Granite Geek NH

It used to be when I told people what I do for a living they'd say "Cool!" Now they look at me like I said I manufacture buggy whips: "Is that still a thing?"

I'm not entirely sure. I have it on the list of groups? (whatever the term is) that I can scroll to. I've forgotten how it works - like most software, I learned it when starting out and then forgot all the details.

There's a Blacksky thread which is quite active.

The scent of the perfume my mother wore when I was a child says "Like nothing else - really?"

My memory of that show was a shortage of intriguing plot twists, which were the key to Twilight Zone's appeal. Good looking programs but bland scripts

Among the oddities on town ballots at town meeting election day was a petitioned article (i.e., not put forward by select board but requested by at least 25 voters) requiring use of Microsoft Teams for livestreaming school meetings in Epsom.

…states w/highest share of natural gas generation saw greatest increases in retail electricity prices through 2022–2023, followed by largest price decreases…substantial buildout in new gas plants while increases in LNG export capacity will further link domestic prices to higher global prices’

1 sun thing: Trump White House still has solar panels The panels have somehow endured through President Trump's criticism of renewable energy and his Democratic predecessors.

I learned from @axios that the White House has solar panels (not sure if they're thermal or PV) put up by Trump predecessors, and Trump hasn't pulled a Reagan and removed them. Go figure.
www.axios.com/2026/03/11/t...

That cover always reminds me of my parents yelling at me for ruining the Christmas family photo by being the one who didn't look at the camera.

this was film era - you didn't know what you had until a week later!

"funny" wasn't the word I used

software?

I miss many things of having the children at home. That is not one of them.

Not only do I DNF finish books, I throw them across the room because I've wasted time that could have been used reading a better book.

Did he have a name tag saying "John Smith, Scientist"? Because that would be cool.

A guy I know has the official work title of "solutions engineer"

I'm hard pressed to think of a more content-free title. That job could be absolutely anything.

(actually, he's "senior solutions engineer"!)

I disagree. Sheep have nary a brain cell but goats are wily, clever beasts, able to outthink any featherless biped they encounter.

These days, I have sheep.

Awesome! Like the Harry Connick video where he adds a beat so the audience is no longer clapping on 1-3, after which the drummer celebrates.

Maybe it's more common that we audience folk realize. It's got a name: rhythmic displacement

Ig Nobels to move awards to Europe due to concern over US travel visas Scientific awards – which honor research that makes people laugh and then think – to move away from ‘unsafe’ US

This is really depressing. Trump and MAGA have destroyed another fun, useful thing.

www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

A once-proud tradition is becoming awkward for elite universities Dartmouth College and other elite universities abandon century-old swimming requirements for graduation, citing racial disparities in swimming ability among students.

My son, who hates swimming, almost didn't attend Cornell because of their swim requirement. He passed by the skin of his flippers

www.economist.com/united-state...

"may"??????????

We went to Hoppers because we need to see something non-bad these days and we love Pixar. It was OK.

Four main actors in the show

How To Get To Heaven From Belfast is a great show (on Netflix) - wacky but not too wacky, serios but not too serious, some wild side characters and great main actors.

But my god, those Irish names ...

my wife, who when uncertain puts an "e" at the end of every word, would approve

I was a teenager then; there definitely was a lot of play-acting. But the cultural discussion and "vibe" was strong and it felt like it would last. It didn't.

The way the Woodstock Generation became the Reagan Revolution in a decade has give me lifelong suspicion of people's beliefs.

It has been pointed out to me that people in New Hampshire were creating natural burial grounds since the day after the Ice Age glaciers retreated, so it's not exactly "the first". This would be the first approved by the state of NH.

A last act of care for the Earth: State's first natural burial ground opens in White Mountains - Concord Monitor New Hampshire's first natural burial ground, Oliverian Everlasting Burial Ground, offering an eco-friendly alternative to traditional cemeteries.

A couple donated the land used for the state's first "natural burial ground" - no casket, no tomb, no embalming fluid.

www.concordmonitor.com/2026/03/07/n...

The r/electricvehicle sub on reddit is trying not to be too obnoxious in their schadenfreude as gasoline prices skyrocket.

They aren't succeeding.

I've kept my Twitter account - post "test" once every couple of months - for that reason. Although, unlike you, I have no real need to worry about impersonation.

You should read your Bsky feed - it's pretty informative