Benjamin Esham @bdesham@parcel5.social

I know we’re not supposed to have a lot of exceptions to the First Amendment, but should people really be allowed to put “Flour” in the name of their gluten-free bakeries?

“The shame over an incident like Baraboo’s shouldn’t be merely over the fact that it happened. It should be felt over the fact that when it happens, we pretend like nobody could have seen it coming.” — Monica Hesse in The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/thats-not-who-we-are-sixty-nazi-saluting-boys-in-baraboo-suggest-otherwise/2018/11/13/9b13ecbe-e6ac-11e8-bbdb-72fdbf9d4fed_story.html

Romulan Ale is illegal in the Federation, sir, and I never slice!

I thought the race for director of the Marin Municipal Water District was going to be the most boring one on the ballot, but one candidate is promising “tasty water” and the other supports “expanded use of goats.” I don’t know what to think!

Scattered

“What’s this?!” Jack Skellington shouts, increasingly frustrated by JavaScript’s binding rules

Sometimes I feel contempt for the people on Stack Overflow who say, “I don’t care what’s going on or what the underlying problem is; just tell me how to make this work!”

Then I start having Xcode problems…

In his review of the iPhone XR Austin Mann writes, “The iPhone XR and XS have the same wide angle lens, a 26mm f/1.8 lens. The iPhone XR uses this 26mm f/1.8 lens for portraits and the iPhone XS uses its telephoto lens (51mm f/2.4) for portraits.”

It makes perfect sense to give the focal lengths in 35 mm–equivalent terms, but you need to convert the apertures too for an honest comparison. These cameras are 26 mm f/11 and 52 mm f/21.

you can comb a hairy donut but you can’t tuna fish

It never occurred to me as I was watching Star Trek as a kid, but the computer on the show wasn’t an IBM computer or a Weyland-Yutani computer or an Apple computer. It was just “the computer.”

I think the idea that we didn’t need for-profit corporations to make all that amazing technology was a subtle but meaningful bit of world-building.

The notebook of (L–R) Picasso, Hemingway, and Chatwin

Advantages and disadvantages of using U+2028 LINE SEPARATOR as your newline character https://esham.io/2018/10/2

I wrote a blog post about why (and how) I’m posting on my own site in preference to Twitter and Instagram: https://esham.io/2018/10/microblogging