john wick, firearms
the scene in the john wick films that gets picked apart most is the one in the subway where wick and what's his face plink at each other with suppressed pistols and nobody bats an eye
"it's so unrealistic! suppressors don't work that way!" they say
people do though
in a world with super well trained assassins taking each other out here there and everywhere shit like that must happen all the time
all the people there are just thinking "fuckin' tuesdays" and ignoring it
and on the opposite side of the price spectrum, these are exceedingly my shit
the Grand Seiko SBGE253, 255, and 257
40.5mm case, ceramic bezel, spring drive GMT
specifically the black one if anyone happens to want to send me a lovely christmas present (yeah, like any of us can afford that)
ooh, timex just quietly dropped this:
36mm mechanical, camper-style dial, green
looks pretty neat for £160, be interesting to see how it compares to the Hamilton Khaki Field
wondering how long it'll take @mavica to branch over from photo development to photolithography for fabbing ICs
facemasks
I'm almost getting concerned, all these people yelling about how "I can't breathe wearing a facemask!" and I'm just walking about with one utterly fine (apart from the fact that my glasses keep slipping down my face now, I should work out something to fix that)
is my mask defective or something because I can breathe without problem? I'm beginning to question it as previously I hadn't considered the fact that people could actually be so goddamned whiny about wearing basic ppe
I mean, look at this bullshit, it's a lenovo thinkpad something something and they put a proprietary port on the side for connecting a special ethernet adapter
JUST MAKE IT A FEW MIL THICKER AND PUT A PROPER PORT ON THERE YOU BASTARDS
Another Non-Binary Computer for Nonbinary Day: On my trip to England's National Museum of Computing I got to see (and operate!) the Harwell Dekatron computer (AKA the WITCH), which has as it's basic unit of memory a "Dekatron" vacuum tube with 10 different states. The computer "counts" by the dekatrons all spinning in unison in a fascinating display. 💻
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