Bill Ricker

1969-1998, 408 So Huntington was a social services office [youth, employment], per IA scanned directories, which, yeah, is what the boring low-maintenance masonry looks like.
A bodega would be quite believable on the block, 30-45 years ago.
Added plus, adjacent to branch library!

2026-07-12 02:36:01 UTC

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https://mastodon.radio/system/media_attachments/files/116/904/663/294/541/611/original/80333fc29bb4c3d4.jpg

2026-07-12 02:30:27 UTC

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their new one in East Windham is WIP due this summer. Will hike it once myself before we take Mom up!

2026-07-12 01:41:46 UTC

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Windham & PRLT supposedly have one in progress in the new preserve (in addition to the railtrail)

2026-07-06 18:36:20 UTC

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see also https://n1vux.github.io/articles/genealogy/nails-or-screws.html

2026-07-06 18:31:04 UTC

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... if it's (remediated to be) strong enough to support a layer of dirt and vegetation, yes

2026-07-06 17:45:30 UTC

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Alas the unmaintained Pingree Farm Rd overpass over i95 in Essex Co MA is only usable for hikers now (formerly usable by forestry firefighting), hasn't been converted for wildlife :-( .

2026-07-06 17:42:58 UTC

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Sis has been an activist since '72, so I am especially aware.
Last entry in this list: https://littlepeoplethebook.com/essays-on-dwarfism/

2026-07-06 17:29:58 UTC

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This being Disability Pride month, accessibility is definitely on now !
Countless decades ago, my darling was born near there; M-i-L took us to a beloved petting zoo in the W.R.

2026-07-06 17:00:14 UTC

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Nice!
[I've been a fan of these since noticing one (of a pair) in NJ multiple decades ago.]

2026-06-24 20:51:10 UTC

@npub1san…jgxu,
Apparently Boston has fixit clinics, officially!?
https://bsky.app/profile/environment.boston.gov/post/3mp2qbhepcs2g

2026-06-13 02:45:30 UTC

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Indeed — I will confess to having found uses for Rockwell ^Egyptian^ slab-serif — https://type365.com/2016/05/30/rockwell-anatomy/ before its revival last decade.
[Lucida Fax too, rendered nicely direct on remote device at 200dpi, 14400baud, no Nyquist scan problem. Startled recipients!]

2026-06-12 20:34:32 UTC

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Sigh, I'm not giving up my em-dashes nor my serifs.

2026-05-07 20:30:05 UTC

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ok, FreeBSD having _one_ Vuln *is* more surprising and newsworthy than Win or Lin , but unless the corruption can escalate to an RCE, I'm not going to get excited !

2026-05-07 20:07:35 UTC

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that code smells like someone removed a pair of parentheses that offended them without flipping the + to a - .

2026-04-02 00:20:33 UTC

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I had not, thank you.
(I sympathize sufficiently with instructor that my opinion is likely biased. I learned on a manual typewriter. H.S. physics instructor insisted we learn to problem solve with a sliderule before using a calculator. As previous mentioned, I took up metal typography to learn why typefaces work [and don't].)

2026-03-25 19:07:16 UTC

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Right, UFO didn't age well 4 decades+ now, much social commentary can be made in retrospect (e.g. hot sexy female officers in the command chain and forward deployed was alas still progressive then, only a few years after Lt Uhura, but make the uniforms even hotter);
but Space 1999 didn't age well 2 weeks, or even 2 commercial breaks, if you took physics and didn't take drugs while watching.
Serious refrigerator logic fail.

2026-03-25 18:59:28 UTC

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, ⤴️ did you see this one?
@npub10g4…qctq

2026-03-25 02:38:54 UTC

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(So many reasons why some of us UFO! fans ignore that Space 1999 ever happened.)

2026-03-16 00:09:37 UTC

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👍
(My wife probably knew that.
When we attended old NecronomiCon, late last century, I was the +1. I'm only HPL-adjacent ... )

2026-03-16 00:07:05 UTC

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and thank you for sharing his history in Innsmouth / Newburyport.
I'd long wondered why/how "I am Providence" was centering Essex Co Miskatonic & Innsmouth, when frankly the Mass. communities nearer R.I. were more "Swamp Yankee" territory in his day.

2026-03-16 00:03:49 UTC

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FWIW, reportedly, very late in HPL's short life, his Aunt from whom he got much of his politics returned from visiting Germany, and was quite disenchanted with Adolf's (u-)(dis-)topia; reputedly HPL moderated a number of his views accordingly, but wrote so little after that that shift, if real, is not reflected in published works much if at all. I would be interested in your archivist friend's reading on that!

2026-03-15 23:28:27 UTC

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Sure, if Isle of Shoals wasn't mentioned as an undersea outpost in the Lovecraft/Cthulhu-in-R'lyeh/Miskatonic mythos, it should've been!

2026-03-15 22:34:58 UTC

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Experimental Radar? hmm that intersects other interests and my currently addled brain isn't remembering that.

2026-03-15 22:33:58 UTC

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Song says
🎵 "Cape Cod Girls, they got no combs;
They do their hair with Codfish bones."
Isles of Shoals would only be more-so! ❤

2026-03-15 22:31:38 UTC

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Cousin! ❤
(I'm on the (T) returning from a Scotch-infused Wake 💔🥃 , so I don't have my references at fingertips RIP Joe.)

2026-03-15 22:29:23 UTC

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Probably it's Applsdore where Cornell Ornithology spends Mother's donations.

2026-03-15 22:06:56 UTC

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Cornell may have occasional postings for a resident caretaker there? IDK if seasonal or year-round these days, I try not to read their fund-raising solicitations.

2026-03-15 22:05:18 UTC

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I wonder how the fisherfolk felt about Morton being exiled amongst them.
Those Isles, NH, & ME were distinctly less Puritan[ical] than Mass Bay and New Plimoth Colonies; p'raps they found use for him until he was rescued.

2026-03-15 18:09:11 UTC

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SOME days. The other days are why our settler ancestors whom the ocean hadn't yet killed moved to the mainland.

2026-01-03 04:50:45 UTC

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that reminds me of the viral reports Sgt York AA test. Its radar locked onto the porta-potty's ventilation fan (it was a General Officer grade portapotty) as matching Helicopter profile. (Was it range-folding, not realizing it was much too close?)
Luckily all the GOs were watching, none were in the ex-porta-potty.

2025-11-10 20:16:06 UTC

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is that type system what's sketched as `:repr()` in Object::Pad ?

2025-08-25 14:49:05 UTC

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Those gorgeous wooden Victorian Grand Hotels had a tendency to burn. Frequently during cleaning just prior to opening for the new season.
(The case i looked closely at was NOT insurance fraud, it was under-insured, was financially disastrous.)

2025-07-17 02:51:29 UTC

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The device with dials to the side of the robot 🤖 is a fair sketch of WW2 & early Cold War AAA computers that interfaced between radar and flak guns.

2025-07-14 17:20:30 UTC

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(Intentionally Dual-Use R&D is fascinating subject of its own. The CORONA satellite camera required a super-flat anti-astigmatic high-magnification lens. The ITEK Photo-Typesetting system was the dual-use cover, public-private partnership, and exploitation for the lenses' R&D. When CORONA finally was declassified, we had a nice presentation on this synergy from the ITEK type designer at The Museum of Printing.
RIP my friend.)

2025-07-14 17:16:55 UTC

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Connecting 25 & 26 CYORA, I remember during the previous AI Summer of mid 1980s there was interest in making spending research $$ to reify the fictional setup of _3/7 Days of the CONDOR_ -- AI reading everything to predict/find incipient terrorism.
(CONDOR setting was partially true even then: CCA M204 text database was dual-use CIA with NLM Index Medicus as the open sponsor; marvelous system. IDK if they had OCR as in the film, or a lot of keyboardists.)

2025-07-14 17:10:34 UTC

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To the extent that the _Qui Bono_ is obvious tho unprovable, an assassination is still _also_ Terror (if only a warning to other defectors and potential defectors)

2025-07-14 17:08:37 UTC

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and "getting away with murder" in the sense of Detective/Crime Fic Lit has very different from considerations between common murder and political assassination.
- Escape, Evasion, Extraction or Elimination of the field agents (assassins);
- OpSec providing State- or Organizational- deniability despite rather obvious _Qui Bono_ and 3Ms (Means, Motive, Opportunity doesn't being with M) analysis

2025-07-14 17:01:39 UTC

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Sondheim aside, assassination is a _political_ murder, so the Po-210 killing by FSB was both murder and assassination.
But yes, ^terrorism^ *should* be understood as a form of psychological warfare with collateral damage (including murder) and not used for every act of disagreeable political speech and attacks on legitimate targets, and your distinction of murder vs terror is solid 👍 .
(Alas that horse has alas long since bolted and the stable burnt.)

2025-06-23 17:44:17 UTC

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I received permission to use https://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/maps1/ma.gif Plat Carée for https://fd.ema.arrl.org/field_day/ (before ARRL HQ created the national FD Locator).

2025-06-23 17:39:35 UTC

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(OTOH that might be Plat Carée, which is trivial maths, and very forgivable, I even used it myself. At our latitude, pixel aspect ratio corrects the distortion!)

2025-06-23 17:37:10 UTC

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LOL is about right for Mercator being the 21stC web standard. 🤣😒
^It's important to have Mercator charts for rhumbline/loxodrome magnetic-compass navigation just in case!^
But they should be folded and stored under the seat with the sextant, not in the computer!

2025-06-23 14:51:32 UTC

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is that the Navy plot? I like the quadrant radii plot, and I'll forgive the Navy still using Mercator proj.

2025-05-21 18:47:15 UTC

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While i was awaiting parts to finish repairing a toilet tank, our cat learned to leap onto the edge of the uncovered tank and slurp/lap from the tank. (Far better than dogs drinking from the bowl!)
So i replaced the lid with a drinkable gap and better footing, but small enough gap even leaping she wouldn't overbalance the cantilever. She preferred this fresh source to refill-required bowl&bottle dribbler contraption.

2025-04-21 22:01:25 UTC

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some command-line programs have 216 9-bit colors, RGB values 0..5, which map into an old 256 (8-bit) slot pallette of 24-bit colors (including the ANSI 4-bit set and a bunch of grays, some of which might be redundant ).

2025-01-19 03:51:57 UTC

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The Flight Path “Walk of Fame” along Sepulvada Blvd isn't even El Segundo, it's the other LAX adjacent in Westminster.
But indeed, i remember lots of cold warrior Corp addresses being in El Segundo.
Was it things with wings to the north, and newer wingless things to the south?

2025-01-13 17:12:22 UTC

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✔️ Check all that apply?
✔️ I'm in the Fediverse to stay. 2×Mastodon 🦣 + pixelfed📸 so far, and looking for a Fediverse Meet-ups📆 replacement for our usergroups.
✔️ But I'm also on BSKY 🟦🦋 since many of my favorite non-techie refugee parasocial ^imaginary friends^ went there.

2024-12-24 07:10:20 UTC

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When they have different routing algorithms,
I find it is fun and informative to get two GPS(Gnss) applications to argue.

2024-12-21 04:07:50 UTC

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yes, Matt's image is a very different view than the hackneyed standard Daly City postcard. Which would be better rendered with an easel and pastels than Kodachrome anyway.
Matt's use of digital B&W in the built-environment particularly is approaching a digital Ansel Adams for a new century.

2024-11-12 02:11:25 UTC

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Local notes
- that's _a_ Walden Pond to the north, not _the_ Walden Pond, which is a dozen or so miles WSW.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/139813557
- just south of the fire lies the
Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site, a 17thC industrial site.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/7837809#map=15/42.47741/-70.99831&layers=P

2024-11-12 02:05:17 UTC

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at the risk of pedantically answering an amusing rhetorical question, because it's a urban wild reservation. The 253ft ^Mount^ Gilead is not even peninsular, but it's nearly surrounded by 3 ponds and swamp, so somewhat self limiting.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1153480

2024-11-08 01:53:41 UTC

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yes, GREEN LIVING; & two more colors for immigration to and from EARTH.
(cover illo for an A.E. van Voght classic.)

2024-10-15 23:19:50 UTC

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that you have so _few_ transactions for nearly 10 years on that one drive may explain why redbox has ceased to be, has joined the parrot eternal.
(one rental per day is par for an AirBNB, but unless their costs were really really low that's very bad retail.)

2024-09-18 04:25:51 UTC

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Seems like a Ned Stark support vessel, to inject/retrieve an IronMan special ops squad.