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Rich Lafferty
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Disaster prevention chihuahua. Reliability at PagerDuty. Living on unceded land in Punamue'katikt, Mi'kma'ki (Dartmouth, NS). May all beings be free from suffering. He/him.

also hachyderm.io/@mendel.
formerly @mendel on twitter.

www.lafferty.ca
will do!
November 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
November 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
definitely octopuses, although i feel like i've infodumped less about octopuses to my current coworkers than to previous ones
November 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
it's true, you can't! the olympic trials are basically run the same way as the Brier, just different stakes!

And yeah, volunteering gets you free admittance to all draws provided there's free seats available. I took US thanksgiving/BF off so I'll definitely get some free watching in!
November 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
bartending, barbacking, bussing, whatever they tell me to do :)
November 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
alternatively you might enjoy spin workouts (eg. Peloton) before moving onto longer cycling-training oriented rides, or alongside them
November 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
i had a similar situation! i tried zwift, it was fun, moved to The Sufferfest when they were a little indie company which was great but also the workouts killed me. not sure how they are post-acquisition (by Wahoo) but had real race footage with climbs etc (cont)
November 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
"You guys get sidewalks?"
November 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM
i've heard this called a "faster horse", as in what people thought they wanted before the Model T
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
oh yeah i was trying to figure out when that went away but to no avail.
November 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Reposted by Rich Lafferty
In Canada, we learned about computers from Bits and Bytes youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Bits and Bytes: Complete Episodes (1983) - YouTube
This is the complete set of episodes from the original 1983 TVOntario series, Bits and Bytes. As this series is no longer available for sale, it has been mad...
youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:39 AM
not the one in the still there but Asham was apparently one of the last to still offer a bent broom handle even after they were disallowed in competitive curling

web.archive.org/web/20150905...
Asham Product Innovation! Revolutionising the Curling Shoe - Asham
Read about how Asham is revolutionising the Curling Shoe. Our reaserch & development team is hard at work, watch out for our patented technology.
web.archive.org
November 22, 2025 at 2:49 AM
there's a link on queenseagle.com/support-loca... ("Contribute Any Amount") which links to a one-time PayPal donation page!
SUPPORT LOCAL NEWS — Queens Daily Eagle
queenseagle.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:34 AM
"that the U.S.-based Food and Drug Administration defines holding live lobsters as a form of processing"

at the end of this article i hope they become a sovereign citizen
November 22, 2025 at 2:13 AM
WHYNACHTS COVE COMMUNITY AGGRIEVED NEIGHBOURS omg
November 22, 2025 at 2:12 AM
slowly, slowly, learning what "as-of-right" means and what her own neighbourhood is zoned as
November 22, 2025 at 2:11 AM
SELL them some snacks!
November 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM