Clojurians Log v2

FYI: In English there is a difference between slugs and snails. One is naked the other isn't (and I can never remember which is which).

the slug is naked and the snail has a house

but how do you remember that?

"slug" has a strong connotation of slimy and unpleasant. one could call a particularly creepy man who does bad things a slug. snail just feels like any animal-like creature.

oh TIL, thanks thomas! And I already know how to remember it: a slug is also a projectile for a shotgun. A snail would get stuck.

not sure if that's helpful lol. reminds me of how i remember noun genders in german or french. "uhhh because a weekend feels neutral"

I stand corrected. They're slugs. The invasive naked red ones.

aah and the black ones are the native ones?

slugs are lazy. snails are slow. It is obvious and logical just like everything else in English. /s

yeah right... now I do get it! Thank you @otfrom

logic always helps when learning languages

that applies to every single language except English 😉

Don't think i can distinguish the native ones vs. the invasive one... all i know is there are too many of them, a nightmare when you're trying to grow some flowers. Especially given the abundant rain of the last months. Last year we had majestic digitalis flowers, this year they haven't made it past 10cm off the ground, mowed clean by slugs.

there have been a lot this year, very true

I used to go out and hunt them at dusk, killing about 30-50 of them per session, but I've given up.

this morning they were all out in the open because of the rain

Last weekend the kids found a dead mouse. Half a day later the corpse was eaten clean by the slugs, leaving only the skeleton covered in slime. These things are eating-machines.

bizarre, I hadn't realised they were omnivores.

I recall a time when I was visiting Italy and a particular town had a festival where they eat slugs (smoothered in tomato sauce). These were not your ordinary garden variety - they were massive! The largest I've ever seen in my life. I tasted one. I never ever want to experience that again...even with all the tomato sauce it was vile!

oh man I love eating snails in the french style, smothered in garlic butter with some bread

I never tried them

I tried snails too. Once. Never again.

slugs don't cross over sheep wool, some gardener said in a TV show. Maybe that helps keeping them away from some plants.

Oooh

that's very interesting. My wife would like to know that. She's in a constant war with them.

I'll mention that to her

how strange, considering they can cross a razor blade...

Screenshots? I am not sure, but at least on iOS you can select text in images

I had a vague recollection that you could do something like that, but then, that's several steps, right?

First you have to turn whatever you're looking at into an image and get it into Preview, then do the text selection and discard the image and close Preview. With shottr, I invoke a keyboard shortcut and select the area on my screen to copy text from, done. Feels like magic!

Sometimes you get away with the built-in stuff.

Great! Love it when there's a built in option. I've been using the screenshot snippet functionality and screen recording with the built in Quicktime Player for ages, and been very satisfied. Thanks for the demonstration ❤️

Thanks for sharing about shottr! ❤️ Have been missing a way to quickly annotate screenshots.

For good measure, a little demo (also for anyone else looking a the thread):

Oh I haven't even begun delving into what else it can do, looking forward to it 😄