c.d.m. rørmose @body@mastodon.social

Dear family members who actively read my social-media accounts:

I have made a habit of giving an analytical futurist treatment to normatively ridiculous subjects, and when I find one that seems plausible, I incorporate it into my vision of the future and my sense of self. Please cease interpreting this as a personality-disorder or a defect in my mental reality-checking mechanism. This kind of clumsy pathologizing evaluation can quickly become harmful. Thanks.

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The three types of angle: cardinal, diagonal, and sergal

Feel like this would all link in with the way I perceived space when I was a child - always hyper-aware of the cardinal and diagonal angles coming off every convex or concave corner

Feel like there is some very obscure method I could invent and pursue, to translate my Minesweeper speedrunning skill into "drawing, from imagination, and having it still feel like Minesweeper speedrunning" skill

Thinking about how Tine's form-factor contains an echo of the violin, because it is small, twice as long as it is wide, and contains buttons that act as a fretboard sometimes

Also thinking about how I'm designing it as an instrument of craft, the sort of thing you Learn To Use and that Exists For Itself rather than just being a stepping-stone to some other future gear-setup, or to some company's continued solvency

IMO, English could become a much more expressive and abstract language if people...

<types "used the humble dash, -, to create more compound-words, and not be shy with it either">

<deletes "used the humble dash, -, to create more compound-words, and not be shy with it either">

<types "stopped being goddamned cowards">

I... took most of a day to position a single board's stitched vias

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You ever feel like you're slowly reinventing the ancient technology from Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

Mastodon't

This game is always trolling me. Wasn't even trying to be fast. I'm angry

PB: 118.91 -> 116.096

The feelings of being too fucked up to work, drain out of me when I have reason to feel optimistic about the future in both a personal and global sense. This is why I say the “spoons” model of mental-health does not map to my experience: my mind seems to instead be built on “narrative” dynamics

The problem is, if you get furious at an anarchist for falling for a CIA full-spectrum-dominance tactic, they will double down by treating your fury as a sign of victory

Tomorrow's goals:
* Finish revising top-board (double-check edge-cuts, add stitched-vias, et al)
* Do more specific research on the various brands of industrial-grade SD-cards. Can I get one cheaper than a THEMIS card that would still be as fault-resistant and with a manufacturing pipeline that's about as reliable (i.e. no knockoffs)?
* Finalize Tine's Mouser cart
* Buy parts for Tine's hopefully-final-prototype, and for a PreenFM2 as well
* Buy Tine's circuit-boards

Long story short: You could make the pad-contacts out of uninsulated jumpers, control the SD-card's position with a "U" of female pin-headers, and secure it in place with some sort of springs-and-rubber contraption on the board above.

Instead of dealing with this, I'm just keeping the SMD SD-card socket, but lengthening its solder-pads so it's a bit easier for people to solder.

I spent all day thinking about this accursed idea!!!! It's bedtime

Absent-mindedly typed "Monstergrid" into the URL bar instead of "Mastodon"... What kind of badass website is my subconscious trying to visit

Self-indulgent furry fiction - low-quality but interesting (mostly unenjoyable)

Scifi short stories by established authors - high-quality but banal (mostly unenjoyable)

Writers must start finding a way to retrofit the utter weirdness of the former with the prosody and plot tightness of the latter, IMO

Was on an absolute fluke pace that was 10 seconds below my PB, but I misclicked near the end!!!!!!!!!!!!! Fuck this game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hot take: DIY culture is a scam unless and until someone manufactures a through-hole SD-card socket