Dr. Drang

I just said what I said, and it was wrong
Or was taken wrong
And now it's all this

Home: https://leancrew.com
Former Mastodon: https://mastodon.cloud/@drdrang
Usual Location: Naperville, IL USA

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Last Notes

2026-02-11 14:20:19 UTC

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Given that El Paso just reopened—9½ days early—I’m thinking the closure was a mistake.

2026-02-11 14:05:44 UTC

Is there a parallel story I’ve missed? One about shutting down border crossings at El Paso/Juarez?

2026-01-01 16:46:42 UTC

Yesterday may seem like a pretty bad day for fans of Big Ten football. But can a day truly be bad when both Michigan and Ohio State lose?

2025-12-17 14:47:15 UTC

A watched progress bar never lengthens.

2025-10-01 01:21:42 UTC

☃️ A post I was supposed to write after the 2023 season
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2025/09/baseball-durations-after-the-pitch-clock/

2025-06-09 19:01:26 UTC

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I would think so. I’ve been disabling the translucent menu bar since it came out.

2025-06-09 18:44:51 UTC

Sometimes catching up with Mastodon is like rewinding my own thoughts.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/654/883/942/153/313/original/465fda60da58dfa6.png

2025-04-22 21:24:25 UTC

Why is OpenAI even at the Google trial?

2025-03-07 23:23:54 UTC

Think of what Siri is like now, then imagine how bad the “personaized” version must be for Apple to hold back its release.

2025-03-05 19:15:32 UTC

Yes, I’m 12 years old.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/111/422/880/154/167/original/27c615a5299c449e.png

2025-02-05 22:35:54 UTC

No matter how many times reporters refer to it, there is no Department of Government Efficiency.

2025-02-04 23:02:17 UTC

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I go out for a walk to clear my head and return to learn what monsters you people are.

2025-02-04 20:10:27 UTC

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You don’t want to hear my thoughts on “compute” and “spend.”

2025-02-04 16:45:18 UTC

I won’t be using Apple’s new app because I don’t accept “invite” as a noun.

2025-01-15 16:00:57 UTC

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Apparently, I’m not missing anything. There really isn’t a while loop in Shortcuts. My options are:
1. Use a Repeat loop with an artificially high count and stop the shortcut when a condition is met. Ugly.
2. Use recursion, which is fine but pretty computer sciencey for a language that’s meant to be for the masses.
My distain for Shortcuts grows deeper.

2025-01-15 13:31:39 UTC

I want to make a Shortcut with a while loop, but I can’t find an action that repeats until a condition is met. What am I missing?

2024-12-09 23:04:27 UTC

With no irony, this says the eastern white pine was “once in unlimited supply.”
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/625/364/309/467/060/original/795ba2939c97c748.jpeg

2024-11-25 18:11:17 UTC

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The purpose of a tariff is to make domestic goods price-competitive with foreign goods. If the tariff doesn’t raise the price of foreign goods, it isn’t doing its job.

2024-11-14 00:54:26 UTC

My favorite Bill Atkinson story. I wish him all the best.
https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html?sort=date

2024-11-06 04:35:21 UTC

Me, in early 2020:
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2020/02/autocracy/
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/434/146/910/759/336/original/968607ac1865913d.jpeg

2024-10-11 17:30:28 UTC

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Got it. You mean real links, not just URLs turned blue. I will say that most (all?) Mastodon apps show a preview of the linked page at the bottom of the post, which does make up, to some extent, for the lack of anchor text.

2024-10-11 16:41:10 UTC

I’m confused. In this post, @npub1e02…7m30 says Mastodon has followed Twitter and Facebook in not allowing links. He’s really smart about these things, but I can certainly add links to my Mastodon posts. What am I missing?
http://scripting.com/2024/10/11/132736.html

2024-10-06 04:31:48 UTC

Hey, dumbass, here’s a “fundamental“ for you: Many of us think the country is headed in the wrong direction because so many of our fellow citizens are stupid/racist/hateful enough to vote for Donald Trump.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/05/politics/kamala-harris-trump-election-fundamentals/index.html

2024-09-30 15:06:27 UTC

I’ve been thinking about canceling my Netflix subscription for a while, but I’m worried about the timing of doing it now. I don’t want it to look like I’m canceling to protest Reed Hastings’s donation to the Harris campaign. https://www.thedailybeast.com/netflix-cancellations-surge-after-reed-hastings-donates-millions-to-kamala-harris

2024-09-30 12:35:44 UTC

In case you missed the announcement last week, free COVID tests are available again. My set is coming today. https://special.usps.com/testkits
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/226/530/387/935/632/original/fc6c5685a91cf3d7.jpeg

2024-09-18 15:17:51 UTC

So they were still using the handheld radios the day after the pagers exploded? Even though the radios were bought at about the same time as the pagers?

2024-08-11 00:15:31 UTC

As I was driving past a yard full of Trump signs, David Bowie‘s “I’m Afraid of Americans” came up on CarPlay.

2024-08-09 03:11:00 UTC

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I bet every single person who went for Star Wars made a light saber noise while they voted.

2024-08-08 14:30:22 UTC

Whatever your opinions of the books/movies/TV shows, this election should be a wipeout. https://universeodon.com/@eosfpodcast/112925900489078197