Tootfinder

It's called "with age" #Wordle
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I mean... not very well... But sure. #Wordle
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Sky Sports faces a major editorial dilemma covering Premier League matches after a commission found Manchester City guilty of cheating between 2009 and 2018 (Tim Spiers/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7683939/2

Sky Sports, Manchester City and 830 million reasons to feel awkward
The Premier League's main domestic broadcaster is in an invidious position when reporting on the City financial scandal

I hate sharpening. I managed to sharpen 3 chisels and my plane iron in about 6 hours.
I need a better way to do this. I have water stones (220/800 and 4000/8000). They are messy, need constant flattening, and the edges of the wider blades take forever.
How does everyone else do this?
#woodworking

What I didn't have when playing this game. #Wordle
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All 5 legs assembled, planed, and cut to length.
#woodworking

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are set to launch an investigation into the decision to criminally charge David Hearn and others over the Reflecting Pool fiasco.
Although Democrats are in the minority, their probe offers a blueprint for what they’ll pursue with subpoena power if they control the House in six months.
This week, Representative Jamie Raskin—the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee and potentially its future chair—will formally demand that the Justic…

Trump’s Reflecting Pool Fiasco Is About to Get Even Worse for Him
The David Hearn affair isn’t over. Far from it. Jamie Raskin is launching an investigation, and Hearn’s legal team will pursue remedies.

I was pretty confident in guess 5. Missed it by THAT much... #Wordle
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That's not very nice, #Wordle. Might be true, but....
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That would be my new kitten, brb
#Wordle
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Roger Craig's path from kickball to Hall of Fame, with a lifelong teammate along for the ride https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7497773/2026/08/07/roger-craig-49ers-hall-of-fame-jamie-williams/

Whooo hooo! #Wordle in 3!
The second starter word really brought it. I only had two options for the third guess and picked correctly.
Wordle 1 851 3/6
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Mark Zuckerberg criticizes "closed" AI model makers, says AI labs are espousing a "discourse ... so filled with doom", and defends distillation as a principle (Jamie John/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/4e3957f8-ea7c-4c46-a3de-cdce8e526878

It was a real pleasure and privilege to be invited onto Jamie Lidell’s wonderful podcast, *Hanging Out With Audiophiles*.
Big thanks to @… for surprising me with the introduction - and for his impeccable subsequent editing (including magically dealing with my tendency to stare out of the window and thus not talk into my very directional mic.)
Mr. …

I'm sorry, what? #Wordle
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This is by far the strangest #Wordle I have ever played. All the letters but every single one wrong until everything was right.
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Good neighbors and all that. #Wordle
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Soccer player Jamie Vardy's YouTube channel, owned and produced by Banijay, will broadcast seven of Germany's Bundesliga games live during the 2026-2027 season (Sebastian Stafford-Bloor/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7537221/2026…

Jamie Vardy’s YouTube channel to broadcast Bundesliga matches in UK and Ireland
The striker's YouTube channel, “Jamie Vardy’s Having a Party", will broadcast seven Bundesliga games live this season.

Leg 4 of 5 will be done in about 30 mins. It used every last drop of my wood glue. So, leg 5 will have to wait until the weekend. I have two more bottles coming tomorrow.
#woodworking

Yeah, it was a little bit. Especially with the power out. #Wordle
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With so many critical letters ruled out, this was all I could make. #Wordle
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I had the second and fourth letter backwards and was thinking "what a rare thing these days" only to realize they were flipped and suddenly "yeah, that tracks". #Wordle
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My new text auto response:
Sorry, I have missed your text. I am currently receiving hourly text messages from all 50 states from campaigns I have never heard of. I will be able to receive new messages around the third week of November. Regards.
😁
#uspol
#textspam…

Guess 4 was stupid since at least two of the yellow letters were in the same place. #Wordle
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Yeah. Let's hope not. #Wordle
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That's a bad noise...
Wordle 1 877 4/6
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I remember it now. The joys of running early Linux systems.
#linux
#redhat
#compiling

Leg 3 of 5 complete.
All these legs need some filling of cracks and a couple of passes through the planer to get all the sides flat.
#woodworking
#wip

What I need to do the morning after a holiday weekend. #Wordle
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Lol

That's enough shit-talk, #Wordle.
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The truth is out there.
#Wordle
#XFiles
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I saw this one pretty clearly. #Wordle
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I fell for it. #Wordle
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That would explain why I'm stumbling around in the dark. #Wordle
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Very popular among a certain genre of computer. #Wordle
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Got my digitizer setup on my 486 and it's working in Microstation. Lot of nostalgia for this particular config.
#retrocomputing
#microstation
#cad

The ballpark is having their throwback Thursday night and the decade they are focusing on is....the 2020's
I'm not sure how to respond to that. It feels like a decade since 2020, but I'm still stuck in them...

Tonight's #baseball game is Stripers vs Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp.
Hot dog acquired.
#milb
#GWNvsJAX

Played the only word I could see, which was obviously incorrect. But, it got me straight to the correct answer on the next guess. #Wordle
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No thank you. It's not my thing, #Wordle.
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Very round about way to get the letters for this one. #Wordle
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I like a good hypothesis. #Wordle
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It not THAT bad. #Wordle
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By the time I saw the cliff, it was too late. #Wordle
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Not a bad X11 window manager... #Wordle
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Oh, yeah. I have a bunch of these...
#Wordle
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Barely escaped on that one. #Wordle
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I usually do, #Wordle.
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I think the obvious question is HOW DID IT GET TO GREENSBORO?!?
Atlanta is sprawling, but it's not that big (yet).

That's a funny old word. Don't hear it much these days. #Wordle
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Tonight's #baseball is Stripers vs Charlotte Knights.
Hot dog acquired.
#milb
#GWNvsCLT

People always did say I was a straight edge. #Wordle
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#Wordle has gone all crime and punishment on us...
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Finally found a way to beat those guys in Oct. Go Braves!
#mlb
#postseason
#PHIvsATL

What I am not #Wordle
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I never finish enough to be able to do this. #Wordle
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My favorite of the CoC mailing lists. #Wordle
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That one just came to me. #Wordle
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Whooo hooo! #Wordle in 3!
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I feel like I could have done better with the amount of data I had. #Wordle
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Off to #VCFSE. I'm skipping work and my son and I are headed over. Should be fun.

I liked snorkeling. #Wordle
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I did not know those two words were anagrams. #Wordle
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Just squeaked by on that one. #Wordle
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I tried to fall down a cliff that wasn't even there. #Wordle
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It's (table) leg day today. #woodworking

Yes, I do have some. Let's hope we aren't planning to spill any of it. #Wordle
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All the way open if memory recalls. #Wordle
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This word looked too easy based on the letters I had. #Wordle
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Hey! I have one of those! #Wordle
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Whooo hooo! #Wordle in 3!
"Give me a ping, Vasili. One ping only please."
Wordle 1 865 3/6
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Not a lot of help from the starter words today. Don't remember giving them the day off... #Wordle
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I figured NY Times would never allow guess 4, but it got me the letter positions I needed. #Wordle
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That's a little harsh for a Monday morning. Don't you think, #Wordle?
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I watch enough British murder mysteries to know this word. #Wordle
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I think I vaguely know what this is.
#Wordle
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Not one of my favorites, #Wordle...
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Really lucky guess. #Wordle
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I'm not a particular fan of Dolly Parton's music, but I have family in TN that worked with her. She did a lot of good for the people and specifically the children of TN. Just a really good person. She'll be missed.
RIP Dolly.

Something I spend most of my day doing. #Wordle
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Finally got Zork working for my wife on my IBM 5150. Now she can waste away her hours playing it the way it was intended.
#retrocomputing

Had two possibles and chose poorly. #Wordle
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To you as well... #Wordle
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This is an unusual path to that answer. Guess 4 was burned to get some letter positions but it gave me different letters then I was expecting.
#Wordle
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Whooo hoooooo! #Wordle in 3!
Wordle 1 921 3/6
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Didn't finish yesterday's but today's wasn't too bad. #Wordle
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Not my favorite of times.
#Wordle
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Couldn't figure out where the last letter belonged. #Wordle
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How very British of you.... #Wordle
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Tonight's #baseball is Stripers vs Durham Bulls. It's Chopper's (the mascot) birthday. He's 18. I hope to find out which college he'll be going to. 😁
Hot dog acquired.
#milb

Eh, not really into seafood.
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I thought we were going to have high tea, but no luck. #Wordle
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Went for a wordle in 3 but not quite. #Wordle
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My friend now we are in business...
This IBM PS/2 Model 30 286 has been giving me fits. Specifically, the floppy drive.
* I broke the head off the original trying to clean it
* The replacement is for a different PS/2 model.
* The floppy adapter to allow "normal" PC drives didn't work
* I swapped the non-standard floppy cable
* It would read only 720K disks
* Found someone online with exactly the same issue. These machines need specific mod…

The last #baseball game of the season for us. We did get to see our (well, my) name in lights 😁
Tonight is Stripers vs Indianapolis Indians.
Hot dog(s) acquired (and eaten).
#Milb

I prefer not too. At least very early. #Wordle
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Guess 4 was great...except for the part where I left out a letter 🤦🏽‍♂️
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Tonight's #baseball game is Stripers vs Louisville Bats. Let's hope they don't hit my son again.
Hot dog acquired
#milb
#GWNvsLOU