holy crap, there's a big log that's been floating in Crater Lake since *1896* and it's history is *amazing*: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man_of_the_Lake
Legal setback for ICE
A Federal judge has ruled that holding inmates beyond their term of imprisonment so that ICE can prepare deportation action is an unconstitutional violation of their 4th Amendment rights https://thinkprogress.org/immigration-detainers-unconstituitonal-9fde460fdeca/
Oh cool, I started thinking about this at just the right time. The EFF has filed for a DMCA exemption for jailbreaking smart speakers like Amazon Echo and Google Home: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/eff-vs-iot-drm-omg (CW: Cory Doctorow)
when Nar presents tum, it isn't a trap--not exactly; he really likes it being petted, as much as he likes being petted (and skritched) everywhere else. he just gets REALLY EXCITE with the petting and sometimes he gets SO EXCITE that there's a little bit of biting or kicking going on. but only a little bit! and then he usually runs away because TOO EXCITE XD
I did a loose portrait study tonight, Mastodon. ^__^ https://mastodon.social/media/d35J5pkpH80YQ5w-uEI
awesome! crows learning to safely eat invasive poisonous cane toads! (the pictures and article are a bit graphic) http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2018/01/can-crows-eat-cane-toads
what do you call a fish with no eyes?
a Mexican Tetra! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_tetra specifically one deriving from the Pachon cave system!
no wait
a fsh
I told it wrong
meowbeast nicknames
of course "Nar" is already short for Nyarlathotep, because I feel embarrassed about spelling it out every time I take him to the vet. I have no idea what they think it means.
dreams
did that thing where I "woke up" several times before Spouse opened the door and let the rampaging meow beasts in to wake me up for real. also apparently in my dreams Pooka is a small female kitten, rather than a largish male senior meow beast, which I find amusing and very cute. dream-Pooka is about the size of a Beanie Baby kitten. XD
@fluffy actually, it's not! ねこ ("cat") = ねこま ("cat", obsolete) = にゃ ("sound a cat makes") + こま ("four-legged animal"). In Japanese, a cat is literally a "meow beast".
WoW RPs
had a fun night tonight--I got to "babysit" a new alt, a level 24 Nightborne, as the RP was taking place in Twilight Highlands and so he smells like DELICIOUS COOKIES to all the hostile mobs. I also got to be effective in-character. these events are fun, if somewhat exhausting. I wish I could do them more often.
I'm looking for work in #webdevelopment/#devops. If you know of a job opening that I might qualify for, or if you need work done in that area on a freelance basis, please let me know.
Here's my resume: https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/Resume/
(You can also see some of my recent work at https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/ !)
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