Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

@sydneyfalk all other nouns have been relegated to the amateur leagues

@typhlosion there are other famous people called Ted (Danson for example) but I didn't want to put them in the same toot as Bundy, Kaczynski, and Cruz unnecessarily

@mavica it's quite USA-centric but there just aren't that many Teds from anywhere else

Cruz, Turner, Kennedy, Roosevelt, Bundy, Kaczynski

This has been my Ted talk

@jk neuro/psych is even better

"non-epileptic attack disorder"

i.e. looks a bit like epilepsy but not that

tired: COBOL
wired: KOBOLDS

@mavica it's a cute bun! foraging for food!

@evie I've had to in the past

So long as it's a webcam from the last decade or so it'll be fine

It's for visual "there's a person there and they're paying attention" reinforcement, you don't need 8K see every individual hair and smell what I had for breakfast this morning cameras for that

@wigglytuffitout cool, cool

I was concerned that they were claiming like, it works 80% of the time in cases where it works and I'd have been super interested in the mathematical fuckery that somehow got them there

@wigglytuffitout just out of interest, did the study then claim 100% effectiveness?

'cause if it didn't then I have even more questions

I want a glass-sided toaster so I can see how toasty the bread is getting while it's in there

Hooray! My trackball has been repaired!

(touch wood, this was like 10 minutes ago so there's still time for some problem or other to raise its ugly head)

Left click started working intermittently so I swapped out the old microswitch for a new one

No pictures because I always forget to take any in process and also my soldering sucks

🎶 I need seaweed
(Kelp!) Not just any weed
(Kelp!) You know I need seaweed
KELP! 🎶

@mavica oof yeah, I had a really hard time with those

although weirdly I was always fine with like, mumble or discord or stuff so I managed to trick myself out of it by doing all phonecalls with a headset for a while

still don't know how that worked

@mavica he's right up there with richard dawkins

which gives me another opportunity to share my favourite article concerning dawkins

"British scientists don't like Richard Dawkins, finds study that didn't even ask questions about Richard Dawkins"
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/richard-dawkins-atheism-criticism-atheist-study-rice-university-science-scientists-a7389396.html

ah yes, easter

an appropriate tale for this time of coronavirus

the story of everyone being confused seeing some guy walking around when he was definitely meant to stay the fuck inside