Always tooting for th'antihero @Momentrabbit@awoo.space

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@noelle You inspired it, hat's off to you! Least I could do. n.n

@noelle Only if your consultant comes from the Kanban region of Japan, otherwise it's just sparkling Kaizen.

@porsupah ... I got three paragraphs into answering you by listing 'all' the conditions for which that question would be diagnostic, including Narcissism ("I make *great* tea!"), Anxiety ("I could scald myself if I made tea, it'll be bitter and upset everyone"), Depression (*sobs about cold tea*)...

... and I think I inadvertently answered your question. (*blush*)

@kelseyhusky At worst, it may not work. But you might get a few strong elements that tell you "This, this and this - they are *definitely* parts." And then you can use those as a base to start iterating from. "If this, what else?"

Additionally - try different media, too. If you're overwhelmed with the complexity of describing something visual, explore the other senses. Sounds, texture, smells. Maybe there's another grounding element in how something feels? Another way of sneaking up on it. 💜

@kelseyhusky Try approaching it obliquely, perhaps? Can you show what it does *not* look like? Could you find the polar opposite of whatever it is, and say "Imagine this, inside out, upside down and backwards: only *more* so"?

Or if there are several examples of things which are each not what you want to share, but each of which displays some aspect of it, in terms of structure or tone or style: could you assemble a sum that builds off of those parts? "Not these, but it would belong here."

@noelle You burn so brightly. You're a reason I come back here, a voice in the dark, a line on a evermoving page. Don't mistake what you're told your care 'costs' for anything but an arbitrary number invented by companies to control and condemn the masses: your worth is inherent, unapproachable, unassailable, and utterly unrelated to any sort of financial accounting. 💚

Stay with us. You

Come to think of it, the classic clamshell-mould all-in-one terminals had the same ergonomic issues as laptops. Keyboard too high, too far away, monitor too low.

A laptop with a nice chunky mechanical keyboard, unibody Moomin-plastic shell and a pantographing-hinge monitor for proper height...

Hmm...

Torn between wanting to mock up an ADM3a-style dumb terminal for a project - and wanting something of a similar vitage and style that won't make my spine file a restraining order on me. They're adorable, but the ergonomics would ruin me in short order.

@Thaminga @irisjaycomics Even giving them digital watches wasn't one of our better ideas, to be honest.

@Valerie_Elysee *points*
Mo!
Baz!
AND SIXTY-TWO DENNIS!
(And then the music starts...)

@rey the only things I can't fix are a broken heart and the crack of dawn, and believe me I have *tried*.

- Need to resume the never-ending process of sorting and making 'homes' for things in the office room. I stalled a lot once my PC was back up and capable of throwing polygons with abundance. *coughgames*
- falling down the rabbithole of ortholinear 60% keyboards. Cute little things! Not for continuous use, but as control pads for interfaces and devices like that Pellican'd Rasberry Devbox, they have a certain charm. Making keycaps for one-offs would be a good usecase for a small resin 3d printer, too. Could probably make do with the current filament printer for prototyping...
- making progress with the latest incarnations of Blender, but it's still slow going. Video tutorials help some, but I need to 'do' to learn, and while I can listen and do at the same time, I can't 'watch and listen' and 'do' at the same time.

@noelle If only you'd view their power on the Dark Side. n.n

All I'm saying is I know I've got a bag of a thousand green 5mm LEDs *somewhere* around here... it would just almost certainly be faster and cheaper by any metric you can name, given the clutter in which I live and the general spoon deficit I operate under, to order another such bag and wait for it to be delivered while I do something productive in the meanwhile.

Been wandering down retrocomputing rabbitholes lately.

State of the art has been progressing nicely, but so, I see, has the trailing edge. Hey @PhoenixTril, look! Sexy box. n.n

https://back7.co/home/raspberry-pi-recovery-kit

One minor advantage of being semissentialispensible, as I currently am, is when my eyes try to impale my brain I can go home and burrow under a eock without worrying about leaving people in the lurch. They made their coin off me today already. Converting back to a acreen-centric worklife is taking its toll on my head migraine-wise, though they're usually well managed - this one I can blame on 'Too Much Blender' last Saturday. Going to have to watch out for that. >.>

@porsupah Oh, the demand is up and down. And equipment in use needs maintenance - our primary doombeam blew a solenoid this morning, which I was able to replace with a space. We're out of spares, now. 9.9 Running close to the edge, the only way to be! Lean and stupid! XD

@porsupah Things are very odd these days, which is to say, normal. I feel the the universe has attempted to compensate for reality being profoundly askew by snapping my back into my first 'professional' work environment: teaching myself something, handling odd requests as they arise, keeping my head down and watching for the hatchet that's already taken half my coworkers. XD

We keep trying to have a second shift, it keeps not happening. But our customers uniformly have two or three shifts - or did, before all... this... so we try to align with the early one.

It's quarter to six, and I'm going to be late to work. That has lost all meaning, beyond my pay being calculated by an hourly wage, but if I stay late long enough to make up for missed time I'll not lose any income. I should, regardless, get up and go.

'Moment of Inertia' has a specific torque-related physics meaning, but for right now, it describes my unwillingness to start another week. To stay in this liminal interstice between minutes.

This unit has a bad motivator.