Stewart C. Russell @scruss@mastodon.social

This derailment of vinyl acetate tank cars happened about 100m from my house last night. Apart from idling diesel engine annoying, I heard nothing: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/train-derailment-scarborough-kennedy-eglinton-no-injuries-no-hazardous-goods-1.4901077?cmp=rss

Bought and assembled a Creality Ender 3 3D printer today to temporarily replace my ailing home-built one. The Ender 3 is pretty great for under $300 🇨🇦

Centre construction, Palace of Westminster tower clock

So I (reluctantly) got Amazon Prime to get components for work in a hurry, but it seems that many same-day delivery items magically become 2-3 day delivery items once you get to the order page. Hmm

The opening paragraph of Dickens "A Tale of Two Cities", run through the unicorn name filter (`s/[aeiouy]/inkle/ig;`) and read by flite - https://soundcloud.com/user8899915/a-tale-of-two-cities-or-inkle-tinklelinkle-inklef-twinkle-cinkletinkleinkles

Princess Leia or OCS THC effects icon: You decide - https://ocs.ca/blogs/cannabis-anatomy/THC

btw, pcboard.ca has these little ESP8266 boards for very cheap. I got 6 fro $30 shipped. Note that they're 32Mbit flash, though ...

“Bitcoin is a very effective way of turning crypto libertarian daydreams directly into climate change” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3ipFvD8wt4&feature=youtu.be&t=1559

𒐳 / ༳ == ( ⑽ – 𐹭 ) * ( 𒐲 / 𐅉 ) is valid Perl 6: http://scruss.com/blog/2018/10/08/%f0%92%90%b3-%e0%bc%b3-%e2%91%bd-%f0%90%b9%ad-%f0%92%90%b2-%f0%90%85%89-of-course/

Roky Erickson - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDRMTHQfeec

Thanksgiving plot

more plotter art: this for my dad's 80th birthday

Louis

I'm building a PDP-8-compatible single board computer!
http://scruss.com/blog/2018/10/03/sbc6120-build-day-1-ish/

Carpet Spectrum

Shit; Canada just gave away its Life+50 copyright term. That's one of my favourite children's authors out of print for another 20 years ...

Oh no! I can't make it to http://stupidhacktoronto.com/ so that means you have to! With inspirational categories including ONE OF PAUL GRAHAM'S BURPS THAT I TRAPPED IN A JAR and A SMALL SACHET OF DUST THAT ARRIVES BUT ONCE A FORTNIGHT you can't go wrong!

Bedtime reading: “A rhetorical analysis of wind concerns Ontario's use of melodrama to promote online opposition to industrial wind turbine developments” https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/handle/10219/3124