I am reminiscing about days that “have long gone by”. I downloaded these from the Society of Physics Students website.
When I attended Drew University in the 1980s working on my Bachelor of Art in Physics, the Physics department had an annual softball picnic for faculty and students majoring in physics. I attended my first picnic in my sophomore year. It was also the first time I had ever played baseball,l, and although baseball isn’t a sport I enjoy, I did have fun figuring out how to hit the ball. Coming from the British Caribbean, I grew up playing cricket, a sport that is also played with a bat, but is dissimilar to baseball. Nothing alike.
I don’t know the names of all the people in the photographs. Some were seniors and sophomores. Some became good but not close friends. Bhavna and I met at Drew, and our 30-year (C’90) college reunion is June 2020. Hopefully, I can reconnect with some of these Physics majors.
Category: General
The topics covered here didn’t fall into one of my usual categories.
Harassment and Free Speech
The ban on online speech intended to and reasonably likely to (among other things) “annoy,” the court says, is unconstitutionally vague and overbroad.
Odd Webmention Behaviour
I see a bit of odd behaviour with Webmentions, Semantic Linkbacks and WordPress comments. There are five responses in this thread which started with a post from my blog that that was syndicated to micro.blog. Three of the responses show up under the original blog post. However, two show up under my Webmentions collection page.
I am not using the WordPress Webmention for Comments plugin.
It also seems that it’s no longer possible to change the Webmention type via Semantic Linkbacks.
Update:
It’s not odd behaviour after all.
Added limited support for accepting replies from external sites that do not have a Micro.blog account. Previously, Micro.blog would discard replies that could not be associated with an existing user. Now, these replies will be included in a thread using the domain name for the author. (Brid.gy replies from Twitter are not supported yet.) Manton Reece