Noticed you across the infinite corridor and liked your vibe.

One of them takes your insurance and is taking new patients. You have to find them in a lunch break.

Welcome to the Hilbert Hotel! Your room is at the end of the hall.

Ironing Day at The U.S. Institute of Steam, Feb. 13, 1951

"We are all very disappointed with you."

“Only one doctor wearing spectacles per doorway, please, folks”

"And when you're registered they let you do it."

See, that's what they're working on right now, though.

Got mine in

Vote in person if at all possible. On Election Day.

@MackReed I dropped my ballot off in the dropbox by our local library. A few days later I got confirmation from the election board that they'd received it.

Vote early. Vote often.

Trails were blazed 🫡

immortalized in Lego Ideas 'Women In Space" №21312

One of my employees worked for her and is still at the lab. She has nothing but nice things to say about her.

Woah. What a hero

expecting a troubled rivulet?

I've used sketchup for a long time but my 9-y-o is asking for lessons and I hesitate to feed her into an evolutionary dead end. My neighbor has a 3d filament printer as does our local library and I hope someday to get a resin printer! Do you recommend software for this sort of noodling in a format that lends itself to fdm? Teaching her seems like a jumping-off point for me to learn, too!!

@comotellamas I've used a lot of different modeling software, Rhino, Blender, FreeCAD, Sketchup, etc.

The one I landed on was Fusion360. There's some learning curve but it's very worth it for me, since I do a lot of things that are helped by parameters. I still use blender for some rigging and sculpting.

I've used a ton of slicers too. The one I just started using, and by far the best, is Orca.

I've wanted to get into resin, but I'm not willing to commit to the chemicals.

Is this for the tree?

@0y3ahSansAcut3 yes, for the low stump

@artwells Thank you for the thoughtful response! We have some rain coming over the weekend, so I'll post up on the couch and work my way through a couple videos with her on Blender3D. They have a pretty active community and I like working with FOSS solutions because they tend to stick around and work well on older hardware. Between her infectious enthusiasm and my list of "ideas we could try 3D printing some day" it might be a good push to finally get into it!

Oh my gosh but now Fusion is free for home use! Maybe we'll check out both. If you hadn't mentioned it I probably never would have noticed; I have some old AutoCAD copies on CD and there are several (unlicensed, probably) old F360 installers lying around, but I had it in my brain that it was super expensive to license and use.

"Oh, @artwells grills delicious meats and pays for Fusion 360, pinkies out everyone!" *tease*

@comotellamas Fusion 360 is free for personal, non-commercial use, but it is rather de-featured from the paid version, and limits your number of active project files. There is also no great way to get it running on Linux, if that's a concern.

FreeCAD does do things a little bit differently than most other CAD packages out there, but if you're not already used to a diffrent workflow, it's a lot less of a hangup, and there are lots of very good tutorials out there. Just make sure the tutorials you're using are for the version of FreeCAD you got, as quite a lot changed leading up to the 1.0 release, and then a little bit in the 1.1 release as well. I finally landed on FreeCAD, because AutoDesk has clawed back features on the free 360 licence twice now, and I don't trust them not to do it again. I don't want to have all my stuff locked in a dead-end (for me) ecosystem.

3D CAD (like Fusion 360, or FreeCAD, or Sketchup) is good for precision parts, where you're trying to make a thing fit another thing. Blender is better for more organic shapes, like mini figures and such.

Sweet!

Added to /How-low-can-you-go 🥸

hell of a largemouth!

Congratulations!!

Like a boss!

Now she needs a pony. Congrats!

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤪🤪🤪

Mars or Arizona

That's a lot of Sols.

using "ask" as a noun

@cristin Oooof. I hate that.

Using "drop" as a noun

peeving about perfectly fine words as nouns

AKA nouning.

i find it quite interesting ....

also, as always, a reminder that this is NOT a cover of the grand funk railroad song. this is... yeah, an entirely different experience, and worth six minutes of your time.

My favorite or second favorite album of theirs, I think. (Electr-O-Pura is the other contender.)

@snarkout this one, electr-o-pura, and ...and then nothing turned itself inside out have always been a kind of "holy trinity" of albums to me

I saw them play in Glasgow while touring that album. It was in a lovely venue with comfy seats. Fond memories

@scruss L U C K Y! i would have LOVED to see them on this tour! (to this day i've still never seen them live.)

I discovered this band some years ago when someone here on Mltshp posted an aniversary interview article with them, and I have listened to them SO much since then. Going to pick up this at Bandcamp.

That’s the Midwest.
A badger making stew wearing flannel and overalls? Wonderful.

Keep us posted

<3

Oh heck yes!

When I’ve been there, I’ve had sardines at least twice per visit. I’ve been tolg it’s a “plebeian” choice and “workers” food. I don’t care. Fresh caught and not frozen, they’re delicious.

Better than nothing I guess but Junior's still gonna get flung around like a cat toy when the car hits an unexpected rough patch of highway.

US is working hard to reverse that trend.

HOW DOES HE KEEP HIS BEER UPRIGHT???!?!

I had a little seat which hooked over the back of the middle front bench seat, with it's own steering wheel.

When we went on family trips in our Renault 4, my parents were in fron and three kids on the rear bench. And then I and my sister sat on a second folding bench facing backwards, with maybe 30 cm (10”) of headroom between our heads and the rear window. We all lived.
(Don’t let me tell you about how my parents transported three kids on a normal bike.)

front-seat tots, what is this, an Uber Eats driver

not a poem

Lol, you are a few weeks early!

Regardless, the fucker knocked it out of the park when he could have just taken a photo of a door handle or some shit.

Should've been a cat.

Globular cluster shape...

I've got my head stuck in the cupboard!

SEMPRINI

@artwells Applies to both pictures. Bravo!

MY BRAIN HURTS

SFFU

I agree, good apps and good folks

Cabel is a good follow on Mastodon, too.

@robotmachine I used to look forward to his fireworks packaging report every year.

harsh realm

wow. perfect name for that cat

They opened a musical sculpture garden a couple blocks from my house and I stopped by and made some joyful noise yesterday.

Will this be called a Schlagenspiel?

@samh supercool. Come to Seattle, I’ve got a couple things this scale you can make noise on!

@0y3ahSansAcut3 no, it’s much more American than German, but I like it.

FWIW, this photo shows the steel-over-plywood xylophone soundboard, which I’m putting sound holes into to help its voice travel.

I'm overdue for a visit there, @MackReed!

Nice image!

I saw a dog on the back of a motorcycle on the freeway yesterday and starting yelling to no one "Bike Dog!"

politics sounds the same

THEY PUT THE SKIN ON


this is absolutely me, every time my supervisor says "we're going to discuss [industry no-one on the team knows anything about] in the meeting in one hour; please bring some preliminary research with you"

Gorgeous!

<3

This is why I introduce as many people as possible to Pink Floyd’s “Atom Heart Mother Suite”