Daniel Bird

Extracting thoughts, 140 characters at a time.

[Daniel Bird @dbird]

@Durrymusic It still has a hold on me, as my daughter could attest to.

[Chris Stark @tonysmyuncle]

🤩 The real #NASAWebb is now fully unfolded! Amazing!! 👏 👏 Hopefully you can build and unfold your own #LEGO #JWST someday! @LEGOIdeas

[Daniel Bird @dbird]

@ashleydurry Indoor plants? We had a lot of fruit fly sized gnats last fall when moving plants indoors for the winter. The yellow sticky traps worked to eventually catch them all.

[Daniel Bird @dbird]

@Iceman4264 I’m guesing that’s a Blue Jay. They have a distinct call. There’s a great app from @MerlinBirdID that’ll ID birds from sound. Blue Jay was also its guess for your video.

[Daniel Bird @dbird]

@Durrymusic Must be a phone thing. It worked right away from a computer. I’ve got it saved now!

[Daniel Bird @dbird]

@Durrymusic When I try to pre-save from the link to Apple Music, it says the item isn’t available. Any idea what’s up with that?

[Daniel Bird @dbird]

@Durrymusic Some recent favorites: @AsgeirMusic, @siliconeboone, and @johnmarkmc

[rands @rands]

You deserve a starship break today: https://t.co/6HiDB4YAUy

[Daniel Bird @dbird]

@Iceman4264 Like a lot of things in computing it’s a holdover from previous eras. I occasionally use it when working on documents that are formatted with all caps, but that‘s not often. macOS, and maybe Windows, let it be disabled or remapped, which I’ve done on my personal computers.

[Daniel Bird @dbird]

@Durrymusic 👍🏼 I’m always in need of some happy sad vibes.

[Daniel Bird @dbird]

@Durrymusic Inverted feels more natural to me. It only really sucked at LAN parties: trying to swap out with the other inverted players because otherwise you’d put the whole group on hold switching the settings every round.

[Daniel Bird @dbird]

@Durrymusic @Iceman4264 With great power comes great responsibility, to clean up after yourself.

[Daniel Bird @dbird]

@Iceman4264 @ashleydurry @Durrymusic Whoa, I had to do a double take

[Daniel Bird @dbird]

@GingerIsOurWord @Durrymusic 𝘖𝘭𝘥-𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦, “Back in my day I paid three times as much for half the space.” Suriously though, I recently upgraded a friend’s laptop with a $20 128 GB SSD. It’s amazing what that, a fresh OS install, and some compressed air will do.

[Daniel Bird @dbird]

@GingerIsOurWord @Durrymusic 👍🏼 Cleaning make a huge difference, especially with cats around. Also, if it has an old HD, you should look at swapping in a SSD. They can make an older computer fly and are super cheap now.

[Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬 @lymanstoneky]

So as y'all know I do a bunch of work on historic American religious statistics.

Here's a (still work-in-progress) graph of what share of Americans have been members of any religious community, back to 1700.

[Al Yankovic @alyankovic]

Sure, the Grammys and platinum albums are nice and all, but now I know I’ve finally made it: they just re-named the alley next to the Darwin, MN Twine Ball.

[Tom Forsyth (TODO: fix my heart or die) @tom_forsyth]

Handy dating tip for this Valentine's Day:

2019-02-14

It's unambiguous, it sorts properly, and it's the ISO 8601 standard for a very good reason.

[Daniel Bird @dbird]

Friday night be like #MK8D #NintendoSwitch

[Cameron Moll @cameronmoll]

I know of only one way to successfully ship products, and that is to ship imperfect products.