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Watching #Supernatural 03.07 "Fresh Blood." Gordon Walker, demented a-hole, gets turned into a vampire.

me: that's what we call 'poetic justice"

Ed: i didn't hear a poem

me *clears throat*:

when you live a life of rage
you finally reach a stage
where obsession cannot fill:
you become what you tried to kill.

Ed: ...

me: you're welcome. I'll be here all night

Local peeps, I know a bunch of stuff got rain-dated to Sunday buuut try to stop by the Armory for CaziCon! It’s such a great local convention and should be a ton of fun. (And yeah - I’ll have these Trek bags for sale.)

Arts at the Armory, 191 Highland Ave, Somerville
10a - 3p
Free admission! Many cool local vendors, artists, and DMs will be there with great panel programming and games for all ages.

#SomervilleMA #cambridgema #comics #startrek #cosplay #nerdery

A composite image of a CaziCon flier featuring several messenger bags I have made, including a Star Trek: TNG sciences bag, a rainbow D20 bag, a ttrpg-inspired bag, and a chemistry inspired bag.

A photograph of a red messenger bag flap with the Starfleet engineering division badge in the top left corner, similar to the TOS uniform.

A photograph of a pale blue messenger bag with the Starfleet sciences division badge in the top left corner, similar to the TOS uniform.

A photograph of a gold messenger bag flap with the Starfleet command division badge in the top left corner, similar to the TOS uniform.

Okay, quick question about Coruscant: Where does its atmosphere come from? If the entire planetary surface is city, where is the local equivalent of the Amazon, plus all the other greenery, that breathes out the air humans need? Asking for a species, lol. #Andor #nerdery

I've finished the shownotes for this and will be ready to roll in a few hours. Expect another long one (for me anyway) as I regale you about #Andor, #Doctor Who: #TheStoryandtheEngine, and #UK-based #nerdery in general.

Snort. https://tracks.ranea.org/post/780817630854578176/the-robots-have-come-for-your-em-dashes and not only Strunk and White, but also Bringhurst.

I use em/en dashes all the time, even here, but mostly in my professional work. I'm sure nobody else really notices, but I do. I pad em dashes — as in a space before and after — heh — while a lot of pubs don’t and I think it looks bad.

/via point 7: https://www.ianbetteridge.com/ten-blue-links-spivs-spies-and-slowdowns-edition/

@ianb

#Nerdery

Having now read Terry Pratchett's THE WEE FREE MEN and A HAT FULL OF SKY, feral 12yo has taken to exclaiming a rolling-r "crivens!" on a semi-regular basis.

I feel like I perhaps have reached the parenting pinnacle?

#nerdery
#books

The Apple world clock app is limited to 24 cities, which as there are 24 time zones on this rock makes some sense.

I now have them all sorted west/east:

Honolulu
Anchorage
Los Angeles
Albuquerque
Chicago
Louisville
Manaus
Buenos Aires
Grytviken (South Georgia island)
Praia (Cabo Verde)
UTC (aka GMT/London)
Madrid
Tel Aviv
Addis Ababa
Samara (evil Putinland)
Astana (Kazakhstan)
Dhaka
Bangkok
Singapore
Tokyo
Brisbane (weirdly, east of Sydney)
Hobart (Tassie)
Suva (Fiji)
Auckland

Phew! Obvs I got to the airport a little too early. 😃 Some were hard to find! #Nerdery

Repurposing aging #tech... Mounted these donated Fire HD 8 tablets to my workbench to provide me with print cam streaming and dedicated background entertainment, without taking up valuable space on my PC monitors.

#Nerdery #Workspace

A photo of a small tablet mounted to the underside of a workbench shelf. The tablet displays the feed from a webcam pointed at a 3D printer.

A photo of a small tablet mounted to the underside of a workbench shelf. The tablet displays the title screen for Amazon Prime Video's "Invincible" show.

So, I heard the kids are crazy about wood accents on their gaming PCs nowadays. Making a little wooden touch on my own computer here, with a 3D-printed C64 side bracket and a scrap piece of thick ipe veneer. It's a little rough around the edges still, but I think it might work out ok when it's oiled and lightly sanded. #nerdery #commodore #c64 #retrocomputing

A 3d-printed C64 side bracket with a piece of veneer beside it.

A 3d-printed C64 side bracket and a piece of veener, both covered in glue.

A C64 side bracket covered in veneer. All the ports are cut out, it's a little rough around the edges still.

I haven't read that take anywhere yet, but hear me out: What if midichlorians aren't the cause of Force sensitivity but an effect of Force sensitivity? Midichlorians flourish in organisms with Force sensitivity so measuring their levels is just a proxy for the person's potential. #starwars #nerdery

The TNGbag is shaping up delightfully. Exterior is done, lining is already cut and should come together pretty quickly. I need to revise the way I do the front pockets on these bags as the pleats on the cargo pocket really are too much for my machine to handle - there’s a few other sticky spots but that one is quite bad.

But damn, I’m pleased at how closely the vision and the reality are aligning.

#startrek #StarTrekTNG #starfleet #space #nerdery #handmade #sewing #workinprogress

The front of the bag with flap closed. A messenger-style bag in red and black where the flap is styled to strongly resemble the Star Trek: The Next Generation uniform. It has a black upper component with an invisible zipper pocket, a red middle, and a peaked lower portion in black that resembles the waistband of the TNG uniform. There are also two side pockets visible in red with a black upper trim and black drawstrings. There is a vinyl iron-on Starfleet insignia in the upper right quadrant of the flap.

The front portion of the bag under the flap. The bag body is black; there is a black slip pocket with space for pens and a red cargo pocket with a black flap closure. There are two silver snaps to hold the flap closed.

The rear of the bag. A red pocket crosses the entire back of the bag; it has a black trim upper border. The black body of the bag is visible behind/above it so it still kinda looks like the uniform.

🧠 Tales from Sleepy Brain 🧠

03:48, pssst, hey, remember those Juniper SRX650 on eBay? I bet there's at least two dual 10GbE XPIMs on sale!
03:49, "no, brain, not now, sleeping. don't need another SRX650."

03:49, oh but what about CheckPoint firewalls that have Xeons and can be gutted and modded for BSD? let's find one... or two!
03:50, "no. sleeping. quiet now."

03:50, You'll miss me when I'm gone!
03:50, "stop"

03:50, ok, but the Palo Alto PA-850 with enterprise license.. let's find two for H/A mode for the lab!
03:50, "ach ja, so fick mich.. good point. to the computer! and make me an espresso.."

#networking #NetworkSecurity #infosec #freebsd #linux #homelab #opnsense #nerdery #sleep #insomnia #dreams #schläfrigesGehirn

Minor upgrade to cooling system on the EPYC workstation. Bye bye Noctua .. Dynatron resumes dominance. Gotta get ready for the office, so no time for alt-text but if you want that please let me know and I'll add it later today.

#freebsd #desktop #dailydriver #cooling #linux #well-linux-in-VMs #amd #cpu #engineering #WomenInTech #nerdery

My one year-end recap post before the end of the year!

My (Incomplete) Year in Fountain Pens and Inks: Journaling https://cjs-wunderkammer.ghost.io/my-incomplete-year-in-fountain-pens-and-inks-journaling/

#FountainPens #inks #data #analysis #nerdery

So say we all 🦖

#Data #Nerdery

A lit candle - "A Prayer for Useful Data" in front of a lit T-Rex lamp and two containers of art supplies

If I could have only one generally trivial wish, one which must benefit the entire world, but which isn't exactly a life or death concern, it would be...

To remove every Realtek device ever made and replace them with decent devices from Intel, Broadcom (I know, yes yes, still better than RT), Mellanox, etc

Minor heads up to the youth.. don't blame your OS or computer for being unstable or buggy if there's any RT device present in the system. Ditch that shite and move on with life.

#freebsd #linux #networking #nerdery #engineering