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• Post #4145485

  now I gotta go put this up in the woods somewhere

• Post #3872571

  Opening Friday at the Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls, SD: My show "Desperate Remedy/Little Ones"! These artworks consider the quest for the neutrino, a subatomic particle whizzing through us all constantly. Pictured: "Little Ones," an interactive installation that lets you embody one of these tiny particles yourself. We're doing an opening reception 5–8PM, with a brief talk at 7PM. Cheers!

• Post #3661637

  hmm... how far to go for a silly joke

• Post #2500962

  A sign for all time from a spa near us [Insert wombat joke here]

• Post #1600115

  I would argue that if a dialog box does not express an intent or modality of the user--such as an interruptive dialog that bursts into your reading experience with a promotion--it is not a modal, but a fauxdal

• Post #1600112

  lol is this anything This is just to despair I have looked upon your works that were in the desert in which your shattered visage lies half-sunk Forgive me nothing remains beside your sneer so commanding so cold

• Post #1600109

  I liked today's poem from Poetry 180: After every war someone has to clean up. Things won't straighten themselves up, after all. [continued...] https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-and-literature/poet-laureate/poet-laureate-projects/poetry-180/all-poems/item/poetry-180-141/the-end-and-the-beginning/?loclr=ea180

• Post #1600108

  dang, this hits me right in the "Miniature Books" section of the heart Photos from https://www.ebay.com/itm/374976865333

• Post #1600107

  Gypsum, the brassica of materials Drywall? Gypsum Plaster? Gypsum Gesso? Gypsum* Spackle? Gypsum Sidewalk chalk? Gypsum Chalkboard? Gypsum Alabaster? Gypsum Mortar? Gypsum* *sometimes

• Post #1600106

  DC: Doing an artists' talk tonight (April 16) at 7PM-- three of us from Otis Street Arts Project will be speaking about our group show at the Washington Studio School in Dupont Circle: https://www.washingtonstudioschool.org/events/4-16-third-thursday-artist-talk-in-reflection-of-gleaners

• Post #814567

  starting to wonder if systemd is the Google Play Store of linux? monolithic, does way too much, operating with elevated permissions, ends up imposing policy on the system instead of the other way around

• Post #602516

  RE: https://mastodon.art/@combs/115940867749125400 lol I think I flew too close to the sun by parodizing a sloperator on here... feels like I caught some mutes. oh well!

• Post #602515

  Really excited to attend the Bosch Parade this June. A multi-day aquatic parade in his .nl hometown of Garden of Earthly Delights floats w/ performers. Any of y'all been? https://boschparade.nl/

• Post #602514

  bought something on eBay with the idea of avoiding Crazy Jeff's Discount Warehouse. It has "VDTrack" as the shipper and is arriving very quickly. Turns out you can "convert your tracking number" from Amazon to VDTrack for a mere $0.05 per package. Presumably the shipper has done so. Markets in everything...

• Post #602513

  morale is mandatory https://chriscombs.net/2020/04/01/morale-is-mandatory/ https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/884911/burger-king-ai-assistant-patty

• Post #602512

  the most precious resource in every computing environment is the same: user input. buy high-quality switches; set input handlers early; and for the love of god check whether a field is empty before you initialize it with a default value

• Post #602511

  I mean, they do say the single biggest remnant from the Anthropocene will be concrete

• Post #602510

  wow, as someone who's been using Thunderbird for a few weeks—being greeted by a massive full-screen donation plea inside my email client for the $1.4B Mozilla Foundation is REALLY off-putting

• Post #529685

  "tongue": cursed "tounge": blursed "tung": blessed... optimal. efficient. sublime. it will win over the next 250 years