@joemcschmoe.bsky.social
Embedded programmer. History nerd. Non-professional cook. Stairs haver.
Technically, a Christmas movie, too.
December 8, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Technically, a Christmas movie, too.
I have very similar slippers (and similar cat) :)
December 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I have very similar slippers (and similar cat) :)
Gift them Laphroaig and see how it goes for them.
November 19, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Gift them Laphroaig and see how it goes for them.
Over here in the UK we're locking up a bunch of little old white ladies as terrorists for holding up pro-Palestine signs, so, it might not help as much as you might like.
October 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Over here in the UK we're locking up a bunch of little old white ladies as terrorists for holding up pro-Palestine signs, so, it might not help as much as you might like.
Having lived in Ann Arbor myself, do they, uh, realise they are living in Ann Arbor?!
October 11, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Having lived in Ann Arbor myself, do they, uh, realise they are living in Ann Arbor?!
'Are there no workhouses?'. This is /Dickens/, he absolutely is doing that, it's his thing.
October 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
'Are there no workhouses?'. This is /Dickens/, he absolutely is doing that, it's his thing.
As someone with some knowledge of 17th century English history I am /sure/ this will go well. (And I might add the legacy of that is also half the reason the US exists, of course)
October 8, 2025 at 1:08 PM
As someone with some knowledge of 17th century English history I am /sure/ this will go well. (And I might add the legacy of that is also half the reason the US exists, of course)
I suspect 'tight rubber' might be involved.
October 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I suspect 'tight rubber' might be involved.
Being British about this, but 'that bloody [x]'?
October 2, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Being British about this, but 'that bloody [x]'?
My first wife was from a small (as in pop. 200) town in Hillsdale. Her parents' neighbours had a giant Confederate flag flying outside. How many of us have been scarred by the place, did it make us all turn to milhist?
September 21, 2025 at 10:44 AM
My first wife was from a small (as in pop. 200) town in Hillsdale. Her parents' neighbours had a giant Confederate flag flying outside. How many of us have been scarred by the place, did it make us all turn to milhist?
'I know this, it's a Unix system!' (and despite appearances, it actually was, specifically Irix)
September 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
'I know this, it's a Unix system!' (and despite appearances, it actually was, specifically Irix)
I can absolutely believe a Latin student in the Early Modern (so probably at least moderately well heeled) would also have one of those.
August 12, 2025 at 8:07 AM
I can absolutely believe a Latin student in the Early Modern (so probably at least moderately well heeled) would also have one of those.
I'm a humanity major (history specifically) and ended up getting a job and a quarter century long career in....compsci.
August 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I'm a humanity major (history specifically) and ended up getting a job and a quarter century long career in....compsci.
(and later, see William III)
August 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
(and later, see William III)
Having /any/ standing army would be a bit of an issue outside of like Beefeaters, right? this is a whole thing in 17th century Republican vs Royalist discourse, from which the US revolution flows.
August 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Having /any/ standing army would be a bit of an issue outside of like Beefeaters, right? this is a whole thing in 17th century Republican vs Royalist discourse, from which the US revolution flows.
I remember in the late 80s or so my dad would get his big Ordnance Survey maps out in advance on the floor and plot his route with each junction to exit at etc.
Not going to lie, Google Maps (with GPS) made a world of difference in how comfortable I was simply walking round a town I didn't know too
Not going to lie, Google Maps (with GPS) made a world of difference in how comfortable I was simply walking round a town I didn't know too
June 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I remember in the late 80s or so my dad would get his big Ordnance Survey maps out in advance on the floor and plot his route with each junction to exit at etc.
Not going to lie, Google Maps (with GPS) made a world of difference in how comfortable I was simply walking round a town I didn't know too
Not going to lie, Google Maps (with GPS) made a world of difference in how comfortable I was simply walking round a town I didn't know too
Reposted
cut my heap into pieces, this is my crash report:
allocation, no alignment
don't give a fuck if it faults on assignment
this is fatal abort()
allocation, no alignment
don't give a fuck if it faults on assignment
this is fatal abort()
May 31, 2025 at 5:26 PM
cut my heap into pieces, this is my crash report:
allocation, no alignment
don't give a fuck if it faults on assignment
this is fatal abort()
allocation, no alignment
don't give a fuck if it faults on assignment
this is fatal abort()
I wonder how this would compare to the UK? In most universities, since we don't have majors and minors, everybody in a given history class is a major in their field and indeed studying nothing else for the whole three years (but, realistically, most still won't be going on to PhDs in history).
May 26, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I wonder how this would compare to the UK? In most universities, since we don't have majors and minors, everybody in a given history class is a major in their field and indeed studying nothing else for the whole three years (but, realistically, most still won't be going on to PhDs in history).
Sororities/fraternities still exist with all of that (and at least in the case of the black ones, which is my own or rather my wife's experience, are functionally charities with a bunch of adult members not just a university thing). Being university based originally there is the class thing though.
May 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Sororities/fraternities still exist with all of that (and at least in the case of the black ones, which is my own or rather my wife's experience, are functionally charities with a bunch of adult members not just a university thing). Being university based originally there is the class thing though.
www.hertford.ox.ac.uk/alumni/hertf...
It's a thing. I knew the previous Simpkin when he was a kitten.
It's a thing. I knew the previous Simpkin when he was a kitten.
The Simpkin Dynasty - Hertford College | University of Oxford
www.hertford.ox.ac.uk
May 14, 2025 at 12:10 PM
www.hertford.ox.ac.uk/alumni/hertf...
It's a thing. I knew the previous Simpkin when he was a kitten.
It's a thing. I knew the previous Simpkin when he was a kitten.
I kind of do that with my SO. :) Alternative idea, I guess, create an account for e.g. one of your cats and use that?
April 29, 2025 at 8:41 AM
I kind of do that with my SO. :) Alternative idea, I guess, create an account for e.g. one of your cats and use that?
This is, to be fair, the main skill some universities teach you. :)
April 29, 2025 at 8:21 AM
This is, to be fair, the main skill some universities teach you. :)