@jpayne Oh good! Thanks! Glad you like it!
@jpayne Oh good! Thanks! Glad you like it!
@DrOct Ok, just checked and it's fine in Chrome on my work computer. Must be something going on with my copy of Firefox here at work.
@help Huh. I just get a box that says "
Content Not Found
The item may have been removed or there’s a problem with the URL" when I go to the entry on my actual blog (https://www.brandonshire.blog/2019/10/01/my-party-playlist.html) It looks fine when I look at it in my list of posts to edit.
@khurtwilliams I've felt that way about USB for years. I get why there are A and B type connectors. And I get why there is a mini type connector, but I've never understood why there are so many mini type connectors!
@DrOct Hmmm... Do embeded Apple Music playslits not work on Micro.blog? It worked perfectly in the preview, and when I look at my posts to edit it renders properly, but doesn't seem to work on my actual blog. @help @manton
@Miraz I'm very sorry to hear that. It's so hard to lose pets. But it sounds like he had a great life and a wondeful home.
@chrispederick Congratulations!
@Miraz Well, whatever happens I'm sure he's glad to have someone as loving as you there with him. I hope his last days, however long that is, are comfortable and happy for him. You're both in my thoughts.
@Miraz Oh no! poor kitty! I'm sending good thoughts to both of you.
@mikehaynes Interesting! Thanks!
@news Ghost blogs?
@smokey They ate all of the leaves and then disapeared (the internet tells us they likely left to find a safe spot to spinn a chyrsalis. We've looked around a little bu thaven't found them yet)
@Stevsmit you’re most welcome! It’s continued to go well, and I have no regrets on making the switch. I’m glad to hear the series was helpful!
@Ron Wow! I guess I should have bought it back when I first encountered this article!
@vasta - I should clarify: the loops at the top are not in and of themselves hard to read, it's just that it makes the top half (and often the bottom too!) of lots of letters all look the same, which makes it much more difficult to distinguish them quickly. With most people's handwriting you end up with a bunch of slightly different loops that you have to look at carefully to distinguish. (Also I think something got messed up in that URL when I posted it. lets try it again: slate.com/human-int...) I don't think there's anything wrong with working on penmanship, but I don't think cursive itself is important or even really a good use of students time. I've been really interestd in learning the Italics based writing system mentioned in that article for a while now though. That sounds like a method of writing that is both easy on the writer and legible for the reader.
@ronguest But you don't need cursive to have a signature... just a distinct way of writing your name.
@vasta I'm of the opinion that cursive is actually an objectivly bad way to write. The loops at the top of letters make them difficult for humans to quickly read without extra effort, and the way peoples handwriting tends to degrade when writing quickly amplifies the problem. slate.com/human-int...
I found learning cursive somewhat torturous in school and never got very good at it, and have never found it to be particularly important. (We were told for several years that "next year" we would be required to write everything in cursive, but that never actually happened. Print, or Italics are much more readable by everyone, and given how bad my handwriting is anyway cursive would make it unreadable even to me!
@droct Will are reply to this reply show up propertly?
@droct Will this thread properly on the Mastodon side?
@Miraz That's so neat!
@jack Totally on the same page here. I would also like this!
@klandwehr Those look great! How did they turn out with the parsley?
@klandwehr That has happend to me so many times. In both directions. Our grocery stor puts them right next to eachother and they often get mixed up, so we have learned to try to be really careful about checking them before taking them. We still screw it up occasionally.
@darius You sounded great in that marketplace segment. Very cool!
@amit Agreed!