Chinwag Posts

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL] https://social.chinwag.org/@mike
Chinwag admin, fan of open communication standards, maintainer of communities, male comedienne.
Winner of Time Magazine "Person of the Year" 2006 and will never get tired of that joke.
I talk about #retrocomputing a lot. I also do a lot of #gardening and occasionally make #bread and #beer. I have been a Unix #sysadmin for about 30 years but I think I'll be OK.
I live in #Melbourne, #Australia and sometimes tell jokes on stages around here. I co-host a #StarTrek podcast with @ThePingMachine
Meech joined me to watch some TV but apparently it wasn't that engaging and he's dozed off.

The cord retractor thing on my vacuum cleaner is extremely weak and unsatisfying and nothing like the amazingly fast ones I recall from my youth and I blame woke.
Today is "rearrange the office" day and I both do and do not want to do this in equal amounts.
Dresden replaced the frame happily and we had a chat about isopropyl alcohol! I'm mainly surprised that this took so long to happen. The staff member I spoke to didn't think the colour dyes would make a difference in how vulnerable the frames might be so it's just weird "luck" that my newest frames were the first time I encountered this.
That's assuming it was IPA that did this, of course, and not just a random manufacturing flaw in this one set.
Anyway I know to be more careful with my glasses when doing electronics stuff now!


