katt, migrating 🌟 🌈 @starkatt@awoo.space

Sometimes when I'm in the house and can't tell where my partner is I'll say "mew?" as a ping to get the "meow" locating response back.

@indi I think culture is also a big and unignorable part of it. Like you said in the post we're working as much off of cultural constructs of animals as much as of the animals themselves.

Todo today:

- wash car engine compartment
- get replacement radiator cap
- renew vehicle registration (ugh, $)
- apply for jobs
-probably should pay medical bills but bleh, more $

I really love how in Kerbal Space Program, "get out and push" is a valid strategy if your spacecraft runs out of fuel.

It's not a *great* strategy, but on very rare occasions it can save a mission.

I've designed and built my own clock, even.

(neon is kind of over-exposed here; looks less washed out in person) https://awoo.space/media/kEK71CJGHT6jyY1p8HA

For someone who thinks linear time is bullshit I have rather a lot of interest in calendars and timekeeping.

Or maybe that's not actually surprising?

Related wonderful object: an analog clock displaying current martian solar time. These hang in the control rooms for mars missions at JPL.

https://www.bmumford.com/clocks/martian/

I *really* like the idea of intercalary days and am disappointed we get one so infrequently that isn't even very good.

february 29th is kind of shit as far as intercalary days go.

Also I badly need to flush the coolant system anyway. It's rustier than a... really rusty thing.

Looks like the cheapest next step is to replace the radiator cap. If my coolant system isn't holding pressure and is boiling at too low a temperature, that could well explain the creeping overheat to ~220f and then sudden spiking to >250f as coolant boils.

Car is overheating and I can't tell if the alarming levels of coolant loss are a cause or a symptom due to the reservoir boiling over.

Bleh, car trouble just made me miss a doctor's appointment and spend two and a half hours outside the house for zero gain :(

I wonder if I can find somewhere to set alerts for auroral activity?

Apparently if you drive a bit away from light pollution you can see the aurora tonight but it's probably already too late for me to head out. Aw.

Related phrase: social media backscatter, when everyone is talking *about* a breaking news item or post or something but nobody is actually referencing it directly. Happens more on bird site than on here, thankfully.

Social media interferometry: taking vague or oblique posts by two or more different connected people and using the wave pattern produced between them to try and figure out what probably just happened.

not a response to anything going on right now, just a cute phrase I came up with a while ago :)