Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
© 1984 - 2024 Adrian Tritschler
QOTD: "severe physical cable damage due to incautious roadworks" — Some things just can't be fixed in software
Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
© 1984 - 2024 Adrian Tritschler
QOTD: "What's hotmail?" – 16yo query as spouse & I discuss the professionalism shown by an official communication coming from a hotmail address
QOTD: re. "National Harmony Day"
In 2000 the Federal Government rebranded the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination as ‘National Harmony Day’ in an effort that many felt was trying to pretend that Australia has already eliminated racial discrimination and can therefore just celebrate ‘living in harmony’ instead of doing the work to eliminate racism. – indigenousXQOTD: "Can't wait till ‘curl | sudo bash‘ gets replaced with ‘chatgpt | sudo bash‘"
QOTD: Surveillance is not security. Surveillance is not safety
via The Crux, #72, https://pivotnine.com/newsletter/qotd: Excellent
The word “excellent” is derived from the Christian practice of giving up the use of Microsoft Excel for 40 days to commemorate Christ’s sacrifice. It is a period of great productivity. The date of lent is calculated by using an obscure Excel macro on a field that didn’t originally have anything to do with dates, but Excel converted it to one anyway.QOTD: "we'll be differing our change this evening, due to resourcing needing to pivot to other work that has come up, so will set this up for another window"
QOTD: Immerse yourself in the latest emerging wellbeing trends
QOTD: Vellums and parchments will survive another 1,000 years. We should save the ephemeral before it is lost
https://www.wired.com/story/my-fathers-death-in-7-gigabytes-internet-archive/QOTD – "I have started a 60 minute test. It will take a couple of hours to complete"
"All or some of these files are already exists" – professionally written software ftw
QOTD: "What's your wet weather clothing like?" "Same as my dry weather clothes, but more wet." @TheRicMan @elyobo
QOTD: "At 10:30am on 10-Sep-1942 waves of American B52's bombed…" SBS (B52 came out in 1952)
QOTD: It's going to take some time before I get used to seeing the words "King Charles" not immediately followed by "spaniel"
The information regarding … accounts migration to using … accounts would have been waterfalled by now
Really, waterfalled is now a bureacraptic verb?#QOTD No context overheard sentence fragments – I DON'T LIKE PANDAS
#QOTD "Ride as much or as little, as long or as short as you feel. But ride." ~Eddy Merckx
#QOTD: Have you tried turning it off and never turning it back on again?
Tomorrow was Thursday
An accidental statement from Cam, but a good name for a book"If you finds any dates of data missing once data is back to one day prior to current date as normal" #gibberish
twitter quote re. RUOK
“r u ok?” idk mate the planet’s on fire, there’s a plague ravaging the population and both the government and opposition are 100% on board with doing sweet fa about it. not feeling great if I’m being honest.QOTD "If this sounds crazy to you, it is because you are not Dutch."
QOTD: "When cooking wild mushrooms, Dr Lebel says, “leave half for the coroner”."
English language
“English is like a goblin roaming around the world with a sack, finding words it likes in other languages, bashing them on the head and mangling them a bit and stuffing them in the sack”Cam quote
Sometimes when I wake up my brain is confused and I get money and time mixed up and think there’s 60 cents in a dollar
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Bike Lane, noun. An optional strip of poorly maintained tarmac between the highway and the verge suitable for: 1. the storage of debris (especially sand, broken glass and organic matter) 2. overflow parking 3. testing of pothole designs 4. experimentation with unusually rough road surfaces. Definition (C) Copyright VicRoads 1989 - 2010.
QOTD - Thank you for holding
Your call is very important to us. So important, in fact, we’ll continue to keep you on hold so that by the time you reach a real person your mood will have become as foul and black as satan’s stool sample.
Cribbed from http://theoatmeal.com/comics/customer_service
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That loud 'Whhhooooooosh' sound was the clue-plane going past $WORKPLACE.
The silence that followed was the sound of clues not arriving.
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“My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel.”
Sheik Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum
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Welcome to Hulas2, decalcification necessary
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CNA and CNE: Certainly No Experience and Can’t Network Anything.
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Smart people will usually be at the alienated right extreme of the bell curve, praised for being smart but not actually listened to.
Cycling QOTD
…and I use bike lanes just like cars do: When its convenient.
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Do not confuse concubine with porcupine.
Just a statement that came up at dinner time this evening.
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Quote from a conversation in the car:
That’d be either the Hairy Nosed Wombat, wombatus hirsutus, or the Combat Wombat, errr, the Common Wombat.
…oddly, there is a Melbourne band called Combat Wombat. Maybe not so odd after all, it does roll off the tongue quite well.
About
ajft looking stylish and black
…The Owner
There’s not much more I can add to who I am.
…The Site
Vanity site? Technology experiment? Learning tool? Blog? Journal? Diary? Photo album? I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you…
I experiment. I play. I write and I take pictures. Some of the site is organised around topics, other parts are organized by date, then there’s always the cross-references between them.
Its all been here a fairly long time. Like the papers on my desk, or the books on the bedside table, the pile just grew… and it all grew without much plan or structure. I try not to break URLs, so historical oddities abound.
Long ago it started as a learning experiment with a few static HTML pages, then I added a bit of server-side includes and some very ugly PHP. A hand-built journal/blog on top of that PHP, then a few experiments in moving to various static publishing systems. I’ve never wanted a database-based blogging engine, so over the years I’ve tried PHP, nanoblogger, emacs-muse, silkpage and docbook before settling on Emacs Org mode for writing and jekyll for publishing. But the itch remained… I never really liked jekyll and the ruby underneath always seemed so much black magic. So now the latest incarnation is Org mode and hugo.
…The ISP
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