@ai6yr Oh my.

this banana bread has secret walnuts in it

Oh no! Carmen Sandiego stole a third of the Internet!

DEGRADED CONTROL ROD DRIVE MECHANISM PENETRATION
Braidwood (IL), 10/10/2025
"At 0230 CDT, on October 10, 2025, it was determined that the control rod drive mechanism (CRDM) penetration '69' was degraded because liquid penetrant testing performed on the embedded flaw repair weld identified an […]

Got better for a bit, but still timing out more than not.

@ai6yr Basically, they're hoping to get 20 years out of everyone that makes it through training before they hit mandatory retirement at age 56. Training at the FAA Academy is several months, and then once assigned to an ATC facility it takes a few more years to finish training and certification […]

On the shelf above my workbench, on top of my bench multimeter, in view the whole time

where did i put my kapton tape

@heigit did a great comparison of OSM land use data with an external dataset. But I have a gripe with how they present OSM as the inferior dataset. I blogged about it at https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/tordans/diary/407524

Still broken. Guess I'm going to have to deal with their support.

This is the slipperiest phone case I've ever had

This phone is too big.

Why is orientation lock not an available option for the action button. I should not have to make a Shortcut for this.

iOS 26 is just as ugly and annoying as expected. Reduce transparency helps make it usable, but uglier.

I am now 1 for 2 for working NH state payphones.

This one at a park-and-ride went clunk when I dialed the test number, but had no sound/dialtone and didn't show up in the log.

Y'think it's worth reporting to *checks notes* "Inmate Calling Solutions"?

Jammed my finger in a railing and dropped a frozen container on my foot all in the space of about 10 minutes.

Ow.

Of course Comcast can't even run an IMAP server properly

I love how Twitch ads know what's in my Amazon cart (on an account that isn't connected, and after opting out of personalized ads), but have no idea what language I speak.

Not.

Got Flu and Covid vaccines yesterday at Shaw's in New Hampshire -- no issues, no hassle about eligibility.

Doctor's offices: Why do you even take a "preferred" name if you're going to put my deadname in all communications including your schedule? I don't ever want to say it or hear it. More than that, I don't want an associate seeing it over my shoulder in an email. I shouldn't have to leave the […]

@sillyCoelophysis I've given up correcting my doctor. My dental hygienist seems to have figured it out. Not even a trans thing, I've had this preferred name forever. Some people just don't care, and the systems around them don't make it so they don't have to care.

Thanks, YouTube, for the "Are you still watching?" prompt 18 seconds into the video.

My attention span isn't *that* short.

dear academics:

i am begging you to have a website with basic biographical information on it

it makes it so much easier to correct wikidata when your name/gender changes

in the bottom of a suitcase that i've had out since January