Reposted by Roger MacNicolRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026fun fact: The Treaty of Tripoli, 1796, Signed by Prez John Adams, includes: "As the government of the United States of America is *not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion*, as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of [Muslims].." Just saying. 25972352
Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Two+ years ago I realized that if I lost my job I’d simply retire. I immediately deleted my LinkedIn account and thought good riddance. I interviewed at LinkedIn to work on their world graph many years ago. Nice work environment but I had no interest in their very intrusive project. 031
Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I bought a textbook on Developmental Biology to get a handle on the link between genotype and phenotype in sexual development in mammalian embryos to better understand trans issues 040
Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I saw the first ever Dr Who episode starring the Cybermen (8 Oct 1966). I was so scared I hid behind the sofa. 100
Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Sadly Countess Lovelace rejected me because I never learnt Ada 021
Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Sheer luxury! When I was a wee bairn in high school, I started on a PDP-8 with ALGOL 68 and FORTRAN 4 loaded from 8” floppies. Kids today have no idea …. 140
Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 08/09/2026My final business trip to the Redwood Shores area: revisiting some familiar haunts one last time… 061
Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The view from one of the many rooftop bars along the Vistula River with amazing views of beautiful Krakow 0110
Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 04/09/2026#POUG2026 ‘s amazing Oracles who usher the speakers in 091
Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 31/08/2026WordPerfect 5.1 was the best word processor I’ve ever used - it just worked, every time, all the time 000
Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Testing the Translator Go app - the translation isn’t perfect but it enables me to read a book in French adequately 010
Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 26/08/2026People say “you could count that on the fingers of one hand” not realizing that is a 5 bit value meaning you can count to 31 on one hand and 1023 on two hands 071
Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Lessons learned: when there’s torrential rain and you’re in an area where 2/3 of restaurant seating is outside, you NEED a reservation when there is rain blocking 2/3 of the seats 160
Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Model of RB20 finished taking pride of place in the bookshelf - just the new rules made this year’s RB22 significantly different #lego #redbullracing 050
Reposted by Roger MacNicolPolish Oracle User Group @pougorg.bsky.social · 04/05/2026@rogermacnicol.bsky.social + one last encore = storage fireworks! 🎆 "Intelligent storage, a 20 year retrospective" at #POUG2026. Oracle legend, legendary stories, legendary send-off. Don’t miss the final chapter. 💾🔥 Tickets: poug.org/edycja/poug2... 0125
Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Our local town meeting, because, sure, those two things are clearly related 🥴 010
Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Have I mentioned how much I hate 6am flights? Leaving the hotel at 3:30am for a 4am check in for international flights. Bleah! 020
Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 26/04/2026What Steph and I are most confused by is men who pay to follow OnlyFans or Fanvue accounts of fake women. They are probably chatting with a pimply incel is his mother’s basement 😂 110
Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Instagram occasionally offers profiles of beautiful young women. Even three months ago I could tell easily which ones were AI. Now? I’ve been shown two recently that I honestly can’t tell if they are real women or AI because the blemishes and asymmetry of the face are so good. It’s scary. 200
Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Given he was arrested heavily armed it clearly isn’t AI but as to whether it is yet another false flag operation by the GOP, I truly don’t know. The way he immediately leapt on it to justify his illegal and butt-ugly ballroom makes me suspicious 🤷🏼♂️ 120
Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Old Soviet joke: Brezhnev: The USSR has the world’s most perfect democracy. Reagan: What? On what basis? B: God said so! R: No! Where did he say that? B: Did you not read in Genesis, God created Eve then told Adam “Choose for yourself a wife” 😂 010
Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Except the popes in Avignon sponsored incredible art and some of the most innovative choral music: harmonies that leant of false relations sending a shiver down your spine. When Mar-a-Lago sponsors innovative art as opposed to their fascist monstrosities of arches and ballrooms, I’ll agree with you. 120
Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 12/04/2026The final episode of The Undeclared War about Russian espionage showed a screenful of what GCHQ thought was garbage to fool anti malware. It took me 1 second to say oh that base 64 encoding. Two minutes later the GCHQ expert says base 64 encoding 😂 instantly recognisable as how we print rowids. 240
Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Only in America would you need to specify that the beer tastes like beer 🥴 130
Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Ye jest, but with the way AI is mopping up all RAM supplies and Samsung phones can no longer buy memory from their own Samsung memory, those days may come again. 020
Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 21/12/2025👨🦳😉 You can’t easily put the controls on the cup because of liquids so the temp adjustment is via Bluetooth. Steph gave it to me for Xmas because she’d seen me microwave the same mug of tea four times more than once 😂 210
Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Do you want some coffee? Just a minute, I’m upgrading the firmware in my coffee mug 😂 Yes this conversation happened yesterday ☕️ 130
Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 18/10/2025It’s odd, but we don’t typically use the term SARGable in Oracle - it’s an IBM term from the late 70’s. ‘Tis useful though. 050
Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 13/10/2025? Ho does Daarth Tangerine affect UK prices? 200
Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 13/10/2025It’s more scary with an ampersand sudo rm -rf /& I saw this once when someone tried to delete the Prime Information &SPOOL& dir and mistyped the escape character. It died silently halfway through /bin 😈 141
Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Have you seen the portable laptop monitor extenders? a.co/d/6vMSy5ka.coAmazon.com 120
Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Because marzipan to me smells like cyanide so I’ve never been able to eat it 110
Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Good question - sadly, I can’t find a more recent one for sale 100
Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 23/09/2025en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_...en.wikipedia.orgAndrew Coulter Enright - Wikipedia 000
Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 23/09/2025University of Puebla - amazing place which was started by a catholic bishop who believed in making information available to the public by donating his 5,000 books in 1646 including 9 incunabulae 040
Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 23/09/2025The original Windows UI circa late 16th century. Keep multiple books open at different pages and rapidly flick between them when studying. 1223433
Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Yeah, we lose 70 mins daylight in Sep far more than any other month 010
Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 22/09/2025I learnt today that tacos were invented by the Lebanese when they came to Puebla and wanted to reinvent Schwarma 140
Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Those kinds of lazy, clickbait headlines annoy me and I refuse to click on them 010
Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 27/08/2025I’d love a param to ban inserts that don’t name the columns. As long as all inserts name them, you can reorder columns for performance but that’s lost with unnamed inserts. eg needed when you add a new frequently used column at the end of a wide table 040