Eric Likness

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

`Lighten up Francis`

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2026-03-25 20:28:30 UTC

RE: https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/116291289544270990
@npub1prs…eh8y , ❤️
#note1jex…zxcc

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.
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/115/867/778/929/578/319/original/a467092bc13e0711.png

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
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/115/689/712/542/796/687/original/93047fd7658392cb.jpg

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)