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`Da Elf<p>Get to cafe, grab a table and sit down. Table next to me is this Little Dude (four, I&#39;m guessing) just Doggin&#39; on a chocolate cupcake. A significant percentage of which is coating his face.</p><p>I couldn&#39;t help but smile, so he smiles back ... now he&#39;s got chocolate clown face. 🤣</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Win" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Win</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CafeComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CafeComputing</span></a></p>
`Da Elf<p>Ah Yes, Just the Tab I wanted to find randomly in The Cafe, and couldn&#39;t be a better time with the Lady and Children folk running about, and a few of my Industry Mates (satellite office).</p><p>This one is from The Lodge while we were discussing remote control sex toys (because of course we were) and that led to discussing the ButtPlug.Io as there is an Open Standard for Adult Toys (because of course there is).</p><p>Not *Not* Safe For Work. *Shrug*</p><p><a href="https://buttplug.io/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buttplug.io/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CafeComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CafeComputing</span></a> (...)</p>
`Da Elf<p>Ha! Kid walks into Cafe with T-Shirt:</p><p>&quot;Discover Meals On Wheels&quot; - And a pictogram of a bear chasing a bicyclist through the woods.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CafeComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CafeComputing</span></a></p>
`Da Elf<p>Fun Random:</p><p>Some nice elementary school ladies are doing a report on the &quot;Compaq Portable&quot; from 1983! 😜🤣</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_Portable" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_P</span><span class="invisible">ortable</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CafeComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CafeComputing</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GoodKids" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GoodKids</span></a></p>
`Da Elf<p>Dear Gods<br />Please grant me the grace to not fuck with this person&#39;s unlocked laptop and their IDE, while they&#39;re walking around outside on a call. And please grant me the calm to say nothing, only look at them as would a disappointed parent to an errant child.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CafeComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CafeComputing</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OpSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OpSec</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GoddamnitPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GoddamnitPeople</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LockYouFuckingMachines" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LockYouFuckingMachines</span></a></p>
`Da Elf<p>Dude. Did you just walk away from your machine, unlocked, with a Shell?</p><p>Edit: In Redmond?!? You&#39;re lucky this isn&#39;t Sunnyvale. Just sayin&#39;.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/HandsInPockets" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HandsInPockets</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CafeComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CafeComputing</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OpSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OpSec</span></a></p>
`Da Elf<p>WotC has Arrived.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CafeComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CafeComputing</span></a></p>
`Da Elf<p>LOL. Start message on new VPN (IPv6 Native and supporting IPv4):</p><p>&quot;NOTE: IPv4 pool size is 253, IPv6 pool size is 65536. IPv4 pool size limits the number of clients that can be served from the pool.&quot;</p><p>You know? I&#39;m just not all that worried about it at this moment.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>InfoSec</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/VPN" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VPN</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/IPv4" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IPv4</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/IPv6" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IPv6</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CafeComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CafeComputing</span></a></p>
`Da Elf<p>Gideon Has Arrived.</p><p>3..2.. Ah. He is now getting mobbed by pretty much everyone. </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CafeComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CafeComputing</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DogsOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DogsOfMastodon</span></a></p>
`Da Elf<p>Right. So sometimes I gotta Starbucks. It is the price one pays for my Workstyle in Greater <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Seattle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Seattle</span></a> </p><p>I cannot deal with the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WiFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WiFi</span></a> Captive Portal pic any longer. We can fix that. Click the uBlock icon and then the eye-dropper icon for Select Mode, clicky on the thingy you don&#39;t want to be arsed with anymore, click &quot;Create&quot; in the popup: *Bam*, Is Gone. A couple of broad rules against css selectors and everything but the menu and &quot;You&#39;re Connected&quot; is gone..</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WebDesignByElf" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WebDesignByElf</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CafeComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CafeComputing</span></a></p>
`Da Elf<p>OMG <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Cute" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Cute</span></a></p><p>At the cafe (duh) and there&#39;s a lady working with one of those front papooses that rivals my best camping gear sitting next to me.</p><p>* Everyone in the cafe is almost silent excepting the melodic technoish music and many hands typing ... even the Teen Girl Brigade™ in the corner is chill.<br />* Baby is three meters away and snoring like a little Dremel Tool and it&#39;s Goddamned Adorable!</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CafeComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CafeComputing</span></a></p>
`Da Elf<p>My Malamute friend would like everyone, and I mean *everyone* to know that He Has Arrived.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CafeComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CafeComputing</span></a></p>
`Da Elf<p>*Snort*</p><p>Minding my own bidness doing some RRD Graphing, in walks my buddy who works at the store, yonder.</p><p>Her: Soooo. In back where we have the phones, internet, and stuff, there&#39;s the UPS and it&#39;s been yelling at us for fifteen minutes.</p><p>Me: Does it say APC?</p><p>Her: Yes.</p><p>Me: Yelling as in Beeping that you should be paying attention to, or a blood-curdling endless scream?</p><p>Her: Death Scream, that.</p><p>Me: Dead Battery.</p><p>Her: Corporate problem. Cool, Thanks!</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CafeComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CafeComputing</span></a></p>
`Da Elf<p>My buddy sells medical equipment and he&#39;s got to drive to Portland tomorrow for some training ...</p><p>Me: Portland&#39;s got good food, beer, and coffee, you&#39;re totally mobbing The Expense Account, right?</p><p>He: Oh Hell Yes.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CafeComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CafeComputing</span></a></p>
`Da Elf<p>Young Lady&#39;s Laptop Sticker: Ice Cream Solves Everything.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CafeComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CafeComputing</span></a></p>
`Da Elf<p>Yay! Met new person today. An art teacher in Redmond.</p><p>I&#39;m SysAdmining and he&#39;s Sketching on FondleSlab, we started jawin&#39; as one does in coffee shop.</p><p>I liked that when I searched his name his LinkedIn was the number one link but he jumped in with, &quot;No, fuck LinkedIn, scroll down a bit, That&#39;s my Website&quot;.<br /><a href="https://www.rrillustration.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">rrillustration.net/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Much Better (I check LinkedIn like twice/year).</p><p>Also he was a bike messenger in college and has a Timbuk2.</p><p>And he gave me a sticker for my T410.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CafeComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CafeComputing</span></a></p>
`Da Elf<p>My friend Gideon has entered the building.</p><p>(It&#39;s hard not to notice.)</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CafeComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CafeComputing</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DogsOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DogsOfMastodon</span></a></p>
`Da Elf<p>HA! Sticker on Lady&#39;s laptop:</p><p>&quot;The Sarcasm Is Strong With This One&quot;</p><p>It&#39;s also rockin&#39; a Rebel insignia.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CafeComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CafeComputing</span></a></p>
`Da Elf<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CafeComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CafeComputing</span></a> and Diva Franklin comes on PlayList.</p><p>Naturally Blues Brothers is the best version. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vet6AHmq3_s" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=Vet6AHmq3_s</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
`Da Elf<p>AHA! I figured out The Problem.</p><p>Every Microsoftie in here is using a Surface while wearing an Apple Watch. It&#39;s been a splinter in my mind for like an hour.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CafeComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CafeComputing</span></a></p>