Rachel Wright @virtuosew@mathstodon.xyz
Embroiderer, dancer, early music fan
Please take great care out in the hills and mountains of Wales today. The heatwave is prematurely hatching the eggs of the Welsh dragon. If you come across a baby dragon just leave it.
DO NOT TAKE IT HOME!
Dragons do not make good pets, they very quickly get too hot to handle :
The Big Internet Math-Off is underway - get your wall-chart here and follow the progress of your favourite piece of maths : http://aperiodical.com/2018/06/announcing-the-big-internet-math-off/ … #BigMathOff
someone pointed out the other week that we are not below the stars but among them ... and it just hit me that even if I never leave Earth I'm technically already in space
Will someone please invent a new use for rubber bands? That or stop the post office bundling my letters with them...
Will augmented reality let me see the fractal, paper-thin region of space where an automatic faucet senses my hands?
God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it's hopeless. -- Chester W. Nimitz
No luck last time, so asking again: Anyone who knows of an instance with focus on food? :) @Gargron , maybe you know? :)
There's no such thing as useless knowledge. I keep finding actual practical uses for all kinds of trivia I've picked up over the last twenty years, and while it does surprise me every time, it certainly encourages me to keep accumulating it.
Update on the #embroidery: tea got me to a sensible stopping point, now stopped for the night.
Tummy muscles still complaining...
Oof. Been working solidly at my #embroidery for four hours and suddenly run out of steam. *stops for tea*
Also, my poor abused tummy muscles are complaining about the new exercise class!
Are there any #biblical #scholars I'm connected to on here? I'm looking for the original word in Matthew, which gets commonly translated as "fulfilled" when referring to how Christ's birth (etc) fulfills prophecies.
#prophecy #research #amresearching #amwriting #bible #religion #help
One of the reliable truths of opera - any opera - is that he who swears undying fidelity will be foresworn or in some way led astray.
Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?
"What is 'lollipop project'"
It's an attempt to lower the friction of self hosting. Preferably on Raspberry Pi's, Orange Pi's and other lean, small ARM mini-computer boards.
I've been quietly working for the last 3 months on building a self-hosted cloud that's rarely online (only to get updates really) as well as provide services for myself and others while 'disconnected'. Services like contact/calendar/gpx track sync. GPX tracking. Blog, more.
As I've worked on the project a few very amazing folks have made suggestions about how it could be used to lower the barrier of 'just self host' for a LOT of people floating around the federverse.
After some thinking and quiet time I realized it's time to make this a real project.
The 'Lollipop Cloud' is born of a desire to self host when nomadic, facilitating sync when 'in the jungle' or just wanting to give 🖕 to the various corporate entities who harvest your data.
A cloud in a very small box is the goal. A box the size of a credit card or as big as a rack mount server. YOU decide.
More will be online/posted soon.
If your daring the current public 'stuff' is at http://git.lollipop.holdmybeer.solutions/
RT @tygerwulfe@twitter.com: My wife will die if she has another stroke. She runs out of her meds at 9:30pst tonight. Her medication costs $175 a week or $700 a month. I’m disabled and we have no income. Please, retweet if you can’t donate. I can’t lose her...she’s my everything. http://paypal.me/tygerwolfe
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/tygerwulfe/status/1005150378269130752
I have a treasure box full of my handspun yarns, but I don't have enough money rn. So I will let some of them go, if you want to buy them.
They are between 20 and 35 Euros a skein + shipping. We can talk about price. DM me if you're interested :)
greens: http://ravel.me/JulesEins/pzics
red: http://ravel.me/zsannasz/qz4ob
purples: http://ravel.me/zsannasz/vlk3i
upper left: http://ravel.me/zsannasz/3yj7k
bottom left: http://ravel.me/JulesEins/opuxv
rainbow: http://ravel.me/zsannasz/n3ahq
brown: http://ravel.me/zsannasz/wal2a
Matt Parker has just launched https://psychic-pets.com and is looking for pets who might have powers.
Every time the World Cup rolls round there's a news story about some animal or other who's managed to predict every match so far. If Matt can get enough pets signed up, all making different predictions, maybe one of them will be proven right?
Sign up your pet! It'll be fun, helpful and *maybe* silly.
It's a bit new so if it breaks then tell bugs@psychic-pets.com
Me: deadline looming, I need to spend all day stitching.
Also me: ooh, I should catalogue my #embroidery books.
#textiles #fibrearts #fiberarts #perseverance
#fiberArts #mastoSpinners #tourDeFleece #tdf18 #handspinning #fibreArts
Look, I wrote up a few suggestions on how we could use the four weeks from now until the tour starts: https://www.ravelry.com/discuss/mastodon-knitters/3785984/1-25#19
Also: have a look at the ravelry thread from time to time, please :) I'm not always able to write in the thread and on mastodon.
Also also: any handspinners who want to join our mastodon tour de fleece team: come over to the ravelry thread and say hi :) you are very welcome to join!
Beginning June 11, no more free API key for Google Maps (now Google Maps Platform) if you don't provide a credit card.
A lot of custom Google maps that have been created over the years will likely no longer work.
Time to use #leaflet and #openstreetmap
https://leafletjs.com/
https://www.openstreetmap.org/about
https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/pricing/sheet/
