Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

How is already Monday, dammit!

A possum got into my recycling bin and could not get out. He's still sleeping in it.

Frozen windshield for the first time since January #nothankyou

"Surprisingly combustible"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/15/mysterious-white-blobs-canada-beaches-experts-marine-scientists

An interesting musical curio is Sting's original demo for Every Breath You Take (he turned up to Synchronicity sessions with fully-formed demos of most of his stuff; the bellwether for the end of The Police). Andy Summers absolutely hated it, until he wrote *that* guitar part and the rest is history. #music
https://youtu.be/UAsjsDalAio

I expect there are some legal protections they are abusing here.

Company responsible for staggering leak files for bankruptcy https://cybernews.com/news/national-public-data-breach-social-security-bankruptcy/

I first saw him on the BBC Horizon documentary back in 1991; the first time western film crews had been permitted on the site. This was already quite late in the cleanup; the shelter was complete, the fuel was found, and they were into the data gathering and reclaiming phase.

Finally got around to reading Alexander Borovei's book about his exceptionally long duty at Chernobyl, from the opening hours of disaster to the relative normality a decade later.

Didn't realize the ISS was so clapped out.

Ocean experts raise concerns over deorbiting the International Space Station - SpaceNews
https://spacenews.com/ocean-experts-raise-concerns-over-deorbiting-the-international-space-station/

Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good • The Register
https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/08/switching_from_linux_to_bsd/

41F outside. On schedule, the lows have arrived. Had to give in and turn the heating on...