Elyse M Grasso / is on Nostr

Retired. Fiber arts. Books. Spec Fic. Colorado Header Mountains are view from site. She/her. ace/aro/NB Survived the Marshall Fire. The view didn't burn #nobridge

Occasional thoughts: https://emgrasso.dreamwidth.org
Author site: https://www.superiormagpiepress.com

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2025-04-25 01:12:25

#WritersCoffeeClub 25. World Penguin Day! How have ‘the classics’ influenced your work?
Our family book shelves held some classics packaged for the aspirational middle class, and when I was 9 we moved to a small town whose public library was founded in the 1880s or 90s and never had its shelves weeded... I read a LOT of classics. Homer when I was 8, Defoe (unabridged), Dickens. Shakespeare beginning when I was 10 or 11. Lots of 19th century best sellers (Scott, Dumas,Alcott, etc.) It's my world.

2024-09-15 18:52:10

Actually looking for distro recs.
I have a System76 laptop that was delivered with Ubuntu 22.04. The upgrade to 24.04 did NOT go well (I've been installing and using Linux since the mid-90s and I've never seen such an emphatic screen of death before. What did NVIDIA DO?)
Looks like I'm going to need to adjust the partitioning and do a parallel install from a USB stick.
Any recommendations for distros I should try instead of Ubuntu, which has gotten a bit enshittified lately?
#linux

2024-09-14 23:46:34

I have added a new member of my household. I am calling her Nyx: she is mostly black, even her whiskers, but has little constellations of white hairs in a few places. Her eyes are green.
I'll try to get some better pictures once she settles into her new home a bit more
#caturday #CatsOfMastodon
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2024-09-12 04:20:42

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Very glad you are safe. Now you need to include it in a story sometime. (I think I dimly remember that one of the causes can be sand with an upwelling current in it. Getting the eddies just right, or wrong, and the sand grains separate too much to support anything)

2024-09-03 01:41:40

Deleted my NaNoWriMo account.
I'm going to miss what they used to be, but not what they have become.
Even their merch has been going down hill the past couple of years

2024-08-31 15:03:38

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Cowboys herding dinosaurs? Git along little ceratopsian...

2024-08-25 05:55:53

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It's early enough in the season that they may still be doing practice flights and pre-migration training. Is there a nice body of water in the direction they are flying?

2024-08-22 01:15:50

The new house is complete. By the end of the month, 32 months after the Marshall Fire, the last few punch-list items will be finished.
The solar system needs an inspection, and activation on the power company side, but the construction project is done.
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2024-08-15 03:18:09

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Things worked like that for more than a year...

2024-08-15 02:15:02

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The IT dept at my last gig before I retired very cleverly set things up so that the company Windows laptops everyone used would update over night. Except Windows updates always took at least 3 reboots, sometimes as many as 5, and the hard drives were encrypted, so reboots could not happen without human intervention.
Whenever IT pushed an update, everyone would find their laptops shut down, and need to restart them and then cajole the update to complete its later sections.

2024-08-10 20:13:22

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You may want to check your planned stack: I think in many cases MariaDB is the preferred fork of MySQL, and some of the newer web servers like nginx are lighter weight than apache and easier to configure unless you are doing something really fancy. php is a language, and can coexist with others on the same server. With a reasonable linux distro (or possibly even a MAC) your limitations are more likely to be storage and internet bandwidth.

2024-08-10 05:11:18

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It's also useful if your mailbox is a half mile from your house.

2024-08-03 23:55:34

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Why infiltrate? If you contact the organizers they'll probably add you to some of the official panels.
MileHiCon has had some panels like that over the years...

2024-07-18 19:26:22

Progress on my new house's landscaping: the front yard is mostly done, with the addition of an octagonal meditation labyrinth and a lot of reworking of the drainage in the front yard. The soil here is horrible clay that does not drain worth mentioning, so they had to add a french drain to carry water past the concrete ramp that leads to the front door.
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2024-06-05 18:11:06

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If the painting is really for sale, It might help if you defined 'local' and possibly mentioned the dimensions in the alt text to help prospective buyers decide if it is shippable at a practical price.

2024-05-14 21:47:57

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That assumes that you have the same lifespan as your parents, and follow a similar life path. I am solitary and childless, and decades older than my mother lived to be, so in many ways our experiences would be mutually alien.

2024-04-21 19:36:25

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Are there sources for ideas for when you can't use organic mulch on the surface? We are being strongly warned against using organic mulches in areas that have ever been hit by wildfires.
Besides that, I once made a Square Foot garden using the soil mix recommended in the books, and over the course of a few years my good soil within the garden frame was literally blown away by our winds. I'm not sure bark mulch in chunks smaller than my fist would stay where I put it.