Eric Rose

Computerer, bikerer, gamerer, SRE

Currently learning Korean

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In better news, this exists

May 17, 2020
Eric Rose
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@pzmyers I went looking for some replacement blades yesterday and was told these are un-Australian. That's alright, so am I.

May 13, 2020
Eric Rose
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The sun through the leaves on a lovely Autumn afternoon

May 08, 2020
Eric Rose
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@bestthingsbot first day at the new job with interesting new challenges

May 04, 2020
Eric Rose
wamble@mastodon.social

I may not have cycled as much in the last year or so as usual, but I still call myself a cyclist since I ride bikes in my dreams ☺

May 02, 2020
Eric Rose
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@bestthingsbot last day at the old job before starting something new on Monday. That does involve heading into the city for a few hours in the morning and meeting strange people 😷

May 02, 2020
Eric Rose
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I just started watching Charade for the first time in ages. Audrey is still my favourite Hepburn and the writing is en-point

"I already know an awful lot of people and until one of them dies I couldn't possibly meet anyone else"

April 28, 2020
Eric Rose
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I just found a new pet peeve. Software developers claiming that they're "force multipliers" can get in the bin unless they're military adjacent

April 25, 2020
Eric Rose
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@daedalus happy birthday

April 23, 2020
Eric Rose
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I just read a fascinating excerpt on Bird Site about the deeply misogynist roots of the term Stockholm Syndrome. It's from the book "See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence"... There was a psychologist used by the police who apparently decided to blame the women for his failures in negotiating the hostage crisis by pathologising them

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April 22, 2020
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muesli
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"I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone."

-- Bjarne Stroustrup

April 19, 2020
Eric Rose
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Animal Ownership (that specific part of it which is very much -)

@twiddlekins 😦

April 14, 2020
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Mara, Technopact Warlock
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xkcd.com/2293/

xkcd's obituary for John Conway is extremely clever

April 13, 2020
Eric Rose
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Covid-19 death

@Andrea 😢 The Goodies was my favourite show, growing up.

April 12, 2020
Eric Rose
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@twiddlekins Thanks. All of us with pets know how shitty it can be as they get sick, and/or old, and leave us. It's now the first time we've been a household without pets in 20 years (and lost 3 cats and 2 dogs in that time). Once the scars heal a bit and we're allowed to get out and about, we'll probably find ourselves a new furry friend of some description.

April 11, 2020
Eric Rose
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...in a bit of a mess today. My housemate had to put her dog to sleep last night. Meg was 16 and had gradually been getting frailer with a growing lump in her stomach, but seemed generally ok apart from some bladder issues. Here's a photo of her from happier times. Like all pets, she was an integral member of the family for everyone who knew her

April 10, 2020
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Micro SF/F stories by O Westin
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"The difference between technology and magic is that technology works regardless of whether you believe in it or not."
"So computers are magic?"
"Computers are magic."

April 10, 2020
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April 05, 2020
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Micro SF/F stories by O Westin
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I stare into the void. It is black, unfathomable.
I wait.
Eventually, I hear it. A warm, comforting rumble, the sound of a universe working, yet at peace.
My gaze widens, my view opens, the void shrinks, and I find myself looking at my cat, asleep, softly purring.
I am comforted.

March 26, 2020