Hi Arya, just confirming that your art made it all the way back to my office where it will be safe thank you!
Unistrut work station in progress. I want to add a larger table that goes over the keyboard table so I can have my meals and coffee while watching Seth Meyers’ Corrections on the Youtubes
Sorry, I posted it a first time without one of the pages on accident so I had to delete and repost I’m really sorry if you left a comment and it got deleted. Anyway in thjs chapter Hunter looks at his own avatar and describes it, which impressed me even though he lives with his parents and only hates capitalism from anonymous accounts in case it bounces back so he can get paid to be allergic to everything
Sorry, I posted it a first time without one of the pages on accident so I had to delete and repost I’m really sorry if you left a comment and it got deleted. Anyway in thjs chapter Hunter looks at his own avatar and describes it, which impressed me even though he lives with his parents and only hates capitalism from anonymous accounts in case it bounces back so he can get paid to be allergic to everything
Sorry, I posted it a first time without one of the pages on accident so I had to delete and repost I’m really sorry if you left a comment and it got deleted. Anyway in thjs chapter Hunter looks at his own avatar and describes it, which impressed me even though he lives with his parents and only hates capitalism from anonymous accounts in case it bounces back so he can get paid to be allergic to everything
Sorry, I posted it a first time without one of the pages on accident so I had to delete and repost I’m really sorry if you left a comment and it got deleted. Anyway in thjs chapter Hunter looks at his own avatar and describes it, which impressed me even though he lives with his parents and only hates capitalism from anonymous accounts in case it bounces back so he can get paid to be allergic to everything
Happy Belated! I celebrate St. Patrick’s after Easter when the crowd thins out. The branding isn’t popping because of the spring action. No good deed goes unpunished, Bud Light
Don’t worry, just posting because I always wanted one of these. It’s really just two days since I plugged it in. I did get a metal sliver a few weeks ago but I think that needs its own, much smaller yet way more dramatic sign
Airdropping a work table into the workshop (to confirm it’s too high). Currently still have to make 3D models in 2D apps like a caveman BUT I bet within a year we’ll see a decent “spatial”modeling app or two. I would love to be able to go into a room and surround myself with imaginary shelves and tables, then know exactly how much wood and hardware I’ll need.
So far so good. Acknowledgments to Outer Worlds soundtrack composer Justin Bell also seem in order
generational trauma in two acts
generational trauma in two acts
SOMEONE LET OUR DOGS SEE THE ECLIPSE DO NOT SHOW YOUR PETS THIS VIDEO #ECLIPSEDOGS #RUN @normalheller
When you’re denied access to the eclipse because your Mom “read somewhere that NASA said it might make you crazy.” #LiteralMatriarchy #LiterallyShadowBanned #GoodBoysStandBackAndRollOver #WarOnTheSun @normalheller
Watching Joan close her nictitating membrane and then having the word nictitating get weirdly “spell checked” by my phone made me look it up and go down a fun biology hole. My first question: which animals have nictitating membranes and which don’t? Seems universal for fish and birds because they live in their own toilet and/or commute at high speeds. But it’s also pervasively scattered throughout mammalia and varies in development – Swimming mammals like polar bears have state of the art nictitating membranes, but so do non-swimmy, super murdery mammals like ferocious Joanie here, ostensibly for sinking their fangs into thrashy, less than compliant lunches. Humans lost it as far back as Chimp Time but you can see the remnant of ours, the plica semilunaris (“half moon flap?”) in the mirror. It’s not wholly vestigial because it now helps with “drainage.” It just lost its little servo motors so it can’t open and shut. Why? The only theory is that our survival business got progressively less “in your face.” We got too fancy for burrowing, swimming, swooping and classic snout-to-snout savaging and we gave ourselves the much higher class, futuristic career of waiting for hyena to wander away from gazelle skeletons so we could crack those gnawed skulls and slurp up the delicious half-rotten brains. Kind of the original “remote work” economy. And when your lifestyle is THAT white collar, maybe you let your subscription to built-in safety goggles expire. Honestly if you start googling “which mammals have nictitating membranes and why” you might accidentally spend two hours reading about it but it was a fascinating way to rest my Kate Middleton Theory lobe
Watching Joan close her nictitating membrane and then having the word nictitating get weirdly “spell checked” by my phone made me look it up and go down a fun biology hole. My first question: which animals have nictitating membranes and which don’t? Seems universal for fish and birds because they live in their own toilet and/or commute at high speeds. But it’s also pervasively scattered throughout mammalia and varies in development – Swimming mammals like polar bears have state of the art nictitating membranes, but so do non-swimmy, super murdery mammals like ferocious Joanie here, ostensibly for sinking their fangs into thrashy, less than compliant lunches. Humans lost it as far back as Chimp Time but you can see the remnant of ours, the plica semilunaris (“half moon flap?”) in the mirror. It’s not wholly vestigial because it now helps with “drainage.” It just lost its little servo motors so it can’t open and shut. Why? The only theory is that our survival business got progressively less “in your face.” We got too fancy for burrowing, swimming, swooping and classic snout-to-snout savaging and we gave ourselves the much higher class, futuristic career of waiting for hyena to wander away from gazelle skeletons so we could crack those gnawed skulls and slurp up the delicious half-rotten brains. Kind of the original “remote work” economy. And when your lifestyle is THAT white collar, maybe you let your subscription to built-in safety goggles expire. Honestly if you start googling “which mammals have nictitating membranes and why” you might accidentally spend two hours reading about it but it was a fascinating way to rest my Kate Middleton Theory lobe
This is a clip from The Blue Dahlia (1946, Veronica Lake) and yes, this is apparently the movie that inspired the media to dub the Black Dahlia the Black Dahlia which cody had to explain to me but that’s not why i grabbed this clip. I grabbed this clip because WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE TECHNOLOGICALLY. Cody was like “it’s a recorder” and I was like okay but does the recorder hire a different actor to repeat your lines over the phone? Or is it just a monitoring device, like a baby monitor, but in that case, how weird is it that the other guy on the other end of the phone is technically pretending to be the guy he’s monitoring? Do my questions even make sense? The thing that came to mind when I saw this was that Arthur C Clarke quote (googling it): “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” But this is an amazing case of technology being so UNADVANCED that it seems magical to me. Like, is it like the hat from Harry Potter? Something very strange is happening in this scene and it is not what this movie is about (it’s about a Blue Dahlia) and it is never explained in the movie. There is a suspect subsequently that points at the device the way you might a bug and says something indicating that he’s savvy about its function but he doesn’t explain what the function is. Like, I really don’t know what this thing is but I love that it has two giant plugs on it that are like the twin earphone plugs on an airplane. Discuss. Explain. Theorize.
Just started last night. Any of my fellow factory heads playing it? Will definitely fill the gap while waiting for Satisfactory 1.0. My favorite factory games: Satisfactory, Dyson Sphere Program, Evo Space, Techtonica, Modded Minecraft… Factorio doesn’t hit the spot for me and I don’t know why because it’s the obvious favorite for so many. Share any recommends or other thoughts. How cool would it be if someone made an AR factory game so we could make little factories that spanned our homes, and we could ask our children to please move to a different spot at the dining room table because we need room for imaginary smelters – I don’t have kids, is that how parenting works, can you just “ground” them when you need space for AR factories or do you have to pretend they misbehaved
