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· 4 Shevat 5777 (Tuesday 31 January 2017) · 1 minute to read

God fucking damn it, indeed. I’m calling this Tuesday’s internet win. This is from Twitter, and the optical character recognition of this is too long for a tweet, so I’m posting it here.

Washington DC
Funny getting hit by a car story: The paramedic
asked me a series of questions to determine
whether I was all there. The last question was
“Who is the President of the United States?” my
response was literally “God fucking damnit” and
the paramedic laughed and said that was an
acceptable answer.
1/29/17, 8:03 AM
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Source.

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· 1 Shevat 5777 (Saturday 28 January 2017) · 1 minute to read

Testing a micropub endpoint without a photo. #indieweb

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· 17 Tevet 5777 (Sunday 15 January 2017) · 1 minute to read

Trump on Inauguration Day:

Alexa, play some music.

Alexa: “Nope.”
— Dave Pell (@davepell) January 13, 2017

This won’t happen, but it definitely should.

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· 7 Tevet 5777 (Thursday 5 January 2017) · 1 minute to read

Today the high was 60F, (15.6C), and there will be snow showers, at least according to the current weather forecast:

Saturday
Snow during the morning will give way to lingering snow showers during the afternoon. Some sleet may mix in. Temps nearly steady in the mid to upper 30s. Winds N at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of snow 70%. Snowfall around one inch.
Saturday Night
A mostly clear sky. Low near 25F. Winds N at 5 to 10 mph.

If there’s enough snow/sleet, (in other words, more than just sprinking), I’ll be sure to provide some audio to contrast with Monday’s torrential downpour. We’re only supposed to get an inch, (which isn’t really a big deal), and it’ll stick around long enough to freeze and become icy slush over Saturday night. Also there will be raids on the stores tomorrow. Yay southern living!

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· 5 Tevet 5777 (Tuesday 3 January 2017) · 1 minute to read

(3 minutes 39 seconds)

OMG the rain!

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· 4 Tevet 5777 (Monday 2 January 2017) · 1 minute to read

I’m starting a new book challenge for this year. I think they’re a nice diversion and they allow for a little friendly competition. This year I’ve set it to fifty-two books so I average about one book a week. I’d also like to write more reviews, except I likely won’t do it on Goodreads. I’d like to have the book covers as the featured image (thumbnail) for each book so that when I syndicate things to Twitter and Facebook there are pictures to go with the content. I’ll do this manually for now until I find out how much of a nightmare Goodreads API permissions are. You apparently can’t scrape their feeds, although they exist. I was highly disappointed when I found this out, because it would have been the easiest way to retrieve data. Oh well.

Update: You can, apparently, scrape the feed, but only sort of, because you don’t get complete control of the data that comes across.