Sunbathing in a tuxedo. Cats are just the wackiest.

I took meteorology in college, the thing is I’m trained to read weather data that has been gathered from all the stations and radars and satellites. Without all that I can look out the window and tell you if its raining.

A KDE update broke its lock screen. Locking the computer would bring up a message reading “The lock screen is broken and doesn’t work anymore, to unlock the computer, hit Ctrl+Alt+F1, login and enter this command.”

I’ll admit to liking the look of some gaming PCs, with a custom loop with clear tubing, colored coolant, coordinated lights; it hits the same way a well done build in Satisfactory does.

I’m not really interested in gaming peripherals like a big chunky mouse with a bunch of angled plates on it trying to look like Gigatron’s jock strap. Some RGB can be kind of cool, I kinda wish I could do more useful stuff with it, like I always throught it would be cool to have RGB lighting that varied from blue to red with component temperature or something. I’m not the biggest fan of just unicorn vomit for the sake of unicorn vomit.

The cat I grew up with would start gnawing on a paw with this crosseyed look on her face and then she’d start to pull and her little paw would shake under the strain. I half expected her to come away and then just casually spit out a bean.

In the 1940s or 50s. My family has owned it since the 60s.

Would Stacy’s Mom be the Millennial equivalent?

And O’Brian went from transporter chief of a well maintained Federation ship to chief technician of a bullshit alien space station. He had a lot more actual work to do.

Well he’s wearing the DS9 uniform in this shot.

I can never get over hairless cats’ noodly little tails.

I can’t get over the fact that’s what my cat would look like if she lost a fight with a bottle of Nair.

Yeah, I can see why you got the old nut and bolt, if that’s your take from Dan The Spool Of Wire Man. You didn’t get it anymore than his wife did. “I’ve had this spool of wire for 40 years, it used to be this big, now it’s about out.” He’s having some pretty heavy thoughts about his life, where he is in it, how much of it is left, what it’s all meant. And before he even gets a real chance to articulate all that, didn’t even get a chance to get to the feelings part, his wife interrupts him to give him shit about his hat. And just watch him shut down.

A woman that views that clip and perceives it as a “sweet sentimental moment” isn’t empathizing with men. Those men that pumped and dumped you, that you thought you felt a connection with? Yeah they didn’t, and I can see why. Gave you the old Phillip J. Fry: Just make up some feelings and tell her you have them.

As for all that crap about cups of coffee…In my home, if I want something to drink, I prepare it and drink it. If I want something to eat, I cook it and eat it. I’ve been single for a shade over 5 years now and not a single meal in my house has turned into a game of feelings jenga. And if I’m going to live the next 40 years of my life alone, sleeping alone, waking alone, eating alone, drinking alone, working alone, resting alone, dying alone, it will be a bargain price to pay to never again emotionally posture over who makes a fucking cup of coffee.

Electronics engineering is a bit beyond my scope; as an electronics hobbyist or field repairman you’re gonna get the closest I have in my kit at the time, I’ll probably get within an order of magnitude of the spec unless it’s somehow very damn critical or the schematic calls for one of the oddly common oddly specific values like 220 ohm.

Rule by elderly thieves. Klepto-geri-ocracy.

I’ve never seen the clans do the Pete “Maverick” Mitchell style of personal callsign. Remember they already have this whole goddamn thing about earning surnames. Given their focus on proper grammar and speech I imagine they would consider informal nicknames unbecoming.

That said, I don’t really remember the Inner Sphere doing the whole callsign thing either. You will occasionally get nicknames, like “The Black Widow” Natasha Kerensky, or “The Fox” Hanse Davion, but it’s not really a thing in most units. You hear them address each other by given name a lot on the radio. There’s more of a culture of naming 'mechs.

They do seem to have a similar habit to the Inner Sphere of giving stars or binaries unit callsigns. I’m drawing from the Blood Of Kerensky trilogy here, during the Battle of Tukayyid there is this line from Carew (aerospace fighter) to Phelan (Mechwarrior) and Evantha (Elemental):

“Axe One, Hatchet One, this is Quarrel One. We have a target. Keep your head down. We’ll do the work, you pick up the pieces.” The third Point in Carew’s star would be Quarrel Three.

It’s definitely make ends meet.

Live not on evil’s deeds; live not on evil.

Seeking a better life for one’s children tends to be a powerful motivator for people. The promise of a better life has driven a lot of people to get on a boat and sail to the United States over the last few hundred years. As a natural born citizen, I benefit from them all, from the cleverest inventor to the humblest fruit picker. We got folks in power right now trying to abolish it, and look how it’s going for us.

You sound, to me, like a Republican.

Meanwhile, me in the wood shop wearing safety glasses, over ear hearing protection and a dust mask in 95 degree heat and 95% humidity be like:

You’re getting a 10 ohm resistor and liking it.

It almost certainly have been trained partially on r/anarchychess so it’ll probably try to play pop tart to king’s bishop 3.