The boy #cats have been fed

@chartier haha ibm model m goes PTING

@george @pb @nelson I feel like I am continually cycling between 1) feeling like I'm swimming in these little cords 2) looking for one but I used them all 3) ordering another pack of them

@kusuriya @zzclaybourne Spinlaunch? Enormous trebuchet? Hypnosis and a whack to the head?

Hmm 🤔 I wonder what kind of trebuchet it would take to lob a 1993 Ford Probe into the moon?

@wolfger Hmm, yeah, spinlaunch is probably a better idea then

@ballpointcarrot I feel this

Random urge to build a cgi-bin ActivityPub monstrosity

(I think the kids would call that “serverless” these days)

@JesseSkinner just gonna go crack open Matt’s Script Archive for a refresher

@thomasfuchs Yeah that's like rocket science though, I just want to throw it really hard & fast

@lucas @mer@mastodon.nu Hmm, and I'm guessing the dust wouldn't all make it to the moon :blobsadleft:​

@lucas @mer@mastodon.nu So, I guess an advanced bonus question: What would a spinlaunch or trebuchet need to intercept the deep-space Tesla with a 1993 Ford Probe?

@jrconlin Yeah, I mean, I'm not thinking too fussily about the number of pieces in which the Ford Probe reaches its destination

Consider a spherical 1993 Ford Probe...

@Ventronik Hmm, that could be okay if we could launch in parallel

Also have another idea for a sci-fi story I'll probably never write:

Cheap hobbyist space travel is invented. Like, a reasonably fast ship made from an old Tilt-a-Whirl car running on a 9V battery ala Explorers (1985).

A thing that many people immediately do is head straight for historic objects in space to drag them back to earth for eBay auctions. Elon's Tesla, Voyager 1, Mars probes, the works.

@Ventronik Somebody would try though!

Catsby just very vocally dragged his favorite toy into my office and dropped it on my foot.

Here's a picture of what the toy looks like now, versus what it looks like when we bought it like 5 years ago.

Every time we think about throwing it away, we catch him happily carrying it around.

@dcm Well, I imagine he'd be a historical figure by the time in which this story would be set

In fact, the last time we moved house, we'd decided this grungy toy would "go missing" in the process. But then he dragged it into the pet carrier that we'd set up to convey him to the new house. So 🤷‍♂️

@Macross Oh, dang, I'm going to have to watch this now!

@emma Oh yeah, I've totally got that on a shelf behind me! It's pretty neato

@c0debabe Oof, I reference "All Summer in a Day" at least once a month (especially now living in the PNW) and almost no one knows what I'm talking about

Also this is Catsby. He’s as anxious as I am. I am very reticent to throw out his favorite toy

It's a real let-them-fight.gif kind of day over on that birdsite isn't it?

@dria Today it's Twitter vs Apple, because Apple stopped advertising I think? Oh and rumors of being dropped from the App Store.

Mainly Tesla fans posting bad phone mockups and complaining about the number 30

I just deployed a thing and a different website started throwing 500 errors.

I rolled back my deployment and that different website stopped throwing 500 errors.

I'm really hoping that was a coincidence because I have zero clue how my thing might have done that.

Imma push the button again and see what happens

@rowens Well also the fun part is that the website which broke isn't even ours 😅

Okay: whew :blobsweat:​ According to that other website's status page, they had a deployment failure just a minute or so before my deployment. So it was a coincidence.

But, I have had days where it wasn't a coincidence, so...

@Macross @hellsop

Pep Sip Ass .Com

...wait. That Oregon Trail game clone on that page still works...?

Hmm, I keep forgetting that writing posts in markdown is not a feature in mainline Mastodon.

Dang, I was really hoping I could come up with an easily copy-pasta'd pinnable post of webring links. An old school imagemap would be cool. (Do those even work any more?)

I took a break from tinkering with my fediverse-ring prototype, but it does have previous / random / next links now.

Just trying to think of a good way to use them in a pinned post, so as not to hog all the profile link slots.

Previous: https://fediverse-webring-demo.glitch.me/profiles/lmorchard_toot.lmorchard.com/index.html?previous

Random: https://fediverse-webring-demo.glitch.me/profiles/lmorchard_toot.lmorchard.com/index.html?random

Next: https://fediverse-webring-demo.glitch.me/profiles/lmorchard_toot.lmorchard.com/index.html?next

Also trying to think of a first fediverse-ring concept to launch a "real" one that folks might want to join as a beta.

Telnet BBS sysops? RSS feed enthusiasts? Friends of crows? Webring enthusiasts (meta)?

Actually maybe "fediverse fans of webrings" is a good first beta concept, just to be random 🤔

@danhon Hmm, well now I really want image map support in Mastodon

@jgarber The hot new thing with the Gopher kids these days is Gemini!

(hmm, also I should probably scrub the term "webring" from this project since the original inspiration is in fact trademarked 😅 )

@emma hmm i wonder what the danger level is for secondary explosions?