Oh come on

When my times in autocross aren’t improving

yay

#retrocomputing

New Outlook is good, both for yourself and 766 third parties.

Huge improvement in intake temps after installing a DO88 intercooler on the Volvo S40

Old exhaust officially out on the S40, replacing with a JT Tuning 3” turboback

Animatronics programming has come a long way. While the old-school board is way cooler-looking, now it seems they just use Maya!

This makes a ton of sense — Walt Disney Imagineering has access a lot of talented 3D animators, and they can create a rig that matches the movements/limitations of the animatronic.

Blep the rainbow!

#dog #dogs #dogstodon #dogsofmastodon #rainbow #cute #humor #humour #bleptember

This blade style bushing was too bulky to fit in my clamp press so I had to hammer it in. Took a lot of elbow grease but it's in there good!

My best run of the day

Ran the Volvo S40 in its second #AutoX this weekend at the CART Mohegan Sun event. Managed to get 18 runs in and we missed the rain.

Be ungovernable, like birds who make nests OUT OF ANTI-BIRD SPIKES. A new study describes resourceful Dutch & Belgian corvids besting evil architecture by stealing metal anti-bird strips and using them like thorny twigs, to construct their homes.

Like thorns, the spikes may protect their nests from predators.

Lead author Auke-Florian Hiemstra wrote an epic 🧵 about his research that's worth a read: https://twitter.com/AukeFlorian/status/1678703433900064773

Paper: https://www.hetnatuurhistorisch.nl/organisatie/publicaties/deinsea/deinsea-21/

#science #SciComm #birds #netherlands