In 1989 I was one of the participants in the (then) Guinness World Record Endurance Computing held at the Hobby Computer Club days (HCC dagen) in the Netherlands.

The record was for 63.5 hours, but I had a two hour or so commute in each direction and the event started (from memory) at noon.

I’m guessing that I was awake in total for about 70 hours. I fell asleep on the way home.

We published a newsletter called “Elephant News” every few hours. Time keeping was managed by official time keepers and it was entered into the Guinness World Records in the 1990 book. I have a copy somewhere.

At some point not long after, Guinness abolished all world records that only had a time component and as far as I know it still stands :)

You understand that this series is fictitious and intended to initiate self reflection in subtle and indirect ways.

If you run out of Tuna, you can use Salmon.

::: Content warning: do not tap this link within at least two hours of a meal. Too late and you won’t be hungry, too early and you’ll see your food again. You’ve been warned. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-21/salmon-chunks-decomposing-fish-dumped-copping/104965402 :::

Yes

It’s not limited to measles and abortion, the Avian Influenza A (H5N1) which recently jumped the species barrier a second time from birds to cows into veterinarians is being monitored by the CDC who just lost 10% of their staff.

Source:

• https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/cdc-3-veterinarians-had-recent-h5n1-infections-didnt-know-they-had-been
• https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/74/wr/mm7404a2.htm
• https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/situation-summary/index.html
• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-disease-detectives-doge-cuts-health-agencies/

In Australia they tried this on with iiNet who told them to get stuffed.

They were taken to court and iiNet won. The appeal was dismissed by the Full Federal Court. Then it was dismissed again in the High Court

See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadshow_Films_Pty_Ltd_v_iiNet_Ltd

I think my point got lost in this and I’m to blame for not articulating myself, I apologise.

I was (poorly) trying to point out that there are enough minorities in the population who are currently being persecuted who either voted for this administration, or didn’t vote at all.

The overall margin between the candidates was only 0.15%.

Source: https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5094602-a-landslide-just-0-15-percent-of-all-voters-determined-trumps-2024-victory/

I asked because, that 13% combined with those who didn’t vote at all might have been the difference between being persecuted or not by the current administration.

Note that this isn’t limited to this community, it’s any community who voted for a candidate who openly and in public stated repeatedly what he was going to do.

Now it’s happening like a minute to minute reality TV show and it’s affecting the whole planet.

Now that it’s free, are its users the product?

So, three more years of #turtlepower?

How many voted for the Orange and how many didn’t bother to vote at all?

The Orange wants to turn it into a beach resort.

A hosting provider always has the ability to change what’s on their infrastructure. The Kindle store is no different.

As it happens, they’ve been doing this for years. For example, the price you set as an author is not fixed nor is how it turns up on the page or how and when it’s promoted.

The standard ebook format is essentially a zipped up series of text files.

Source: I sell my “Foundations of Amateur Radio” ebooks on the Kindle store

Sleep … I cannot remember the last time I had eight hours uninterrupted. Last night I managed 5.5 hours in three shifts. That was an improvement on the night before.

After a while you have seen it all and it takes extra energy to find the funny. Finding the funny is harder when you sleep poorly and your body ages.

That said, finding the funny is absolutely worth every effort, it’s just that sometimes it’s hard work.

Source: age

mRNA vaccines do it for me at the moment.

https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/Understanding-COVID-19-mRNA-Vaccines

I’m happy that my current default altitude is positive.

At one time I received an unexpected email from a shipping company that turned out to be legitimate, despite it having several red flags and being marked as spam by my email provider.

The point being, investigate and confirm before either condemning a message to the bitbucket or paying.

For example, if I received such a message, it would be ignored because I’ve not been near a toll road for well over a decade, but that might not be the case for every recipient, some of whom might not have paid their bill.

It’s that edge case that scammers are targeting.

… from Hotmail … the known origin of all official government notifications …

Enshitification continues unabated.