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• Post #4211052

  It has been 0 days since I've forgotten to clean the rice maker until it smelled like sake

• Post #4211051

  I don't know if I ever posted "finished" pics of the office. There's still some trim to finish and I'm still organizing things from the other workspace (thus the mess on the workbench) but it's functional!

• Post #4211050

  Did a little more work in the shop. Finished the corners of the lab rooms with angle iron. Installed lights and a power drop for the island of stuff under the bridge. Still need to wire it. The outlet is an l5-20r locking receptacle so it won't pull out and I just bought a heavy duty power strip and replaced the plug with a matching l5-20p plug. The big bench still needs a few sheets of osb and the mdf bench top needs a few coats of polyurethane. Almost ready to start working on the labs...

• Post #4211049

  Ayyyooo you're telling me that I can buy the Kikwear denim that I always wanted as a teen but couldn't afford and they're coming back into fashion?

• Post #4211048

  I'm a legendarily thirsty boi. There was a restaurant that @gella and I used to eat at regularly and the waiter would leave an entire pitcher of diet coke at the table.

• Post #4211047

  Listening to some Marilyn Manson tonight for the first time in a long while. I think Mechanical Animals was peak Manson, but my favorite album is probably still Antichrist Superstar. The Golden Age of Grotesque was probably his last good album.

• Post #4211046

  Boy George using AI to write a Pro-Israel, Genocide-denying reggae song is the kind of news that sounds like playing 52 pickup with a deck of Cards Against Humanity.

• Post #4211045

  I took apart some shipping pallets/crates that had stacked up last night and my hands hurt so bad today from pulling nails/staples. I think I'm gonna plane some of that wood down and use it to trim the doors and windows of the labs.

• Post #3975524

  Idea: Music service that maintains a library of interferometric scans of records, dubplates and masters and allows listeners to play these scans using virtual turntables. The playback could even be physically modeled, allowing for actual cartridges to be characterized and "virtualized" (like guitar amp modelling) Want to hear a 90s 7" pressing of Sister Nancy's "Bam Bam" through an Ortofon 2M Blue? Load up a scan and your Ortofon plugin library and off you go!

• Post #3850054

  Grabbed two Jalapeño Cream Cheese taquitos at the gas station. Homie at the counter said grab the last two and he'll write em off. Deal. Then he told me a story about leaving his iPhone somewhere in the store when there were "a couple black guys wandering around" and how he was lucky it wasn't stolen. So now not only am I eating 4 taquitos at 3am but they're fuckin racist taquitos.

• Post #3850053

  Dad is the cat's best friend whenever he comes over

• Post #3755487

  Everyone was so busy on McConnell watch that they almost missed the Lindsey Graham b-b-bonus round.

• Post #3641872

  I've been cooking my brain on how to handle HVAC for the lab rooms in the shop building for years now and sometimes I think I'm overthinking it and sometimes I think I'm underthinking it. Basically, the building is 3000 ft² (≈280 m²) and nearly two stories, so I'm not going to climate control the whole thing. It's fiberglass insulated, but it still eventually reaches equilibrium with the outside because it's not perfectly sealed, and it's...

• Post #3641871

  Finally changed screen protector on my phone today. This one really put in some hours.

• Post #3641870

  Go to sleep at 6am Wake up 4 hours later Hardee's is still serving breakfast Doordash Hardee's Eat breakfast Go back to sleep

• Post #3623958

  Guy who makes his home bar look like an old pub except instead of a pub it's a university physical science building.

• Post #3329459

  A friend just sent me a meme that said "Happy Pride Month to Home Depot for not selling a single piece of straight wood"

• Post #1860893

  Same idea, two different artists: https://www.instagram.com/p/C19vTJGOs-m/?igsh=c3V5NnZvMW13c3Y2 https://youtu.be/W_Qlb85JD_g?si=9udD3vo4b-JQdyXc

• Post #1860892

  A putty knife retires from solder paste duty to spackle holes. A portable compressor takes a vacation from actuating UHV valves to drive nails into trim.

• Post #1860891

  Spent most of the day cutting, sanding, and staining plywood slats for the slat walls in the office. I ran an orbital sander for like 2 hours straight, I'll never feel my hands again, lol. Also, I went through a quart of wood stain. But I have enough slats, so tomorrow I should be able to paint _and_ install slats. We'll see!

• Post #1860890

  Lol. Lmao even.

• Post #1860889

  I was CERTAIN that I owned a pin nailer, but I guess I don't. Guess it's time to load up the finish nailer and pray.

• Post #1860887

  "Lol, bro I'd never mistake a palace of pure glowing alabaster for a torrent of water and cry out" *mind is instantly obliterated leaving the sixth hekhal*

• Post #1742792

  Vacuum tubes are gay now

• Post #1570495

  Ran out of meds yesterday, won't have a refill until tomorrow. Very uncomfortable all day today. Attempted to stay distracted by writing a lot of dense Python.

• Post #1570494

  This week's Python labor has borne fruit (and it's open source!) https://github.com/risingtideresearch/framedash/

• Post #1570493

  Do I buy the 1980s RGA? Cons: - Bulky - Untested - Old Pros: - Under $1000, could probably lowball - Quadrupole _looks_ like it's in good shape - No software to find - Powers on, that's a good sign - All cables and stuff are intact and included

• Post #1570490

  There is a good chance that paint touches the wall of the office this week

• Post #1570481

  I am so. tired. of paint scraping.

• Post #643427

  RE: https://tech.lgbt/@TheADHDM/116223754071509361 Beyond just being a really funny (and affecting?) inversion of the well-known Sandia long term nuclear waste warning, this has also put the idea of "a system of blessings" into my head.