Post Race!

[dday9]

Blink twice if you're OK.

[dday9]

Of course, if only one eye blinks, then you might be having a stroke.

[dday9]

[Shaggy Hiker]

Smelling burnt toast is a sign of a stroke so I hope you're positive that someone actually burnt toast.

It was a mass stroke event. EVERYBODY smelled the toast.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Oddly, you're the second to make that stroke reference in the last week. We also had a fire drill, which smelled a bit of burnt toast. Somebody likes cooking in their office.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Sometimes, toast is just a toast.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Different strokes for different folks, of course.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Leaves are falling pretty fast, now. However, it gives me a good excuse for putting off raking for a day. Barely a third of the leaves on my tree have fallen.

[wes4dbt]

We're still in a warm streak. Suppose to be 80 on Monday. But then a storm Wednesday and down to @ 60. If it heads to Idaho you'll have a bunch of soggy leaves to rake.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Soggy leaves pack better.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Looks like we might get that storm on Thursday.

[Shaggy Hiker]

After a longer examination of the data, we're already in an inversion, which I hadn't realized due to light breezes and clear skies. Inversions suck, though if they are mild, they only suck lightly.

The inversion should break tomorrow, then it might reestablish before being blown away with the storm on Thursday.

[Peter Porter]

Guess what... About 55 days ago, Moti decided to channel Terry A. Davis, the famous troubled programmer who created TempleOS before he died. He claimed Terry made his chatbot. If you’re not familiar, Terry was convinced God told him to build TempleOS in HolyC, a language he invented.

So, since Moti couldn’t get his simple chatbot past the Wikipedia gatekeepers on September 11th, claim Terry A. Davis invented it on Lercel seven days later, and hope someone edits Terry’s Wiki page in the future to mention it.

He can’t do it himself, because, you know, he's banned.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I'm not sure that you should mention him here. If you speak his name three times...

[Shaggy Hiker]

I considered posting a thread to Wikipedia pointing out that at some point there will end up being a page on Moti.

[dday9]

I've changed my VBForums setting so that it only returns 5 posts per page because I was having issues with the page loading with my previous size preference.

[dday9]

So far the only problem thread has been the Post Race.

[dday9]

Which makes it even funnier.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I have no issues with the number of threads.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Except that I'm running out of closet space.

[Shaggy Hiker]

For all my threads.

[wes4dbt]

Guess what... About 55 days ago, Moti decided to channel Terry A. Davis, the famous troubled programmer who created TempleOS before he died. He claimed Terry made his chatbot. If you’re not familiar, Terry was convinced God told him to build TempleOS in HolyC, a language he invented.

So, since Moti couldn’t get his simple chatbot past the Wikipedia gatekeepers on September 11th, claim Terry A. Davis invented it on Lercel seven days later, and hope someone edits Terry’s Wiki page in the future to mention it.

He can’t do it himself, because, you know, he's banned.

I'm curious how you know all this?

[wes4dbt]

I'm not sure that you should mention him here. If you speak his name three times...

We could use some excitement around here. Moti, Moti, Moti

[Shaggy Hiker]

Eventually, I believe he deserves his own Wiki page. There are loads of public figures that have gotten crosswise with various places for their comments, but Moti is a non-public figure who has managed to get banned by such a diverse group of forums and sites that he may well have set an insurmountable record.

[dday9]

You just don't understand his technology that he invented from scratch.

[Shaggy Hiker]

That's true.

[Peter Porter]

I'm curious how you know all this?

Google.

[Peter Porter]

I started a new C++ AI project that won’t be using transformers, just in case the Decepticons come looking for them.

[dday9]

I’ve updated the website. It’s more efficient, more accessible, supports JavaScript being disabled, and supports dark mode (based on app preferences).

[dday9]

html-lessons that is

[dday9]

I replaced SkeletonCSS with PicoCSS.

[dday9]

I'm very proud of the project

[dday9]

Although now it only causes more work for me

[dday9]

I should probably update my vblessons website to use PicoCSS too

[dday9]

Plus I really want to create a CSS and JavaScript lessons website to close the loop on front-end web development.

[dday9]

It's just that it takes so long to create the content.

[dday9]

And if I'm being honest, I'm not sure how many people actually use the websites.

[wes4dbt]

Winter can cause strange problems,

[dday9]

Ooof

[dday9]

Dies at 69, 70, and 72. Very impressive.