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notalwaysright_feed Jun. 21st, 2025 01:00 am)Read The Internet: Where Entitlement Goes To Level Up
Person #1: "I live on [two streets over]. Can you bring me all the medium-sized clothes?"
Me: "No, it’s pick up only."
Person #1: "How can you be so rude?! I need these clothes!"
Me: "Then I guess you should figure out how to get here."
copperbadge_feed Jun. 20th, 2025 05:00 pm)My parents love to watch cooking shows, particularly America’s Test Kitchen and the YouTube show Food Wishes. My mother finds the voice of Chef John, host of Food Wishes, extremely soothing, which is funny because he has a wildly unusual vocal cadence. If you’ve never seen a Food Wishes video, look one up and brace yourself.
Yesterday they stumbled over ATK’s Detroit Pizza segment, and then looked up Chef John’s video about it, and Mum texted me to ask if I ever made Detroit pizza. It’s pretty much the only kind I make, so she asked if I’d make it with them when I visit home in a few days. She even spent this morning shopping for the right kind of pan. She’s thrilled that I make my own pizza sauce, so now she’s making a grocery list for what she needs to buy before I arrive. I also pointed out that there’s a Jet’s Pizza on the way from the Austin airport to their place, so the plan is to pick me up, stop at Jet’s to get a “benchmark”, then go home, where we will sample Jet’s while I make the dough (which needs to rise slow and cold overnight) and the sauce, and the next day we will make our own.
I am bringing home, in my checked luggage, a bag of King Arthur pizza flour and a bottle of my preferred pizza sauce seasoning (Mie Radici brand).
It’s both funny and sweet that a love of Detroit pizza appears to be genetic, even for a family that has zero historical connection to Detroit.
PIZZA SUCCESS.
ALT
ALTI forgot to take a picture of the cooked pizza before we devastated it, but the folks liked it and that’s the important part. And now they know how to make it, so they have vowed to try it on their own and send me photos. Updates as warranted.
pepysdiary_feed Jun. 20th, 2025 11:00 pm)Up by four or five o’clock, and to the office, and there drew up the agreement between the King and Sir John Winter about the Forrest of Deane; and having done it, he came himself (I did not know him to be the Queen’s Secretary before, but observed him to be a man of fine parts); and we read it, and both liked it well. That done, I turned to the Forrest of Deane, in Speede’s Mapps, and there he showed me how it lies; and the Lea-bayly, with the great charge of carrying it to Lydny, and many other things worth my knowing; and I do perceive that I am very short in my business by not knowing many times the geographical part of my business.
At my office till Mr. Moore took me out and at my house looked over our papers again, and upon our evening accounts did give full discharges one to the other, and in his and many other accounts I perceive I shall be better able to give a true balance of my estate to myself within a day or two than I have been this twelve months.
Then he and I to Alderman Backwell’s and did the like there, and I gave one receipt for all the money I have received thence upon the receipt of my Lord’s crusados. Then I went to the Exchange, and hear that the merchants have a great fear of a breach with the Spaniard; for they think he will not brook our having Tangier, Dunkirk, and Jamaica; and our merchants begin to draw home their estates as fast as they can. Then to Pope’s Head Ally, and there bought me a pair of tweezers, cost me 14s., the first thing like a bawble I have bought a good while, but I do it with some trouble of mind, though my conscience tells me that I do it with an apprehension of service in my office to have a book to write memorandums in, and a pair of compasses in it; but I confess myself the willinger to do it because I perceive by my accounts that I shall be better by 30l. than I expected to be. But by tomorrow night I intend to see to the bottom of all my accounts. Then home to dinner, where Mr. Moore met me. Then he went away, and I to the office and dispatch much business. So in the evening, my wife and I and Jane over the water to the Halfway-house, a pretty, pleasant walk, but the wind high. So home again and to bed.
notalwaysright_feed Jun. 21st, 2025 12:00 am)
Corporate: "Look, you need to figure out how to keep the customer happy without using up so much overtime."
Store Manager: "Then let us ban him."
Corporate: "He spends a fortune; we're not banning him. Figure something out."
notalwaysright_feed Jun. 20th, 2025 11:00 pm)Read Get Him Some Running Shoes So He Can Run Far Away
Customer: "Somebody recommended these for my husband, who then bought these yesterday! Who in their right mind makes sneakers this color?"
Me: "They’re designed to help runners stay seen at night. Their bright color is actually part of the advertizing."
Customer: "Well… the employee who sold these to my husband said they were 'popular.' That’s misleading."
copperbadge_feed Jun. 20th, 2025 04:21 pm)I love that the subhead references why ginger cats are.....like that. :D
It's interesting reading! I have trouble following discussions of genetics, always have -- I understand the theory of the punnet square but I can never quite get a clear grip on it in a functional sense. Still, cool to see the science being done!
notalwaysright_feed Jun. 20th, 2025 10:00 pm)Read Thinking Outside The Box Versus Thinking Only About The Box
Coworker: "Why hasn’t anyone ordered ink?"
Me: "I'm not sure. Is the shelf empty?"
Coworker: "No."
Me: "Then why order more?"
Coworker: *Shaking the box.* "They’re all empty!"
Read Thinking Outside The Box Versus Thinking Only About The Box
notalwaysright_feed Jun. 20th, 2025 09:30 pm)Read Canada: America’s Imaginary Hat
Scammer: "Hello, I am Agent Smith of the Internal Revenue Service. I am calling for [My Name]."
Ah, yes, the IRS scam. It has to be a scam because I'm a Canadian, I live in Canada, and I do not have US citizenship.
notalwaysright_feed Jun. 20th, 2025 09:00 pm)Read Commission Without The Commiserating
Years ago, when I was starting out as an illustrator, I worked a full-time job and took commissions on the side. As I was still starting out, I didn’t charge as much as I perhaps should have, but not so little that I was basically working for free.
notalwaysright_feed Jun. 20th, 2025 08:00 pm)Read Not Call Centering On The Problem
Call Center Guy: "Hi, you've reached the customer service center for [store], how can I help you?"
Me: "Hi, I need to be patched back to the store, please."
Call Center Guy: "No, I can assist you with anything you need. What's going on today?"
Me: "I am dealing with an emergency, I need to speak to someone IN the store, please."
Anti-Aliased. Other pending issues include it applying the wrong keymap for my external keyboard and imposing some godawful acceleration on my scroll-wheel but they're in progress, I want to get some actual work done too.
notalwaysright_feed Jun. 20th, 2025 07:00 pm)Read No Fortitude For Longitude, Part 26
Customer: "I saw that [TV model] is gonna go for $499."
Me: "So I've seen."
Customer: "Could I get it now?"
Me: "You can get into the [big sale] line that's outside the store."
Customer: "But I'm here, I want it now."
Branch: refs/heads/main Home: https://github.com/dreamwidth/dreamwidth Commit: 5054973eaa6bc5842aef44efc15924f4f8fe4b7e https://github.com/dreamwidth/dreamwidth/commit/5054973eaa6bc5842aef44efc15924f4f8fe4b7e Author: Mark Smith mark@dreamwidth.org Date: 2025-06-20 (Fri, 20 Jun 2025)
Changed paths: R .github/workflows/tasks/worker-send-email-ses-service.json M .github/workflows/update-workflows.pl M .github/workflows/worker-deploy.yml R etc/kubernetes/workers/generated/send-email-ses.yaml M etc/kubernetes/workers/regen-workers.pl
Log Message:
Update deployment tools for workers
No more send-email-ses, so remove it.
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Branch: refs/heads/main Home: https://github.com/dreamwidth/dreamwidth Commit: 9820e2427e52f7cac488677c93fea27ce35e0fd4 https://github.com/dreamwidth/dreamwidth/commit/9820e2427e52f7cac488677c93fea27ce35e0fd4 Author: Mark Smith mark@dreamwidth.org Date: 2025-06-20 (Fri, 20 Jun 2025)
Changed paths: R bin/worker/send-email R bin/worker/send-email-mass R bin/worker/send-email-ses M cgi-bin/DW/Controller/Tools.pm M cgi-bin/DW/Hooks/PrivList.pm M doc/dependencies-cpanm M etc/workers.conf
Log Message:
Remove TheSchwartz flow for email
It turns out we don't have any senders left for sending email via TheSchwartz... so we can just remove this all.
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Branch: refs/heads/main Home: https://github.com/dreamwidth/dreamwidth Commit: b67e2fc86ec4c83dcf20d563de526e1aab27c235 https://github.com/dreamwidth/dreamwidth/commit/b67e2fc86ec4c83dcf20d563de526e1aab27c235 Author: Mark Smith mark@dreamwidth.org Date: 2025-06-20 (Fri, 20 Jun 2025)
Changed paths: M cgi-bin/LJ/Global/Defaults.pm M etc/config-local.pl.example M etc/config.pl.example M etc/kubernetes/web/secrets/config-local.pl M etc/workers.conf M ext/dw-nonfree/etc/config-local.pl.example
Log Message:
Remove old mail configs
Sorry, this was deprecated a long time ago. Use EMAIL_VIA_SES which lets you configure an SMTP destination (that doesn't have to be SES.)
Commit: 0e07d21102198772dd1362d64ff3044ba83ea556 https://github.com/dreamwidth/dreamwidth/commit/0e07d21102198772dd1362d64ff3044ba83ea556 Author: Mark Smith mark@dreamwidth.org Date: 2025-06-20 (Fri, 20 Jun 2025)
Changed paths: M bin/worker/send-email M bin/worker/send-email-mass M bin/worker/send-email-ses M cgi-bin/DW/Task/SendEmail.pm M cgi-bin/LJ/Global/Defaults.pm M doc/dependencies-cpanm M etc/config-private.pl.example
Log Message:
Simplify email system
This causes the old TheSchwartz worker to simply enqueue an SQS job in the new task system, so we don't have any duplicate mail sending logic. Additionally, this standardizes on Net::SMTP which is the modern module now that it supports TLS. Also fix up the configs so this doesn't reference SES anymore since it's not specific to that.
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Yesterday morning Z. was watching Kim Possible during breakfast, and I burst out laughing when one of the villains[^1] said "This is not a party. This is not a disco. This is not fooling around." ^^
[^1] For those of you interested enough in Kim Possible to want to know, it was Señor Senior Sr., so the voice actor was either Earl Boen (who was Dr. Silberman in Terminator 2) or Ricardo Montalban (who needs no introduction).
ETA: I couldn't not look it up. This was s1e11 ("Coach Possible"), so Señor Senior Sr. was played by Earl Boen.
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readera has a post about heat precautions regarding the heat dome. These are my additions... notalwaysright_feed - The Internet: Where Entitlement Goes To Level Upcopperbadge_feed - PIZZA SUCCESS.ysabetwordsmith - Happy Litha!pepysdiary_feed - Friday 20 June 1662notalwaysright_feed - Overtime Crime, Part 14notalwaysright_feed - Get Him Some Running Shoes So He Can Run Far Awayysabetwordsmith - Birdfeedingcopperbadge_feed - I don’t know if tumblr will let us include links in asks yet, but Popular Mechanics published an artnotalwaysright_feed - Thinking Outside The Box Versus Thinking Only About The Boxnotalwaysright_feed - Canada: America’s Imaginary Hatnotalwaysright_feed - Commission Without The Commiseratingnotalwaysright_feed - Not Call Centering On The Problemmtbc - A first week at worknotalwaysright_feed - No Fortitude For Longitude, Part 26github in ![[site community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/comm_staff.png){kind=small}
changelog - [dreamwidth/dreamwidth] 505497: Update deployment tools for workersgithub in changelog - [dreamwidth/dreamwidth] 9820e2: Remove TheSchwartz flow for emailgithub in changelog - [dreamwidth/dreamwidth] b67e2f: Remove old mail configsbrithistorian - Easter Eggs During Wartimexkcd_feed - Interoperabilityysabetwordsmith - Heat
