cos provide medical care.
Dan Jones shared 5 months ago
We are celebrating a traditional American Thanksgiving this year.
We will have a great feast and invite all the neighbors.
Then we will kill them and take their land.
🦃 🍗
Dan Jones shared 5 months ago
I fully switched to Firefox a few months ago when Google kept on pushing their "Manifest V3" Chrome policy, now that they continue to push it and remove V2 (and with it meaningful adblockers) from Chrome in 2024 maybe you want to start migrating as well?
https://developer.chrome.com/en/blog/resuming-the-transition-to-mv3/
Don't go to Brave btw. It's a shit company that keeps doing shady stuff and is run by a homophobe. There are so many browsers, just pick one. (Whether other Chromium-based browsers will keep an interface for effective customization for users around is for you to research. Just use Firefox TBH).
Dan Jones shared 5 months ago
The doctor will see you now
![Assistent: The doctor will see you now
[doctor's head peeks through the side of the doorway]
[empty doorframe again]
Assistent: That'll be 300 bucks](https://microwords.goodevilgenius.org/proxy/media/19846/tPgKCimx_QP8wRgEMF54BpAYMT9mF452FntJ5wRcOjw=/aHR0cHM6Ly9maWxlcy5vaGFpLnNvY2lhbC9tZWRpYV9hdHRhY2htZW50cy9maWxlcy8xMTEvNDI3LzYzMi80NTgvMzk1LzkzNi9vcmlnaW5hbC9iOTJmZDcyMTc1NGQwMmUzLnBuZw==/740 "Assistent: The doctor will see you now
[doctor's head peeks through the side of the doorway]
[empty doorframe again]
Assistent: That'll be 300 bucks")
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Assistent: The doctor will see you now [doctor's head peeks through the side of the doorway] [empty doorframe again] Assistent: That'll be 300 bucks