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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 9h

Heh, before I read the text, I saw the green cape and thought "Wizard of Speed and Time"!

madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 11h

Now I'm tempted to make a T-shirt with that scrawled on it: "chicken????" and "only two" and let people wonder about it.

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 11h

So car manufacturers should put a USB receptacle in the car that will let the dash unit play files from a thumb drive. You think this would be easy, but I've been astonished at how badly they approximate this simple task.

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 13h

But tell us about the 3D printed squid!

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 13h

I added a dock for mine, also gives me an SD slot. Amazingly, just hanging it from a USB port works. Tempted to say "rate my setup", but I know it's jank.

Mac Mini in a wall mount holder, with cables and a USB dock hanging from it, with a USB-A cord plugged into it. The whole thing is crowded between two monitors, one on each side.

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 13h

Coming soon from The Asylum. They love aliens and silliness.

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 13h

Since the power button and WiFi antenna are on the bottom, and it is indeed smöl, I designed and 3D printed a wall mount for my M4 Mini.

Mac Mini sitting in a purple plastic 3D printed holder with a semicircular scoop in front for airflow to the round grille, an opening for the power button, and keyhole cutouts for hanging.

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 14h

Oh, I'll sometimes buy smart appliances (like televisions) where they're cost competitive and don't really have more to break down. I just don't let them have access to the internet. A smart fridge? Never. My brand new air fryer has a mechanical thermostat and timer (ding!).

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Had a strange dream where I was working for Trump installing custom computer terminal network in airports. Bad enough, but things got weirder, at one point, I was in a meeting, trying to explain "you cannot telnet amino acids into a baby!"

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'd consider going without sedation for two reasons: the main one is I'm needle-phobic (the needle is WAY worse than the prep, as far as I'm concerned), the secondary one is I'm curious.

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm hearing impaired and there's no transcript.

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hence my rant about the air conditioner covered with buttons, each of which just lights up a light saying not to use them.

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Heh, they tried to do that with me, only to find out the customers loved me and I had irreplaceable knowledge, so they had to hire me back as a consultant at brutal hourly rates.

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yes, the memory map is different. 0000-00ff is "page zero", which can be accessed with special 2-byte instructions, the notion is that you put frequently used data there. 0100-01ff is the stack, used by the push, pull, jump subroutine, and return from subroutine instructions, and by interrupts.

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Even if you have a house, sometimes you get tired on the highway and need some rest so you aren't driving too tired. But if you pull over into an actual rest area to, you know, rest, the cops will hassle you. Apparently they want people driving tired.

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

He's already impeached. Lot of good it did us.

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We are not "letting" him go on, the people charged with enforcing the law just ... aren't. Got any ideas how to stop this?

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"And here's the part you didn't know..."

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So I'll get to laugh myself to death? I can think of worse ways to go.

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Have these handed out at your funeral.

Card with a picture of a person, with the text "Let's stay in touch!", along with a mini Ouija board and planchette.

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"What if they had a war and nobody came?"

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Where electrons are positive, and dextrose ... isn't.

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Dyed diesel is sometimes also used for running oil heaters.

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I don't really use amazon except when I get stuck with some gift cards, but it paints a fairly clear picture.

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Product Preferences: Past concentrated lighting equipment acquision
Departments: Specialty Lighting Equipment
Interests & Hobbies: Likely works with specialized lighting projects
Brands: Likely purches Muso From Japan products

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I figured those were to put the captions on photographic maps.

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Just used anti-Prime day to order it via bookshop.org!

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I always have to laugh when republicans try to scare people with "Sharia law".

Meme with title "Sharia law, anyone?", with the tag line "Are you concerned that Sharia Law, the law of Islam, is being legislated here in America?". Below that:

Here are some of the tenets of Sharia Law:
• Government based on religious doctrine
• Women have fewer rights than men
• Homosexuality is outlawed
• Rejecting science in favor of religious doctrine
• No separation between church and state
• Religion is taught in school
• Abortion is illegal

Curiously, these are the same beliefs as the Republican Party.

So if you want to enact Sharia Law in America, vote Republican

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hopefully it's lithium iron phosphate and not lithium ion (or, heaven forfend, lithium-sulfur dioxide).

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Or find a friend or sweetie to help you choose, or design an algorithm to choose for you (this can be as simple as "whatever is closest to the top/front of the fruit basket/fridge/freezer/breadbox".

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There's a Danish food brand called "Fingies"!

Kronan (Icelandic grocery store) web page for Fingies chili cheese tops, showing a price of 699 kronar for a 250g package.

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It is also the title of a novel by David Gerrold, and a woman-owned CD pressing company in Canada.

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Heterosexuality isn't `normal', it is merely common." – Dorothy Parker

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My bad, that wasn't "Wasp", it was "Next of Kin", AKA "The Space Willies".

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This reminds me of a scene in Eric Frank Russell's book "Wasp", where the alien tries to taunt the protagonist by pointing out that his (imaginary) "Eustace" is more moral than he is. But it doesn't really work because there's little shame in being judged as worse than something that isn't there.

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

When I first took a trigonometry class, they began with the unit circle, but didn't really cover what it was or why it was important. I flailed for a while until I realized its significance and went back to really understand it. Talking to a new student, this is still a problem.

Illustration of a unit circle with radius 1, centered on the labelled X and Y axes. It includes a counterclockwise arrow labeled Θ, pointing at the hypotenuse of a right triangle labeled with its length of 1, and its height labelled with "y=sinΘ" and its width labelled with "x=cosΘ", and the end of its hypotenuse along the circle marked "P(x, y)".

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Saw someone else claiming that adding mayo will give it a nice "tang". No, thank you VERY much, no thanks.

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

At first, I thought this was silly, but then I remembered THERE ARE DIFFERENT KINDS OF BREAD!

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sounds like the same clowns who were spouting "Ivermectin kills China virus 100%"

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Charbucks: the ashes of once-mediocre coffee"

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"And ye'll be hung upside down in a vat of all the piss ye've ever spilt, and if ye drown, to hell with ye!"

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Why wait? Also, growing up is overrated and optional!

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Those are the burnt, or "additive" primaries, used in printing. CRTs use a different set, the "raw" or "subtractive" primaries, which are purple, green, and sienna.

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Gearing up to calibrate a somewhat exotic oscilloscope probe, I have most of the required equipment, but see a line for a "BNC male-to-GR adapter". That's a somewhat obscure one, but I can understand why they specified it. I guess it's time to take this one out of its original packaging.

Table titled "Rest Equipment Required for Long-Form Adjustment". Specifies a couple of choices of oscilloscope, a particular calibration generator and leveled sine wave generator, a "BNC Maile-GR Adapter", and a "BNC 50 Ω Termination", along with specifications and what they're used for.

Plug in equipment bay (Tektronix TM506), with an array of modules plugged into it, a multimeter, leveled sine wave generator, power supply, current probe adapter, and calibration generator. On top of the equipment bay is an oscilloscope, displaying a trapezoidal waveform.

Adapter in plastic bag with tag reading "TYPE 874-QBPA ADAPTOR TO TYPE BNC JACK", in red print on white, with "GENERAL RADIO COMPANY", "Since 1915", and "ELECTRONIC APPARATUS FOR SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY" in white print on red below.

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madbodger.bsky.social @madbodger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I was up at an Amish market and saw some cheese marked "12 year cheddar so sharp it will cut your tongue." I now regret not having bought it.

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