the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

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today we learned: the famous Guile's theme, from street fighter 2, was composed by Yoko Shimomura, of Kingdom Hearts fame

just saw someone say that koji kondo is video game mozart and nobuo uematsu is video game beethoven and I just wanted to let people know we saw that

it's kind of a good comparison actually I think? who would be video game liszt though

got this on the inside of a chocolate wrapper and immediately thought of @Oneironott

I know some forks have three pointy bits but why are they the minority

hmm. why do forks have four pointy bits and not three or five

consider: taurs

random thought: what effect would it have to modulate the filament voltage in a vacuum tube diode

these chocolates have little bits of positivity written on the inside of the wrappers

they're mostly generic things like "make today your day!" and "smile, someone out there is thinking of you"

but then we just got on ethat says "book the flight" which just sounds vaguely threatening and telling you to spend huge amounts of money

hexacyanoferret is such a good pun and I wish I was able to draw well enough to make it a visual pun as it deserves

It's like...a giant sea urchin. That has sprouted umbrellas. Flower-patterned umbrellas.

random thought: a blue mustelid named Ferric Hexacyanoferret

...actually Ferric would be an interesting name for a character, hmm

If you take a fragment of northern Dutch ornamental architecture and chill it until ice forms on it, is that a frozen frisian frieze?

hey you, the one reading this, you're good

why must large, high-Bsat magnetic cores be so hard to get?

It's looking like we might be spending $1500 to get thirty-two cores because the only company that makes these has a minimum order quantity and they're all made to order, they don't stock the huge ones normally

at least if we do go this route (the alternative is $800-odd for only exactly what we need right now, with no spares) we'll be getting molypermalloy cores with a μ of 26, rather than the 14 or 19 of the ones they have in stock.

if you think about it, the fact that we can reliably communicate with the New Horizons space probe is kind of absurd

you need extremely high gain antennas to have any hope of an SNR greater than one, and even then you need fancy techniques to be able to extract data with an SNR lower than one because too bad, your SNR at that range still isn't greater than one despite the high gain. the signals we get from New Horizons are about -150dB, after including the antenna gains in the calculation

*somewhat belatedly, a sixty-second beep*

*sixty-one beeps*

the name of the pianoforte is such a silly thing

"I've just invented this new instrument that can do both quiet _and_ loud sounds! I'm going to call it the quietloud!"