Breakfast At Ralf's

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
ralfmaximus

pantswithelephants asked:

hello may we please see the frog or perhaps the website? (if you don’t want to share that’s totally okay) thank you for the story!!

ralfmaximus answered:

Alas, this occurred in 1995 and the company is long gone.

The demo was actually conducted using his laptop browser opening his site off-line; no webserver involved. Just a collection of pages stored on his drive C: that frog-guy created using notepad.exe, an impressive feat at the time. Once he onboarded we let him host his frog menagerie on the corporate LAN but I don’t think we ever gave it public access.

Our project manager (also at the interview) nabbed the computer-frog instantly and I haven’t spoken with anybody from that organization since 1998, so… yeah.

If I had the froggy I’d show y'all. And yes, it’s all true.

(If you’re wondering what the heck this is about, it’s about this.)

ralfmaximus

Since the Ceramic Frog thing has regained traction and I’m getting asks, here ya go.

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I am also on bluesky and mastodon as ralfmaximus.

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D.C.'s IndyCar race will zoom past museums. Some worry it could harm the art inside
Sunday's course takes high-speed cars right past the National Gallery of Art and three Smithsonian museums. Art experts worry about the work
NPR

More than two dozen IndyCar drivers will race 147 laps around Washington, D.C.’s National Mall this weekend for the Freedom 250 Grand Prix, celebrating the country’s milestone birthday.

The two-day event includes practices, qualifiers and warmups, culminating in the 250-mile race on Sunday afternoon. Cars will fly — at speeds up to 180 mph — around a 1.7-mile irregularly-shaped track smack-dab on the National Mall.

Huh. Did you know they were gonna race IndyCars around Washington DC this weekend? I didn’t.

Anyway. Driving 180 mph on roads that normally have a speed limit of 25 mph doesn’t seem weird. Roads that are so bumpy and pot-holed that many drivers intentionally avoid the area.

Roaring past museums & memorials wheel-to-wheel at nearly 200 mph seems like a perfectly safe & sane thing to do. Hope nobody crashes into an irreplaceable work of public art!

Celebrating ridiculously excessive motorsports when gasoline is over $4/gallon on average? It’s fine. Don’t think about it.

Sheesh, they will spend money on anything but healthcare.

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bogkeep

there's something so deeply dystopian to me how tech companies don't understand that a forced convenience is not a convenience at all. i'm sure autocorrect is helpful for many, but a function that forcibly changes my actual written words and punctuation is taking away my language. photo filters can be nice but i need to choose using them myself or else i have lost the ability to take the picture i want. i don't want a machine to draw or write for me. taking away the option for me to do things manually feels like violence!!!! all this talk of endless opportunity, why are you RESTRICTING me

bogkeep

disgustedly throws youtube autodubbing onto the pyre pile

bogkeep

another thing that is annoying to Me Specifically is how every social media app keeps asking me if i don't want to turn on pop-up notifications. am i aware i have them turned off?? am i absolutely mega sure i don't want to turn pop up notifications on?? 🥺

Trust Me Yes I Am Sure I Turned Them Off Purposefully, For A Reason. pop-up notifications makes me hate the app and the person who made them happen. if you want me to keep using your app you don't want me to turn on the notifications

bogkeep

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man...........

ralfmaximus

Google keeps wanting to turn face recognition on in my phone. I keep telling it no, but it keeps asking.

It hopes one day I'll accidently say yes. The software is intentionally designed to be deceptive. I hate it, but I need a phone and enjoy taking pictures with it. Sometimes I feel like my life is a fantasy novel and I'm at war with an evil djinn trapped in a bottle.

ralfmaximus

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My phone, just now. It pops this thing up every couple weeks when all I want to do is look at my photos.

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