Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

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)

Cruz, Turner, Kennedy, Roosevelt, Bundy, Kaczynski

This has been my Ted talk

tired: COBOL
wired: KOBOLDS

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! 🎶

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

🦔

This is going to be a "sam gets entirely hacked off at tech day" I'm sure of it

Stuff that's been having problems:
Trackball
Answer Machine
Laptop webcam

If that printer so much as looks at me funny today I SWEAR TO FUCKING GOD I'LL *angery octopus noises*

The Queen did her speech to the nation while wearing green

This has resulted in exactly what you'd expect

(collection of images follows, all showing the Queen photoshopped to be wearing various t-shirts)

reggie's out in the garden enjoying the sunshine

🦔 !

for non-UK people, I am not making that last bit up

this picture of Ed Miliband eating a sandwich pretty much killed all his hopes of getting elected

it was a simpler time

seriously, it's only just coming up to when we'd normally have a general election since 2015 and in that time we've had two extra general elections, three prime ministers, brexit, and a wide range of other shit

but no, apparently it would have been chaos with Miliband

also he couldn't eat a bacon sandwich properly

I'm so glad the UK voted for David Cameron in 2015 instead of Ed Miliband with all the chaos that would have caused

what?

*someone whispers in my ear*

oh

oh no

I will never not pronounce sql as squirrel