Eric Phelps

@ericphelps
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Worked in USA, Canada, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Venezuela, Nicaragua, UAE, Morocco, Iraq, Nigeria, South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, India -- and all of them full of good people. Still working, now back in the USA.

Weekends are usually biking, kayaking, or hiking. It's "urban hiking" in the hidden areas everyone else drives past.

I follow #hiking and #kayaking, so even if it looks like I'm not following you... I'm following you ;)

I usually post a couple times a week.

Webhttp://ericphelps.com/
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@clew Also known as "shredded redwood", it's tree bark, but instead of being broken up into chunks, it's shredded into threads. This allows it to interlock and form a loose mat that doesn't wash off in the rain, blow away in the wind, or get knocked out of place by foot traffic.

And it's perfect for building bird nests!

@sj I bet they had 2 fives and 2 fours and 1 three. That would be close to those percentages (and give a 4.2 average), but… could this actually be an attempt at statistical corrections for low sample size? Because my only other theory is they just add noise to the numbers to make them look more precise.
Baby birds! My wife has a decorative lantern on the front porch, and some little wren decided it was a good place for a nest. We have lots of "gorilla hair" mulch in the front yard, so nesting material was abundant.
When the chicks first hatched, they were so tiny they were buried in the mulch. Now they're big enough they're easy to spot.
So cute!

"Actually, let me just try running it and see what happens."

-- What the AI said during a thinking session while writing scripts to translate documents to French. Yes, this particular AI gets bored with repetitive work or endless analysis.

@asbjorn @nuwagaba2 Like this?
Yes, it's AI. I wouldn't fool anyone if I tried to pass it off as my own.
@ArchusByte I took a different approach:
https://mastodon.social/@ericphelps/114572014328600810
Small tires and aluminum all break apart and go inside the kayak while I'm on the water. The kayak is suspended in a 3-way hammock with actual bungee-cord shock absorbers to handle bumpy trails. I think I over-engineered it though 🤔.
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@KolokokoBird There's a nice one for Android. I can set it up to block everything and log every attempt.

@KolokokoBird Good for you on separate emails for every account! I don't know why that isn't more common.

Sharing contact info and health status really bugs me. HIPPA says they can share information for your care, but… are the people they shared the info with covered by HIPPA? Might be interesting to run the app with a tracking firewall to see who it tries to contact. I can do that on Android.

At least get the clinic on their back foot and make them photocopy some exercise sheets for you.

@KolokokoBird https://www.bluestacks.com/
Just saying. Pair it with the built-in-to-Windows "Windows Sandbox" and you can run an app like that, grab a few screenshots, delete it, wipe the sandbox, and, as they say, Bob's your Uncle.

The only downside is the app will probably want you to authenticate using the same email address you have at the doctor. But it's too late to protect that piece of information since the doctor already gave it away.

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