Bodger @bodger@computerfairi.es

Stayed in a hotel with actual keys. It's a nice Assa core, but the bitting seems kind of weak. Then again, hotel keys are probably on a multiple master system for housekeeping, management, etc. Then again, I've seen worse.

@corrupt Thrift stores are great for this. You can find all sorts of nifty things inexpensively. Some working, some not, I've had great luck doing this.

Got to meet a chunk of the cast of Our Flag Means Death, and they posed with us and our pride pirate flag!

I'd pretty much had enough of Epic Photo Ops mismanagement and generally avoided them for the past couple of years, but really wanted to try for a photo with Mary Elizabeth Winstead and they were the only game in town. As usual, they screwed it up royally and I missed out. So business at usual for Epic FuckUps. Con organizers, go with ANYONE BUT EPIC FUCKUPS for photo ops, please.

In the United States, if you want to park somewhere, they want you to download a different sketchy app for each different parking lot, the apps are buggy and hard to use and probably will steal your credit card. In Iceland, everyone just uses the nice reliable Parka app.

I saw an outlet plate high up on a wall with just a curiously shaped slot in it. I climbed up for a closer look, as I didn't recognize it. Apparently it's a magic outlet?

@deviantollam @adamshostack I've used Fotor for simple image generation https://www.fotor.com/features/ai-image-generator/

Yo, Sony: I get that your website isn't up to date and doesn't recognize serial numbers from recently produced products. And I get that you hide your contact info so I don't talk to your expensive customer service reps. What I don't get is why I have to WAIT for a BOT.

Our microwave oven died in a peculiar fashion this morning. While cooking, it would turn itself off every few seconds, then come back on and pick up where it left off. I guessed it was the usual failure mode for electronics: electrolytic capacitors. I opened it up and saw there were only four of them. I had those values in stock, swapped them in, and that fixed it!

My friends have been mystified for years why I enjoy Vegas, as I don't particularly drink, smoke, gamble, or go to strip shows. But I have a grand time in Vegas.

The tractor battery swap mostly works, but it's weird. The blade motors run just fine, but the wheel motors run very slowly at full charge and slowly speed up. I don't know if it's an issue with the ESCs (same ESCs as the blade ones), the control CPU, or perhaps the accelerator position sensor. May have to do some detailed debugging.

A while back, we were discussing display options for a plant watering sensor. It occurred to me I could make a smile/frown display pretty easily and said "I just need some rubber tubing and a servo!" My friend Chris grinned at me and replied "If I had a nickel for every time someone said that to me!"

@mavica_again Yeah, that paperclip. I thought it would attach the image. Later I figured out I can just drag an image into my post.

Guessed wrong on how to include a picture (apparently the paper clip icon isn't it) on my last post about replacing my tractor batteries with lithium iron phosphate.

Working on converting my electric tractor from lead acid to lithium phosphate

@dangeousenby I came home once and noticed one of the bushes in front of my house had turned a silvery color. I had a closer look and saw it had been completely encased in spiderwebs. Then I saw why: the bush contained a similarly sized hornet nest, which the spiders had methodically emptied out.

While watching a Bigclive video, the audio cut out. Sure enough, the power supply is blinking. Having watched many Bigclive videos, I have a pretty good idea what's wrong. I carve open the power supply, repair a few bad solder joints, and now I'm back in business!