now I gotta go put this up in the woods somewhere
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Chris Combs (he/him)
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mastodon 4.7.3I make art about technology: often interactive; my own circuit boards + software; metal, wood, found objects. In Washington, DC with a studio at Otis Street Arts Project in Mount Rainier, Md. https://chriscombs.net
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The retroreflection works pretty well. I left the letters transparent so the underlying 3m prismatic vinyl shines through. The other parts of the sign have a white base coat. Here's a photo with flash from off-axis
A sign for all time
from a spa near us
[Insert wombat joke here]
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@jollysea@chaos.social hmm not sure about these eggs
Opening Friday at the Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls, SD: My show "Desperate Remedy/Little Ones"! These artworks consider the quest for the neutrino, a subatomic particle whizzing through us all constantly.
Pictured: "Little Ones," an interactive installation that lets you embody one of these tiny particles yourself.
We're doing an opening reception 5–8PM, with a brief talk at 7PM. Cheers!
hmm... how far to go for a silly joke
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almost a shame to cover up most of it
lol is this anything
This is just to despair
I have looked
upon your works
that were in
the desert
in which
your shattered visage
lies
half-sunk
Forgive me
nothing remains beside
your sneer
so commanding
so cold
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@tindie Why on earth wouldn't you just email the sellers
Why does this statement expire in 6 days when the downtime could clearly exceed that
Why wouldn't you build a new site in parallel while operating the old one like everyone else does
Who are the new owners
starting to wonder if systemd is the Google Play Store of linux?
monolithic, does way too much, operating with elevated permissions, ends up imposing policy on the system instead of the other way around
Gypsum, the brassica of materials
Drywall? Gypsum
Plaster? Gypsum
Gesso? Gypsum*
Spackle? Gypsum
Sidewalk chalk? Gypsum
Chalkboard? Gypsum
Alabaster? Gypsum
Mortar? Gypsum*
*sometimes
dang, this hits me right in the "Miniature Books" section of the heart
Photos from https://www.ebay.com/itm/374976865333
wow, as someone who's been using Thunderbird for a few weeks—being greeted by a massive full-screen donation plea inside my email client for the $1.4B Mozilla Foundation is REALLY off-putting
DC: Doing an artists' talk tonight (April 16) at 7PM-- three of us from Otis Street Arts Project will be speaking about our group show at the Washington Studio School in Dupont Circle: https://www.washingtonstudioschool.org/events/4-16-third-thursday-artist-talk-in-reflection-of-gleaners
I would argue that if a dialog box does not express an intent or modality of the user--such as an interruptive dialog that bursts into your reading experience with a promotion--it is not a modal, but a fauxdal
lol I think I flew too close to the sun by parodizing a sloperator on here... feels like I caught some mutes. oh well!
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@JamesAkers Hell yeah!! I did a shy light (motion sensor) with a small incandescent Dialight indicator, would love to see your version with neon...
https://chriscombs.net/2023/04/13/shy-light/
the most precious resource in every computing environment is the same: user input.
buy high-quality switches; set input handlers early; and for the love of god check whether a field is empty before you initialize it with a default value
"tongue": cursed
"tounge": blursed
"tung": blessed... optimal. efficient. sublime. it will win over the next 250 years
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@billgoats@bitbang.social I honestly keep a daily ebay saved search for "vintage calculator" just for vibes/aesthetic inspo.
Only bought one or two over the years... so far...
Really excited to attend the Bosch Parade this June. A multi-day aquatic parade in his .nl hometown of Garden of Earthly Delights floats w/ performers. Any of y'all been?
I mean, they do say the single biggest remnant from the Anthropocene will be concrete
I liked today's poem from Poetry 180:
After every war
someone has to clean up.
Things won't
straighten themselves up, after all.
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bought something on eBay with the idea of avoiding Crazy Jeff's Discount Warehouse. It has "VDTrack" as the shipper and is arriving very quickly.
Turns out you can "convert your tracking number" from Amazon to VDTrack for a mere $0.05 per package. Presumably the shipper has done so. Markets in everything...
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@jalefkowit Custom search engines are also a thing in *fox (and just as prone to the same braino/typo failure mode ;_;)
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@bonkers @paulrickards The first two pictures in the thread show it operating in different colors.
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@mwichary I have a distant memory of some icon packs having like a little scene as the background image of their disk images? maybe from iconfactory?