Holy hell, I forgot how much goes into starting a new job. Took three or four different courses on how not to be a dick, plus all kinds of fun trainings on PPE and Tool Safety and Asbestos (asbestos? yes, seriously, asbestos.) which were wild to run through as a tech worker whose office is inside his own house. My brain is a thick sludge and I’m gonna sleep for 12 hours tonight, but it was nice to have some structure and some duties for which I have an agreed-upon wage. ANYhow, here’s some stuff I took in this week!
Also, yep, likely going weekly for a while. At a minimum until I get into the groove with work.
Inputs
1: I was not at all aware how difficult it was to make blue LEDs. I remember when white LEDs first became a thing commercially and how that shift in light generation fed throughout the world, but didn’t quite grok how going from white to colored emissions worked. Pretty wild lesson in physics wrapped around this engineering problem.
2: In other brain-bending videos, the future may have already happened, and we’re just moving through our present experience of time. This, tied in with the proofs that free will doesn’t exist don’t break me at all. Nope. Not one little bit.1Don’t mind my existential screaming into a pillow.
3: “It’s one banana, Michael. What could it cost, $10?”2Ok, yeah, just posting a link to an XKCD is cheating, but damned if inflation projected outward in time isn’t fuckin’ nutty to grasp. Also, I got to share the Is it Worth the Time chart with my boss today, who’d never seen it before. So there, two comics.
4: De Bruyne’s back, Haaland’s back, and Foden scored a hat trick. It’s over for you bitches. Game on!
5: It’s Ten New Brews season! I’ve been playing Magic on and off since Revised (so, like 1994?), as a semi-serious amateur and a very casual, and all points in between there. It’s feeling like I’m near to picking it back up a bit again, at the start of a new set, and watching Jim Davis go nuts brewing gets at that itch that the game has always scratched for me, of finding new ways of solving a competitive puzzle.
I’m never going to go pro3Though writing that was harder to admit out loud than I’d have figured, but since that’s not the goal, I can allow myself the space to have fun while putting in the work to be good at the thing. Anyhow, niche audience for the last one, but I’m in it, and hey, maybe you are too.
Notes:
- 1Don’t mind my existential screaming into a pillow.
- 2Ok, yeah, just posting a link to an XKCD is cheating, but damned if inflation projected outward in time isn’t fuckin’ nutty to grasp. Also, I got to share the Is it Worth the Time chart with my boss today, who’d never seen it before. So there, two comics.
- 3Though writing that was harder to admit out loud than I’d have figured