Oracle of Claros

50s. Probably an android, maybe an alien? I love pattern recognition.

[oracleofclaros]

Shitposting is an anagram of Top Insights

Kevin Beaumont

[oracleofclaros]

Work laptop refresh on Wednesday. I need to:

Make sure to backup my stuff. Before the last refresh, I set my Downloads, Documents, and other important spaces to OneDrive, so that it just worked.

Inventory my software save to somewhere accessible what to install.

Inventory my pinned items.

Inventory my important software settings. Most of my stuff is customized to me.

It'll be 10+ hours of lost productivity if I don't get this right. Which reminds me: I need to block off the entirety of that day to recover. Last one went fine, but I was also at home and had to schedule it for a day I would come into the office. I and some director and above were in the office. No distractions. Less chaotic time.

[oracleofclaros]

My wife talked about canceling the Sam's Club membership last year. We haven't used it all year. Turns out I didn't actually cancel it.

[oracleofclaros]

I rely on the visual difference between "unread" and "read" to indicate what things I need to read. The Service Now notification list is THE WORST. Things I read get marked as read until a new one comes in and read items change back to unread.

[isitsafe]

People used to call him a doctor. I guess he wants people to wait until they’re hospitalized until they apply for insurance.

[oracleofclaros]

The way insurance works, you WANT people who never file a claim to pay into it such that the people who use it don't have to pay as much.

[oracleofclaros]

I keep forgetting this dude's name is Erin. I so want to meet him in person.

[oracleofclaros]

Soon someone new coming into your life will be a best friend.

I call bullshit!

[oracleofclaros]

Scheduling this for a month out as "soon" to check-in with myself about a) have I met someone new and b) is that person a best friend.

That would be a resounding no.

[oracleofclaros]

Remember when women were talking about whether they'd prefer to run into a bear or a man in the woods? Apparently lions are more trustworthy than men too. Missed this from back then.

[the-big-mood]

These two giant turtles have been fighting each other for more than 120 years.

According to the zoo, one turtle stole the other’s food 120 years ago, and since that day they became enemies.

There hasn’t been a single day where they don’t fight for 2–3 minutes😂

[shtrbger]

Can you imagine holding a grudge for 120 years?

[oracleofclaros]

Yes. My mother and her sisters have for over 50. All of them are going to their deathbeds having these grudges.

[ryan-sometimes]

I think it's so funny how we bred JOBS into dogs. I have two shih tzus and they were bred to be lap dogs. All they care about is looking cute and cuddling with people. Meanwhile my grandma has a border collie and that dog needs to feel so useful all the time, he acts like he will pass away if he doesn't have a job to do constantly

[halomancer]

On one hand this is extremely fucking funny, but on the other hand, it really boggles my mind how many people punish their dogs for just… doing the thing they were bred to do.

Your husky isn’t “hyperactive”, it’s bred to pull sleds for 8 hours straight and you have it in a 400 sq ft yard.

Your English sheepdog isn’t “pushy”, it’s bred to herd sheep, and you have neither to space nor the herd to allow it.

Your terrier isn’t “nippy”, it’s bred to kill rats and your hamster looks a hell of a lot like one.

Your Catahoula isn’t “mean to animals”, it’s bred to hunt any and all animals smaller than it, and you didn’t acclimate it to your cat.

Your Lhasa Apso isn’t “yappy”, it’s bred to bark at any tiny noise and alert watchmen to intruders

Like Jesus Christ, if you can’t provide an environment where your dog can’t fulfill its literal life purpose, maybe?? Don’t get that dog??? And if you do, maybe know the breed characteristics so you can redirect those traits into more constructive outlets????

[lemonsharks]

Both your most common doodle's parts (labra and golden) want to hunt and retrieve water birds so the best suggestion I can give y'all is congratulations on your new duck hunting hobby.

[safetytank]

#people will overlook the perfect breeds to suit their needs based on just their looks#and get a work dog because it looks cool

[queerb]

tags from @gnarlystarships because YEAH

[maggiedeshiboux]

@gallusrostromegalus

[gallusrostromegalus]

Any time someone sees Herschel and says "AWWW I want a Corgi <3" (because he is Very Cute (TM)), I immediately reply: "Do not get a Corgi unless you have a job for it to do. They were bred to bully livestock across the hills of Wales. This is basically a Border Collie that knows he is cute enough to get away with murder. If you get one and it doesn't have a job, it will apply its livestock-bullying instincts to YOU. Herschel's job specifically is to help manage my crippling ADHD, because I don't have a bull for him to micromanage." This gets me odd looks at the home depot but it does get the point across.

[oracleofclaros]

My aunt had a collie. We dogsat for a week while my daughter was a toddler. This dog herded my daughter when we walked her. It was so fucking cute to have a dog apply the working instincts to what it could. Probably among the most relaxed walks I've taken because of an extra set of eyes. Normally I found myself on high alert, but this dog knew the environment and steered my daughter away from things that might have presented danger. And she obeyed.

[oracleofclaros]

I never before today saw a Galileo thermometer. I have read biographies about the man. I probably read something about this, but I didn't understand.

The ones pictured seem to show a major difference of 12 degrees within inches of each other. The one showing 84 is probably off. That warm of a room would catch my attention.

[oracleofclaros]

DNS, aka Domain Name Services, are a basic functionality of computers. When you first type in a URL, say https://www.tumblr.com/, your computer checks DNS for the IP address of the web server and then sends your request for the content of the root location on that server. That's the home page.

It's complicated by tricks people do with DNS. I can write to my computer mappings for what I want it use. The computer will use those before reaching out to a DNS server. Home / work routers can have DNS mappings which my computer would use. Failing to find any there, the DNS server would locate what DNS server is the authority for the domain (tumblr.com) and find out from that server what is the IP.

Pretty basic IT stuff I've known like the back of my hand for about 30 years. Like, even before I started officially working in IT in 1999.

Kind of boggling I'm having to explain this to someone who has worked in IT for over 30 years. Like... how did you get to this point in your career and not understand how this works? Oh... asking people like me instead of learning it yourself.

We got here because the dude asked me about how to create a firewall request for a hostname that doesn't have an IP address. I... uh... what? You technically can put hostnames in the firewall, but the firewall is going to look it up in DNS and get no IP, which means it won't allow anything for it.

[oracleofclaros]

Not all shoeboxes contain shoes.

[oracleofclaros]

Phone: I need an update.

I selected the remind me in 24 hours.

An hour later: I need an update.

Me: I know I have time blindness, but damn.

[oracleofclaros]

Have not even left and already over this trip.

Yesterday at 10:20 am: My wife said she decided we needed to leave by noon. No one had packed. I had to check if I needed to wash something.

11 am she found maybe lice on the child.

This morning she's obviously in a bad mood. She's frustrated she didn't set an alarm, and we acted as though it's a regular morning due to not knowing what she wanted us to do. Our people pleasing by not waking her made her frustrated.

[oracleofclaros]

So much fussing because we aren't following the plan. Keep in mind, we aren't told the plan. The expectation is to know what I need for the day without being told the plan. She's also frustrated because she makes miscalculations others would uncover by talking through the plan.

Also, she can't sleep when I am in the same room just breathing.

Me by a waterfall.

[oracleofclaros]

Selfie with a snake

In a climbing area for kids

Fake cherry blossoms in a coffee shop

Getting lectured about leaving

[oracleofclaros]

Poor kitty

[notaplaceofhonour]

Ryan Gosling’s career has just been one long quest to climb the Warner Bros water tower

[notaplaceofhonour]

that man has been trying to climb this tower since he was 16. he has asked multiple times, and every time they said no, but now he’s famous enough & variety was able to convince them to do a shoot on the tower. it all led here. it was all for this.

[notaplaceofhonour]

I’m obsessed with the implication that this was a coming-of-age ritual where a boy becomes a man, like a bar mitzvah