Enjoy!

Oh boy, I’ve been collecting these for years. Finally my time to shine!

DM or reply if you want more stupid pictures.

I think I was fairly slow before learning home row typing. I just hunt-and-pecked whenever using a keyboard. We got our first computer some time around 1998, so I was introduced to computers a few years prior to taking the typing class.

Just a standard QWERTY layout. Nothing fancy.

Just used the stock antenna that came with the HT. Cheapest antenna money can buy, just about. But I live out in the countryside and don’t have a lot of tall trees or buildings obscuring the view, so there was a solid 7 minute window where the ISS was passing directly overhead.

Was a bit cloudy, so I couldn’t actually see it when it was passing over, but the signal came through clear as a bell.

I took one typing class in 8th grade and became faster than 99% of typists. Can sustain about 145wpm for a typical paragraph of text, but can burst up to 200wpm for shorter, simple bits of text.

Not a particularly marketable superpower in this day and age, but is a fun flex once in a while at the office.

I was being sarcastic, lol. It’s a play on the “you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty” gag.

Episodes of Rick and Morty really hit close to home in a way that normies couldn’t possibly fathom. It’s a blessing and a curse.

LLMs are pretty good at reverse dictionary lookup. If I’m struggling to remember a particular word, I can describe the term very loosely and usually get exactly what I’m looking for. Which makes sense, given how they work under the hood.

I’ve also occasionally used them for study assistance, like creating mnemonics. I always hated the old mnemonic I learned in school for the OSI model because it had absolutely nothing to do with computers or communication; it was some arbitrary mnemonic about pizza. Was able to make an entirely new mnemonic actually related to the subject matter which makes it way easier to remember: “Precise Data Navigation Takes Some Planning Ahead”. Pretty handy.

A time machine.

“Existence” by Excision

Short, sweet, and catchy. They did a good job with that one.

Thanks for the link. My first question was, “What brand, what item?”

Per the FDA, the recalled item is Cabot Creamery Extra Creamy Premium Butter, Sea Salted. The butter, which is sold in 8-ounce packages, contains two sticks of butter in a cardboard box.

I definitely don’t want to downplay a crisis, but I feel like I’ve been seeing headlines saying “all the bees are dying and we don’t know why” every year for nearly 20 years now.

I’m no bee expert. Just seems to me, based on the headlines, bees would’ve been extinct 10 years ago.

Some cursory searching led me to Colony Collapse Disorder which seems to have no agreed-upon cause. It appears devastating losses to honey bee colonies started being reported around 1900. But it also mentions:

In 2024, the United States Census of Agriculture reported an all-time high in commercial honey bee hives (mostly in Texas), making them the fastest-growing livestock segment in the country.[38]

Link to the source cited there: https://archive.is/nfeb2

Apparently last year saw the largest honey bee populations in US history. Though they write that huge boom in honey bee population is a threat to other native pollinators, so I guess that presents its own unique problems.

Reminds me of this old gem:

I’ve spent the last couple of hours re-watching WKUK skits because of you.

Man those guys are funny.

I revisit his channel every year at Thanksgiving when I need to prepare a turkey. His super simple roasted turkey video has served me well the last 5 or 6 years.

He doesn’t really talk in his videos, but I really enjoy watching Philippe Faraut sculpt in clay. Guy has masterful technique.

I recommend Technology Connections to anyone who enjoys learning about how stuff works. I really appreciate the way this guy explains things for laypeople.

SummoningSalt is super interesting if you like learning about speedrunning. My only gripe is that the videos are all really chill, but tend to have clips of people breaking world records and flipping out, like “FUCK YEAAAAAAAHH WOOOOOOO FUCK YEAH LET’S FUCKING GOOOOO FUUUUUUCK” and it can be very jarring, lol. But I do enjoy seeing those clips in the videos.

Grand Illusions is a fun channel where an older British gentleman named Tim presents curiosities, puzzles, toys, and the like.

Honorable mention: while I don’t watch many of his videos these days, Smarter Every Day is fantastic STEM content

It doesn’t exactly unsettle me, but pondering the mind-boggling scale of celestial bodies and the cosmos can certainly be… humbling, I guess?

I had a co-worker a while back who couldn’t talk about the great scale of the universe cause he’d get freaked out. It didn’t come up much, but when it did, he’d be like, “Please stop, it’s stressing me out” so we’d change the subject.

Experimented a bit with my usual bread recipe. It’s cooling off right now, so I’m hoping to have some fresh bread in an hour or so.