Riccardo S.

@sacco.ciarpa.me

🇮🇹🇪🇺 Just a bland grumpy nerd, often rambling. Knows little about a lot of things. Likes planes, cars, computers, vintage tech, [film] photography. Jack of all trades, master of none. I made @randomfoodphotos.bsky.social, if you're looking for a culprit

Ugh, tomorrow my SPID expires and I'll have to renew (and pay for) it, I'm too lazy to get a CIE, also not everyone accepts that even if the law requires them to. I'm pretty sure no one reading this will understand and that's perfectly fine. 😉

A gorgeous Moon. Straight unedited from the camera (just cropped). Same lens and camera I use back home in the city, but the image is way better and sharper. Maybe this is also a byproduct of the lower light pollution here on the Adriatic coast.

A waning gibbous Moon photographed around 1:00AM on a summer Italian night. Canon EOS 200D, EF 100-300mm f/5.6 lens. ISO 200, 1/15s, f/16.

I was looking up stuff for my Seattle trip. Then I felt ready to go to bed, but I made the mistake of walking out in the balcony for a second and saw a fantastic moon. I'm now getting the tripod and the DSLR out, I need to take a photo. Maybe even attempt a film photo.

I occasionally buy stuff online for my parents, no questions asked. They know they just have to send me an email with the link to the item. The other day my father said to me "I need you to buy me something". I get his email and open the link. "Professional oyster shucker kit" Ok, bought. 😅

Image from the web, a metal professional oyster shucker kit with oyster opening knives and gloves

Thanks to my obsession about always having a watch on my wrist since my grandpa gifted me a Swatch in '98 for my first communion, I now have a handy way to check the degree of cooking of my skin during summer months.

A tanned slightly hairy male arm held in front of a shower in a cramped bathroom. Where the watch would usually sit the skin is of a lighter tone.

Currently AC set on 26°C in dry mode and it's 32°C outside according to my weather app (I hate not having a proper thermometer), yet the difference feels more like 10° Back home (inland 50km from here) it's 37°C: 5° of difference between a concrete (sub)urban environment and a small seaside village

Just took a shower, the water felt warm even with the mixer tap set on cold 😅 Just 20 minutes behind schedule, I was supposed to leave home at 10AM, I'm supposed to be at a lunch party around 12-ish and I have to stop at the grocery store too on the way to the sea. I just want to sleep.

Ok, I declare myself defeated, I turned on the AC. The temperature was still survivable with the night air moving around outside, but I was just tired of sweating.

#Seattle related question I was looking for computer history related things to see there, does anyone have any suggestions? (I'm more interested in historical stuff rather than current, like AMZN/MS HQs) I saw there was the Living Computer Museum, now closed, and found the Interim Computer Museum

Pro-tip: you can use a watch case back opening ball to open any AirTag-style tag/tracker if you have to replace the battery inside. Because of course everyone has a watch case opening ball lying around 😜

A hand holding a blue rubber watch case opening ball. In the background, on a cloth, a MotoTag tracker as well as a pack of CR2032 batteries and a keychain holder for the MotoTag

Ok, so if a Light Rail ticket is 3$, and a ORCA day pass 6$, assuming I'll get the train at least twice a day I should just go for a day pass, seems like a no brainer And then there is the 3 day PugetPass, which costs exactly like 3 daily passes, I'm not sure if it has any advantages over that one

Screenshot of the SOund Transit website fares page.

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"ORCA regional day pass

The ORCA regional day pass provides unlimited rides on participating transit services for one day. The ORCA regional day pass is only valid for trips of $3 or less. Learn more.
 	Adult	Reduced fare
 	Sale price	Fare value covered	Sale price	Fare value covered
ORCA Day Pass cost	$6.00	$3.00	$2.00	$1.00
3-Day PugetPass

Coming this summer!

Similar to the ORCA regional day pass, the 3-Day PugetPass allows you to take unlimited trips on regional buses and light rail for three days. The 3-Day PugetPass is $18.

The pass activates automatically on your next trip and expires at 3 a.m. following the third day of use.

Day passes are not valid on Monorail, Washington State Ferries, Kitsap Transit Fast Ferries, and select regional services."