Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es

ok how many people use Wire, here

isn't that some awful Electron thing, though

wondering about good ways to use the Sun to get some portable heat for various purposes

my little workroom here is in a basement and it's always kinda cold, even on hot days

was shopping for a small space heater to aim at my legs or something but bleh, wouldn't it be cool if I could store solar energy in some way

Kara (well, the person who would become Kara, hahaha...who WAS that guy?) once wanted to become a filmmaker

I wonder whatever happened to that

ok, here's a chemical challenge for folks to think about

how would you make a QUIET fireworks show

like, if you wanted the equivalent experience, but without blowing shit up, how would you do it?

maybe, projecting lights onto fog or mist high up in the air

so uh could someone tell me if eugen [at] developer.g*b.com is "real" or not

like, I'll be honest here, no sense in not laying it on the line, I think Gargamel is really awful, but...that's not really HIM is it? on a fucking g@b.com account?

why is favoriting your own posts even a THING

like, why would you even _allow_ that, as a programmer?

sorta thinking of optimizing for semimicro scale work by going with a lot of "disposable" plastic ware that I would reuse. washing pipette tips and plastic tubes and stuff like that is tedious, but it beats the heck out of dealing with glass

always kinda wondered how accurate those variable-volume pipettes were

gonna be buying some anyway, I think, and I kinda wonder if this is one of those things where I shouldn't be cheaping out

I can test 'em by weighing aliquots of water I suppose

see, if I became a game programmer, people might actually wanna talk to me here

if there's any one general pervasive thing I detest about contemporary graphical interfaces, it's the ease with which it's possible to execute irreversible (or difficultly reversible) actions with a single accidental mouse click

trying to work out color-reaction methods for calcium and magnesium would be cool because then that gets me an easy way to estimate water hardness. I did find a mention about using rhodizonic acid for estimation of calcium, and there's gotta be others

found an _indirect_ method based on precipitating calcium as oxalate, then gauging its oxidation by potassium permanganate. cute, but not exactly simple

getting my new toy is pretty exciting, though. it's just a student instrument but still, it opens some doors. trying to decide what might be some good easy stuff to try out first

might need to get some supporting equipment first, come to think of it. but I can at least try the machine out with some stuff I already have

I once did spectrophotometric determination of iron(III) as the reddish salicylate complex because salicylic acid was easy to obtain

ugh. can't sleep cos Kara's got some neuralgia thing going on