Joel Berger

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Find me more often on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/teknomantik.old-home.net

Nerdy guy with opinions, mostly that people should care about each other. Dad, sysadmin, overly-distracted anime fan, baseball and hockey enjoyer. Pronouns in bio, deal with it. He/him.

⚾ #Rockies | πŸ’ #GoAvsGo

Always hoped I'd get a chance to go to a game with @rit but it was not to be. Here for the Avs and Flyers today in his memory.

Updated social stuff:

My Twitter account is abandoned and soon to be empty save for my final tweet from October 2023.

I'm here infrequently at best. Find me on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/teknomantik.old-home.net

Joel Berger (@teknomantik.old-home.net)

Nerdy guy with opinions, mostly that people should care about each other. Dad of two awesome young humans, sysadmin for the money, overly-distracted anime fan, baseball and hockey enjoyer. Pronouns in bio, deal with it. He/him. ⚾ #Rockies πŸ’ #GoAvsGo

Bluesky Social
Today in cursed regular expressions:
^[0-9a-f]{8}-([0-9a-f]{4}-){3}[0-9a-f]{12}$
Don't mind me forgetting that there are CIM queries for this that don't require mangling console output.

Cursed one-liner:

(Get-Date).AddMinutes(((cscript //nologo c:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs /dlv
| Where-Object { $_ -like 'Timebased*' }) -replace '^T.*: ([0-9]+).*','$1'))

For those who are here more than the bird site now, I'll say the same thing I said there: I will not be joining Threads. I already resent my inability to remove myself from Facebook without losing a bunch of connections.

Right now it sounds like Bluesky might be the least-awful option, but I don't have an invite yet.

For now, if you need to find me, I'm here, or the same handle on the bird site.

Fun fact: during early development the gonads of the human fetus remain undifferentiated; that is, all fetal genitalia are the same and are phenotypically female.

- So, if biological sex can't be changed,
- And if life starts at conception,
- Then all men are trans.

Sorry, Republican men. You made the rules.

I've seen folks hail this as more than doubling pay at every level, which is true, but once we look at the actual numbers, it's still pretty shameful given the time investment involved in developing as a professional athlete. Surely a couple million more every year to give players more development time and less stress should be a worthwhile investment for multi-billion-dollar orgs like any MLB club. #MiLB
Specs: approx. 175g of coffee, ground medium-coarse in my cheap burr grinder, to 1200ml of water. Steeped about 22 hours at room temp in a large press before plunging it down. Diluted 1:1 with cold water at serving, then added ice.
I cold-brewed a batch of Death Wish #coffee yesterday for the first time in a while. Had the first glass today and had to add milk to avoid instant heartburn. And here I thought cold brew was itself supposed to reduce acidity. Anyone got tips on this?