SF STORY PREMISE:
SETI program decodes an alien signal clearly targeting us.
Hi! We see you're still facing the Great Filter! We want to help! Based on your anatomy per broadcasts we decoded, here is a blueprint for a device that will solve your problem!
Humans: decode blueprint.
It's for an improved guillotine.
I must away to bed but this has been rattling around my head since I saw the photo earlier.
With apologies to Oy for the unfair accusations.
With thanks to @silvermoon82 for letting me play.
With reassurances to all that no Friends were harmed during the production of this image.
'night all! Sleep well when night reaches you 💤
482) Wrestlebots. Worry no longer about your favourite professional wrestlers being sidelined by nagging injuries with these impervious robots that can sub in for low-stakes events. #SmallRobotsRemastered
I love building with plates so much!
◻️100x stronger than wood alone
◻️Screws cannot crater (easy to disassemble), countersinking is pointless
◻️Holes make alignment easy and templates unnecessary
◻️Cinching is automatic and will always reach theoretical maximum
◻️even the shitty ones take decades to rust on the coast
Every now and then a photo appears in my notifications as someone spots the potential for Something Silly.
Sometimes the photographers are very kind and say "go for it". Thanks to @cheriecreationstruck for this one.
You might remember my distress at not having been able to grab any tiny balancing sheep photos. Went out for a walk today and it wasn't perfect (the pathway is noticeably higher than the field which makes it tricky) BUT VICTORY IS MINE! 🐑 😁
I continue to stand by rubbish-but-real being better than polished-but-fake.
Behold my rubbish-but-real triptych.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Viss/116240791835934578
they loved it.
im doing this format from now on for every tabletop i ever do.
telling them halfway through "oh no, this is real. go look at your logs. go look at your telemetry. its there"
their eyes get to be the size of dinner plates.
completely different story when you make them get out of the chair and go do stuff in meatspace.
fucking awesome, 500/10. would tabletop again.
REALITY: "Automating this 5 minute task is way more fun than doing it, so I'll spend all day automating it"
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.