Eric Likness

Higher Ed - Instructional Technology. Collecting tech news & Commenting on I.T. every day!

`Lighten up Francis`

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2026-09-16 00:08:11 UTC

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Weather was sooo mild and then the sun came out this afternoon. BEAUTY! ☀️

2026-09-13 22:20:36 UTC

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Not an Expert 🙋
If you have the time (what's that right?) Sometimes a "kit" can be had to swap out the relevant parts that might be affecting the mix. Also,sSomething I learned recently is the carburetors these days have 2 different orifice tubes (aka circuits) that handle low-idle and then the emlsion tube/venturi do everything else. Clearing out that low-idle holes/orifices can help in "surging" conditions. Meaning there's something blocking the orifices for the low-idle circuit.

2026-09-02 23:12:05 UTC

Tornados, Hail attacking us. And they are seeing it on radar and on the ground. What a strange night here in Western NY.
That LAKE! The Lake is Angry with us right now.
Lake America dat iz 👀

2026-08-23 13:24:12 UTC

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Thanks Brian. I know they said in the piece that this has been around for a while back in the 2000s even.

2026-08-23 13:15:17 UTC

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And then they showed a larval tick bomb (where the Lone Star ticks just had babies) The underside of a big leaf of a tallish plant. It was quite the horror scene as the Entymologist identified a large number of Lone Star ticks in that tick bomb nursery for baby ticks.

2026-08-23 13:11:33 UTC

Watching CBS Sunday Morning and David Pogue is covering the tick borne disease: Alpha GAL syndrome.
Carried by the Lone Star (ahem Texas) Tick.
This is the new symptoms of tick bites where you develop an allergy to meat products, even the smell of it will trigger a reaction.
Man these are interesting times.

2026-08-17 01:35:57 UTC

RE: https://masto.ai/@GhostOnTheHalfShell/117107612776341991
Best Camo pattern evar.
Hey, I'm a zebra walking into a Starbucks you Flock F*ck ‼️
#note1df5…cl9e

2026-08-07 00:00:30 UTC

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Not the same, not what you meant I realize. But when I read "seltzer" my mind goes back, back, back.
Thos lovely bubbles,... mmmm!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nyMpaq8TJ0

2026-08-02 21:48:30 UTC

RE: https://masto.ai/@GhostOnTheHalfShell/117027792721277824
I'm hoping the AI Bubble goes with it.
#note1xc2…7gwm

2026-07-01 02:22:58 UTC

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I like your nets,.are those for birds or deer.

2026-06-23 15:20:53 UTC

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Yankee here, from upstate N.Y. near Lake Ontario and we have the exact same folding green foam/metal stool/kneeling pad. No alotment though, but use it outside for all the trimming/cutting of plantings. And even painting the deck on the back of the house. It is a godsend that little green bench seat.

2026-05-05 20:22:58 UTC

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I am drilling down on all those folders and I do not see a single .bin file.
There is however one .gz but it's only 440KB total. I never launch Chrome and have all the extra features turned off. And further I block a lot of URLs on my network using pihole, so that may also account for why it's not there.

2026-05-05 20:19:45 UTC

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More specifically here: C:\Users\userName\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\optimization_guide_model_store

2026-05-05 20:18:03 UTC

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Start here: \Users\User\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data
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On any machine that has Chrome installed, in the user profile, sits a directory whose name is OptGuideOnDeviceModel.
Inside it is a file called weights.bin. The file is approximately 4 GB
So you need to find the %appdata folder and find Google Chrome, and then drill down in there to see the profile folder.

2026-04-29 12:29:38 UTC

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I will say I have noticed a trend in our Gen.Chem instruction where estimating likely paths of a reaction based on the bond energy Kpa (I think?), is radically different from how I was taught back in 1987. There does seem to be some attempt to consider Thermodynamics driving reactions these days.

2026-04-29 12:26:04 UTC

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Thermodynamics in College is the course that led my brother to drop Electrical Engineering and become a Computer Science major. It is h-a-r-d.

2026-04-21 12:03:15 UTC

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This right here, This is the heavy lift, the collection analysis and interventions that no technological solutionism, no AI has, or ever will bridge. It is all people (teachers who care) all the way down. They are the people who can track correctly, and intervene in a timely effective way.

2026-04-08 11:55:02 UTC

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It's always interesting to note customs like SAT and PSAT. When I took them where I grew up, they did it on a Saturday because.the cafeteria needed to be monopolize and quiet the whole morning. iirc
At.least that's why I think they did it on Saturday.

2026-04-07 18:02:42 UTC

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Sometimes the "best" camera in the world,... is the one you already HAVE. 👍

2026-03-25 20:28:30 UTC

RE: https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/116291289544270990
@npub1prs…eh8y , ❤️
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2026-03-12 12:05:42 UTC

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From your sinuses to the back of my neck. Weather Underground on desktop.browsers NOT mobile, shows predicted air pressure. And as a trend it nicely aligns with huge weather changes, wind and temp changes. So you are spot-on, early warning for what we saw last night and into today. 30 degree drop in temp for us, and 40m0h gusty over night.

2026-02-18 12:58:18 UTC

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That could work too. If the blog lent itself to having a ActivityPub linkage it could be a two-fer. With link back to the blog to see the whole array of activities thru the year.
There is definitely more than one way to do it. 👍

2026-02-15 13:55:13 UTC

Watching Snowcross on NBC. I know short track skating is more like roller-derbie than snowcross. But watching the maneuvering on snowcross, always seems more dangerous.

2026-01-16 22:52:59 UTC

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The Freedom and Unity of,...
MITTENS!
Take THAT. The best solution to ICE-y conditions.

2026-01-09 23:42:48 UTC

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Ross reached IN through window to shoot 2 more times and was NOT in danger. That was retribution, that was payback that was a summary execution. HE wanted Renee to die.

2026-01-09 23:41:11 UTC

Eddie Adams
Adams' photograph of Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executing Nguyễn Văn Lém on February 1, 1968
Summary execution is a summary execution.
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2026-01-08 21:33:12 UTC

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Clog the country, the courts, the squares, the socialz. We don't need a "flood" Steve Bannon style. No flood. Only Clog.

2026-01-08 21:22:32 UTC

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Clog **ALL** the thingz.

2026-01-08 21:11:35 UTC

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I always think back to Henry David Thoreau's *Civil Disobedience,*
`Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.`
Let's be the clog, that fatberg that shuts the whole plumbing system on the street down.

2026-01-06 02:39:20 UTC

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They never found a memory card foot-print, standard they couldn't embrace and *extend* or just ruin outright. Memory Sticks anyone ⁉️

2026-01-05 21:15:20 UTC

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I remember that old Disney movie, and every time it came on My Dad, would turn the channel. He *hated* it for some reason. Never learned why.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD9gnEf0g6A

2025-12-31 23:44:13 UTC

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I will not give up my paper checkbook until they pull it from my cold dead hands. ✊

2025-12-27 01:48:32 UTC

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1/4" thick crust of the hardest ice you ever did see on the front grille and headlights.
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/115/789/009/185/472/928/original/a21a5aba47263a47.jpg
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2025-12-09 12:55:28 UTC

Current Conditions in Roch-cha-cha NY
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2025-11-07 01:43:58 UTC

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Gotta stay in practice.
US Mail
Check writing,...
Charitable Contributions
A hat trick, a trifecta if you will.

2025-11-07 01:07:39 UTC

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USPS or nothing at all. SWIFT can go to hell.

2025-11-06 23:28:57 UTC

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I feel like this is adjacent to writing checks as payment and sending MAILING them to the company.

2025-10-15 00:13:48 UTC

I thought today would be different. I thought it was going to triumphant, or `special` in some way. But it's just another Blah Tuesday in just another month in this seemingly endless year. Yeah I thought this was going to big news. What a whimper.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/windows-10-support-ends-today-but-its-just-the-first-of-many-deaths/

2025-04-19 13:04:45 UTC

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This says it all to me `They walked the full length of the train and questioned every single passenger about their citizenship status. According to the conductor, who has worked nearly 40 years`

2025-04-01 14:50:12 UTC

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Random facts about Forth that I can remember offhand.
SUN Microsystems adopted Forth for their OpenFirmware boot code. Apple eventually adopted OF when moving to OS X back in 2000. So two big users of Forth right there.

2025-02-11 12:50:41 UTC

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Great, I know we got Prrofpoint at work. Will look forward to this. Right up there with this past Summer's CrowdStrike Falcon sensor malarkey.

2025-02-04 21:46:36 UTC

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Come for the groceries, stay for the racism.

2025-01-28 00:22:08 UTC

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I want to try this out myself, kick the tires, take a test drive.

2024-12-03 17:57:44 UTC

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I guess the three way hat trick would be the Lithiated Soda, Tetra-ethyl Lead, and Coca leaf-infused Coca-Cola.
🇺🇲USAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSA🇺🇲

2024-10-29 22:09:27 UTC

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Like something out of Glenngary Glen Ross (movie not the play as such).

2024-10-29 20:01:24 UTC

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Which "might" also be what's on the slide in the break-out room. It's triplicate. 1-2-3 (book,slide,speaking)