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oglaf_comic_feed

https://www.oglaf.com/beetroot/

apod_feed

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260411.html

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dw_maintenance

I keep forgetting to post about this: we've been troubleshooting the "missing notifications" problem for the past few days. (Well, I say "we", really I mean Mark and Robby; I'm just the amanuensis.) It's been one of those annoying loops of "find a logical explanation for what could be causing the problem, fix that thing, observe that the problem gets better for some people but doesn't go away completely, go back to step one and start again", sigh.

Mark is hauling out the heavy debugging ordinance to try to find the root cause. Once he's done building all the extra logging tools he needs, he'll comment to this entry. After he does, if you find a comment that should have gone to your inbox and sent an email notification but didn't, leave him a link to the comment that should have sent the notification, as long as the comment itself was made after Mark says he's collecting them. (I'd wait and post this after he gets the debug code in but I need to go to sleep and he's not sure how long it will take!)

We're sorry about the hassle! Irregular/sporadic issues like this are really hard to troubleshoot because it's impossible to know if they're fixed or if they're just not happening while you're looking. With luck, this will give us enough information to figure out the root cause for real this time.

which_chick

There are 22 squares. I'm not going to get two done this week, but I do have three new balls of mostly-white yarn done up for knitting. So, that's progress.

I also split a bunch of wood and stacked it today. I do my firewood in the spring because my dad likes to play firewood in the all and I don't like battling him for the splitter. So, springtime firewood for the win. I had my chainsaw guy drop two trees (already dead) this year and slice 'em up, but they still need fetched out of the woods and split. There's a ton of work to do -- neither one was a small tree -- but I can work it off a little at a time. Not sure I have enough space to put it all in the ordinary stack, there may have to be some overflow stacking.

apod_feed

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260410.html

Some 60 million light-years away in the southerly

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260410.html

xkcd_feed

https://xkcd.com/3231/

Maybe you should wear one too? I guess I'm taller than you, so as long as I have one we're fine.

https://xkcd.com/3231/

which_chick

There's a patch of grape hyacinth growing in the yard of one of my apartment buildings. I've let it go for a few years and it's... increasing its territory without permission, a Putin move, a Bibi move.

This wouldn't be a problem except that it is pretty thick and pretty aggressive and it's slick as hell when you mow it. It also kills off the grass where it invades by choking it out. The section of grape hyacinth is on a hill, because of course it is. That's fun when operating a mower. *sigh* I can't just live with it.

( Just poison it? )

apod_feed

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260409.html

apod_feed

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Comet R3 is brightening rapidly -- will it survive?

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

apod_feed

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260408.html

xkcd_feed

https://xkcd.com/3230/

I think I accidentally installed an Overton window in my bedroom. A few months ago, the sun wasn't in my face in the morning, but now it is.

https://xkcd.com/3230/

apod_feed

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260407.html

Do you see the horse's head?

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260407.html

apod_feed

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260406.html

Why doesn't Artemis II land on the Moon?

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260406.html

xkcd_feed

https://xkcd.com/3229/

Communication is one of the most popular ways to transmit information, ahead of rivals such as

https://xkcd.com/3229/

apod_feed

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260405.html

The party is still going on in spiral galaxy NGC 3310.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260405.html

which_chick

I'm watching... Prodigal Son, Netflix. It's the pilot episode because of course you start at the beginning.

Dude is filling a syringe.

( What's wrong with this picture? )