mallaidh (dork aspect) @mallaidh@witches.town

there is, of course, an incredible irony in linking to cat-v to show this, but it's the easiest source i've found.

fun computing fact: the writer's workbench set of tools at bell labs included a tool for avoiding the more easily detected forms of sexist language while editing a document

http://man.cat-v.org/unix_WWB/1/sexist

a good quote on programming language adoption: "Enough people hate it to consider it successful."

steamed hams but it's half-life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob23Tlu1-74

lmao, if the studio hadn't dismissed him over cost concerns, tom hanks would have played mario in the super mario brothers movie

when you see a headline about knot analysis and you don't think of quite the same thing as the author

don't make mountains out of molehills, make friends out of moles instead

time for even more mole facts~!

moles are also valuable in north america for eating invasive, damaging species such as cutworms and japanese beetles! they get blamed for damaging lawns, but that doesn't take into account the benefits of their eating habits. they don't just eat bugs, their tunnels also help aerate the soil!

on the topic of how cool star-nosed moles are, they can actually smell underwater by exhaling bubbles and then sniffing that air!

time for mole facts!

did you know that star-nosed moles take an average of 25 ms touching and inspecting a potential food item? they're so fast that they're near the limit of their nervous system's ability to process and respond to stimuli. the neurons in their brain take 12 ms to respond, and the corresponding motor command is estimated to take 5 ms.

Catania & Remple, "Asymptotic prey profitability drives star-nosed moles to the foraging speed limit."
https://www.reed.edu/biology/professors/srenn/pages/teaching/2010_syllabus/2010_readings/11_Catina_Remple_2005.pdf

Rachel Laudan, "A Plea for Culinary Modernism."
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/05/slow-food-artisanal-natural-preservatives/

gonna get myself a Drincc