squaregoldfish @squaregoldfish@mastodon.social

Self-administered covid test today. There's something very unnatural about sticking a cotton bud in the back of your head through your nose - I was thinking "this can't go any further" and the nurse is going "Further! Further!"

All mod cons in this hotel room

#Recycling: A poor solution to the wrong problem - an essay by Don Norman.

https://jnd.org/recycling-a-poor-solution-to-the-wrong-problem/

Just when you thought that LinkedIn had stopped spamming every email in existence, they insinuate themselves into Microsoft Word to harvest your details straight from the source.

"Your wait time is 42 minutes"
*48 minutes of ring tone*
"Your wait time is 46 minutes"

Spent an interesting hour exploring https://worldstandards.eu, which contains info on left/right driving, electrical sockets (mapped below), and other odds and ends.

For #unicode debugging, look no further than
https://babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/whatisit.html

Helped me figure out that ∆ != Δ

That's a bit of a long shot, Evernote.

Just found out that a teacher from my old school was fired for a joke he told in class. Now I just want to know what the joke was.

Kind of worked myself into a corner (well, pentagon) with the most complex topology I've tried yet. Still, the bottom of the model is there to hide the mess, like the back of an embroidery...
#blender

Recovered this 30-year-old (ish) entry in my #clock collection with a bit of #3Dprinting.

Having said that, I felt kind of shitty writing out the ALT-text for people who are blind and therefore couldn't use them at all...

Thanks a bunch, right-handed people. #LeftHanded #sinister

Got a new rowing machine 🙌
Electric cable knackered 😡
Repaired it 💪
Warranty voided 🤷‍♂️
Rowing commences 🚣‍♀️

Not too shabby. Bit of sanding and it'll be ready for its duties. #3Dprinting

#3DPrinting the first thing I've made from scratch. My brother asked me to make a sheath for a carving tool. First I need a mockup of the tool to work with, built in #Blender3d from photos.

https://www.twitch.tv/squaregoldfish

Psalm 104:24: O Lord, how manifold are Your works!
Cura: LOL No.

#3Dprinting

Decaying World War II memorials photographed by Jan Kempenaers http://www.jankempenaers.info/works/1/1/

Cloud bank

It is with a heavy heart that I must announce that I have acquired the internal organs of an African elephant.