Mr. Surly

Badges came out great. Daughter enjoyed building it, and wants to tackle an FM radio kit this weekend.

Ya know, if the FBI took Trump & Epstein's accusers as seriously as they do these Iran threats, then we'd never have these Iran threats to begin with.

What. The actual. Fuck?

Went to a fancy coffee place, and they got annoyed when I wanted cardamom added but without sugar.

They had to grind up actual cardamom.

Also, I'm colorblind.

What's My JND? Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?

What's My JND? 0.0098
Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

I like Necco wafers.

"Even the licorice and clove flavors?" I hear you ask.

ESPECIALLY THE LICORICE AND CLOVE FLAVORS!

Needs a betamax slot

Yup, because it'll go from needing 5000 lbs of force to needing 0.1 in about 10 milliseconds.

Gee willikers, seems this Trump fella likes doing stuff that is good for Russia.

"Whatever will fit." I have an RTX 5090 arriving today, so ...

I'm literally waiting for a new GPU, etc for local agentic AI.

I'm running stuff now on my old GTX 1080, and it's ... not great. Fans to full speed and my 2nd monitor blacks out when it's inferring, LOL

Potato chip bags used to be paper + wax that you could tear open easily. Now it's some type of kevlar body armor that requires an industrial bandsaw to open.

Seems we keep hearing about the FBI knowing about vile things, and proceeding to do pretty much nothing about it.

Pasting the number in the verification field DOESN'T WORK, I have to type it manually ❌ Strike FIVE

How did you manage to fuck up unsubscribing SO BADLY. Fire your web team and close your website in shame.

I gotta call out NXP (nxp.com) here:

Get email from NXP.
Click Unsubscribe.
"What's your email address?" ❌ Strike one
"Please log in" ❌ Strike two
"Your password is out of date, change your password" ❌ Strike 3
"We sent you a confirmation email, enter the code" ❌ Strike fucking FOUR.

TIL Newt Gingrich is still alive.

"A lot of leftists believe that only American nukes can stop Iran from having this kind of missile programs."

Ok, trollbot.

Little girl saying "Why don't we have both?"

Doesn't have to be a dichotomy.

It's breathtaking, really. You sit there and say "wow, this is the stupidest fucking thing that has ever happened -- nothing could be stupider than this."

And then it (somehow) gets much stupider. Over and over again.

All this because I didn't feel like dragging the Metcal out of the garage, where it's kinda permanently ensconced on the workbench.

Eutectic Pb/Sn, solder if anyone is wondering.

I'm not impressed. It seemed to have trouble maintaining temperature, melting solder, or even staying on. And I was using a beefy USB-C power brick that can output 65W.

So we switched KSEGER T-12, which worked much better.

This post is about soldering and electronics.

I finally got around to trying out the Pinecil soldering iron tonight soldering up the badges we picked up from @vcfsocal.bsky.social

"Accidental projection"

I remember the song, forgot they made movie ...

"Irrelevant dipshit says what?"

Holy shit, did Reggie Jackson die!?

"Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands."

-- Anthony Bourdain

It's the GOP playbook:

* Wreck the economy
* Start a war in the middle east
* Protect pedophiles (not new, but now well known)