Notices by Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)
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Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Sunday, 19-Aug-2018 04:38:27 UTC 
Bob Jonkman
My favorite dentist I went to only once for an emergency filling had his parents in the waiting room, waiting to see where their sin worked. I just knew that's the kind of dentist you can trust. @thorthenorseman -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Sunday, 19-Aug-2018 01:28:55 UTC
Bob Jonkman
I'm noticing this in the !Fediverse too. Partly, I blame it on my poor installation of GNUsocial, which doesn't reliably receive messages in conversations with people I'm definitely subscribed to. I think this happens mostly with people using Mastodon software. It's not helped that I can't subscribe to my own Fedgroups on http://sn.jonkman.ca/groups . Some people formerly active on GNUsocial instances have moved to Mastodon instances, and I'm no longer reliably receiving their messages. Other people have just left eg. @mk Marjolein and @ErkanYilmaz I'm subscribed to more people than ever, but I miss the old friends. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Saturday, 18-Aug-2018 00:11:45 UTC
Bob Jonkman
Just like political elections. The choice of the majority get usurped by the power of the minority. Should have used a #RankedBallot... -
silverwizard (silverwizard)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Aug-2018 23:43:30 UTC 
silverwizard
♲ @Ed Maste (ed_maste@twitter.com): #FreeBSD folks - would you come to a hackathon in Kitchener-Waterloo or Hamilton the week before or after BSDCan 2019 (which is May 14-19)? -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Aug-2018 17:32:35 UTC
Bob Jonkman
This article is just so full of good, pithy pullquotes: "Those hoping to make positive social change have to convince people both that something in the world needs changing and there is a constructive, reasonable way to change it. Authoritarians and extremists, on the other hand, often merely have to muddy the waters and weaken trust in general so that everyone is too fractured and paralyzed to act." https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611806/how-social-media-took-us-from-tahrir-square-to-donald-trump/ -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Aug-2018 17:11:24 UTC
Bob Jonkman
How very true: "in the 21st century it is the flow of attention, not information (which we already have too much of), that matters." https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611806/how-social-media-took-us-from-tahrir-square-to-donald-trump/ -
d3j (d3jblog)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Aug-2018 11:59:11 UTC 
d3j
♲ @zeynep tufekci (zeynep@twitter.com): "Power always learns, and powerful tools always fall into its hands. This is a hard lesson of history but a solid one." My new piece on the digital road from Obama '08 to Tahrir to Trump—for MIT @techreview. #longform technologyreview.com/s/611806/how-s… https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611806/how-social-media-took-us-from-tahrir-square-to-donald-trump/
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611806/how-social-media-took-us-from-tahrir-square-to-donald-trump/ -
Liam Erven (liamerven)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Aug-2018 17:30:11 UTC 
Liam Erven
Hey #Fediverse. When you post pictures, please please please with puppies on top fill in that description box for the visually impaired. You will be helping us out tremendously. We want to enjoy your pictures as much as others do. You don't have to write a novel, but just fill in some details.
Thanks with much love:
A Blind Dude -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Aug-2018 07:55:21 UTC
Bob Jonkman
Feel free to use the #KWVoIP #Mumble server -- it's largely going to waste, since we're not using it for our own meetings. mumble://kwvoip.ca:64738 /cc: @lnxw48a1 @davehunt @bthall -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Aug-2018 05:47:42 UTC
Bob Jonkman
That's @kwlug@sn.jonkman.ca -- A !ytpo caused by fat fingers compounded by #AutoCorrect -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Aug-2018 02:28:28 UTC
Bob Jonkman
At the @KWLUG@SN.jonman.ca after-meeting meeting with @Digimer. Best tech discussion evar! -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Monday, 13-Aug-2018 23:17:50 UTC
Bob Jonkman
At the @KWLUG meeting listening to @Hubert's talk on his Life As A !Debian Developer -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Thursday, 09-Aug-2018 07:02:18 UTC
Bob Jonkman
I think I have found a lost member of our tribe. https://hooktube.com/channel/UC7lx9EQBwxPaRMlMom61-XQ #SysAdmin -
notklaatu (klaatu)'s status on Monday, 02-Jul-2018 23:42:14 UTC 
notklaatu
@bobjonkman I'm going to theorize that it's because "chief" is an abbreviation of "chieftain", so officially its plural form would be "chieftains".
but that's a guess. I haven't looked into the entomology of it.
Also, English is the worst language. I wish we'd migrate away to something constructed and better, like Esperanto.
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Marcin Cieślak (saper)'s status on Monday, 06-Aug-2018 17:04:17 UTC 
Marcin Cieślak
@bobjonkman Chief is from old French, so it must have got a proper Saxon plural. Other words were probably Germanic from the very beginning :)
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