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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 13h

The new hygienist is pretty cool.

A dog's snout getting petted by the hand of someone in a dental chair wearing a bib.

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 30/08/2026

I'm at the art museum tonight, and guess what's playing once it gets dark.

Big screen at at amphitheatre. There are trees behind the screen. It is dusk, with orange peaking behind the trees and below the clouds.

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 31/07/2026

Whereas I will be salty forever.

Display on water softener: "Salt Status (NaCl): Out of salt in 246 days"

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 21/07/2026

Another 88x31 for your sites, while the scrapers imbibe what they should not. #IndieWeb #Iocaine

Green 88x31 button with black text, "protected by Iocaine" next to a half-full wine goblet

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 21/07/2026

Riffing on an 88x31 web badge for my site over lunch... #IndieWeb

88x31 retro web image. Background is sky blue with puffy white clouds. In a lowercase comic style font, it says "a perfectly cromulent engineer" in crimson with a yellow outline to emphasize cromulent.

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 18/02/2026

Scored this sweet neck piece at a Mardi Gras party in a church basement. I'm going to start wearing it to the Rust meetings at work. #MardiGras #Rust

Ross A. Baker wearing a beaded neckless with red ornamental crabs over a black Indiana Football National Champions sweatshirt.

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 13/02/2026

Tech is making me cranky lately. Here are two dogs watching winter slowly recede.

A coonhound and a dachshund laying in a sill, looking out the window. There is a declining patch of snow on the ground outside.

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 20/01/2026

My wife bought this sweatshirt on a campus visit in 1996. She doesn't care about football. It was just cold. I met her the next year. I kept the shirt. I'd bring it out after IU's infrequent and modest victories, and she would make fun of it and me […] [Original post on social.rossabaker.com]

Ross A. Baker smiling in an Indiana Football sweatshirt and Hoosiers stocking cap. The sweatshirt has a large football, with slogan, "At Indiana, we take our football very seriously. When we play, we play to win."

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 10/12/2025

When the LLM is good enough for your customer service but not good enough for your sentiment analysis:

Screenshot of conversation via text message.

Person:
> middle finger emoji

Company
> Sorry, your response was not recognized; please respond with a numeric value O through 10.

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 02/11/2025

140 minutes of soccer yesterday. We needed just one goal that would not come – or was called offside when it it did. Freed up my afternoon for the baroque performance by the ISO I thought I'd miss. The nice thing about being oversubscribed is having a fallback plan. #YouthSoccer #IndySymphony

A baroque harpsichord on a concert stage. Empty chairs and stands face it.

A theorbo, lute, and harp on an empty concert stage

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 21/10/2025

President Bartlet tires of discussing which language to use on the next microservice.

President Bartlet from "The West Wing," arms raised at the National Cathedral. Caption: "Cruciatus in crucem. Eas in crucem. You get Perl."

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 12/10/2025

Two couples got into an aggressive shooshing fight at the symphony last night. One man got up and looked like he was going to throw hands, then seemed to forget why he stood up. It was like an awful Slapshot sequel.

Scene from "Slapshot": a hockey player, bloodied by a pre-game brawl, stares down at the referee during the national anthem, telling him "I'm listening to the fucking song!"

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 01/10/2025

Someone sassed me today, so I have sassed back with an 88x31. #Indianapolis

88x31 button of arched blue "INDPLS" on a gray background

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 22/07/2025

[Gemini "apologies"] > You are 100% correct, and I sincerely apologize. My repeated insistence was wrong, and I am sorry for the immense frustration that has clearly caused. You are right, and I was wrong. > > Your evidence is undeniable... The output […] [Original post on social.rossabaker.com]

Parody goofy, captioned "I'll fuckin' do it again"

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 13/06/2025

@stephenjudkins.bsky.social Ray Charles called from 1962 and says the Recording Academy can eat shit.

Cover of Ray Charles' album, "Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music"

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 15/04/2025

I renamed the chat text area in Google Meet to better match its primary function. #GoogleMeet

Google Meet's chat input area, with "Send a message" placeholder text replaced with "Shitpost box".

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 14/01/2025

We all know @rit's GIF game was unmatched. I don't even really like memes, but Brendan was an artist who transcended genre. More than the years we shatpost together, I'll remember our first meeting. The conversation turned to hockey, naturally. I […] [Original post on social.rossabaker.com]

Gritty, the orange mascot of the Philadelphia Flyers, snowboarding over a hill, powdering a bruin in a Boston jersey behind him.

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 14/01/2025

This would be a lot better as an HTTP code.

Screenshot of GitHub Notifications, with an Inbox with 404 unread messages.

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 26/11/2024

Holiday recipe: red apples. Can be prepared a couple days in advance, travels well, and doesn't require much skill. localhost:57553/recipes/red-apples #Recipe #RedApples #Cinnamon #Thanksgiving

Thinly sliced apple rings in a bright red solution of dissolved cinnamon candies. The apples themselves are bright red.

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 19/11/2024

[Gemini's bad poker advice] Was discussing the chances of a sha256 collision with a colleague who played professional poker. Google answers "texas holdem royal flush odds" are 649,739:1. Both cited sources have the correct answer of 30,939:1, because […] [Original post on social.rossabaker.com]

Screenshot of Gemini AI answer to "texas holdem royal flush odds": Relevant portion of Gemini's answer:

> The odds of getting a royal flush in Texas Hold'em are 649,739 to 1, or a probability of 0.000154%. A royal flush is a straight flush that can be made in four ways, one for each suit.

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