Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

I've had a Hamilton Khaki Pilot Pioneer Mechanical (the W10 reissue) for a little while and I really am quite impressed with it

Timekeeping is at about +0.7s a day, maybe +- a second either way on the outside

It's light, comfortable, legible even in the dark (although there's not much lume so you might need to let your eyes adjust to the darkness for a second)

Good watch, octopus approved

also, how're things gonna go at the second comming?

"...you made that your logo?"

"it represents your sacrifice!"

"it represents possibly the shittest day I ever had on earth is what it does. Why couldn't you have gone with the fish one or something?"

@mavica now that makes a lot more sense

there's some talk of it being a corruption of "god's friday" but that rings hollow to me 'cause if you get executed it's really not your day

anyone else find it really weird that christians call the day their saviour was nailed to a tree "good" friday?

(yes, I know the etymology is murky and it likely has no connection to how we'd use the word good/positive/nice today, still weird)

@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