Aaron Parecki

@aaronpk those poor souls are earning their wages, let me tell you. Each sheet of ⅝” weighs about 74 pounds.

@aaronpk two‽ For fire safety / building code I assume? How did you attach them? Long drywall screws?

Installing ⅚” drywall is way more annoying than ½”!

@aaronpk do you follow @Srl295 on Mastodon yet? I’ve learned basically everything that I know about Unicode from him

Another exciting evening in Chez Charlie as I connect a Pi, newly-equipped with a Waveshare POE hat, to a POE switch for the first time.

This setup will be extended to power a lot of smart devices in the new apartment.

When it’s finished.

Which will be sometime… in the future.

#HomeAutomation #RaspberryPi

@aaronpk To which one can only reply,... OOOOoooF! $35 a visit. harsh.

@aaronpk I remember doing a science experiement in elementary school involving several 2 liter bottles of generic cola from the local store and a very cold day (I think it was 22ºF/-6ºC?) doing exactly this in our schoolyard. Very fun, and very cold.

OpenID Connect, aka OIDC, has basically nothing to do with the original OpenID protocol beyond the name, right?

(It's taken me nearly a decade to figure that out)

@aaronpk I'm just approaching the age where I can find things to spend it on, so I have maxed out the benefit the last couple of years. Assuming a 33%(ish) effective tax rate, that gives me just under $1000 of additional buying power. But for $500 or so, no, it would most certainly not be worth the hassle of dealing with ASI.

@aaronpk Our insurance told us they were changing FSA providers for next year and that brought me great joy because the old one is so terribly difficult to deal with. It's almost not worth the hassle. Then a couple of weeks ago, they alerted us that there will be no change after all. I'm on a health plan for state employees, so I assume they made the original announcement while the ink was still drying on the new contract and then something fell through at the last minute.

@aaronpk nice write up, thanks! One of the images doesn’t load for me.

@aaronpk "high speed" ;) But yeah, the US needs more trains

@aaronpk Sigh. The bit about the tracks depressed me. The Talgo trains Amtrak Cascades uses are designed to run just as fast as the Siemens trains Brightline uses. But track conditions don't allow it.

I mean, all the amenities you describe are very nice, but having trains that fast would be life-changing for of lot of people in the PNW, even if you had to dine on stale crackers.

@aaronpk hey, not too bad as far as travel snafus, go. Still annoying and inconvenient, but an impressive streak nevertheless!

What's the delta between your final arrival time and the original? And did the airline cover the cost of the alternative arrangements?

@aaronpk I am certainly not the first one who noticed that the former champion of use-your-own-server and #Indieweb has as his three links only corporate monosilos, right?

@aaronpk Your unbelievably cute kitties?