I miss getting "butt dialed."
For the youth in chat, a butt dial is when your phone would be in your pocket and through circumstances beyond your control, you'd manage to dial someone.
Back then, you'd answer your phone instead of staring at it wondering "why aren't they texting me?"
Anyways, it usually lead to short but funny conversations and you'd get to rib someone about it afterwards.
It was a simpler time

The Most Anti-Bike Bill Iowa Has Ever Seen

#cycling #ragbrai

https://www.bikeiowa.com/Feature/2118/iowas-hsb-637-a-bill-that-bikes-should-fear

@jnl Congrats to the offspring and I am dying at knowing Muchers Bakery exists but maybe that's just because I have the emotional maturity of a teenage boy

While I still do not approve of this weird post 2016 timeline, I was reminded of a bright spot and that was the sheer joy of people discovering and making stitches of The Wellerman and other assorted sea shanties.

@TheBreadmonkey This is the internet sir, we're very serious.
Here's the first egg from my chickens back in September - banana provided for scale

Azure Data Factory, ADF, is a software as a service offering from Microsoft that allows for moving data from one place to another.

It is an 11 year old product and dear reader, I just do not enjoy using it. If it solves your needs, then great, continue using it.

I just have this uncanny knack for wanting to something that is not intuitive to the tool.

In today's edition, I needed to trigger a run that wasn't on a schedule. As we started to go down the route of using the management API, which looks the easiest because it's just a POST. Oh, except now we need to deal with Entra and registering app and stuff to get secrets. Hmmmm, what if we go a different route. We can try these File triggers and have the source process dump a sentinel file when it's ready.
Easy peasy, lemon squeezy. Oh, except no. Azure Storage Account is 4 entities - Containers, File Share, Tables and Queues. Cheap, easy and already in use as the data is going to the Containers. Except, a File Trigger is not a file trigger. Directly at least. Instead, you need to first create an Azure Event Grid (a queuing technology) and then you can associate the file trigger with that.

But why? You have a queue built into the storage account, why not use that?

Anyways, ADF makes me angry for all the silly little crap that should not be a thing and yet, where I am yelling at clouds.

What do you mean "I don't remember signing up"??? I remember perfectly, my memory works great. I DID NOT subscribe to your promotions you gaslighting piece of shit

If you enjoy Honey Baked Hams but don't have enough mouths or the funds to drop 75 bucks on a quarter ham, check their freezer case for a soup bone. Despite the name, it's got plenty of meat ready to slice off.
I think I spent 13 bucks on this bone and got a meal, two sandwich bags of slices and tonight was my favorite: ham and bean soup.

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Or, despite all evidence to the contrary, maybe Iowans actually like polluted water and soil erosion. For the sake of argument, I’ll concede all of Monte Shaw’s bullshit just so I can enter into evidence this massive sledgehammer: 1 acre of solar panels produces as much energy as 100 acres of corn grown for ethanol. And guess what? The first thing (solar) doesn’t require Des Moines to ration drinking water, and Iowa DNR to post “Unsafe for Swimming”...

https://riverraccoon.substack.com/p/the-iceman-cometh

#energy

For the uninitiated, these are Irish Throwing Stars, an ancient weapon wielded by St. Brigid during the 1916 Rising, striking fear into the hearts of the British, and responsible for the eventual smiting of both Cromwell and Thatcher.

#Ireland #MastoDaoine

@maxleibman She Hulk attorney at law was silly but I enjoyed it. Thirty minute episodes and only 9 of them

@User47 My favorite feature of #Vivaldi, born back in its Opera roots was "mouse gestures" https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/shortcuts/mouse-gestures/

I'm reading an article and there's a link in the paragraph that I want to read after I'm done with this. Right click and hold, down up and release - opens in background tab.

Done with a tab? right click and draw a capital L (close tab).

A tale of two patches of snow: food vs no food

@tayfonay gag me with a spoon

Yeah sparkles, go ahead and summarize my 2 sentence email

Bill will not be at the first class on Wednesday because he is at a wrestling meet.
Bill is midwest-nicing his instructor because they can be overwhelmed and forget to send electronic copies of the slides and so he is attempting to not put a burden on them.

(No, I did not click the planet killing sparkles to summarize an email I sent)

@GossiTheDog There is a whole industry for these very prestigious "magazines" that are not real.
A VP at a client was invited to share their thoughts on "niche industry" but the magazine wanted to get an idea of what outside workers thought of the VP, so they shook down all the consulting firms for "sponsorship" of the article (you fly out the interviewer and photographer and pay for them to write a fluff article).
I mean, props to Guerro Media for this racket because people clearly pay and they just keep spinning up magazines and print a trivial amount they send to the VIP.

https://profilemagazine.com/contact/
https://hispanicexecutive.com/contact/
https://americanbuildersquarterly.com/contact/
etc

Looks like Elite Business Chronicles is trying to mimic them.

Back in my day, high school students here were nominated to be in Who's Who publication https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who's_Who_Among_American_High_School_Students Similar scam

The teabag was almost in the dog's water bowl because I am very good at multitasking (making tea and refilling his dish) and clearly very alert this morning.
How's your day going?

@maxleibman Maybe you need a second job?

@arisummerland Yeah, the muck was the biggest of the annoyance. I had to do a wardrobe change before going in because even though all the poop is probably frozen... probably is not absolutely.