If you're wandering downtown Port Orchard today, come say hi at the Sidney Art Gallery!
26.02.2026 19:25
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If you're wandering downtown Port Orchard today, come say hi at the Sidney Art Gallery!
Buying from AliExpress is (often) cheaper and morally better than buying from Amazon or Walmart.
It's the same cheap junk made in China by underpaid labor. The only difference is whether or not it goes through a distribution network running on more underpaid labor.
Or am I just getting old and out of touch? I assume a bit of both.
They're probably terrified to even be seen together. Even if they secretly met up, we'd only ever hear anything if they felt it was worth re-ruining their lives. But the monoculture is gone, and music so new and different that everyone hears it isn't really a thing anymore.
I'm so fucking bummed that I'll never get to hear a new Daft Punk album.
They're innovators who got caught in a money making hit machine and booed for continuing to experiment. I get why they stopped. I just want to hear what they would've done next if we'd let 'em.
Any of the Samorost games. Great vibes and art style. Plus, the first 2 are very short.
amanita-design.net/games/samoro...
Later Alligator, of course. Super cute game from @smallbu.bsky.social
www.lateralligatorgame.com
The Neverhood is one of my all time faves. Claymation point and click from 1996 with a great (wacky) soundtrack.
www.myabandonware.com/game/the-nev...
Except book/movie spoilers, I guess.
As a teen, I mocked the U2 lyric "It's everything I wish I didn't know". My mom told me "You'll understand when you're older."
I've been pondering that for 21 years, and I still can't think of anything I wish I didn't know.
Wide shot of the art gallery. Old rustic wood floor with a faded area rug. An assortment of shelves and cases around the walls are full of a variety of art. Found object sculptures, fiber arts, pottery, etc. An equally diverse variety of art adorns the walls.
A poster hangs on a white wall. Primarily text with a large circle made of a variety of pinks and oranges. It reads "Sidney Art Gallery presents... Winner's Circle 2026 Winnera from the 2025 Helen Norrris Open Art Show Oil/Acrylic: Christine Hella Thompson Photography: J. Louis King Mixed Media: David Lewis Drawing: Janette Stiles Watercolor: Kim Spence 3d Media: Dan Spence Winners unable to participate: 3d Media - Jessica Parker Watercolor - Linda Carey
I'm volunteering at the Sidney Art Gallery and Museum in Port Orchard today. Come say hi and check out the January show: "Winner's Circle" spotlighting the 2025 Helen Norris Open Art Show winners.
#portorchard #kitsap #smaa
Oh no, ACAB means them too? 😢
I made a page on my site with more photos and details of our past solstice fires here:
farbolin.me/solstice-fires
An effigy about 20 feet/6 meters tall with a triangular head and crude outstretched claw-like hands made of random slats of wood, many painted pink, and a white cabinet in it's belly stands at dusk, engulfed in flames.
The aforementioned effigy earlier in the burn. We see the fire just beginning to catch in the lower layers. We can also see the pink slats adorned with white painted repeating curl patterns. Some say things like "feed me", "please", and "thank you". We also see the huge glorious... horns? antlers? atop the head made of a single sprawling, twisting tree branch.
A detail shot of the head of the effigy on the grass before hoisting into place. It has a triangular head made of pink slats, wears a maniacal grin, has a long triangular nose, and eyebrows of protruding nails. Around the head, we see tools and scraps of wood. Also a plastic shopping basket from Ace Hardware. I didn't steal it. It was in my basement when I moved into the house. But it is really useful.
I've started having collaborative scrap wood sculpture bonfires on the solstices. This most recent one was the tallest and most colorful so far.
4 stacking open front plastic bins, each about a foot deep, 8 inches wide, and 6 inches tall, in a grungy basement shop. Each containing a mass of wires. and power supplies. From bottom to top, labeled "AC", "<12v", "12v", ">12v".
A caucasian hand holding up a power supply in front of the bins. On the power supply "12v 2A" is written in permanent marker.
A little while ago, I labeled and sorted everything in my bin of power supplies. It's been SO NICE to be able to find what I need quickly.
#maker #homeshop #tinker #electronics
Every time I fill up at a gas station, I think about how much I look forward to switching to only EVs and never having to do this again.
I saw someone trying to make an app/site for that, but (you'll never believe this) last I saw, the project looked abandoned.
The adapter as described. Just 2 plugs sticking out of heat shrink. This view shows a close up of the barrel jack.
The adapter as described. Just 2 plugs sticking out of heat shrink. This view shows a close up of the 4 pin PC fan connector.
The adapter as described. Just 2 plugs sticking out of heat shrink. This view shows the overall adapter from the side.
I live making a weird adapter. Today, we have a 5.5mm barrel jack to PC fan connector. Now I can directly power a fan from an old 12v router power supply!
That is an impressive run! Here's hoping it continues!
The customers I've seen so far are a delightful bunch. Young hobbyists, older folks with long histories with typewriters, and anyone who just thinks they're neat!
Nah, they did what tech companies do: sold off our department and laid everyone off.
We see the stoned man with ADHD don slippers and descend a set of basement stairs.
A minute or so later, we see him re-emerge.
He pauses at the top of the stairs, hands empty.
"...fuck"
He goes back down the stairs.
A desk covered in tools and typewriter parts in a room painted the color of terra cota. On the wall hangs a poster reading "Fight Fascism. Defend Democracy and the Constitution. Dissent is Patriotic." There's a huge window to the left off the desk.
Alternate view of the same room showing 2 large windows and shelves full of restored typewriters of all ages for sale.
I've completed my first week of the typewriter repair apprenticeship at Bremerton Typewriter Company! My desk is next to a giant window in a showroom full of beautiful old machines. Best job ever.
View from the water of a US naval shipyard.
But also, much like a Miyazaki movie, there is an ominous shadow of military industry nearby.
Foot ferry between Port Orchard and Bremerton. This is the Carlisle II. She's the oldest Mosquito Fleet ferry still afloat! I made a model of her in Blender last year. I still gotta go back and finish up a couple details on that, but here's one of the test prints.
The 1917 ship the Carlisle II comes into port under clear blue skies and serene waters.
Today is my first day of work as a typewriter repair apprentice, and I'm commuting on a 108 year old ferry.
I feel like I'm in a Miyazaki movie.
Fixed it!
I've lived on the west coast for over a decade, and last week I was buying mayo and thought "wait, why is it not Hellmann's?". Thank you for letting me know this is a regional thing I've just completely not noticed.
Something on my website is acting really weird and this page is broken right now. I'll have to sit down and diagnose that later.
Close up of the end of a board about 6 inches wide. There's a noticeable seam about 1/4 inch from the end of the board.
Measure twice, cut once.
Realize you wrote down the measurement wrong and don't have enough material to make a new one. Glue cut piece back on. Secure it with dowels. Cut again.
Like it never happened. 😎