Without saying your age, what is your favourite movie that came out when you were 20 years old.

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Vorndess Art @ Connichi 2026@vorndessart.bsky.social · 2d ago

Without saying your age, what is your favourite movie that came out when you were 20 years old.

Our landlords asked us whether we'd have a problem with them installing a security cam overlooking the two parking spaces where our neighbors park, since it would also film us as we'd walk to the trashcans. The reason? Someone loosened the lug nuts on our neighbor's car. The fucking fuck.

I like quiet, rainy Sundays with no plans whatsoever.

If I think about it, my job is pretty close to that of Dr. Gordon Freeman. Somewhat overqualified to be putting samples into spectrometers, dealing with radiation hazards, constantly fearing the consequences of people not taking lab safety seriously... Good thing I also have a crowbar in my office.

In other typical yeen news, I waited for my tank to get almost down to 1/4 before filling up today. Drove 1035 kilometers and needed 34,4 liters to brim the tank, which equals a quite respectable 3.3 l/100km. That's 71 mpg if you prefer weird units.

As someone who was obsessed with bicycle lighting even as a small child, it always irks me that so many feel it necessary to ride racing bikes in everyday traffic with zero lights or reflectors. This morning, one came the other way in the dark. And I'm just like... Are you trying to remain unseen?

Fun fact: This is a screenshot from an instructional YouTube video concerning radioactive source replacement, uploaded by the manufacturer of a scientific instrument.

Our most important cryostat was having vibration issues, despite most of it being an anti-vibration scaffold. Turns out that ice formed in it as we vent it with helium gas from the recovery line, as always. Fewer and fewer people use helium, the line was just full of random gas. Interim solution:

I guess my spicy box finally arrived.

After hearing about Duralex being in financial difficulties again, I asked myself: Why haven't I bought a set for myself yet? It's exactly the kind of thing I love most: Quality everyday kitchenware, nothing enshittified... Yes, I'm getting old. But I just like to appreciate nice and simple things.

Getting everything ready to take delivery of a new radiation source today. They have been numbered sequentially since the late 70s. We finally arrive at the obviously amusing number.

Yes, I'm putting a 1960s interface into a brand new PC.

"How come your device gets delivered first even though we ordered before you did?!" Well, I guess they like me more. 8D But they didn't actually order first; their funding was approved first, but I was faster in the resulting fight with our own administration to even reach the ordering phase.

I really love this cloudy, slightly breezy, and cooler weather. Time to put on my cozy hoodie and do some sitting, reading, and coffee drinking in the company of our eclectic plant collection.

It's Friday. Let's go right back to the 90s! youtu.be/KWvi3c7bgoM?...

Vertigo – Magic Eyes (C1 X-tended Club Mix) (1997)

YouTube video by DirectVinyl

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Someone I don't think highly of sent me a bunch of samples. I halted our comprehensive characterization after some of our methods indicated, at times, 50% or more parasitic phase content. Now he sends me a paper manuscript. That XRD data doesn't look like what I had sent him... Oh boy.

How niche are my interests? Yes.

My semi-predecessor keeps refusing to get a new bike and instead puts band-aids on what can only be described as a broken frame.

Setting up the dumb new Win11 lab machines so central IT leaves me alone. I'm gonna make sure that we won't need any more dangly USB hubs.

Some more balcony time with some admittedly heavy reading material. Picked this up from the free bookshelf at our local grocery store, and while I thought I knew quite a bit about the dramatic events around the Danziger Bucht in 1945, these detailed accounts paint a very grim picture indeed...

youtu.be/VGCAHYkbwFc?... This is one of the videos that makes me cry pretty much every time I see it. Mislabeled as 1989, it's actually the 1999 Omega concert at Népstadion in Budapest. My mother showed it to me when Kóbor János, the lead singer, passed away in 2021, shortly after Benkő László...

Omega Gyöngyhajú lány original live 1989 High Quality

YouTube video by Tomek Retroboy

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Ever since I ditched my hair, I seem much more prone to bashing my thick skull into things, like a cat without whiskers. I often hit my head on my car's door frame and knock it against the hanging cabinets in the kitchen. Today, I bashed it into the hood latch striker of Taki's car. Painful & oily.

*ponders* What game did I even play last time I did? *ponders* Oh. OH. Well! It's gonna be a wild night of drifts, drags, and being very angry at rubberband-AI. Better rice up my Skyline some more! So yeah, life would be pretty awesome, I'd say.

Micky D@mickyde.bsky.social · 4w ago

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With my eyes out of harm's way and short exposures, let's hope the sensor will not be angry at me...

Deleted my post. Thanks to the people who warned me. Do not use thermal blankets as makeshift filters; it's a bad idea.

Does any tech-minded person here have access to the manual for a Philips CM 12 TEM, or can they tell me what magnetic stray fields it can deal with before becoming unusable? I can only find Erwin Sabio's alignment and setup guide so far...

Pretty much this, sadly. I bought a pair of shoes of the same make & model that I used to have and love in my somewhat younger days. They used to last forever, now the inner soles are gone in less than a year, even though my weight is the same and I do less walking now than in those days.

Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave@wolven.blacksky.app · 4w ago

I remember when someone tried to argue with me about this on here, saying it was survivorship bias, and not my own comparisons of the same brands' material quality and stitching over the past 30+ years. Anyway, yes shit is actually more poorly made now than it used to be even a short while ago.

"The solvent of choice is nitromethane. Still readily available as a stock car fuel, it should be handled carefully." The USA-ness of this device manual amuses me. Also, that's more of a top-fuel dragster than a stock-car thing, but I'm no expert. *does a burnout in his gasser*