@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-07-01 01:35:52
(Did you know that in the original stage version of The Sound of Music, the thing that finally breaks Captain von Trapp’s engagement to the baroness isn’t the vague, wishy-washy “noble unstated feelings” scene that’s in the movie (and which never worked in my view, despite the actors giving it their all); it’s that the baroness tries to convince him to go along with the Nazis because there’s nothing he can do, and he decides he can’t marry a woman with no convictions. They cut the song from the film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Way_to_Stop_It)
@pre@boing.world2025-05-31 12:24:33
On the 10th of December 2024 at about 4pm in the afternoon I had a sudden shivering attack. The room wasn't cold, but I was, so I took to bed and shivered on the electric blanket until I napped for a few hours.
Woke up groggy, and never got better. Feeling light headed and occasionally dizzy and half stoned all the time. Can't handle booze or dope at all any more. Doing the job feels like trying to program drunk, concentration shot and short term memory failing.
Various doctors have ordered batteries of tests and put me on drugs to reduce my blood pressure but nothing that's really helped.
They did an MRI last week. Apparently everything looks normal which is good I guess, but still leaves symptoms unexplained.
There are worse fates than feeling half drunk all the time I suppose.
Given no visible brain damage, about the best suggestion anyone has is to stay off booze and drugs (which is easy, since I can't handle them any more) and get back to meditation. If it's damage so small the MRI can't pick it up it'll get better slowly probably. 🤷
Anyway, they gave me the MRI data upon request, so I spent most of yesterday importing it into Blender and making some visualization.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present: My apparently completely normal brain in an MRI selfie.
#blender #mri #selfie
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2025-06-02 04:53:22
Last night I dreamed that the great computer scientist, Niklaus Wirth, had died by suicide because he was convinced his intellect was failing, because a simple financial calculation was failing, because he'd caught an exception and just returned zero instead of handling it, because he'd written sketch code and meant to come back and deal with it later but had not done so.
Which is almost certainly all arrant nonsense, but what a BIZARRE thing to dream about.
@aardrian@toot.cafe2025-06-30 12:40:06
I have taken to looking for Copilot AI in GitHub responses before filing issues. If it’s there, I don’t file. Feeling a bit validated here:
https://hails.org/@hailey/114752144098708214
(limited alt to come, but if you want more ask OP…)
@cheryanne@aus.social2025-05-31 21:59:08
Flowing Loops
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2025-05-31 18:33:47
The Soviet way with words 😂
(from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko)
@grumpybozo@toad.social2025-06-30 15:23:47
It’s roughly what we spent on our wedding (the 2nd for both of us), which was basically that in 1999. Less than a dozen F&F in attendance.
It’s not even much less than was spent on my first wedding in ’87, but that’s a lot of inflation ago. We got the space for free because we both worked at the site and the reception was just cake and coffee.
@muz4now@mastodon.world2025-07-01 19:33:35
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-06-30 14:15:47
The F1 movie gives Apple its first box office hit, opening to $144M worldwide and $55.6M in the US; it was pushed on Apple Music, Podcasts, Fitness , and Wallet (Anthony D'Alessandro/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/box-office-f1-megan-2-0-1236444277/
@cdarwin@c.im2025-05-31 17:39:19
The Trump administration deported a 31-year-old Salvadoran man minutes after a federal appeals court barred his removal while his case proceeded, the government admitted in a court filing this week.
In its filing, the government denied that it had violated the order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York, instead blaming “a confluence of administrative errors.”
The government had previously given the court what the judges called “express assurance” that…
