@indigo Yeah. Why isn't she here? She's like my favorite Texan.
// @larand @joanna @peemee
@indigo Other than a big chunk of the people I wanted to see come over from app.net, no. :)
// @peemee
Every time I try to think my way through porting this heavily complicated QT3-based class to QT5, it feels like swimming in a riptide. After a week of insomnia capped off by a late summer cold, I have hit the wall.
@peemee There's an art to cooking gator so it doesn't come out that way. I've had some that was fantastic and much more that was borderline inedible
// @indigo @kdfrawg
@indigo I'm sure it's fine now. There's just no financial reason to rebuild. You're either going to go to Parkersburg and hope to be employed by DuPont or Public Debt (They process a gigantic chunk of federal tax returns) or move to a place with better prospects.
One of the first revelations I had leaving town and going out of state was, "OMG Other places have jobs"
// @kdfrawg
@indigo Oil. Coal and low oxygen. Underground fires like that can smolder for a long long time.
// @kdfrawg
@indigo What's amazing tis that, when I was very little (Early 1970s) there were still some areas outside of where the town itself used to be, underground, that still smoldered and burned. Smoke would rise from the ground. Absolutely nothing of the original town remains. The only residents live in the outskirts. Not even sure what city they are considered part of since Volcano itself is no longer a city. Probably Parkersburg (My hometown)
// @kdfrawg
@kdfrawg I feel for my relatives fleeing the potato famine only to find themselves slaves to mining companies and railroads in one of the poorest areas of the US.
// @indigo