@maple "OI, WEATHER, BE NICER FOR MAPLE!"
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@revolverocelot I thought that was counter.social
gab's thing was frozen peaches in particular and not caring who turned up
@maple I'll revise that, more racist twitter
@maple racist twitter
Timex are doing some really nice stuff in their "heritage"/"reissue" lines
This is a reissue of a watch that was released in 1979, looks really quite nice
https://www.timex.co.uk/browse/collections/reissue/q-timex-reissue/
@maple we're retro!
@kellerfuchs @SuricrasiaOnline @ontploffing oh, right, that must have been where I got the titbit from
Still got the whole "for negative numbers use -1 instead of chucking another bit on there" thing though, that sounds pretty neat
@SuricrasiaOnline @ontploffing I seem to recall ternary computers would have better energy consumption and deal with negative values a little more elegantly which might be nice for some computation tasks
@maple cheese, freshly brewed coffee, blinky LEDs, a hamburger, an italodisco album, and a bunch of floppy disks
@starbreaker @ifixcoinops @sydneyfalk I never thought about it that much, I just thought "oh, that's a ridiculous idea, it'll never catch on"
and then in 2017 I thought "okay, kinda wish I'd bought some of these when I first heard about them at like, 10p per but it's still a ridiculous idea and I have no idea how it caught on"
@maple bloop
@maple or we might have figured out some sort of colour changing hair by that point!
fibre optic hair with subdermal rgb leds!
Subtoot
@Jo these people wouldn't know what proper satire is even if it came along and ate their babies
Hedgehog wrangler, cat feeder, octopus whomst love smol critters
"i never thought someone could be such a watch nerd and yet here you are" ~ @maple