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brennan.computer
unlicensed back alley alchemy digital ⇄ physical, 3D and industrial design. living in a world of magic and vibrance
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ugh, we're trying to set minor stuff up and desperately need to run one (1) power cord and one (1) ethernet cable roughly five meters and the union is yelling and stomping about how we can't do that good lord this is why nothing gets done

watching a documentary about low budget 80's athletic entertainment show American Gladiators and noting the amount of public backlash it got about "the fall of society" to this low-brow ""entertainment"" is hilarious and rhyming

westjet in-flight wifi is 150 Mbps

is there some sort of tldraw / figjam type interface client for bluesky? I want to have each person's posts in a little box that I can spatially place around a map, and then maybe replies from one account to the other start to ping lines between 'em

my favourite part of airport security is that sushi belt of everyone's different laptops that slide past and you can just take whichever one looks cool

cut my shoe mat to perfectly fit the air duct and door frame

everyone: "well _I'll_ never descend into the inhuman madness of on-demand AI generated media tailored specifically for me!" also everyone: *resumes watching reels and scrolling feeds for hours at a time*

the more you can read any random internet comment in a dwight schrute voice, the more they'll make sense

we jumped in how could you not

that must feel nice

thread of things that seem weirdly lucky today I was buying groceries and there was one last box of lego without a tag, so I didn't know the price (it would be about $40). shrugged and took it wouldn't scan at the self-checkout so the attendant left to check and I waited a while came back at $5!

I've really enjoyed buying my house and don't regret it as a thing at all, but I was "making" way more money by renting all these years like, this is ~4x more overhead monthly, even before random expensive big ticket fix items or take that and put 75% of it in the S&P instead? the math wins

I've walked a lot of paths

I always thought perfect pitch would be fun, but everyone who has it complains that they know their air conditioner is a G-flat major or whatever and mostly seem cursed by that

Not sure how many people realize that battery storage already supplies 30% of California’s electricity demand at peak. Batteries aren’t the future — they’re here now.

feels like our information-rich society got caught up in the local trap of describing everything in averages, and then assuming everyone is average and the weird quirk of the math is like: most people are not average! everyone is all over the range

If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”

weekend mode: tweeting from here

field report: it is absolutely perfect out

Pretty cool trench drain cover along the Spirit train at the intersection of Mackay Road and I W 1st Street #Reference

Biocosmism total victory

any subreddit for <thing> is the group of people least enjoying that thing

I generally like webp as a format to work with, I just wish more things supported webp as a format to live with

an LLM that can read through the comments of a given post link, determine who is acting in bad faith and block we don't need more nuclear blocking, we need more surgical blocking

never forget the original chatGPT www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqkU...

Universal Basic Whole Earth Catalog