I put an Apple sticker in the middle of my Acer laptop cover. The laptop runs Linux. I continue to amuse myself.

Thursday the pug looking pleased with herself with Mr Lisa enraptured with Naked and Afraid on the telly.

I am a blooming fucking idiot. I've spent the last hour trying to solve an issue that didn't exist b/c I misunderstood something. Once I figured it out, I felt dumb as hell. An hour wasted!

friend, this is Marcus Junius Brutus CAESAR has declared himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE and MUST BE STOPPED can you rush a donation of ten denarii today to show that you STAND WITH THE REPUBLIC?

History fact: "The Divorcee" is based on the 1929 novel "Ex-wife" by Ursula Parrott, a contemporary of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and that lot. She wrote circles around those dead white dudes. "Ex-wife" was re-released in 2023. It's an amazing, modern, on brand novel. GO READ IT.

Damn. A neat-o web designer I know and I talked about her rebooting nerdgirl.net on the Wix platform since that's what she specializes in. Turns out, founders of Wix are Israeli and corp is located in Tel Aiv. Since I try to remove as much Israeli products out of my life, I will not be migrating.

After much praying to the MS gods, creating bootable media, grabbing my Windows product Key (using DOS-lite no less), turning off Secure Boot, and more! I've got Ubuntu installing on my laptop. I partitioned the disk to give Ubuntu 250G, which Mr. Lisa says is more than enough.

My PBS Sundays are back! We're watching All Creatures Great and Small and Miss Scarlet. What are you doing this weekend?

Meta is dropping encrypted messages from Instagram DMs from 8 May. This means that your all private conversations will be readable by Meta, shareable with advertisers, and subpoenable by courts. Privacy should be a default. Sign our petition. www.mozillafoundation.org/petitions/ke...

In anticipation of going on vaca next week, set the auto responder to ON for NGI email. I have to remind myself not to do work while I'm tooling around countries bordering on the Danube.

#Snowmegeddon part 1 lasted from this morning starting around midnight and ending about noon. We got about 6-8". Snowmeggedon part 2 project is below. We have all the trappings to be safe and warm but honestly? I'm over winter.

Installing Linux on my Windows 11 laptop to dual boot today. I'm creating a how-to guide as I go b/c the ones I'm finding are terribly written, missing instructions, or use a lot of jargon that is unnecessary. When I installed Mandrake in the late 1990s (represent!), I was LinuxGrrl everywhere.

we need to end him

#Snowmegeddon update: I live in lower N. Michigan (pinky) and we're in the path for the rough parts of the current storm. We got 5-7" since midnight last night, it's still snowing another 3-5" today. My library closed. Tomorrow no snow and then Sunday to Monday, 8-15".

As a massive fan of Sir. TPerry (and having a Discworld tattoo!), this is fab news. I do need to warn this article is behind a paywall but can be read for free if you create an account. They allow limited # of free articles a month or you cough up $20 USD for monthly sub.

My first instance of being on the internet was in the early 1990s when it was command line (IRC! Archie! Veronica! FTP! Pine! Telnet!) as my college's computer lab did not a graphical browser installed yet. I cannot help but remain enthusiastic, joyful, and hopeful about the internet as a whole.

I'm going to install Linux (Ubuntu) onto my Windows PC and dual boot. We're set to get 18-24" of snow from now until Monday so need something to keep me entertained. I'm also "I installed Mandrake" years old.

Mr. Lisa hit a deer yesterday on his way to work. Estimate of repairs? $10K. Car worth? $6k. (These are estimates.) We're going to work with insurance company to not total the car and pay the difference. Additionally, I am having a heart ablation in April, and the dog may have cancer. Fuck 2026.

Some idiot at Equifax thought it would be a great fucking idea to send out DAILY credit updates instead of monthly. Who in their right mind thought this would be a good idea? People are trying to get RID of email and not get more. I cannot figure out how to unsub from this bullshit.

Happy #OpenDataDay to all who celebrate.

I wonder how long I would live if I sucked the life force out of these GenZers.

‘Hey’ came before ‘hi,’ and ‘hi' came before ‘hello.’ ‘Hi’ is most likely a variant of ‘hey.’ ‘Hello’ is not related to either. Goodbye.

I am at the local community college to talk about women in STEM and sponsored by the STEM Study Nights college group. I am first up!

In #GoodOmensTarot, Demons represent Swords. II of Swords upright indicates that I have a difficult decision to make and this is not wrong! I'm doing an experiment right now and the results are inconclusive until the end of the experiment in a few days, then I can make a logical decision. #TarotSky

Today's card is Ace of Humans (Pentacles) signifying abundance, opportunities, and manifestation. What's interesting abt this card is that I pulled it AFTER I worked and released an NGI ad campaign and promoting NGI on a business podcast. Let's see if any of this actually manifests. #TarotSky

Well fucking great. I'm the secretary for my library's Friends board. The President and VP are stepping down and we have no contenders to replace. I am NOT stepping up b/c bandwidth. Curious to see what will happen.

this is the way, but instead of doing it alone do it with no more than two other folks.

I'm also really fucking annoyed b/c several well known virtual writer confs have a pay to play model with financial support by known brands BUT they are not paying their presenters. Presenters get paid when THEY bring in bodies to pay for the conf. This is fucking bullshit.

I am not a lawyer, I do not pretend to be a lawyer, but I am smart enough to figure out basic legalese (and I don't have a problem researching said legalese if need be). A writer's group I would present a workshop for sent me a 10 page contract on the workshop agreement. It is fucking egregious.

No idea it was DST today and I thought all the analog clocks in my house were dead.

Good advice! Except I'm not watching Australia tonight since it's on so late.

Apple TV is now showing F1! I added the calendar to my calendar so I can track when the races (also trials and prelims). I haven't really gotten into F1 in years. I DID go to an F1 race when it was in Indy back in 2007 and it was AMAZING. I would A++ do it again.

PSA: start taking your antihistamines now people!

In the most librarian/ADHD thing I've ever done (outside of cataloging my 100+ t-short collection), I'm organizing my Kindle titles into collections by genre and if the author has more than 1 title, they get a folder, too. I have about 300 titles left to organize out of 1700.

in Good Omens Tarot, Vessels is Cups, so this is the V of Cups. It means I am stuck or have disappointment. At first read, this seems like a negative card but I disagree. Clearly something isn't working right in what I'm doing now for that thing so there is a way through. #TarotSky

Yesterday someone left a very intricate gift wrapped bag of Hershey Kisses on my car. None of my colleagues got a bag. The director says she thinks she knows how it is but I want to be kept in suspense. Per her, patrons flirt all the time with me and Ass. director and we're oblivious.

I have the ARCs of the new Murderbot novel and @oliviawrites.bsky.social’s new one (Worlds Okayest Oracle (reluctantly) Seeks Demo) and I am EXCITED TO READ ALL THE THINGS.

Holy cats! Kanopy is in Slovenia! (But not Libby or Hoopla.)

Nothing dampens the day like finding out your childhood crush (Ricky Schroeder) is ultra conservative, antimasker, and donated funds to support Kyle Rittenhouse. 10 year old Lisa is devastated.

Love me, love my velour tracksuit. I own three.

Feck. My optometrist’s office is playing the Muzak version of Oasis’s Wonderwall. ☠️

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We have a Google appliance that gets activated by saying "OK Google." I use it for weather, timer, and dad jokes. Mr. Lisa is having a conversation with it about whether or not the AI is exploited. She (our appliance voice is female) is giving him the run around. Mr. Lisa is also stoned.

✈️ In Issue #33 of Nerd Girl Presents 🛳️ : NGI Presents is on hiatus until April 17 and in The Blog of NGI, the first in a series on starting a business has dropped. Read more at sh1.sendinblue.com/afqhqchh8lpf... and subscribe at forms.gle/mR7iWDD4XDxB...

A national writer's group opened up a MI chapter and I got the first email from that chapter today. Their newsletter was a .doc format. I put a (gentle) smack down on why this was a terrible idea (accessibility; 70% internet users on mobile), gave them ideas on free mailing list servers, and more.

Happy Bridgerton S4 Part 2 Day to those who celebrate!

Read Robert Caradine died at the age of 71. No cause was listed but there was a huge stress that he was bipolar. This leads me to the conclusion that he committed suicide. It's funny on that big stress on mental health care, they talk about "stigma," but yet can't bring themselves to say "suicide."

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I have watched ~600 episodes of Love Island UK dating back to the reboot in 2015. We're now on episode 37 of LI All Stars S3. (Go jump in a lake Lucinda! It's not about you!) This is both a flex and a sad commentary of my life for the last 10 years.

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