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Being able to get a technical manual for your home devices is a lot more difficult nowadays than it used to be, too.
A big win for repairing instead of replacing. I had a broken heat pump that the first two sets of sparkies said I should just replace. I found a local guy who is a heat pump specialist and an electronics geek. He found the bad resistor on the main board, replaced it, and we're off to the races. ❄️
Can this be a solution?
I'm glad I brought my raincoat just in case.
There's gonna be rain.
"Who do we ask for help when we don’t know which wire to cut? We ask a MarkV-A1 bomb disposal robot!"
(Swiper had a terrible accident in the first episode. It was a poignant teachable moment in unstable materiel transport.)
A male elephant seal laying in short grass with a beach in the background. Its head is lifted and mouth is wide open as it lets out an aggressive call.
A portrait of a male elephant seal sitting up relaxed. It’s long snout is draped down its face, looking like a muppet
Inside you there are two Elephant Seals 🐘 🦭
#mammals #seals
The headline causes considerable psychic damage. The article beneath is an unmitigated cognitohazard.
If one must, proceed with extreme caution.
This is not a place of honour.
We considered ourselves a powerful culture.
Developers of video game Caves of Qud arrested today on charges of forced intellectualization of inanimate objects. When asked for comments, the unrepentant game dev told us "Look if I have to deal with this shit, so does the toaster"
You might think spray-a-brain is the most absurd thing in the game, but we discovered it in real life and we're spraying it on every object we can to the exclusion of all other economic activities.
...and now I have "The Ham-Sheen Rose of Texas" stuck in my head, damnit.
You know how sliced ham can sometimes get an iridescent sheen on it?
Consider also: Battletruck (1982; New Zealand)
"The microgrid system is currently fuelled by natural gas but it is capable of using more sustainable fuel sources such as biomethane and hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO)."
So tell us: why isn't it using them?
(now wondering if they've considered putting some turbines up on that)
I don't know how the new stadium in Christchurch is as a stadium, but with an easterly it's a pretty effective wind tunnel generator for Madras Street. The calm as I reached Latimer Square was unreal after the headwind a couple of blocks earlier.
Said dude has a specific reputation for being a weirdo neo-Nazi.
floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/03/g...
Granted, these days I'm mostly writing Markdown, and the last time I had to write a Serious Manuscript I was able to use LaTeX for it...
Maybe I should thank MS for steering me away from the kind of work where I need to use their stuff everyday with their design choices.
Times like that I miss the "reveal codes" mode in WordPerfect 5.1, where you could see your document in WYSIWYG mode but _also_ inspect the underlying structure for subtle shenanigans.
*throws Modal Soul on again, since it's been a minute*
Illustrating that the views of Iranians don't just collapse into a simplistic binary of "America bad, praise the Ayatollah" or "America good, bring back the Shah".
That "uncomplicated" narrative only serves to amplify authoritarian voices over caring about actual people.
At least Ovid's better than that ibid guy, who just quotes from the same sources over and over.
:-D
The old covid enquiry is dying, and the new enquiry (the Reserve Bank one announced to fill the void of covid enquires) struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.
Thanks for doing the reading, Marc.
[reposted to correct void back from Ovid]
