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work gripe 

"We don't have time to redraw this plot to fit the work, you can just move it as needed."

Funny how you don't have time with a CVS and actual modern CAD software, yet I have time to reverse-engineer the plotter file and add the missing lines with Notepad and a 20-year old visualizer from CERN.

Whoda thunk LOGO would actually be work-related training? Shoutout to me grade-school computer prof Keith Burns, visionary. Gone too soon. *pours out a WD40*

TFNYUU 

TFW shuffle deals a pile of Alan Parsons Project into my listening stream, and I'm struck by a sudden flash of the blindingly obvious: "You guys couldn't end a romance amicably if your *lives* depended on it." o.o

Three times in the last week, TheMate and I have been asked if we'd like separate cheques at dinner.

Today, the pharmacist asked if we'd like separate bags for the meds.

Hmm.

If it turns out the Paperclip game *isn't* actually a massively distributed simulation to ascertain the most efficient way to immanentize the singularity, I shall be mildly disappointed.

Also, I bet SCP-2844-A is behind this somehow.

TheMate just squeaked both ends of her flacid faux, and draped it gently atop my right shoulder, like a flat vulpine epaulet.

Givea man a fish, and he eats for a day. 

Give a fish a man, and you're doing 15-25 for Murder Two and Corruption of a Flounder.

Woo! Work survived a few weeks without me!

... crap. Work can survive a few weeks without me. I'd better obfuscate more egregiously. <.<

we have been renovating our kitchen, and it is nearly done. i have never had, or lived in proximity to, a room that says "Yes, Adults Live Here" with quite such quiet, understated authority before. i like it, but it outclasses the rest of The Mess - it belongs in a better-kept home. #.#

meanwhile our basement is nearly solidpacked with kipple and my office is cluttered to immobolity.

balance in nature must be maintained. ;)

3d Printer Babbling 

@Momentrabbit In the Grand Tradition, I'll be the first experimentee, of course. I need a scan of my right hand and arm to work from: can't build a better mousetrap until you've scanned a better mouse.

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3d Printer Babbling 

Having spent a few hours delving through abandoned Githubs and Google code archives, I'm now all set to do structured light 3d scanning: I just need *room to work in*, where I can set up the projector, screen, and webcam. A bit of configuring, and I should have a few hundred-thousand voxels of pointcloud to play with.

And then, of course, I'll need... volunteers. Muahaha.

::lightning:: ::thunder:: ::music with rocks in it::

Somebody, please. Either talk me out of tearing open the kitchen wall to find out what's wrong with the venting of the kitchen sink...

...or talk me *into* doing that before the now completed renovation *started*, a few months ago.

>.<

Going to be one of those nights.
See you in the morning, tooters.

Home. Rested. Finally, back in Canada, where I can get an indecent burrito at modestly-but-not-outrageously late at night.

30 minutes to flight, and Customs comes to the gate to grab TheMate ... because her bag is _too_dense_to_x-ray._

Yes, she *is* that good at packing. XD

As the sun rises slowly in the east, and our boat sinks slowly in the west, we bid a fond farewell to [REDACTED]. Nestled along the southern coast of [REDACTED]', where the temperature has been a near-Euclidian 303.15K, Hume ratings have been a balmy 0.9 +/- 0.2, and the moon has [REDACTED] side-saddle on a motorcycle [EXPUNGED] unlimited buffet [DATA CORRUPT] never thought we'd be so glad to see a horse in a clown-car. awoo.space/media/1EBIl6HLgmeYc

It's been lovely, but there's work to be done.

Back home tomorrow; find out what state the house is, prioritize what I can, trash what I need to abandon. I may be unable to let go of all my troubles, but at least I can physically eliminate the stuff I'll never get around to. Out of face, out of mind.

3d Printer Babbling 

Kind of like how some dual-hotend designs are beginning to resemble V8s.
thingiverse.com/thing:1234779

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