Was roasting some coffee in my little Behmor drum roaster (it's like a toaster oven but it's got a basket that goes whirr) and had my first experience of embers and glowy bits today after about 10 years of using it. That was exciting!
Like, the thing the manual tells you NOT to do is open the door on the roaster - because that will supply fresh oxygen to the fire.
The first thing I reached to do was open the door before I was like, "no, bad nerd" and hit the "cool" button to shut off the heat 😅
Officer: “so uh why are you just sitting in a car in front of this house?”
Me: “patch day, bud”
Fell down a slight ADHD research rabbit hole: "Huh, I wonder if I could build a gizmo to plug into the OBD-II port on my car to tap into the CAN bus to support a panel of physical knobs, buttons, and sliders to manage climate control because I hate my car's touch screen?"
@mavica_again It seems possible, but I had to emerge for dinner before I got down to practical details :sadness:
@mmayo Yeah, that sounds about right, real zippy UI on that beastie
"Inadvertently started a conversation with Legal" is a heck of a sentence to drop 😅
#whiningontheyacht getting used to a nice new keyboard my first day back at work since slothmas
@beka_valentine It's very clicky and ✨ aesthetic ✨
I saw the word "iniquitous" in a tiktok comment this weekend and it's been stuck in my head ever since. Like I just keep repeating it. Weird variant of an earworm
@fahrni Santa brought it to me, but I'm pretty sure it was this 8BitDo Retro Mech kit @goosey
https://www.amazon.com/Mechanical-Keyboard-Bluetooth-Swappable-Gaming-Console/dp/B0CYSQWYZP
I'm trying one of this keyboard's Big Button peripherals as a foot pedal to activate Mission Control in macOS. Problem is I keep wanting to fidget with it and tap it with my toe, which makes all my windows fly all over at random
us politics
IMO, the only thing that should ever be means tested is taxation
https://www.vox.com/policy/393227/means-testing-income-restrictions-universal-welfare-programs
"Riker, I've got a wee turtlehead pokin' out. You've got the bridge"
@jalefkowit I love Dell's new workstation offering - the DDRMAX2 Dance Dance Revolution 7thMix
@tedmielczarek It is SO VERY CLICKY
@dokas ohhh i think i needs it
One of my resolutions for 2025 was to attempt to resist indulging in surliness. I don't think that resolution is going to fare well. And I'm feeling surly about it.
@APBBlue (grumble grumble)
@earthshine "I was blinded by the light reflecting off the vehicle's surface"
"Sir, today is quite overcast"
"Any light at all, man! The thing is stupefying"
@kf get a between-the-knees pillow too. in fact, just get like a whole custom foam case for your body like they make for expensive instruments.
@kf Ah yeah, I rotate like a rotisserie chicken all night, sometimes on back, sometimes on side. The knee pillow is mainly for the side phase
I wonder if my back would still hurt and my neck go unusable for days if I slept in zero-gee? I'm sure some other novel bodily failure state would arise
@mfinkle I think I got that guy's head on my laptop here
I love this giant undismissable button on a bunch of the free-plan Slack servers I'm in which invites me, personally, to pay $2500+ on my credit card per month to support the server
Like on Discord, they want little Nitro subscribers, but I see Slack are going after The Whales in gaming
(yes, yes, I know, Slack is Discord For Business and I should expense it, but I'm not going to try that)