Career announcement! After years working in the computing and devices industry I have decided it's time to return to my first love: lying in a crib and alternately sobbing and giggling.
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Musician (drums, bass) for @12AX7@stoney.monster and The Stonemonsters. Podcast co-host at embedded.fm, Embedded Software Consultant at Logical Elegance. KM6BHF
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🧵I took some photos this weekend. This is the best of them. It's not a remarkable photo, though the dog is cute, but there's a story behind it (with more photos in the thread) that I think is interesting.
I think I can finally call myself a pro-level drummer now.
(Took out a flying moth with a drumstick without dropping the beat).
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I crocheted a thing.
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Quick couple nights' worth of integration on NGC 281, The "Pacman" nebula. Had some focus issues or something, but was able to compensate a bit. A fun DSO. #Astrodon #astrophotography
Me: why can I never find any reading glasses?
Also me:
Dog with hamburger (2026)
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Me, pulling up a whiteboard to my dog:
"Look I need to explain something to you..."
Ok, finally gonna sit down and do some serious work on this song, track some bass, do a little draft mixing and.... Logic is busted, plugins only show empty windows.
I'm gonna buy a 1975 16-track Ampex. At least when it breaks I can kick it.
I have to say, I was a lot more excited about tokens in 1985.
Wow the 4'oclock wall hit me hard today. Who turned up the gravity on this couch?
I had a dream we hosted a party at our old house (haven't lived there in 11 years) and invited lots of old friends and college buddies and then we didn't show up.
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Spent a little more time reprocessing this to bring out some more of the faint edges, blue star forming regions, and dust clouds. At the expense of the core.
M31, again.
Holy shit I did it.
A Clockwork Orange Roughy
Goodbye, Mr. Fish and Chips
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Currently looking at live tardigrades.
FYI: squirrels like chewing through neutral feeds to houses. This is our power quality before and after PG&E fixed a degraded aluminum feed line.
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Decided to get donuts for the first time in years at the local place. Went in, chose carefully, lady bagged them up, promptly sneezed on the open bag and handed it to me. Paid, left. Never getting donuts again.
Delayed a podcast, scrambled for 30 minutes to set up an alternative audio recording system, then afterward debugged for an hour to figure out why the main audio interface stopped working and the answer is: I cannot read a routing matrix.
It's a frozen waffles for lunch sort of day.
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It's 2026 and humanity still hasn't figured out how to reliably keep water on the outside of a house.
Seems unfair that a 4.6 earthquake could be that strong and lengthy and cause me to lose 90 minutes of sleep.
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“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
M31 9 hours integration over December. Happy Holidays to everyone.
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FYI: We're running a fundraiser over on the podcast and matching donations up to $5k. It's a cool org and worthy of your support, IMHO.
https://mstdn.social/@embedded/115705004441260366
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What substance could possibly be burning on the bridge for hours? Did you make it out of naphtha? In the Star Trek universe apparently everything is flammable but in a controlled way.
@douglasvb@m.ai6yr.org If drafted, I will not run; if nominated, I will not accept; if elected, I will not serve...
@douglasvb@m.ai6yr.org I'm particularly fond of the candidate named "LivingForGod AndCountry DeMott". "Barack D Obama Shaw" is a close second. Somehow, even though the candidate list is the phone book, we are also allowed to write in a candidate.
@douglasvb@m.ai6yr.org Have you looked at the ballot? We have our choice of 527 candidates, some of them with real names!
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I’m looking for new embedded development clients. If you need help with architecture,
design, or implementation for any responsible embedded systems project large or small, I can help. DM me here. #fedihired
Why is my neighbor keeping a guinea fowl in his chicken coop. Wrong answers only.
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@ferrix now hang on, you may be on to something there
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@chris I like them a lot, been using them since grad school. I won’t tell you how long ago that was.
Need suggestions for not-too-expensive 3D printer filament spool dryers/storage. Ideally I'd like to be able to store at least 4 spools, but I don't need to dry them all at once I guess.
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@ferrix@mastodon.online since the storm in question was coming directly off the water, there was a non-zero chance
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@MLE_online@social.afront.org It's ridiculous that we have to sleep but yet are so bad at it.
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@ferrix@mastodon.online Seems that way, at least for now.
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@ferrix@mastodon.online @MLE_online@social.afront.org I find it somewhat useful. In September I started sleeping badly, but not often enough to really note it, but I did feel off. After a couple of months of it was clear I was getting 30 minutes less sleep on average than just prior. I was able to trace it to a medication change and fix it. But I'm not scrutinizing every day's data like casting bones.
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@ferrix@mastodon.online I got a bit but it wasn't very good. I wasn't patient enough.
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@ExplodingLemur Dang. Next time.
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@ferrix@mastodon.online It definitely depends on the dream. Sometimes I can't but others I'm more lucid and it doesn't seem to be difficult. My dreams tend to be very vivid and I remember them for quite a while.
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@ferrix@mastodon.online Exactly! I always that thought was a gag!
@tess@mastodon.social It's pretty surprising that Iran decided to target *that* site in particular.
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@ferrix@mastodon.online See my quote of Iger right after my toot. It's definitely related.
Janky ass government.