evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net
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Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.
Joined Nov 2022
New battery (CR2032) and a bit of cleaning, and we have life!
aww bless, it remembers the new century.
so shiny, full of hope, everything was new again...
sorry buddy, welcome to 2023's hellscape
So far, so promising.
I have all the bits, should be pretty simple getting a never-used infrared adaptor made before the turn of the century working with modern kit via a usb-serial adaptor, right?
software built for venerable versions of Windows with hardcoded serial ports running on a modern, usb-only laptop with a flavour of Linux should fly, right?
getting a watch unused since 2008 (new battery added to check it was working, but no way to get the pics off, so abandoned) to live again, right?
My Palm Pilot communicated mostly via IR as my laptop at the time had IR, my Nokia phones had IR, my WristCam had IR.
All was peachy and communication just happened.
That laptop is RIP (Pentium 133...) and most of the rest is now souvenirs of a more geeky time...
until I moved house.
and found the watch.
and its box.
containing the software.
and found the infrared serial adaptor.
and was prompted by Spangolin / @35millimetre about a photos-on-crap-kit project...
things joined together.
uh oh.
oookay, bit of a long-form geekery post, but it does (nearly) explain why I am sharing shitty greyscale pictures for a while...
way back (vertical wavy-lines go here) I purchased a Casio WristCam - the WQV-1 specifically.
It took 120x120 pixel greyscale images, but was also the size of a (slightly bulky) watch.
It could also share these via infrared.
I had a Palm Pilot with infrared.
This *Worked* really well.
I took many pictures.
23 years go by (vertical wavy-lines go here) and stuff changes.
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It's about time science proves something useful.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts
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hellooooooooooo mastodons
i have a jewelry shop. i specialize in fused glass especially blobs. here's some stuff i have a available in warm colors.
i'm working on leaving twitter so my reach has really been reduced, shares are appreciated!
#FusedGlass #jewelry
#SellingOnMastodon #art #FediGiftShop #handmade #HandmadeJewelry #glass
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The journey is more important than the destination, so why rush it?
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Some flies look like vicious armoured attackers. Those poor flowers 😮
#nature #photography #flowers #bugs #silly #drawing #SillyScribbles
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Trump is now facing so many indictments that I think we can throw some fun ones at him and he won't even notice:
-conspiracy to date daughter
-attempted literacy
-illegally tiny hands
-aggravated spray tan
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Went for a walk where the fluff monsters grow.
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Please stop laughing at CatGPT. Please stop sharing this picture. It's not funny. This is a slippery slope. It might only meow for now, but what's next? What will our cats do if CatGPT takes their jobs? Do we really want artificial intelligence to sleep all day? To scoff at the $50 worth of cat food you just purchased? To knock your full glass of water over and feel zero remorse when it shatters on the floor? Call me a Luddite, but I believe we must destroy CatGPT to protect our feline friends.
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[at a lesbian wedding]
i now pronounce you "open to interpretation"
you may now kiss your roommate
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I don't have a ton of faith in humanity, but I do appreciate how we've all decided to side with the orcas in the Great Orcas vs. Boats War. An orca could literally bite my arm off tomorrow and I would still be team orca.
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Self portrait of the artist on a Scottish headland
2023, wind and shadow
#video #loop #Scotland #wind #shadow #silly #SillyScribbles #GooglyEyes #SelfPortrait
2022 version can be found here:
https://things.uk/@eclectech/109384110606179146
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i've had it up to here with tom cruise
*holds hand horizontal about nipple height*
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@evilstevie I know, right! The Real World is virtually unplayable right now.
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Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.
Joined Nov 2022
